If you want to learn some self-defense, get fit, all while discovering what men have known all along and haven’t exactly been hiding from you, you must go to the Dojo. There is something primal and intensely sexual about martial arts and the adrenaline that pumps through these places like an oasis of emotions and hard-core brain chemicals that are always under the surface of our everyday desires anyway.

Hippies and Horses: A Sweet Life Saddled with Simplicity Kicking ones shoes off and saddling up to ponder the simplicity of our own design is magnificent. It is probably the hippie’s best kept secret. Therefore it is with the best intentions that I implore you to find yourself a hippie friend. Quite simply, hippies have a way of taking the most complicated matters and turning them into something as basic as apples and oranges... It isn’t so much a lifestyle as it is a state of mind

Learning to trust and to feel secure with her or her new autonomy are two psycho-social crises that must be mastered by infants in the first two years of life. A major factor that contributes to the development of security in infants is the quality of interactions with both parents and other adult caregivers. These infants can be cared for in a variety of settings

Our heroes are our redemption. With them, we try to see our dreams fulfilled and then, life passes by and we forget sometimes that we wanted something, something more, maybe a little or maybe a lot. We wait to watch others triumph, because we need to believe that it can still happen for us, for our kids, for anyone

Dale Carnegie illustrates in his book, How to Win Friends & Influence People, ways to make people like you, ways to win people in your way of thinking, and how to change people without giving offense or arousing resentment. Carnegie, also, delivers more general techniques for simply handling people. In this applications report, a brief collection of the ways to win friends and influence people are used in real life scenarios.

Last weekend, I was lucky enough to attend a Little League baseball game, a really eye-opening experience where I was able to see the true value of passion and persistence, through the actions of a group of ten year old boys. One team was undefeated, the Rockies, and along with the team came bleachers full of loud and proud parents and on the field, nimble and quick athletes.

Sexual Harassment creates a hostile work environment for the individuals, mostly women, who are subjected to this type of aggressive treatment in the workplace. This type of treatment can be categorized into two larger social phenomena, exclusion and oppression. This paper will deal with both these issues in the context of harassment to illustrate the similarities and differences between oppression and exclusion.

Tennessee Williams presents the persona of interesting characters in his play, The Glass Menagerie. Two of the most striking characters to compare and contrast are the mother, Amanda and her daughter Laura. Through the theme of escape and the reality versus unreality of life these characters each display their own ways of portraying their role in the past, present, and dreams of a future.

My firsthand experience with seeing my classmates drinking on and off campus has led me to believe that there is a trend in binge drinking among people in my age group. Drinking can be viewed as a rite of passage, a tradition when one moves out of the home of their parents and is on their own for the first time. Many students try alcohol before college if they are curious, but wait until they are away from parents to drink more heavily with friends.

Robert Kaplan illustrates the interesting idea of a line in the guise of a border between the United States an Mexico. He describes the chaos of some border towns and the de-centralized or outright disappearance of order or sense of place in his piece, “The Rusted Iron Curtain”. The idea of an invisible line that divides peoples and their progress is interesting and can be noted in our own communities.