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Are Embassies a Safe Place or Wise Choices for the Twenty-First Century?
We’ve been told, and you can probably read this in any given issue of Foreign Affairs Magazine, or on the news alerts from the Council on Foreign Relations that there…
Postmodernism Is the Genesis of Contemporary Conspiracy Theory
Postmodernism as a broad intellectual, social and literary movement is hard to capture and define, not more so due to the deliberate wishes of the some of it protagonists for…
5 Reasons Why It Is Important to Give Back and Volunteer
The world is full of opportunities to give back and volunteer. Plato once said that, “Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another.”…
World’s Most Valuable Diamond – The Hope Diamond
The Hope Diamond is unquestionably the most famous diamond in the world. It is also the most expensive diamond in the world with an estimated value of up to $500,000,000…
Hypocrisy and Hypocrites – The Absurdity of The Modern Civilization
You can easily lose your mind only because your world is a living hell. However, worst than the evilness and the craziness of the world is the absurdity you have…
How Volunteering Promotes Tourism in Poor Countries?
Volunteering abroad is an act of self-less service that crosses international boundaries to help the destitute community, the less fortunate, or the endangered species in areas that are most in…
Would a Space Colony Be Best as a Communist Compound – Ouch
As an American, I know that free markets, freedom, liberty, and capitalism are the best way to run a modern civilization. Indeed, I’ve participated in capitalism, and am retired from…
Why Cross-Cultural Conflicts Occur: Part 1
Looking at the cross-cultural conflicts which arose when a small number of Asian youth entered Australia to take up university studies soon after the end of World War Two is…
Well, If City Dwelling is So Much More Efficient – Why Do They Need My Tax Money?
Okay so, I don’t live in a big city, I never liked it much. I’ve always preferred to live in the suburbs, away from the traffic, hustle and bustle, and…
The Truth About America (Part 4) Three Daggers in the Heart of America
Perhaps the greatest difficulty our founding fathers faced was how to form a republic that would not destroy itself. At the close of the Constitutional Convention is 1787, Ben Franklin…
Altruism: The Hard Truth
Charities worldwide receive money from a lot of well-meaning people, to fight causes they believe in, like the salvation of lives of people who would not be able to normally…
Knowledge Is Essential for Formation of Human Behavior
Knowledge is the result of the idea and this happens after a person doing the sensing of a particular object. Sensing occurs through the human senses, namely the senses of…
If You Are Black And Afrodescendant, Do You Have A Reparations Mindset?
A widely accepted definition for reparations is…the payment by one nation to another nation for a wrong committed.In the case of so-called African Americans who are slave descendants, or Afrodescendants,…
Australia’s Most Famous Rebellion: The Eureka Stockade of 1854
The history of colonial Australia, unlike that of the Americas, is not distinguished by legendary rebellions and revolutions. In fact, the Eureka Stockade or Rebellion of 1854 was its first…
Ethical Causes and Their Attraction
What motivates a person to dedicate their life to a cause? Some people seem to have an intrinsic motivation and drive to commit their time and resources in support of…
