Unless you’re just a person who’s naturally inclined to be sympathetic, how many people actually care that there are issues out there that need to be taken care of?
How many of your average Joe’s on the street would do something different if they knew that them doing something different would help other people, help stop an injustice, help the environment, help… anything? Read More »
Merit pay, or the idea of teachers getting paid more the better they teach, is yet another idea that will pull the plug on American public education, and send it down the drain even faster.
I offer the website below as a great explanation of why merit pay is simply a bad idea: Read More »
One of my biggest pet peeves are chain letters, whether they come through snail mail, e-mail, web community messages, or even text messages on cell phones.
Why? Read More »
What with everyone determined to share their two cents worth on ideas of religion and science, I thought I’d submit my own ideas for review. So I’ll cut straight to the punch line: Creationism and Evolution don’t have to be mutually exclusive.
“Every fifteen seconds a woman is beaten in the
United States.”
“Aggravated assault against a stranger is considered a felony, but the same assault committed at home is judged only a misdemeanor.” Read More »
I think, considering this is my first post--indeed, first visit to Progressive U--in five months, it deserves a small introduction. I doubt anyone's missed me, but, all the same.
I became interested in P.U. at first purely because of the scholarhips potential. After a short time, however, I realized I simply did not have that much to say, and respected those who did, and the site, too much to simply spam post. However, this time, I do have something to say. What follows is the third (and, I hope, final,) draft of my oratory for my speech and debate class. (The first tournament of the season is tomorrow.) It's a topic I believe strongly in, which is why I chose to write about it--and, after some thought, decided to post it here. Read More »
Be warned; below is a rant. A short one, but it is a rant, because this really hit me today and I really don't have anything else to post about.
This is what I saw:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060517/ap_on_re_us/columbine_video_game;_ylt=AoxOnxmuEz2mmwecMnpkFqis0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTA2Z2szazkxBHNlYwN0bQ Read More »
