Archive for November, 2010
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How to Overcome the Odds
A university in New Jersey is using my memoir this semester as part of their studies in sociology. A couple of days ago I received a very nice letter from the Professor of Sociology at the university in which she made the following comment, ”We e
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Seven Ways to Have a Better Life
When people ask me the one thing they can do to succeed and have a better life, and I tell them to show more gratitude, I often receive shocked looks in return. Is it really that simple? Well, no, of course it isn't. But before we can have
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Don’t Ask, Don’t Care
Here's my confession: I never liked rules; I don't care about rules. When my children were old enough to understand, I told them my theory about rules. First, I said, there are only three rules that society universally accepts. “Rule number one,”
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A DAY OF THANKS
What does "Thanksgiving" mean to you? The word Thanksgiving has myriad definitions, depending upon whether you are a religious person, or it could be defined by your family traditions, or local folklore. Let data expert and word-catcher Google defin
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Entitlements Wrench Families Apart
The concept of a Culture of Poverty is that the poor have a unique value system, AKA as a poverty mentality, that suggests the poor remain in poverty because of their adaptations to the burdens of poverty. Having grown up in a culture of po
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When Jobs Were Abundant
If you drive on Interstate 10 starting from Jacksonville, Florida, and follow it all the way to the city of Santa Monica, California, and made a point to stop at every city along the way, you'll see firsthand why so many Americans are unemplo
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