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Learning Disabled: A Manmade Disease
One of the duties I perform almost daily, about 2-3 times a week (it used to be 5), is that I provide tutorial services to children, primarily in the area of literacy—reading, writing, and vocabulary. I have also Home Schooled children for three years prior to my tutorial services, who ranged anywhere from Kindergarten to… Continue reading
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The Power of Purpose
“The obstacles you encounter rarely have a coherent purpose of their own. They are just there, inconvenient and troublesome to be sure, but with nothing of substance to sustain them. You, on the other hand, have the extreme advantage of being able to choose and follow a definite purpose. By so doing, instead of randomly… Continue reading
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Mankind is an Arrogant Creation
Mankind is an arrogant creation. He walks proudly on both legs, almost as if the wind carries him His head is tilted toward the sky that he curses with his lips But the clouds mock him And the seas have admitted, he is foolish in his ways He possess intellect, but his intelligence has seated… Continue reading
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Guest Feature – A Modern Day Slave Plantation Exists, and It’s Thriving in the Heart of America – Part 1
This post is part of a 3 day Special Feature Post on ThePBSblog, located under our Articles and Guest Feature section. The author’s name is Laura Dimon. Laura graduated from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism in 2013. She has been published in the Economist, the Atlantic, and the Daily Beast. I ran across her… Continue reading
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There’s a Poem Somewhere
There’s a poem somewhere waiting to be heard. There’s a child out there confused and afraid so he waits and she waits to be heard. There’s a man out there who wants to know truth but this world is so tempting that his dreams he’d rather pursue there’s a poem out there somewhere that speaks… Continue reading
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A Writer’s Art
“A writer – and, I believe, generally all persons – must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource. All things have been given to us for a purpose, and an artist must feel this more intensely. All that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given… Continue reading
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Perception
“See with your mind; feel with your heart.” Continue reading
