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Dirk and Ann in the earlier days of Emoyeni.78

Who Will Rescue the Orphan Children of Emoyeni?

A heroic chapter in the life of two champions draws rapidly to a close, as Dirk and Ann van Stelten, (of Emoyeni, near Badplaas, South Africa) turn and face the music - they are too tired, too old - too worn...

6 comments    children god help
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For your-cOnSiDeRaTiOn

For your – cOnSiDeRaTiOn She told me that these social media outlets have destroyed people’s sensitivity, and asked me to speak on the issue of the apparent lack of common sense these days. Of...

1 comment    girls school freedom
Photo from zooomr.com. He seems to be enjoying that slap.82

Coming to Terms with Being a 'Bitch'

I don't know if I should be proud of it, honestly, or not, but I've spent most of my life never hearing the "B" word directed at me--and being glad of it. For one, it is the kind of word culturally, at least...

159 comments    life women politics
Yla Pamfilo profile image76

"Minsan Lang Sila Bata" (They Can Only be Children Once)

Child Labor as a Social Problem The film documented different faces of child labor in different phases of Philippines. It has three segments exposing how children despite their ‘right to be...

4 comments    education social issues
Flying Dream78

What Does your Dream Mean?

FLYING DREAMS: Have you ever dream of flying through the sky and looking down below with eagle vision? You can see very minute details, even an ant carrying its dinner into a hole. As you glide way up high in...

17 comments    relationships water dreams
An Again profile image82

discrimination against Africans

The original question was: "Why is it the world dicriminates and thinks nothing about Africans and I'm not talking African Americans, europeans ect. I'm talking born bred Africans and the continent itself?"...

11 comments    politics war economics
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Everyone Should Have a Gun

"Everyone should be well armed and well trained in all manners of self defense including gun control." is what a good friend of mine tells me. He has a theory about guns that would make most people raise their brow with a look of you're an idiot.

146 comments    training safety crime
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Life: The Most Difficult Obstacle We Face

  Each day, life is full of surprises. If you watched the movie “Forest Gump,” Sally Field told Tom Hanks, before her character died, that “Life is like a bunch of chocolates, you never know what...

1 comment    health life psychology
Prita with her 2 children, prior to her detainment.69

Who is Prita Mulyasari? Emailing can kill you..

It is already well-known that social sites like FaceBook are being utilised even by Indonesians to get connected to friends and families. In this order, Prita—living in Jakarta, Indonesia--also uses this...

1 comment    family children politics
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Problems with Temporary Assistance for Needy Families

This is an academic article mixing the ideas and information from a number of articles and studies found in peer-reviewed journals. There are two things to understand before reading this article: The...

0 comments    children women jobs
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