First, some terms need to be defined here if this is going to make any sense. big·ot /’big?t/: a person intolerant of those holding different opinions. o·pin·ion /?’piny?n/: a view or judgment formed about something, not necessarily based on fact or knowledge. For the sake of clarity, let us say that opinions are the sort
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June 6th marks what would have been my grandparent’s sixty-third wedding anniversary. Although I never took the opportunity to ask them, I always wondered if they chose the day in honor and recognition of the D-Day invasion on the beaches of Normandy. In all likelihood, the trials their generation endured during the war would have
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In a tight job market, graduates need to do more than ever to make themselves stand out if they want to land a position. Fortunately, there’s a simple way to do this: read A Message to Garcia and take its advice to heart. I ran across this short essay while paging through a manual of
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I posed this question on my Facebook page a few days ago: “Is there much/any social science on the phenomena of female teaches suddenly sleeping with students?” This was shortly after news broke that a 24-year-old Texas teacher was on the lam for allegedly sexually assaulting a 13-year-old student who had also impregnated her, according
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It’s graduation season and many high school seniors are counting the hours until they can walk across the stage and turn the corner toward college and career. But as a new survey out of the United Kingdom suggests, those graduates are likely to be less bright-eyed and full of hope than graduates before them. Many
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Many years ago, my wife and I decided to unplug ourselves from the prurience and propaganda piped into our homes via the television. It was one of the best decisions we ever made—and one of the most liberating. It freed us from hours of passive servitude to the soporific drip-feed of mind-numbing nonsense that passes
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