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The Epidemic of Obesity Today, in our world, major health trends are changing rapidly. Kids are now much safer from infectious diseases due to immunizations. However, all countries minus Africa have found an 82% increase in obesity rates in the... (more »)

We as American’s and human beings are given, through so called unalienable rights, the freedom of Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness. I find it interesting although that we are given the right to do something that many find it impossible... (more »)

Perhaps life is not the experiment, but rather life is many experiment’s results. The more experiments one conducts, the more outcomes one receives, and in order to conduct such experiments one must do many things. For example, today in my... (more »)

Self-absorbance puzzles me the most. I am unable to understand how some people are satisfied with living their lives in oblivion to the latest news and inventions and only have concerns relating to how many Facebook friends they have, how many... (more »)

In kindergarten, my class was asked, “What do you want to be when you grow up?” Crayons danced across sheets of ­paper to illustrate our dream occupations. Our drawings were hung in the hallway for our parents to see at Back to School Night.... (more »)

How do you boil a frog? You just put it in a pot of boiling water, right? Wrong, the frog would jump out because they wouldn't be used to it. Instead you would put it in a pot of water, then slowly bring it up to a boil, allowing the frog to get... (more »)

Defying Demons We have all had horrible and internally damaging events scar us for life, but it’s the uphill battle to overcome the pain that defines us. We all haven’t had the love we all feel we deserve, and we all have had to wake up and... (more »)

To this earth, the destruction has become irreversible. Not due to a hole too deep to climb out of, but do to the attitude that there is no hole. Day to day the millions of people that walk this earth are mostly blind. We are focused only on... (more »)

I know that myself and many others like me, who posses only the x-chromosome, sometimes have the notion that females draw the short end of the genetic stick. A testosterone-saturated life can often appear easier than an existence which requires... (more »)

Teenagers get slammed in the media for being disrespectful, impolite, and downright rude. And the media is right, to some extent. As a whole, we are indifferent when it comes to respect and common courtesy. Yet this collective “we” refers not... (more »)