Articles for category: Opinion and Editorial

Ten Good Reasons Not to Use Western Union

One of the leading service providers in the e-commerce realm is Western Union because it sends and receives money through electronic funds transfer. E-commerce actually consists of the trade or distribution of goods or services or other products through the use of electronic systems like the Internet and other networks that deal with computers. Western ...

The Movie Crash and the High School Curriculum

Dear Board of Education, Teachers, Superintendent, Principals, and Parents: I write this letter in order to help you understand what a powerful and essential movie Crash is. I do realize it has some violence, language, and sexual content. However, its revelations about life in America far outshine its negatives. Particularly being a part of an ...

Remembering Bob Marley 30 Years Later

COMMENTARY |AFP reports that Wednesday is the 30th anniversary of musician Bob Marley’s death. Marley died May 11, 1981, at the age of 36 due to cancer and was known to many as the singer and songwriter who made Jamaican music mainstream while strumming his Gibson guitar. There are no plans to celebrate the 30th ...

The Role Native American Folklore Trickster Stories Play

In Native American oral tradition, the vulgar but sacred trickster plays a key character in stories that has impacted several indigenous cultures. The trickster is a complex and a significant figurehead. The trickster’s influence on tradition and culture is significant in understanding indigenous communities. Trickster alternately scandalized, disgusts, amuses, disrupts, chastises, and humiliates the animal-like ...

Atheism is Bad Morality

The last several months have seen repeated instances of individuals murdering as many people as they could before taking their own lives. These horrific occurrences are universally denounced as evil. Yet, though atheists join in that condemnation, their belief system provides no moral foundation for considering such acts to be wrong. The problem is what ...

Test of a True Friend

EXODUS: 18:14 And when Moses’ father in law saw all that he did to the people, he said, What is this thing that thou doest to the people? why sittest thou thyself alone, and all the people stand by thee from morning unto even? 18:17 And Moses’ father in law said unto him, The thing ...

Buying Ammunition Online. Easy, Cheap & Fast

As a certified “gun nut” I have a bushel basket full of them. And to keep my firearms from being nothing more than expensive brickbats, one needs projectiles. And that’s what this is about…projectiles, or the purchasing of them online. Gone are the days of going to the local sporting goods shop and paying through ...

A Review of “Desiree’s Baby”

“Desiree’s Baby” by Kate Chopin is a powerful story that is intriguing and compelling. As I read “Desiree’s Baby”, I could visualize the time and scenery. This time-period considered being black as socially devastating and the end of the world. The law considered a person with 1/16 of black blood as racially black. The intent ...

Thomas Harris ‘Hannibal’ Books Inspires Two TV Series

COMMENTARY | Thomas Harris’ series about a serial killer named Hannibal Lecter, which has spawned a number of movies, most starring Anthony Hopkins as the iconic “Hannibal the Cannibal” is shortly to inspire not just one, but two TV series. According to TV Guide, Lifetime is developing a series to be entitled “Clarice,” based on ...