Dream Of Interdependent Society

Today's society is becoming a world of mass media; people around the world are using computers of all shapes and sizes, radios, television, Internet, magazines, and newspapers to get their ideas and opinions related to others in society.

Have You Heard of the Zone? Of Positive Contagion?

Leonard Pitt, Jr.'s column on a 97 square block network of schools in Harlem that provides positive peer pressure and social support from pre-school through college.

Beyond the Ansari X PRIZE

It's just passed the thirtieth anniversary of the last man even to visit the moon and in an attempt to get a flagging space travel sector going the Ansari X PRIZE has been awarded to SpaceShipOne for matching and then slightly exceed the performance of the old X-15 spaceplane of nearly fifty years ago. Is this then end? Will space travel taper off into a few high altitude fun rides to give pleasure to the rich and slightly famous? Maybe not - our correspondent looks at a different way that brings us back to the expectations of the 1930s not the let downs of the 1980s.

Stereotypes-An Intercultural No-No

Herouxville, Canada has recently published guidelines for immigrants that at best are based on stereotypes and at worst racist. The guidelines do however portray a great need for cultural competency in the modern age.

American Architecture

Modern American architecture includes all the architecture of America which has recently been built, or is being built to-day. It includes the conservative and the radical, the archaeological and the original.

Alienation and Anomie

When looking at what alienation and anomie are, we can see that they are similar psychological states. Anomie is a concept that was used in both the studies of Emile Durkheim and Robert K. Merton. The concept of alienation was one used frequently by Karl Marx in his earlier works, and less obviously in his later works. While both concepts are fairly unique, they are all very much similar and related to one another as psychological and sociological states of mind.

Bureaucracy as a Virus

Some scholars view that the bureaucracy in American as a pathological virus, spreading, infectious, and incurable. Such metaphorical concepts imply the rationale that as insufficient and overgrown these agencies are, they are the inevitable effects of demanding cliental.

Bringing Wheelchairs Into The 21st Century

Having recently taken part in research to create accessible footpaths out of recycled chip bark and the testing of their level of usability for wheelchair users I came to one very important conclusion.

How to Integrate as an Immigrant – Your First Year

How do you manage your life in a new culture? Part of the answer is to do with integration. This is a serious topic. In a time where migration flows become larger and larger integration become more of an issue. But let's have a look at the individual case, not the large flows of people, but one person or family that gets to live in a new country, city, home and in this new neighborhood.

Fundraising

Fundraising is an organized activity of asking for money or assurances for charitable associations or political crusades. It is important that each person in the group be aware of the need and the purpose of the fundraising.

LearningCommunties as the Foundation of a Cooperative Commonwealth (2003)

Vol 1. No.2 CCL-LLC Newsletter (excerpt) Knowing or Having, Teacher or Mentors, Cultural and Transition, Communal Learning, Doing on the Internet

Replacing Sewing Machine Parts for Extended Life

Sewing machines today are very well-built machines. They will usually last for years without much trouble. When trouble does arise, only a few sewing machine parts will require replacement. Case in point is the myriad of antique sewing machines that are still in use today.

Gandhi And Pole Dance By A Joker

A joker wore dhoti kurta, an ancient dress, though more symbolic of Gandhi to the present generation, and gave a stupendous performance of pole dance