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Today in society, we have real and fake, true and false, but who is to decide what is real or fake, who can we believe? Well spam mail is usually not a reliable source, but maybe some spam mail is actually true. For example the USS New York, this ship is made out of the scrap metals from the twin towers. What an amazing ship if I must say, do you ...

“What goes in one ear goes out the other”; is this a true statement? Well, for me sometimes this is exactly what happens in a lecture class. Johnny has made some excellent points in his article.  Listening is a very difficult method to learn. I do not mean just listening in mean actually “listening”. Active listening, where if I asked ...

  A problem that is sweeping the nation and is a major concern to many parents is teen drinking. According to the Greater Dallas Council of Alcohol and Drug Abuse 50% of high school seniors have drank at least once during their high school career. When the drinking age was raised to the age 21 many lives were saved, which is good and all ...

            What I noticed about communication now days is that men and women have to totally different techniques when talking to each other. Men: Usually when men are talking to each other they are facing away from each other, not making direct eye contact. They use very little body ...

This poem has a big impact for me personally because, since I went away for college I miss my mom and started to appreciate her more now that I am away from her. Just like the saying “you never realize how much something means to you until it is gone” portrays a similar meaning that Billy Collins produces in the poem The Lanyard. ...

Beloit College has a pretty good understanding of the college student’s mind. The year 2011 seems so far away, yet it is just around the corner.  I still remember being a freshman in high school thinking how long 2007 is away, and it is already here. Just think that all these years in school approximately 15 years and I don’t know about ...

Creating an avatar is a great way of portraying yourself through a cartoon figure. But, not everyone is creating the avatars to mirror their features well at least not there physical features. As I was looking through the avatars people created in the New York Times, some people made their avatars to look like them, other’s created avatars totally ...