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What Character in Literature Do You Most Admire? Why?

And yes! You can include comics, lol. The figure I most admire is still Atticus Finch, written so movingly in "To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee. Atticus defended a black man innocent of a rape...

Arts events for holidays

once flew over a sprawling metropolis in the American South on the night of July 4. Small pockets of fireworks sparkled below, many of which I knew were illegal. Unknown to many Chinese, US...

Arts events for holidays

once flew over a sprawling metropolis in the American South on the night of July 4. Small pockets of fireworks sparkled below, many of which I knew were illegal. Unknown to many Chinese, US...

Foods of the African-American Experience

Outside of the all-American burger, the first American food I knew about when I was growing up in Sweden was soul food. Soul food (the term entered the American lexicon in the '60s, as soul music...

Transracial Adoption

Just curious as to what people's thoughts are on transracial adoption. I can only speak for America, but here we see people of European descent adopting children of all colors, African- American,...

What's the worst accent?

a)CHinese b)Indian c)Philipino d)Latino-Spanish e)British f)Australian g)Canadian h)American (South) i) Other (what?)

Getting down and dirty...

I was browsing this morning and came across this article concerning tips for gardening. I thought these might help some of us as we get start getting down and dirty! Unless you're in a sunny...

A little tidbit about peanuts

Agricultural chemist, George Washington Carver discovered three hundred uses for peanuts and hundreds more uses for soybeans, pecans and sweet potatoes. He started popularizing uses for peanut...