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  • Turmeric – The Magical Spice

    [Food-and-Drink]
    It’s not new. It’s been around for centuries. Yet, its modern story suggests nothing short of being called magical.


  • It’s All in the Point of View

    Identifies who controls the point of view in literature. Lists the three functions of the narrator.

  • Emotions As the Third Territory of Fecundity

    [News-and-Society:Pure-Opinion]
    A discussion of positive emotionalism and its significant aspects for humankind. Emotions motivate man to all action.


  • The Second Territory of Fecundity

    [News-and-Society:Pure-Opinion]
    The first territory of fecundity reveals that man does not just exist, but rather, he chooses what that existence will be. Fecundity involves a warm experiencing from the inside, which, in turn demands a capacity to reproduce itself in overt verisimilitude. This is a natural process.


  • Fecundity is Not a Dirty Word

    [News-and-Society:Pure-Opinion]
    Explains the role of fecundity as a philosophical consideration. Discussion of the first territory of fecundity.


  • What Happened to the Idea That We Were a United States of America

    [News-and-Society:Pure-Opinion]
    An expression of concern about the hate developing in the United States. Raises significant questions about being a divided nation.


  • The Indefatigable Bay Leaf

    [Food-and-Drink]
    There’s more to a bay leaf than being thrown into a pot of soup. Uses of bay leaf are revealed. The mythic implications of the bay leaf.


  • There’s No Escape From Being Themed

    [News-and-Society:Pure-Opinion]
    Think about the way life has been themed. Having a theme is everywhere in today’s world. It’s a necessity to have a theme.


  • What a Shaman Does

    [Health-and-Fitness:Alternative]
    What does a shaman do to heal his patient? Points out what a shaman is not.


  • Maximizing Your Articles on Ezines

    [Writing-and-Speaking:Article-Marketing]
    Keywording, sometimes called Controlled Vocabulary, has generally been applied to photos and images. Now it also applies to written articles to be published on the internet. WebCrawlers look for these keywords as part of the SEO (Search Engine Optimization) process.


  • Nothing But Numbers

    [News-and-Society:Pure-Opinion]
    Social Security numbers, telephone numbers, street and license numbers, miles per gallon. Numbers ad infinitum. Think about all the numbers that pass through your life as a matter of course on a daily basis. Take a number. Someone will be with you shortly has become an all too familiar chorus.


  • Defining the Social Networking Jargon

    [Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Social-Networking]
    Defines a number terms currently in use to describe self-promoting techniques on the internet. Provides references for more information on social networking.


  • Getting it Together in a Work of Art

    [Arts-and-Entertainment:Visual-Graphic-Arts]
    Composition in art means something different than a writing assignment in an English class. Several elements must be put together to create composition.


  • So What’s Your Book About?

    [Writing-and-Speaking:Book-Marketing]
    At a recent dinner party, the after dinner conversation turned to me. One of the other guests said, “So you’re a writer. What’s your book about?” I missed the opportunity to sell one of my books because I said, which one? I’ve written several and began a discussion of the series. I should have told her what my latest book was about.


  • Five Elements of Art Explained

    [Arts-and-Entertainment:Humanities]
    Explains five basic elements of a work of a work of art. Value and shape are two of five art elements explained. When married to line these five elements create composition.


  • Line – The Director in a Work of Art

    [Arts-and-Entertainment:Visual-Graphic-Arts]
    A basic knowledge of subject and style, point of view, and of the elements of art will enrich understanding and appreciation of any art form. In the world of art, depending upon the medium, these parts have a commonality and are generally applicable to all art forms.


  • Ever Wonder What Art is?

    [Arts-and-Entertainment:Humanities]
    Discusses what makes a work of art a work of art. Presents four major characteristics of art.


  • Grading – The Bane of a Teacher’s Life

    [Reference-and-Education]
    Discusses and questions current grading practices in America’s schools. Proposes an alternative to failing grades. Suggests an approach to grading.


  • Killing Creativity

    [Self-Improvement:Creativity]
    Criticizes grading systems and proposes five criteria for evaluation of student works. A positive approach to student evaluation.


  • The Lost Dream – The Educational Revolution of the 60′s

    [Reference-and-Education]
    Presents an overview of the surge of innovations in education during the 1960′s. Raises a significant question regarding the dynamism in education.


  • The Gardener’s Approach to Supervision

    [Reference-and-Education]
    Discusses an approach to the supervision of teachers. As an approach to supervision, the gardener’s approach has its problems.


  • The Educational Supervisor – The Mechanic

    [Reference-and-Education]
    Two approaches to supervision classroom teachers are presented. The mechanic approach, fix it because something is wrong, approach is the focus of this article.


  • Lost – The Will to Win

    [News-and-Society:Pure-Opinion]
    Raises the question of our loss of our national will to win our wars. Traces a decline in America’s will to win.


  • Heroes All?

    [News-and-Society:Pure-Opinion]
    Commentary on the overkill of public sympathy for tragic incidents. Why are some viewed as heroes and others are barely mentioned? Death sites buried in flowers, stuffed animals, notes, and cards. Establishing priority for public sympathy.


  • Health Care Anyone?

    [News-and-Society:Pure-Opinion]
    Presents some startling statistics regarding the health of Americans. Infant mortality and maternal mortality is high in the US. An American child is more apt to die by age five than a child in Singapore.


  • American Vomitorium

    [News-and-Society:Pure-Opinion]
    Doing some research on the internet brought me to the word vomitorium and that set off an avalanche of thoughts about our contemporary society. At the start, let me say, I am not talking about the mythical room the ancient Romans supposedly used to regurgitate. It was the idea of getting rid of that set the brain bells ringing.


  • In Memoriam of Aidos

    [News-and-Society:Pure-Opinion]
    Teaching a CPR course in violence is not the answer to school violence. Prevention goes much deeper than informing authorities of violence. There’s a lack of shame and humility among the young.


  • America’s Corrupted Soul

    [News-and-Society:Pure-Opinion]
    Discusses the violence and moral decay in contemporary society. Offers two solutions to the current lack of respect in American culture. Provides factual information on some social issues.


  • Teaching Values in Public Schools

    [News-and-Society:Pure-Opinion]
    A plea for teachers to teach fundamental values. Several fundamental values are noted. Failure of schools to teach values have resulted in the current scams, swindles, etc.


  • The Omega Point

    [News-and-Society:Pure-Opinion]
    We have been led to believe mass education destroys the mass mind. Yet, there is still a national movement in our wonderful country to standardize education, to standardize testing, to standardize, content, and to standardize teaching methods.


  • Human Beings Are So Much More Than Percentages And Percentiles

    [News-and-Society:Pure-Opinion]
    A discussion of the affective domain as the area where learning really takes place. Teachers must strive to engender an awareness of the existence of ideas.


  • Mass Mind, Global Mind, and Global World

    [News-and-Society:Pure-Opinion]
    Presents a viewpoint about the loss of individuality in the world. Criticizes standardization of personal lives.


  • Learning Not to Jump to Conclusions – The Hard Way

    [Self-Improvement:Personal-Growth]
    Memories come at all hours of the day and night; sometimes creepy little naggers. Other times they arrive as soft giggles and then there are the moments of embarrassment sometimes abject terror reborn out of nowhere. There are some that slip in through the facade of cool to slap us around with heavy heart and sadness.


  • What a Shaman Knows

    [News-and-Society:Pure-Opinion]
    Because the shaman has this ability to tap into this ‘universal consciousness’, he or she is called upon to function as a healer.
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    Here the shaman’s role is to heal the community; to bring harmony to man and nature, as well as to individuals. To do this, the shaman retires into an altered state of consciousness.


  • The Murder of the American Educational System

    [News-and-Society:Pure-Opinion]
    A discussion of the standardized testing craze in the United States. Criticizes the use of standardized test as a means of measuring success.


  • Apperceptive Mass and Modern Education

    [Reference-and-Education]
    This article suggests a return to a fundamental condition necessary for learning. Developing background and experience is necessary for a lifetime of learning. Four things a teacher may do to build apperceptive mass.


  • Platforms and Branding

    [Writing-and-Speaking:Book-Marketing]
    Platforms were very popular during the 1970′s, but I’m not talking shoes. Branding has nothing to do with marking cattle.

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