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  • Bended-Knee Proposals: Reconsidering the Tradition

    Bended-Knee Proposals: Reconsidering the Tradition0

    Whenever a major holiday like Christmas, New Year’s, or Valentine’s Day approaches, it’s almost a given that some friend or acquaintance from Facebook will get engaged. Their smiling faces will show up in your feed, and if you’re lucky, maybe even a real action shot or video which catches the special moment as it unfolds:

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  • Ben-Hur is Surprisingly Good

    Ben-Hur is Surprisingly Good0

    The new Ben-Hur is a terrific movie. It is exciting, suspenseful, filled with clashes of spirit, interest, and personality, and offers a story of brotherly love, conflict, revenge, and redemption. Religious faith and the spirit of forgiveness are at its core, though not front and center. It is precisely the kind of movie people in a healthy

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  • Ben Sasse’s 5 Steps to Raising a Successful Adult

    Ben Sasse’s 5 Steps to Raising a Successful Adult0

    Ben Sasse is the junior senator from Nebraska. However, before his tenure as senator, Sasse was the president of Midland University. As such, Sasse likely had many opportunities to observe the type of young people who will lead our nation in years to come. Unfortunately, many of the young people completing college these days are

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  • Ben Franklin’s 7 Steps to Financial Success

    Ben Franklin’s 7 Steps to Financial Success0

    Americans are strong and confident about many things. But when it comes to money and financial security, that confidence is thrown out the window. According to a 2015 Pew report: “Only half of Americans (51 percent) said their households are financially secure, and more than half (56 percent) reported worrying about their finances over the

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  • Ben Franklin’s 6 Steps to Becoming a Good Conversationalist

    Ben Franklin’s 6 Steps to Becoming a Good Conversationalist1

    • July 17, 2018

    While recently participating in a course on business and networking skills, I took part in an interesting exercise. Pairing every individual with another class member, the instructor gave each team a couple minutes to discover two previously unknown things they held in common. The results were fascinating. Not only were a number of topics covered, but

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  • Ben Franklin’s 5 Tips for Making Americans Better Writers

    Ben Franklin’s 5 Tips for Making Americans Better Writers0

    On average, American students demonstrate poor reading skills. Indeed, the most recent Nation’s Report Card shows that only 38% of high school seniors are proficient in this area. But high school writing skills are worse: only 27% of students – one in four – achieve proficiency in writing.    In 1733 Benjamin Franklin noted, “It seems

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