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Have Your Own 1940's Burlesque Photo Shoot for Men and Women87

Have Your Own 1940's Burlesque Photo Shoot for Men and Women

An article suggesting having a 1940's photo shoot or having a professional photo shoot. Includes a 1940's style guide to popular fashions, discusses the trend of fashion during WWII, and includes a tutorial on how to apply makeup from this time period. There is a special section for men's fashion in the 1940's.

57 comments    fashion depression hair
USA & the New Great Depression88

USA & the New Great Depression

It is my personal opinion that we are on the knife edge of a new Global Great Depression, worse than the one of 1929. The reason for the knife edge, simply, is unregulated and unrestrained human greed, guided by a shameless and selfish financial...

35 comments    crisis financial crisis de greek
Hobos86

Hobos

There have always been ambivalent feelings about the American hobo. Both a romanticized figment of the country's imagination and an integral part of American society, the hobo established its own unique culture. The word "hobo" was first coined in...

72 comments    civil war great depression hobo
Truths My Mother Told Me71

Truths My Mother Told Me

We are likely shaped by our mothers in more ways than we can know. This piece is a personal reflection on lessons my mother taught me that have served me well in life.

62 comments    public speaking great depression
Independents and Conservatives With a Conscience: Answer Me This Please. [2*-10]73

Independents and Conservatives With a Conscience: Answer Me This Please. [2*-10]

I maintain that President Bush's TARP and President Obama's stimulus programs worked. This is one of my first hubs on that theme. What do you think?

9 comments    politics depression obama
Why Do People Hoard Stuff?79

Why Do People Hoard Stuff?

Hoarding is the inability to let go of our belongings and we often have an emotional connection to our stuff. Are you a hoarder? Find out with clutter-hoarding scale.

15 comments    clutter great depression thrifty
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck Book Review80

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck Book Review

I'd read Of Mice and Men long before and remembered it to be brilliant -not because others say it is so, but from the visceral resonance I experienced -and the fine memories of admiration for the prose encountered between its covers. Of Mice and Men...

2 comments    william shakespeare frankenstein
Response Paper on Hard Times by Studs Terkel77

Response Paper on Hard Times by Studs Terkel

Studs Terkel’s book Hard Times: an Oral History of the Great Depression is exactly that - a collection of hundreds of people’s firsthand accounts, remembrances, and feelings about their lives...

0 comments    depression american history
Oklahoma Resort ~ Lake Murray ~ Recreation Activities for an Entire Family76

Oklahoma Resort ~ Lake Murray ~ Recreation Activities for an Entire Family

See photos & videos of this terrific family vacation place at the Lake Murray State Park in Oklahoma.

16 comments    fishing camping boating
Astrology's Cardinal Climax of 2009-201283

Astrology's Cardinal Climax of 2009-2012

tikal, guatemala by verdarluz astralshaman.com Right before the moment of coherence is the point of maximum chaos. Just 2 years before the prophesied Mayan calendar end date of December 21, 2012, in the summer of 2010, 2 transpersonal...

12 comments    politics cancer astrology
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