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Mr. Ruark is an award-winning advertising copywriter, an award-winning internationally exhibited photographer and an award-winning story teller. He is also an internationally published author whose magazine articles and short stories have appeared in the

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Creative Writing > Memoirs Memoirs: September 11, 2001: 5 of 40

Three people I knew died that day. Ethan, the one I knew best, was in the South Tower describing the events to his mother on his cell phone. The North Tower had been hit at 8:46 a.m. Ethan's office was near the top of the South Tower. No one knew that it was an attack, yet. At first, people assumed that a stray jetliner had ...
Sciences > Astronomy 57 alien species: Are we alone in the universe?: 43 of 97

57 Alien Species and Still Counting We are not alone. We never have been. The odds are against it. According to Carl Sagan, former professor of astronomy and space sciences and director of the Laboratory of Planetary Studies at Cornell University, there are at least "thousands of millions of galaxies perhaps hundreds of thou...
Arts & Humanities > Photography How to shoot highly reflective beach and snow photographs: 2 of 4

The Problem: Highly reflective snow and beach scenes are a problem for most photographers unless they know how to compensate for their camera's automatic meter settings. Have you ever taken a winter scene and had your print ruined by a blue tinge? Or have you ever shot the family at the beach only to have the people appear d...
Arts & Humanities > American Authors The disregard for human life in The Red Badge of Courage, by Stephen Crane: 1 of 1

To the generations that have grown up on M.A.S.H. reruns or more recently, the war stories from the Iraqi war direct from CNN, MSNBC or the FOX news channels, the disregard for human life in Stephen Crane's THE RED BADGE OF COURAGE must seem incongruous. 21st Century man considers life sacred; to be preserved at all costs ev...
Food & Drink > Cooking (Other) How to choose a cookbook publisher: 1 of 1

How To Choose A Cookbook Publisher You've just spent 10,000 hours in the kitchen writing a cookbook. You have painstakingly gone over each and every recipe. You've measured, tested, tasted, and religiously noted everything down. Each recipe is as perfect as you can make it. They are all full-flavored and capture the essence ...
Entertainment > Movie Analysis Movie analysis: Does "The Three Kings" correspond with Christ's birth?: 1 of 1

Does "The Three Kings" correspond with Christ's Birth? "Three Kings" (1999), screenplay written and directed by David Russell has more in common with Brian Hutton's "Kelly's Heroes" (1970) than it does with Christ's birth. "Three Kings" is the story of a gold heist that takes place during the first Persian Gulf War and how t...
Education > College Courses & Majors Behind the grade book: Confessions of a university professor: 5 of 9

For several years, I was an Adjunct Professor at the New York Institute of Technology in New York City. I taught undergraduate and graduate classes in advertising, specifically Integrated Marketing Communications. For the most part, my classes were made up of exchange students and extremely bright American students, most of ...
Religion & Spirituality > Heaven, Hell & Afterlife Is Heaven a real place or a state of being?: 19 of 34

The Heaven Paradox There is a story told about a woman who was her town's perennial gardening champion. She was very proud of it and let every body know just how right they were to have chosen her garden or her flowers as the best. She would often walk by people's houses and tell them what was wrong with their gardens whethe...
Business > Website Marketing & SEO How to use Google AdWords to generate leads: 10 of 14

GOOGLE ADWORDS AN EASY WAY TO ATTRACT CONVERTIBLE LEADS Google Adwords is an easy way to attract convertible leads to any business. Unlike traditional media such as newspapers or TV or Radio ads, Google Ads target people who are already predisposed to buy a particular product or service. This gives every business using an on...
Food & Drink > Food & Drink (Other) The benefits of avocados: 52 of 60

It has been said that you are what you eat. If you want to be healthy, eat healthy, and eating healthy means choosing food that provides real nutrition to the human body. Enter the avocado. If you're interested in lowering your cholesterol and increasing your cardiovascular health, then look no farther than the Persea americ...