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Recently, I began freelance editing at the urging of friends and family, who have asked me to edit letters, school essays, and other documents over the years. My goal is to provide quality, affordable editing to my clients. My feeling is that editing should

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Religion & Spirituality > Speculations & Criticisms Problems with religion and hypocrisy: 6 of 34

The Many Sins of Catholic School So then my parents decided on Catholic school for the beginning of sixth grade, instead of going to the middle school with these really messed up kids- whose parents might as well have been sitting in the desks with them. Maybe the Catholic school was a better environment with less parent inv...
Religion & Spirituality > Bible Study Your favorite verse in the Bible, and what it means to you: 57 of 162

My favorite verse in the Bible is 1 John 4:20: If anyone says, "I love God," yet hates his brother, he is a liar. For anyone who does not love his brother, whom he has seen, cannot love God, whom he has not seen. One of the reasons that this is my favorite verse is because it is very easy to interpret, yet often overlooked a...
Society & Lifestyle > Immigration Issues Speaking with an accent: What's easy and what's hard?: 5 of 11

Greetings from New Jersey! Yes, I am from New Jersey. And no, we don't say "Joisey". And there are trees in the part of the state where I live and many other places. And absolutely, I am extremely proud to be from New Jersey, land of Springsteen, the Parkway, and the Jersey shore. Does that cover everything? You see, people ...
Style & Beauty > Tattoos & Piercings Are tattoos and body piercings against Catholic teachings?: 4 of 8

No, they are not. It is not against any Christian denomination or Catholic denomination. I will explain why. This is another instance of cherry-picking information from the Bible, which some Christians like to do quite often. The passage that these "followers" will use to defend themselves that tattoos and body piercings are...
Society & Lifestyle > North American Culture 1970s and the cultural influences in America: 2 of 3

Rock vs. Disco, and the Resulting Offspring I have many theories about many things, but I really think that I am on to something here. It's no secret that parenting style has a lot to do with the era in which you yourself were raised, but this theory takes that concept even further to examine the divide in a specific generat...
Style & Beauty > Style & Beauty (Other) Is Miss America a body image role model?: 5 of 7

This question is multi-faceted, because although the answer to this question is "no", it does not mean that there are not other body image role models in our culture. First, to answer the question, Miss America is not a body image role model, but the reason is because frankly, I do not think that many young girls and women t...
Creative Writing > Reflections Reflections: What is a religious hypocrite?: 13 of 17

AN OPEN LETTER TO CHRISTIAN HYPOCRITES There has been a recent uproar as I write this over an article that Newsweek published regarding the Bible and its support of gay marriage. Yeah, I said support. As you can imagine, many Christians are very upset about this, because apparently they thought that their complete and utter ...