Can you imagine being unable to afford to buy food for your children? So many precious little ones are trying to survive day to day – unprotected from abuse, hunger, violence and sickness. The harsh reality for poor families is that if they cannot grow enough food or earn enough money to buy food, they are ...

The Kingdoms of Israel and Judah emerged during the Iron Age. The Neo-Assyrian Empire destoyed Israel around 720 BCE. Judah was later conquered by the Babylonian, Persian and Hellenistic empires and had existed as Jewish autonomous provinces. The Maccabean revolt led to an independent Jewish kingdom in 110 BCE, which came to an end in 63 BCE when Judea became a client state of the ...

Nine million children die every year before they reach the age of five. Picture an Asian tsunami of the sort we saw in 2004 that killed a quarter of a million people. One of those tsunamis every 10 days, killing children only under five: that’s twenty-four thousand children a day, a thousand an hour, seventeen ...

All of us feel isolated and alone from time to time. If you are going through a rough time, sex might feel like a good way to get a little company, wrong company, wrong decision. It is important not to make decisions that you would not have made had you been feeling less lonely. Do not ...

Smoky-voiced singer songwriter. Experimental musician and cult icon. There are many ways to describe Tom Waits, but perhaps the most apt one is enigmatic: a mystery wrapped in a riddle. Tom Waits is as much of a character created for his fans as it is a real man, out of time and place and an ongoing ...

Sensation-seeking has been studied as having a strong relationship with addictive personalities. One form of addiction is substance addiction, drugs or alcohol. Other forms are gambling, eating disorders, such as anorexia, bulimia and compulsive overeating or compulsive buying. A more recent addiction that is being looked into is Internet addiction or problematic smart phone use. It has been ...

Towards the mid-1980s Ethiopia underwent a series of famines, worsened by adverse geopolitics and civil wars, which eventually resulted in the deaths of hundreds of thousands. As a result, the life became untenable and a large part of the population tried to escape the war and the famine by fleeing on foot for refugee camps in ...

Skin care Awareness and Consciousness are some of the driving forces behind the booming industry. The global skin care industry is estimated at $121 billion in 2016. 'My neighborhood $1 store has become one of my favorite places to shopand lately, I have been noticing another side of the $1 store ; a more beautiful side, crazy ...

Underneath the surface of your Consciousness, you are directing your life by a specific set of beliefs that are extremely important to you. These beliefs have the ultimate say on, why you do what you do. If you are experiencing things outside of these beliefs or values, it causes an internal conflict. This is something called Cognitive ...

Objectification means treating a person as a commodity or an object without regard to their personality or dignity. Objectification is most commonly examined at the level of a Society, but can also refer to the behavior of individuals. The individual loses their identity, and is recognized solely by the physical characteristics of their body. Some feminists and psychologists argue that Objectification of ...