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Superstitions and Friday the 13th - Lucky or Unlucky?
Friday the Thirteenth has been considered by some people to be a very unlucky day, when no matter how much you try, things can just go wrong and it is beyond your control to do anything about it.This legend may have it's roots in the old story that Jacques de Molay of the Knights Templars was executed on Friday the Thirteenth and that perhaps a curse of sorts exists to this day springing from that incident said to have happened long ago.In reality, what people believe becomes true for them, and that affects every part of their lives.Read more…The Nobel Prize Ritual - Time to Read Again
The Nobel Ritual in selecting a new candidate is interesting as a cultural process. But it is also a trigger to start reading again ...First the process.Read more…Racism
Racism is generally defined as a persecution based on beliefs, practices and institutions that negatively discriminate people based just on their race. Sometimes it’s based on the idea that one race can be superior to another and must dominate it. Scientists still didn’t agree on the origins of the racism discrimination and the way it started its existence.Read more…Role of E-factor in Mainstreaming Tribal Youth in Orissa
Education is a treasure, which can be preserved without fear of loss. It is the process of learning aimed at the all round development of every tribes irrespective of location, age and sex. Government has formulated various schemes for the education of tribal community.Read more…Impact of Technological Innovations
Recent years demonstrated that all aspects of our life have undergone rapid changes which have a great impact on the further development of political, social and economical relations. It is noteworthy that human race have never made so rapid progress and have never achieved such results in its development as people have done during the 20th century and the process is still in progress and, in all probability, it wouldn’t be stopped in the 21st century because there are no prerequisites of the contrary trends. According to general opinion of different researchers the 21st century is supposed to become a new age in the evaluation of human society due to scientific discoveries and the implementation of the latest technological achievements in our everyday life and such a trend is observed at the very beginning of the century when new technology made an unbelievably fast progress and in the first instance it concerns information technology.Read more…Aspects of Antiabortion as a Social Belief
Nowadays, the problem of abortion, and, consequently, the problem of antiabortion become vitally important particularly for well-developed, post-industrial societies. It is evident that it is not a problem of an individual anymore but a really social problem because it concerns not only the health of a woman but it also produces a serious impact on a demographic situation in the whole country and on a psychological atmosphere in the society at large and within the family in particular. Traditionally, antiabortion beliefs are very strong even in the most democratic societies but on certain conditions even conservatives agree that abortion may be necessary or even inevitable.Read more…In Lieu of US Ban on Online Gaming Transactions, Trinidad & Tobago moves to Ban all Gambling
The Caribbean twin island state of Trinidad and Tobago is about to ban online and land-based gambling and has already banned casino slot machines with almost immediate effect after Prime Minister Patrick Manning said that they encouraged vice. Mr. Manning said at his recent budget proposal speech that gaming activities are a 'great concern' to the country.Read more…Joey Carstenson, JoeyEA - You Will Be Missed
Joey Carstensen passed away on October 26, 2006. A resident of Delray Beach, Florida, she is survived by her mother, Ardean Bradfield, her two sons, Steve and Ted, and four grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her husband, Jim.Read more…Are We Really So Different To The English
In the biggest survey of its kind a recent survey conducted by Personaliteye.com has measured the personality profiles of over 6,000 people from both sides of the pond. The primary purpose of the research was to see if there was any scientific validity behind many of the popular myths that each group has for the other.Read more…Remembering 9/11: Anger - The Terrorist Inside Us
I wrote this article only five days after the terrorist attack on the World Trade Centers. This contemporary account of that unforgettable day is as relevant and powerful now as it was 5 years ago.Five days ago, a coordinated attack took the lives of thousands of people in this country.Read more…Sob Sisters - Heart Wrenching Journalism
Sob SistersNewspaper publishers were early converts to the feminist movement inasmuch as lady journalists were good with words and related easily to pathos which boosted circulation.The first sob sister was Elizabeth Cochran. In 1884 she responded to an article titled, “What Girls Are Good For” published in a Pittsburgh newspaper.Read more…The Growth of Gated Communities and Their Impact of Social Segregation
Gated communities have always been with us. This dates back to the very earliest civilizations where the very wealthy have favored high walls and closed gates that have turned their communities into very private communities. In addition to providing increased security, the purposes of these communities were to foster segregation, and increase the sense of exclusion.Read more…Gambling - Expensive Pass Time or Guilty Pleasure
Internet gambling and Native American casinos bring more opportunities for gamblers to take a guilty pleasure to a serious problem status for many teens and adults.Internet gambling is popular among several age groups, however, teenagers have shown a special interest in the sites. "Statistics prove that teen-age Internet gambling is the fastest growing addiction of the day, akin to drug and alcohol abuse in the 1930s," said David Robertson, former chairman of the National Coalition Against Legalized Gambling, on the Web site www.Read more…Black Cats - Halloween Fear
Olaf, Fido, Rascal, and Jinxy live inside a cat shelter waiting for a new family to pick them up and take them in a real home, to then snuggle, sleep, scratch some firnuture, eat, and sleep some more. These are not the only things they share in common, these funny kittens attracts people's attention with their same color: black.Being associated with the darkness of night does not help their image because the color black has always been associated with evil due to our ancestor's fear of the night.Read more…The Frantic Early '70s
What's so special about the Seventies? Why is there such a nostalgic buzz about that revolutionary time, especially at the beginning of that mutable decade?At first, the early Seventies seemed to be a hangover from the late Sixties, but it soon became obvious that the times were a changing, not only in politics, but also in the arts, specifically in popular music.Read more…Madonna Kid a Lucky Stiff
Talk about luck. Imagine winning the lottery twice in the same week? Basically, this is what happened to the African child from Malawi plucked out by Madonna to become her adopted son.Read more…Illegal And Violent Teen Fight Club Videos Are Becoming More Popular Online
Fight club videos are aplenty in the market. You can find all sorts, starting from protected boxing fights, kick boxing to one to one bare fisted fights. But one very alarming prospect is the number of teen videos, some as young as 11 to 12 years old fight clubs, swearing and kicking each other like mad!Read more…Trends - Philanthropy
Once there was a man who discovered - what now is called the 80-20-rule – a rule that shows the unequal distribution of many phenomena in life. This rule is used in business to show how you can increase your sales by “only” focussing on a small amount of your clients (the 20% who generate 80% of your company’s turnover).This rule that was found by examining the distribution of land by Italian proprietors.Read more…More Evidence: Obfuscation Rules the World
In writing about Instant Message Etiquette, Matthew Baek, Forbes.com, writes, “When it comes to instant messaging in the workplace, credit former Florida Congressman Mark Foley with being the poster boy for bad judgment.”“The recent hoopla surrounding Foley's sexually explicit text communications with teenage congressional pages led to his abrupt resignation.Read more…Malaysia - Truly Asia
Malaysia is one of the most enjoyable and welcoming countries to visit in Asia. Being a developing country, Malaysia has been achieving impressive economic growth, in-line with its goal of achieving 'developed nation' status, through the organized and detailed plans of 'Vision 2020'! Having said that, Malaysia has seen significant growth over the past decade or so, in terms of the economy, advancement in infrastructure and mega projects, like roadways and highways throughout the country; and of course development for the people, for example in residential and commercial projects and office buildings, one of which includes the world-famous and world's tallest structure, the Petronas Twin Towers, soaring high in the skies.Read more…
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