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Articles My Stance on Cloning

Whether you like it or not, human cloning is on it’s way. In fact, it is so much on it’s way that it is quite possible that at the time…

May 4, 2001
Articles Top 10 Good Things about 9/11

10. We are cracking down on terrorism. With the horrors of terrorism reaching so vast an audience, the world’s new focus on defeating terrorism may one day save us from…

Sep 11, 2002
Articles Nature vs. Nurture

To make it perfectly clear, this is an analogy, as I do not have enough evidence to prove otherwise. We are born, and according to our DNA, in there is…

Sep 17, 2002
Articles My Statement of Aesthetics

Initially, I took my first poetry class because I thought that poetry and prose were two completely different things, and I needed to explore my poetic side. But as the…

Dec 4, 2002
Articles The Evolution of the Signal

We are able to consume a lot of information, and there is a lot to be consumed, so those who present it must be aware of how it is organized.

Nov 11, 2003
Articles There Is No Spoon

There is a scene in the movie “The Matrix” where the main character, Neo, is visiting a so-called oracle. As he waits to see her, he looks at the other…

Jun 16, 2004
Articles Now that the circle is complete…

Well, finally, the waiting is over. I spent yesterday watching The Phantom Menace, Attack of the Clones, then the Clone Wars series, which ended twenty minutes before I walked into…

May 20, 2005
Articles You Are Not Agnostic

This is an old paper I wrote for a religion class, and I’m only leaving it here for posterity. I may replace it with a more concise version (because this…

Jun 20, 2005
Articles Terrorism at Home, Even When Abroad

The recent terrorist attacks in London remind us that people are still willing to use the most extreme measures to make their voices heard. It seems now that more people…

Jul 11, 2005
Articles Red Oil Scare

China has made an unsolicited offer to acquire one of the largest United States-based oil company, which would essentially double its oil and gas output (2). The organization that is…

Jul 13, 2005
Articles Out of Africa, Too

There are three pervading hypotheses about the emergence of modern humans. While I was reading the summaries of the three hypotheses, I began to I favor the so-called multiregional hypothesis,…

Jul 14, 2005
Articles G-8 is Enough

The G-8 was created out of the eight richest countries in the world in order to fight poverty in Africa. Poverty affects more people throughout the world than all of…

Jul 18, 2005
Articles Aggressive by Nature?

It was generally held for a long time that hunting, the act of stalking live prey and then killing it, contributed a great deal to our natural aggressive tendencies. After…

Jul 19, 2005
Articles Trumping the Race Card

Racial inequality has plagued our nation so long that even in today’s relatively enlightened culture we find various forms of prejudice and discrimination. In a predominantly white nation, the darker…

Jul 20, 2005
Articles Romantic Influence on Us All

Since we are very young we are bombarded with images and ideas of romance. It is an important factor in our society that affects and reinforces specific ideas about how…

Jul 21, 2005
Articles How to Write a Good (Basic) Essay

1. Write a five-sentence summary about the whole paper, and try to make it mimic what your paper will look like when you’re done. The first sentence, like the first…

Jul 21, 2005
Articles Nuclear Family Meltdown

For the past half century or more, the ideal of a family in the United States was the nuclear family. Though the definition has changed somewhat to be more inclusive, it…

Jul 26, 2005
Articles Pesticides Intended for Non-Human Pests

A recently published study by the American Medical Association has pointed out serious concerns about the poisoning of schoolchildren from local pesticides (5). Some people are quick to point out…

Jul 27, 2005
Articles The Politics of Womanhood

Perhaps not surprisingly, our male-dominated world has often marginalized women when it came to positions of power. The reasons for this are almost always based in our cultural expectations of…

Jul 28, 2005
Articles Tonowi Is to Buymi

It is interesting to find two political systems that are so distinctly different from one another while certain aspects of these systems are so incredibly alike. The tonowi of the…

Jul 28, 2005