Beyond the Rhetoric

Just as when it comes to finding happiness in your life, it is important to pay attention to the little things when it comes to improving your grammar as well. All too often, we pay attention to larger concepts in our writing, but small mistakes can mean the difference between a professional-sounding article and one [...]

Going to just about any shopping mall around this time of year, you’ll inevitably be met with quite the crowd. We have all of these shoppers frantically looking for just the right gift for just the right person, reminding us once again about the heavily commercialized version of Christmas that we celebrate these days. There’s [...]

“If you want to go quickly, go alone. If you want to go far, go together. We need to go far… quickly.” It’s fascinating that Al Gore has been able to achieve so much more outside of the White House than he was able to accomplish from within those walls. After emerging from beneath Bill [...]

The 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing had five mascots. For the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver and Whistler, we’re going to have three official mascots and one unofficial one. For all eight of these characters, I think that we see another demonstration of the inherent racism of the Olympics, but I think we can all [...]

You may have heard about some people who decide to leave their jobs, pack their bags, and head out on some kind of nomadic journey in order to “find themselves.” They may go back to their cultural roots, navigating their way through the homeland in order to “get in touch” with “who they really are.” [...]