I’m sure many parents have come upon the same realization as I that, with your children, you should not put too much emphasis on “being good” or “being bad,” because when it comes down to it, everyone is a combination of the two. We are human with good tendencies and bad tendencies and this distinction… Read more »
This year, while braving the hustle and bustle of last minute holiday shopping at the local mall, I was surprised to find I had a few dollars left over after buying all of my gifts. I decided to treat myself to Celine Dion’s latest release, These Are Special Times. I thought, Perfect! This is just… Read more »
For centuries, philosophers have debated the definitions of various objects. Take trees, for instance. Plato believed in an ideal tree. All other trees attempted to imitate the ideal tree (thereby unifying the concept of a tree). Later era philosophers argued that the concept of a tree is a composite of all the trees we have… Read more »
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If you want to catch a glimpse of what he future may look like, you could do a lot worse than spending a few hours wandering around downtown Vancouver on a Friday night. Walk up the line of haute couture chain stores called Robson Street, for instance, and see the wealthy twenty-somethings carrying shopping bags… Read more »
Apocalyptic Vision A dream yields an essence of the past. Prostrate before altars where no one worships lays the Deity of Man. This place belongs to a generation forged in furnaces that technology built, then deconstructed for a better purpose”? the end of a man hides between the pages of a desiccated book about sex,… Read more »
You don’t get to choose how you’re going to die. Or when. You can only decide how you’re going to live. Now. — Joan Baez January 23, 1789, Frances Brooke, author, died in England. Frances wrote The History of Emily Montague. She is said to be the first novelist in North America and The History… Read more »
I believe it was Bernard Shaw who said “As it is impossible to say exactly what one means, it follows that it is impossible to mean exactly what one says.” Aside from using this statement as a defense when someone misconstrues your declarations, it provides a good deal of insight into a question that I… Read more »
Ah bones, we hear a lot about them. Drink milk for your bones, exercise for your bones, and take hormone therapy for your bones. They get a lot of press, these 206 pieces of rigid material hanging out inside the human body. Of course, they are pretty handy things. Linked together with admirable engineering skill,… Read more »
I take distance classes because they fit into my life, but I also take them because I’ve attended campus-based schools and found Athabasca University classes to be as challenging and as productive. I’ve had to apply myself, and work as hard as a student who attends classes. There are, of course, certain elements of campus-based… Read more »