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Thanksgiving - What Were the Pilgrims Thankful For?
- By ampro
- 11/10/2005
- Holidays
- 609 words
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In boyhood I was satisfied to use my imagination to envision just how the Pilgrims set their feet on the Old Plymouth Rock. It began to take on an aura of the mystical and heroic to me, but I was far from the first person to be caught into these feel...
Christmas Television Specials - Do They Really Know the True Meaning of Christmas?
- By ampro
- 11/13/2005
- Holidays
- 740 words
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Some sects of the church do not observe Christmas at all. Probably the most well know modern church that refuses to celebrate this holiday is the Jehovah Witnesses. It may surprise many people to learn that most of the Puritans of the Massachusetts B...
Christmas Television Specials - Do They Really Know the True Meaning of Christmas?
- By ampro
- 11/13/2005
- Holidays
- 740 words
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Some sects of the church do not observe Christmas at all. Probably the most well know modern church that refuses to celebrate this holiday is the Jehovah Witnesses. It may surprise many people to learn that most of the Puritans of the Massachusetts B...
ACLU or ACLJ - The Difference is Like Night and Day
- By ampro
- 12/9/2005
- Politics
- 820 words
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The ACLU has championed many causes since it was founded in 1920 by Mr. Roger Baldwin. Some of the most notable causes or rulings the ACLU supported have to do with abortion rights, homosexual and lesbian rights and removal of prayer from the public ...
America - You've had it Made Too Long
- By ampro
- 01/14/2006
- News & Society
- 1040 words
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There is little doubt that America is riding the wave. She is at the peak of her power and at the top of her game. Trying to get her attention would be a lot like trying to stop a train with a handkerchief. Every similarity to previous world powers n...
Islamic Militancy - Seed for the Next Dark Ages
- By ampro
- 08/2/2006
- Politics
- 662 words
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We teach our collegians well about the period known as the dark ages but do we thoroughly explain what brought on this horrible period across the globe? With little fanfare the answer to that question is an unequivocal no.
Let's do the math here. ...
Israel is Still Gods Clock - So What Time Is It
- By ampro
- 08/3/2006
- Religion
- 719 words
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As Americans viewed the history channel's piece on the antichrist they heard the narrator ask the question, is the re-birth of Israel in 1948 really the ultimate sign of the end of the world as we know it. With full blown skepticism the commentator p...
Writing for Online Article Sites - Horrors and Blessings
- By ampro
- 08/4/2006
- Writing Articles
- 1161 words
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Each ezine article database has its own terms of service (tos). They are generally uniform and mostly based on common sense. Most of them want well written articles that have had spell checking. They allow only so much html within an article and they...
Forget Politically Correct - Check out Politically Ignorant
- By ampro
- 08/5/2006
- Politics
- 539 words
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In August of 2006 CNN News conducted a poll that was meant to see how the average American viewed the Hezbollah. The result would leave anyone with an ounce of political savvy in a state of disbelief.
The poll concluded that forty seven percent o...
Hollywood Celebrities and Pop Culture - The Rape of the Mind
- By ampro
- 08/9/2006
- News & Society
- 1152 words
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Fame, fortune, and power stand at the top of the heap when it comes to what we call success. Most peculiar of these is fame. It seems the rule, which is rarely spoken out loud is, anyone who is very well known didn't get that way because they did eve...

