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A Need For Understanding

The past week played host to two major news events. The first was the visit to Columbia University by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. The second was the increasingly visible struggle in Myanmar for political and social liberty and the institution of democracy. Both topics received considerable attention and brought out many different views and commentaries, […]

Wanted: An End to Female Genital Mutilation, Reward: 20,000 Pounds and the Legion d‘Honneur

Another one from my blog.
The Jakarta Post reporting today on a new development in female genital mutilation in a piece entitled Police offer reward to stop female circumcision.
“London’s Metropolitan Police announced on Wednesday that they were offering a 20,000-pound (US$40,500) reward for information that brought anyone carrying out female circumcision in London to justice.”
This […]

Parents’ Rights Under Attack Once Again

This story really irks me. A social services agency is asking for a court order to force a 16 year old cancer patient to undergo chemotherapy for a second time. But after going through it once, he doesn’Â’t want to do it again, and his family agrees.
It would be a much different story if this […]

Mira Loma and the Day of Silence

Some of you may have heard about the Day of Silence and the related events at Mira Loma High School here in Sacramento, CA. As a student there, I wanted to share the information I have gathered, and then, in a separate post, explain my opinion. In this post, I have tried […]

Day of Silence After Report

The tenth annual Day of Silence to protest alleged discrimination against gays and Lesbians was held today in schools throughout the nation. At John F. Kennedy High School in Sacramento at least, it was pretty much a bust.
There was a lot of anticipation building up to the event. The Sacramento City Unified School District nearly […]

Beggars in Spain

I don’t usually write book reviews for this blog. Mostly because most of the books I read are for school and thus many readers probably would not be interested. But Beggars in Spain by Nancy Kress is an exception.
The protagonist in this science fiction novel is a woman named Leisha Camden. Camden, the daughter of […]

Can you have Ethics without Virtue?

Why 75% of all High School Students Cheat!
By Jordan Harms

It’s because our society doesn’t have a conscience anymore! That may sound like a pretty radical statement to make, but unfortunately, it isn’t. Nobody teaches moral values in the schools anymore, at least not what was once thought of as personal morality. Instead of teaching […]