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My name is DEONILS, or simply DEO. I love poetry, but I do want to improve as a non-fiction, fiction and Christian writer. My first submission - today, on September 18, 2007 - is therefore a combination of expository writing and poetry. In fact I self-published

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Arts & Humanities > Poets & Poetry Poetry analysis: A Narrow Fellow in the Grass, by Emily Dickinson: 1 of 14

In this poem, Emily Dickinson seems to get reacquainted with Mr. Narrow Fellow. The use of personification is striking and singularly well-done. Dickinson wrote mainly for herself. Few writers enjoyed the creative act of observing, note-taking and crafting with words as she did, and her rather limited movement outside of her...
Arts & Humanities > Poets & Poetry Does the best poetry come from the heart or from the mind?: 5 of 61

The MIND wins! Ever heard of having a message go straight to the heart? That can be dangerous; there is no evaluation of the information and emotions rule! What about the proverbial change of heart? Not only politicians, but writers of poetry, email, etcetera often rue the fact they were spontaneous and unthinking. I conclud...
Politics, News & Issues > International Politics (Other) Are the US and Israel bluffing Iran with an attack to force changes in policy?: 4 of 27

First and foremost, it is sad and scary that since 2001, or perhaps since the first Gulf War, we can openly discuss bombing other countries. If we accept the premises of a unipolar world where neither the Europeans, nor the Russians or the United Nations (UN) can stop the USA or its ally Israel, let us speculate therefore on...
Politics, News & Issues > Political & Economic Theory Do trade and free markets improve our standard of living and promote freedom?: 1 of 4

The only things "free" in "free markets" and free "trade" is the freedom of the big and powerful to prevent equality in the world. Remember, always, that TRADE is not the same as DEMOCRACY. Those who wish access to markets, do not necessarily promote free and fair elections. Hence the association with free trade and free mar...
Religion & Spirituality > Spiritual Life Happiness is never guaranteed: 1 of 3

Happiness may not be guaranteed, but contentment is ever within our grasp. The trick is to make the right comparisons. Not that there are wrong comparisons, only that some comaprisons make you bitter, envious or angry. After all, most of humanity is less fortunate, less safe, less able to get medical care, food and shelter t...
Society & Lifestyle > Racism Is racism taught or learned?: 22 of 62

I do not agree that racism can be taught. Racism, in order to thrive, has to be sought and learned actively. I do not believe that mere parental biases or public sphere propaganda can make anyone racists in the real sense of the word. Unless sought for and learned by the learner, racism will lessen generation by generation. ...
Home & Garden > Cleaning Products Should all cleaning products be required to be biodegradable by law?: 5 of 10

YES, that is the least we owe to families and Mother Earth. And by no small coincidence I am joining the debate on Thanksgiving. We have taken too much, too long, without showing respect or real gratitude. According to one expert, US corporations make some 8,000 common chemicals of which more than 2,000 are dangerous to heal...
Politics, News & Issues > Politics in the Middle & Near East Hostilities in the Middle East: The Eternal Dilemma: 2 of 4

MYTH-MAKING SOOTHES WEARY SOULS: EAST, MIDEAST, WEST I read on Helium.com (on October 2, 2007) that Islam had a nonviolent, golden age - the age is not clearly defined, so we take it to be some fairy tale phase of history - Islam behaved better than the US is behaving in foreign policy and in world affairs since the world wa...
Arts & Humanities > British Literature Controversy surrounding Heart of Darkness, by Joseph Conrad: 1 of 2

Joseph Conrad is a pillar of Victorian literature, but Polish rather than English, ws his native language. Conrad's "Heart of Darkness" (1899) is a masterpiece, if not for story-telling, then at least for a first, major psychological study of Europeans and their missions abroad going awry. The controversies include speculati...
Arts & Humanities > Asia, Africa & Mideast History Biography: Albert Luthuli: 1 of 1

CHIEF ALBERT LUTULI I consider Lutuli, grandson of the first Christian converts in the north coast of today's KwaZulu-Natal Province, the Moses of South Africa. He was a critical thinker, Christian leader, school teacher and preacher. He was a pioneer in many ways, and more consistently nonviolent than the first African pres...