What is the state of the modern American mind? Where is our society headed, and how did we get where we are? What is our responsibility to our fellow man? How do we achieve progress in these uncertain times? What is “progress,” anyway? Read More »
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New Column Seeks to Answer the Question: What is Progress?
By john w connelly jr - Posted on April 22nd, 2009
Tagged: Bill Moyers
• Edward Murrow
• history
• interviews
• Philosophy
• politics
• progress
• Religion
• Broad prosperity
• Shared responsibility
• Effective government
• Personal freedom
• Better future
And so it will be Muharram's 9th and 10th
By asmaw - Posted on January 4th, 2009
Tagged: Ali
• Hassan
• history
• Hussain
• islam
• Karbala
• painful
• Prophet (SAW)
• Religion
• Sacrifice
• Shi'a
• Shiite
• Broad prosperity
I am sitting with my mom, she won't leave me in my room alone, supposedly she missed me so much that both my parents started watching KBS (we get it for free, don't jinx me- I love my Korean obsession). The end of year award shows were coming on, and them watching it, scared and angered my sister...
I was happy. Read More »
Black & White Twins born to the same couple again - a blessing, a miracle and an intriguing story
By Godsanointed1024 - Posted on January 2nd, 2009
A Great Britain couple has once again became the parents of two beautiful sets of twin daughters. The intriguing story of twins is enough for most couples, but to birth twins when one is African-American and other Caucasian is an entirely different story. It is even more surprising for this to happen to the same couple twice. Read More »
Slavery and its Social Impact, “Social Death”
By asmaw - Posted on December 15th, 2008
Tagged: after-effect
• an old paper
• better future
• history
• SHARED RESPONSIBILITY
• sharing is caring
• Slavery
• the effect
• ugly yet true
Note: Posted this because I read scraps of former sanity's blog, This, though, has almost nothing to do with Abraham Lincoln, but everything to do with slavery. Also, this was for class, it might be a bit obvious but there is a paper that I am referencing and critiquing. You need not have read the paper. Read More »
Red, White, and Blue
By respectlife - Posted on December 13th, 2008
Tagged: america
• american flag
• Betsy Ross
• blue
• Constitution
• Continental Congress
• Declaration of Independence
• flag etiquette
• history
• Mary Todd Lincoln
• red
• white
• Broad prosperity
• Shared responsibility
• Effective government
• Personal freedom
• Better future
Every country has a flag and that flag represents, in part, what that country means. Let us look at the American flag...that beautiful red, white, and blue rectangular piece of cloth of stars and stripes. Read More »
Frederick Douglass & Slavery
By Godsanointed1024 - Posted on November 26th, 2008
Frederick Douglass tells about his personal story of escaping slavery. As a slave, his first hand account personalizes the stories that we hear about the traditions of how slaves were treated and their behaviors. It is remarkable that he was a slave for 20 years and escaped slavery for 9 years. Read More »
bullying
By john w connelly jr - Posted on November 17th, 2008
Tagged: history
this was an essay we had to write for my English class. The topic was to compare the memoir Nightto reports of bullying on high schol campuses. Read More »
Book Examines the Link Between Sports and Politics
By john w connelly jr - Posted on November 14th, 2008
In September, sports writer Dave Zirin released A People's History of Sports in the United States an examination of the history of the link between sports and (among other things) politics. The book -which derives its name from revisionist historian Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States- is equally as challenging to the established view of its subject matter. Read More »
