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There comes a point in one's life where one has to decide: Will I have children?  Most people decide this in their 20s, 30s, and even early 40s.  But some people, like Patricia Rashbrook, age 63, decided to become pregnant by in vitro fertilization (IVF).  She is currently seven months pregnant at age 63, and she and her husband, aged 61, are very excited.   Read More »

After some of my own personal experience with "Livejournal," I decided that writing your opinions about what has happened to you throughout the day can cause way too much drama.  Everyone will have an opionion about your opinion, and not everyone will have a favorable opionion of it. 
  
Two years ago I was a junior in high school.  I was in the middle of directing a scene for our version of "Saturday Night Live," and one of the other directors had scheduled one of the girls in my scene for their scene at the exact same time, and they said they will send them over halfway through the period to rehearse with me.  That didn't happen, and I was starting to get upset about it, and I remember thinking, "I will livejournal about this!"  Well after posting a not so nice, angry entry about the other director and the actor, they all started posting about me and saying that I was horrible and mean.  This also had a chain-reaction of events, and people I didn't even know were responding telling them that I was mean and horrible.   I actually lost at least 4 friends in the progress of this drama, and I never regained those people's friendship.  Read More »

“Congress did not act last year on my [President Bush’s] proposal to save Social Security, yet the rising cost of entitlements is a problem that is not going away -- and with every year we fail to act, the situation gets worse,” (“State”).  This quote made on January 31, 2006 by President George W. Bush in his State of the Union address, in order to point out that although his 2005 reform initiatives weren’t passed, the problems and issues of Social Security aren’t going away.  The Social Security Act, created in 1935, did not foresee the largest generation of Americans would soon be born (“Historical”).  Everyone will receive Social Security benefits at the age of 65 according to the Social Security Act, but the program faces a calamity of new problems because of the strain the  generation of baby boomers retiring. The original system taxation amounts, which are still current, aren’t prepared to handle this generation.  The current Social Security system must be changed into a more stable, lasting system.  Read More »

This is a letter I recently sent to both Indiana State Senators, and I urge anyone that feels the same way about this topic to copy this letter and send it to your own state Senators.

Dear Senator Bayh,  Read More »

Jennifer became a victim of date rape on the second of February 2005.  At her friend’s fraternity house party and having a drinking contest with him, she wanted to prove herself as an equal.  Her alleged friend used the knowledge of her feminist mores against her and took advantage of her after he challenged her to drink more.  In, “Rape: A Bigger Danger than Feminists Know,” an editorial by Camille Paglia, contended that women have been brainwashed by feminists into thinking that having an understanding of male sexuality isn’t necessary.  Professor of Humanities at Philadelphia’s University of the Arts, Paglia can be read online in her controversial column in Salon (Paglia). The editorial, written by Paglia, states that feminism has tricked women into believing that they should go anywhere and do anything without fear of rape.  The author stated that women should always fear the danger of sexual pervasiveness (Paglia).   Paglia blames the mores of feminism as a primary reason for women being raped, but not enough evidence exists to blame the feminists for causing rape.   Read More »

An evil dictator has the power of the nuclear bomb at his fingertips.  This was a realized fear of many democratic nations on February 10, 2005 when North Korea officially announced that it had weapons of mass destruction.  This fact wasn’t surprising to the world because it had been common knowledge that the North Koreans had shown uranium activity in recent years after the 1994 Agreed Framework agreement because of a loophole in the agreement.  Read More »

The Barbie Doll, a toy often considered a classic children’s toy since the doll’s creation, has a tiny waist, an immaculately coiffed mane of perfectly blonde hair, large breasts, and a perfect, white smile.  After many decades, it is understandable that such a popular toy would begin to have an impact on the way that children and even adults look at themselves.  Girls play with Barbie even through their puberty years, when they play with her at an awkward stage of their own body development; it is believable that such girls would compare themselves to the pre-eminent Barbie.  Even after the girls quit playing with dolls and stretch beyond the years of puberty, girls feel pain and anxiety that their own bodies aren’t “perfect.”  This imprinted idea of what it means to be a ‘real’ woman comes from the girl’s own cherished childhood memories of Barbie doll.    The toy affects their self-image, fashion choices, careers, and views on sex that surpass far beyond the realm of childhood. Barbie Dolls have adversely affected the ways girls perceive themselves.  Read More »