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Sciences > Cellular Biology Would stem cell research be responsible for taking or saving a life?: 3 of 17

The great controversy with stem cell research is the fine line defining what constitutes "life" or even more specifically, when one becomes a "human being". Opponents of funding stem cell research believe destroying embryonic stem cells are the equivalent of murder. There is of course, the complex moral, religious, and scien...
Creative Writing > Essays Essays: War in Iraq: 5 of 28

Diary of a Fallen Soldier They started this insipid war by crashing two commercial aircraft into the Twin Towers, killing nearly three thousand American citizens, a third plane into the Pentagon and a fourth one, Flight 93, which was believed to be heading toward the Capitol building in Washington, D.C. Our course is clear; ...
Creative Writing > Reflections Reflections: Racism: 12 of 57

The interesting thing about the practice of "racism" is that it has absolutely nothing to do with race. The Anthropologists' documented research into the origins of humanity has concluded with irrefutable evidence that we [humans] belong to one, and only one race; namely, the "human race." Even the New Testament section of t...
Society & Lifestyle > North American Culture History of Native Americans: How beauty has been buried in textbook lies: 2 of 8

When it comes to the plight of Native Americans, ignorance is not bliss and generations of the very first Americans cannot be ignored as though they do not exist. The removal of a people from their native lands, forced separation of families and children, adoption of different foods and religious practices, the forced placem...
Creative Writing > Reflections Reflections: Marion Jones and the tragic side of steroids: 2 of 6

Marion Jones, the "Golden girl" of TRACK & FIELD over the past two summer Olympics held a press conference on Friday, October 5, 2007 to admit using performance-enhancing substances during competition. Ms. Jones has had to deflect the accusations over the years about her previously alleged steroid use which first came to lig...
Politics, News & Issues > US Law & Justice (Other) Gang violence and black youth: The appeal and the tragedy: 1 of 3

Gang Violence and Black Youth In every city, community, and town across America, young Black men are rehearsing the lyrics to their favorite songs. It is as though "life is imitating art," and the sad fact is that for many, it is all too often, painfully true. The themes of violence, self-hatred, revenge, drug and alcohol us...
Politics, News & Issues > War & Peace Iraq war: Do US soldiers believe in the legitimacy and legality of the war?: 1 of 3

When I was in elementary school and I used to have to practice along with other classmates, standing at attention in front of the flag (The Star Spangled Banner, Old Glory), to salute it, and sing or try to, the words, My country tis' of thee sweet land of Liberty of thee I sing, land where my father's died, land of the pilg...
Politics, News & Issues > Police & Prisons Should the officials at Virginia tech have responded differently: 1 of 3

The worst massacre in US history, ironically at an institution of higher learning, could possibly have been avoided if school administrators had been more proactive in protecting the safety of Virginia Tech's nearly 25,000 students. There is a certain personality profile of a person who would go on a death-seeking suicidal r...
Religion & Spirituality > Churches & Organizations Confronting the divisions of Christianity: 3 of 7

Every Sunday hundreds of millions Bible-believing Christians assemble into their respective places of worship in America and throughout the world; with the exception of at least one church which convenes their services on a different day. Each church has its own unique history, founder, liturgy, baptism rites, creed, leaders...
Sciences > Sciences (Other) The social implications of transhumanism: 5 of 10

In the Sunday, June 24th T-N-T (Tacoma News Tribune), Section A4, was an intriguing article on a philosophical movement called transhumanism. It was easy to dismiss these absurd aspirations as so much nonsense, that is, until one starts to seriously look at the Transhumanist Declaration which seeks, "personal growth beyond o...