Close the Schools – Save the Children

Friday, August 22nd, 2008

I've been reading about the high cost of diesel fuel for school buses and I've got a rather radical plan about education. I have a plan to save millions--no BILLIONS in property taxes every year. Why can't kids telecommute to class? Colleges give degrees online, why can't schools do the ...

The Teen Pregnancy Pacts – What’s So Shocking?

Friday, June 20th, 2008

About 16 girls, around 16 years old were reported to be pregnant in Gloucester, and at least 50% of those became pregnant by choice or made a pact to bring up kids. So, what's shocking about it? Teens getting pregnant is hardly news. What's startling is perhaps the number of pregnancies ...

School Systems

Sunday, May 11th, 2008

I am a teen who is in high school. I am right now an average high schooler with average grades(A's B's C's and even sometimes D's). In addition, I also have a lot of bad concerns about our school systems. The first topic I want to talk about is cheating. At ...

Are Women To Rule The Human Race By Controlling Sex And Money?

Sunday, May 11th, 2008

Women are appointed to be the temptress of the human race. Women hold the key to most crimes in the world. Are women to blame? Or are men just weaklings? Women hold the purse strings and control your sex life. You say not? What do you think might happen if men ...

International Women’s Day

Tuesday, March 11th, 2008

Mar 8 was International Women's Day. Almost all the dailies sans language barriers carried headlines on the special day. Media channels were agog with interviews and status of women in the present day world. Women's emancipation over the years was quite evident from the style and charisma that they carried ...

Education Problems and the Internet

Friday, February 22nd, 2008

The internet can be a wonderful educational tool for our students, but it also presents a whole host of threats and problems that must be taken into consideration. Today's youngsters are quick to assimilate the skills needed to become proficient on the internet, but they lack the experience to always know ...

No Immigrants Please!

Sunday, February 3rd, 2008

There is great national fervor throughout the U.S. about the subject of immigration. It is both an ongoing political football and it comes at a time of political races that exasperates the subject. It raises questions of extreme protectionism at the expense of certain of our own industries. The argument ...

Educate Consciousness

Monday, January 21st, 2008

We must educate to alleviate the problem of prejudism in our society. Prejudism is a worldwide phenomenon which has come along way since slavery, yet still we have light years of change to make as human beings. Our minds are trained to judge; we are constantly critiquing the news broadcaster, ...

Made in China – Cheap and Deadly

Wednesday, December 19th, 2007

If it wasn't for the paper place-mat at my favorite Chinese Restaurant and the recall of almost 20 million items made in China I would never have known that 2007 was the year of the pig. The American middle class is more dependent on cheap Chinese made products than we ...