How do we distinguish between what is true or characteristic about a people or a culture, and what is a stereotype? This is a question that I ask myself periodically as I catch myself and others labeling an entire people group, nationality, gender or social class on account of a few interactions with people from …
Aretha Franklin might have made the word respect popular but it had been around well before she came on the scene. As the song suggests, respect is something that everybody craves and longs for, something that people will go at great lengths to get. Often people try to get respect by putting others in their …
Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness. Our country has a mantra or anthem that we live by, or govern ourselves by which has been bothering me for quite some time - “Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness.” It sounds pleasant enough, fantastic really, especially since its purpose was to guarantee the alienable rights …
In their pain and inability to cope appropriately with their stress, hurting people often respond by hurting other people.Often they turn toward the people closest to them and push them further and further away until one day they are no longer there.It's sad but it's true. Just think about the single mother who decides to …
Ebony Johanna 