Understanding Employment Discrimination

With the economy how it is, more and more people are currently searching for jobs. This increased competition for available jobs means employers are becoming pickier about who they hire. While there are certainly reasonable qualifications, such as education and experience, that can become increasingly stringent as more people apply for the job, there are [...]

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Tips For Keeping Fido Happy and Safe at the Dog Park

With the advent of dog parks, pet owners who live in apartments, townhomes or areas where a yard of their own may be too small or unavailable can enjoy a leisurely walk or vigorous exercise with their dog. But while most pet owners practice a responsible activity by obeying certain rules and regulations which may [...]

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Recession Proof Income – Is Your Partner Helping Or Hindering? Or Are You?

Job loss or business failure, domestic partner or business partner, there are several things you MUST consider as strategies if you want to “bite the recession” together and come out of these hard times with your integrity intact, if not your relationship:
1.- BACK OFF AND SLOW DOWN - If you are emotionally hurting, then [...]

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Does Black and Missing Equal No Media Coverage?

Throughout the years, national media has consistently covered the stories of missing persons. However, these individuals usually fit into a very narrow category: young, attractive, White and female. Families of missing minorities and men often find it virtually impossible to get national coverage of their missing loved-ones.
From missing children like Caylee Anthony and Elizabeth Smart [...]

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Obama? Good, Bad or Ugly for the Internet?

Is a President Obama a good thing for the Internet? He won approximately 51% of he popular vote. Which means 49% are anti-Obama. Regardless of your political affiliation, he will be president for at least the next 4 years. Maybe 8.
He hasn’t said a great deal about the Internet, other than he favors Net Neutrality. [...]

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Firework Safety Tips for the 4th of July

Fireworks have always been one of the most exciting parts of the American independance day. For most people, it is a day for fun and celebration. As fun as fireworks can be, there are many risks of injury involved or even death in extreme cases. Reports have stated that the most injuries resulting from fireworks [...]

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Social Trends and Rocky Top Tennessee

You are sure to have heard the foot-tapping well-known song called Rocky Top, which goes “Good ol’ Rocky Top, rocky Top Tennessee”. The song itself is a part of the state’s official songs besides six others although the latter apply to different hub-pages of Tennessee.
We are talking about the same Tennessee which is home to [...]

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5 Factors To Consider To Know Where The Economy Is Going

“Days toll:75,000 jobs eliminated in Houston Texas as of January 27,2009″ !
You see in the papers everyday now a days about businesses going out of business, people getting laid off from their jobs, down turn of the housing market and wonders where is the nations’s economy is heading.
What pieces of information showed you follow to [...]

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American Children’s Society

There are many fantastic charities that are focused on helping the most helpless in our society. The American Children’s Society is one of these charities that seek to find better ways to serve the children in need in our communities. Their main focus is to take care of children that are suffering with cancer. It [...]

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Black Men, You’re Headed For Self-Destruction

In 1988, hip-hop legend KRS-One of Boogie Down Productions started the Stop the Violence Movement by recording the song “Self-Destruction,” with an all-star cast of East Coast rappers to raise awareness of the epidemic of Black-on-Black crime plaguing inner-cities across the country.
Kool Moe Dee rapped in his timeless verse, “Back in the sixties our brothers [...]

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