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What You See is What You Get

What You See is What You Get by: Glen Hopkins H. Jackson Brown Jr. once wrote, Your mind can only hold one thought at a time, make it a positive and constructive one. As simple as these words may seem, they are in fact, very true. You see, if yo...

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Nothing Ever Stays The Same

Nothing Ever Stays The Same by: Graham and Julie Nothing ever stays the same. On the one hand we despise change yet on the other we don’t want to stagnate and become boring. Yet our habits keep us locked into a course of action day after day, ...

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Pay-to-play Educational Software Games

Science Academy Software has developed a new business model or paradigm for Education. It is a web-based "pay to play" educational game site named ScienceAcademy.TV for high-bandwidth clients. This article discusses the issues and rationale behind Sc...

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Seeing Purple On Pens and Paying Attention

It's back-to-school time once again, and purple is IN.I'm not talking about fashion trendsthough the September issues of mostmagazines are singing the praises of plum and berry shades. No, I'm referring to the hottest item at Office De...

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Enchantment in a 5 and 10-Cent Store

The other night as my mind was wandering, at perhaps 3:00 AM, I had a lovely encounter with the past. I was remembering some wanderings of late childhood. I was about ten or eleven and the magic journey was a bus that took me downtown Bridgeport. The...

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Psychology as Storytelling - Part I

Storytelling has been with us since the days of campfire and besieging wild animals. It served a number of important functions: amelioration of fears, communication of vital information (regarding survival tactics and the characteristics of animals, ...

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How the Hopi Create Their World

God gives food to every bird, but does not throw it into thenest. -Montenegrin Proverb"Do you hear that?" I whispered to my friend Tobias."No, what?" he answered under his breath."Drumming. The sound of soft, distant drumming.""No, but I see a faint ...

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Seven Reasons to Visit an Ocean

One of my very favorite places is the beach. Sure, the threeS’s are an attraction: sun, sand, and seafood. But the maindraw is the ocean. The ocean symbolizes all of life,carrying many analogies that help me stay in tune with themeaning of life.Rea...

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Who is John Doe in Spain in Russia in France

Funnyname.com has compiled a really interesting list of what other countries use for the US “John Doe” or “Joe Blow” - http://www.funnyname.com/anonymous.html. Here are some of the entries people have sent in. I direct you to the site for oth...

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The Many Faces of Multiculturalism

In this day and age, it is very common to see people from different cultural heritages living together in a single bounded territory. Since they live together, they happen to engage, collectively - either in a planned fashion or instinctively - in al...

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