The Global Gag Rule

Hillit Hermon-Kiernan, of WOMANKIND Worldwide, examines the USA policy in funding family planning and sexual health organisations outside the USA policy, which is endangering the lives of poor and rural women.

Armchair Geurrilla

Do you know when Rock Around The Clock was first issued by Bill Haley & The Comets? 1954 or 1958? What if I was to tell you that an all-expenses paid fortnight in Cuba was riding on your response? Are you still sure of your answer?

Friendship-Pen Pals From Other Cultures and Romantic Relationships

It can be very exciting getting to know people from other countries and other cultures. Friendships with people from foreign lands are to be encouraged and can only benefit everybody concerned. However, if those friendships turn romantic in nature the situation can become a little more complicated.

Pen Pals-What Kinds of Pen-Pals Are Out There?

There are many reasons why grown-up people choose to become a pen pal and to interact with other grown-up pen pals. They may be seeking others to share their interests, situation, sexual orientation, or even their medical circumstances. They may want to learn about another country or culture and see having a pen pal in that country as the best way to achieve this goal. Or, they may ultimately be seeking a life partner at home or internationally. They may even be seeking a prison pen pal -- there are people who find the idea of e-mailing a prison inmate, for whatever reason, attractive.

Address of a Person Search: How to Find Your Way

You had an enjoyable night out, and even left your restaurant/bar/club with a few names and numbers scribbled on napkins. But you are not keen, without having a better idea of where the person attached to the phone number actually lives, on agreeing to a date. Or, you have been put in charge of the 25th Anniversary High School Reunion, and need to track down all those classmates whose life journeys have diverged from yours.

Population Migrations: A Boon or a Bane

Man always have a tendency to move from place to place in search of the best. These migrations lead to many consequences that affect human life. The article highlights the merits and problems of rural-urban migration.

Why Set Up a Local Chapter of an Online Think Tank?

Every community has its strengths and challenges. Sometimes the challenges are minor and blown out of proportion and other times the challenges are catastrophic like those weather anomalies blown in by the wind. Take the post Front Range areas of Colorado after the recent deluge of snow and ice storms. Just clearing the roads is a project of biblical proportions. Then you have to ask where do you put all the snow as it melts off, as it might easily cause floods?

Stereotypes-An Intercultural No-No

Herouxville, Canada has recently published guidelines for immigrants that at best are based on stereotypes and at worst racist. The guidelines do however portray a great need for cultural competency in the modern age.

Immigration Statistics

The word immigrant has many different meanings, which may be theoretical, administrative, or statistical. In the theoretical sense, an immigrant is a person who has been born in a particular country but has parents of foreign origin. He or she may also be an individual who crosses the border of a particular country and enters with the intention of remaining there. This means that the person has traveled to become a part of the population by means other than by birth. People cannot be termed as immigrant to United States of America more than once. Implication of any statistics depends mainly on interpretation of the unit in which the statistics are expressed.

African History - Rich And Dramatic Stories Have Shaped Its Progress

Africa is probably the oldest inhabited territory on earth, with the human species in some quarters thought to actually originate from that continent. Thanks to computer technology, photographs and images of Africa’s History can now be easily discerned in order to facilitate us with a better understanding of evolution in itself.

Chronic Problems in Society

People have been seeking ultimate solution to social problems, including such allergic issues as ethics and freedom, traditional culture and foreign impacts, etc., since the concept of society came into being. Society is a nebular complexity which never stops its steps for a second, rather than a homogenized peaceful paradise.

United States Immigration

Immigration is the act of relocating or moving from one place to another. Individuals move away from their native country mostly due to disagreement about political loyalty, moral values, religion, working habits, and health. Such reasons cause individuals to move to another country where such restrictions may not be imposed upon them. Immigration was at an all time high during the colonial period and hence such people are known as immigrants. Air travel by jet was cheap and fairly inexpensive in the year 1965. This prompted people to travel to and from their country of their origin.

Healthy Chocolate

Valentine's Day could qualify as a national holiday. Love is in the air and more than $1 billion in candy will fly off the shelves. You can give your 'love' healthy Chocolate every day. Yes, healthy Chocolate.

Fundraising Programs

An organization could seek to raise funds for certain projects, events, and other worthy causes. It is noted that the success of a fundraiser is typically based on the product being sold for fundraising, the organization, and the funds available to invest in purchasing materials.

Utopian World Is Not Real

If one looks at two of the oldest and best known stories about the development of human society, the story of the Garden of Eden in the Old Testament and the story of Pandora's Box in Greek mythology, one sees man is not satisfied with being satisfied.