Society & Lifestyle > Society & Lifestyle (Other) Disabled people in society

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When I was very young, I used to get knots in my stomach whenever I saw someone on crutches. In grade school, there were a couple of my peers who periodically used crutches: I never knew why.In seventh grade, someone would wheel in an eighth grader who was painfully thin: he took his study hall in our social studies class. He... More..

Politics, News & Issues > Government & Policies The duties of the United States Congress

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The popular complaint that "Congress does nothing" is based, it seems, on the fallacy that characterizes the standard, stereotyped view of many organizations: that it is some single-purpose behemoth, like the monolith in "2001: A Space Odyssey": universally drawing the unsuspecting into its aura. To judge by what we hear and ... More..

Arts & Humanities > History of Ideas Jean Paul Sartre on human nature, freedom and responsibility

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Although I had heard of Sartre in high school and college, I was only remotely familiar with his "philosophy of existence," existentialism. I began reading him in earnest long after he had died and because his name appeared in the bibliographies of other people I was reading.In 1964, two psychiatrists working in London, David... More..

Politics, News & Issues > Soldiers & Veterans Should the draft be reinstated?

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During the last Great War, a variety of eager enemies confronted the US of A: the most powerful were Germany and Japan. Often overlooked by pop commentators and even by professional historians was that trouble had been brewing in those countries for years; almost since the ink was on the Treaty of Versailles.A plurality of vo... More..

Politics, News & Issues > Political Issues Vietnam War: What Have We Learned?

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IJeremiah 31:29; American King James Bible: "In those days they shall say no more, the fathers have eaten sour grape, and the children's teeth are set on edge."From thence: many popular expressions admonish us to learn from history. Those that don't learn from history are doomed to repeat it. History repeats itself: first as ... More..

Sports & Recreation > Biking Tales from the mountain bike trail: Your worst injury

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Many, many years ago, when I was young and foolish, I took what became my only spin on a motorcycle. It was one of those high-powered dirt bikes or trail bikes that were popular 30-plus years ago.I had the occasion to travel to California and in fact went there during the week I should have been attending my college graduatio... More..

Society & Lifestyle > Social Values & Norms How to resolve social conflicts

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Nineteenth-century visionary poet and graphic artist William Blake wrote in his "Jerusalem" that he who would do good to another, must do it in Minute Particulars. Crisis management and conflict resolution are popular terms these days, and there even people that profess to know about them. They seem the ideal forums for "doin... More..

Arts & Humanities > 20th & 21st Century US History History of the JFK assassination

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When President Kennedy was shot, I was in the seventh grade. I can recall standing with classmates in the narrow hallway of the school, on a sunny and chilly November day, waiting for another class to leave, when the school principal went hustling past. We rarely saw him outside his office (school faculty was not as chummy wi... More..

Creative Writing > Essays Essays: Fantasy

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How do fantasies begin? Do they end? If they do, is there fantasy residue? I can't recount all my fantasies, but a little while ago I had occasion to recall a childhood fantasy, although it probably won't sound like your MK1 MOD0 fantasy from cartoons, fables, and psychoanalysis. But it is indeed a fantasy, if by fanta... More..

Education > Alternative Education (Other) Military education in schools

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When I arrived at a state university to complete my college education, the ROTC program had just been dropped as a two-year requirement for male students. This was during the heady days of the war in Vietnam and anti-war demonstrations on college campuses. (I use "demonstrations" vs. "protests," since to protest means literal... More..

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