Affirmative action refers to the active measures taken to promote equal opportunity in education and the workplace. The roots of affirmative action are buried in the American civil rights movement as recourse to counter discrimination and redress the rights of the marginalized minorities. The practice of affirmative action started out as a temporary measure to [...]

Some call boxing a pure sport, an expression of human nature, an outlet for the aggression that boils inside each one of us. It is the only sport in existence the aim of which is to hurt the opponent, plain and simple. And it is revered and followed no less religiously than any other popular [...]

Caring for others has always been a part of my life. Teaching, which was my first profession, is a caring profession. Being a mother also placed me in a caring position, and finally acting as caregiver to my aging mother required all the attributes I had developed in my previous experiences and even then it [...]

Baby boomers do not know about American lifestyle before 1945. By 1950, many families had an automobile and, shortly thereafter, could brag about a new washing machine, a single line telephone and then the television set. I was born in 1950. My family did not own an automobile until several years later. We walked everywhere [...]

Three times a day I get asked by one of my patients, “How long did it take for you to complete Echocardiography school?” The answer is usually the same: “Oh, it took a while for the education was pre-computer!” Not to seem out-of-date or appear Cro-Magnon, but I still remember the pica typewriter. To recall [...]

The more I read about learning foreign language from a very early age, the more I think about whether it is really necessary. You can come across two totally different opinions: there is or there is no use to it, kids either do or do not need it, it is good or bad for them, [...]

Integrity is among the most important factors playing part in having a meaningful education experience. Without integrity substantial lifelong learning is simply not possible. The students that I find most annoying are those who don’t associate their education with a core value of integrity. Students can overcome their shortcomings in a number of ways. Everyone [...]

At the cost of sounding cynical I will still say that the most important values of the current generation – those living in the digital era of cell-phones and laptops – comprise of just one thing: money. Get the financial aspect right and the rest would fall in place. There is no idealism of the [...]

The purpose of critical thinking for any individual is to be a well-informed person. To be able to analyze and evaluate questions that is interrelated in order to make the proper decision or judgment of any given topic. This paper will attempt to summarize, and discuss certain aspects of a previously read article, “Keys to [...]

London-based writer Nick Hornby’s second novel, About A Boy, divides its time between two male misfits: Will, a 36-year-old bachelor, and Marcus, an eccentric, introverted, bullied 12-year-old. Never having to work thanks to the royalties from his father’s Christmas novelty-song hit, Will has a lot of time on his hands.          Most of this is [...]