The poor people of Haiti had found their voice to let the world know of their misery...even before the destructive earthquake that hit them on January 12, 2010. Unfortunately, this has turned into an invisible scream by invisible Haitians who read more
By:
Nancy L. Young-Houser
Category: Society, Social Issues > People
With disasters such as Haiti, Cuba and New Orleans in our recent history, people who offer help from the bottom of their help is what allows people to survive through such catastrophic disasters. Many of those people who give are pennies above read more
By:
Nancy L. Young-Houser
Category: Society, Social Issues > People
Since January 2005, sensitive data of more than 216 million U.S. residents have been compromised with unencrypted data on stolen or lost laptops a major source. Blood plasma thefts, insulin thefts, and data of blood donors are just beginning read more
By:
Nancy L. Young-Houser
Category: Society, Social Issues > People
Recently the organization "Doctors Without Borders" announced they had reached the quota of donated money to do their work in Haiti, but people still keep on donating through small grass-roots parties around the United States. Eight-nine percent read more
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Nancy L. Young-Houser
Category: Society, Social Issues > People
In the past five years, the UK has reported that 50% more women have been arrested for being drunk and disorderly conduct, a growth which began in 1953 in the United States. The problem with this growth is that it has been found that heavy drinking read more
By:
Nancy L. Young-Houser
Category: Society, Social Issues > People
Article by Kay Marshall Strom regarding African women at the well. Includes African Lemon Chicken Soup recipe. read more
By:
Kathy Carlton Willis Comm.
Category: Society, Social Issues > People
The world is divided into two types of people -- Conscious Creators and Unconscious Creators. Most people fall into the latter category. They don’t understand why their life is falling apart, why their job makes them unhappy and why they can’t read more
By:
Jackie Lapin
Category: Society, Social Issues > People
Most of us just go about life each day feeling like wind chimes…sometimes we make lovely sweet music and sometimes we are buffeted by gale force winds, with wild dissonant sounds. Often we feel at the mercy of fate, which is handing us some read more
By:
Jackie Lapin
Category: Society, Social Issues > People
A pioneering study, the Nun Study offers insight into whether a positive emotional outlook early in life will help people live longer. The study of 678 nuns in seven convents in Connecticut, Maryland, Texas, Wisconsin, Missouri and Illinois is read more
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Nancy L. Young-Houser
Category: Society, Social Issues > People
The humanistic psychologist Abraham Maslow lists shelter and housing on the second level of his "hierarchy of needs", with the basics of food, water, and breathing on the first level. Only when the first basic levels, "the felt read more
By:
Nancy L. Young-Houser
Category: Society, Social Issues > People