This is a teaser excerpt from an article i wrote on Examiner.com: "From the move, "A Few Good Men" we learned of an alleged military tradition. According to the legend, when a military officer wants someone...
Women in India’s Maharashtra state get a rare chance to play and dance – normally considered a social taboo – on the occasion of snake festival , locally known as Nag Panchami. Normally a festival in...
Last night I went to the final stop on U2's 360 concert tour with the Black Eyed Peas at Vancouver's BC Place and the concert definitely lived up to the hype. Our seats faced directly onto the open bowl area...
opinion by amyellensoden | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago 1231 views | 0 recommendations | 4 comments
There are some things that I am not completely on board with yet but I don’t judge, I try to understand. Don’t knock it till ya try it, right? I think trying new things is the best way to understand them. Sometimes that takes us out of our comfort...
opinion by LWesty | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago 634 views | 2 recommendations | 0 comments
Why are Americans overly sensitive when it comes to sex?If I am not mistaken this is a country, who believes in the motto "sex sells".If sex sells, why are we not more opened to talk about with our children,sisters, moms and dads? Every 60 seconds, a commercial, move trailer,...
opinion by Princesse | 4 years ago 568 views | 1 recommendation | 2 comments
The Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 culminating in the Tiananmen Square Massacre still haunts Chinese authorities. The incident in which Several hundred civilians were shot dead by the Chinese army...
created by Sanjay Jha | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago 699 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
Ask any person on the street about what they think of socks and sandals and you would usually get a combination of a bug-eyed grimace and a chortle. But it seems like it's not such a black and white verdict...
created by jessica.lam | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago 3049 views | 52 recommendations | 22 comments
Celebrities' often very public struggles with mental illness are making crazy the new black, according to a feature in today's Globe and Mail.On the one hand I think it's great if the exposure diminishes the...
created by Rob Peters | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago 2098 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
In an effort to help educate the young people of India about safe-sex practices, a Bollywood style condom video has been made by the Nrityanjali academy. It is quickly becoming a hit on YouTube among western...
created by Amy Judd | 5 years ago | updated 5 years ago 6132 views | 20 recommendations | 8 comments
"There is no way that Selin Tamtekin could be described as even remotely low-life. Immaculate, groomed to perfection, she walks towards me on perfectly unscuffed heels, without a gleaming hair out of place or a single microfibre of dust on her pristine white shirt.
At 33 she...
The White world has learned nothing from the Nazis, have they? An already despised and marginalised people, the Roma are now the subjects of yet another genocide programme aimed at "cleaning up"...
created by angryindian | 5 years ago | updated 5 years ago 518 views | 0 recommendations | 2 comments
"Same-sex sexual activity is a taboo subject for many Muslims. Some go so far as to deny that gay men, lesbians, and bisexuals exist in Muslim societies today or even that sexual activity between men or between women has existed in Islamic history. Rather, they claim that...
"Only 60 years ago, arranged marriage was still the norm in many parts of China, but today Chinese teenagers have more sexual freedom than ever.
The topic of sex education was once taboo, and still off-limits in some areas, but changing cultural mores have presented a new...
Yeah, yeah, put "sex" in the headline. But NASA is genuinely confronting the issue of sexual tension amongst astronauts on long-term missions (where Mars would be a short haul-flight), as well as how to deal with...
created by Jordan Yerman | 6 years ago | updated 6 years ago 454 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
We've probably all noticed this trend happening little by little. The Christmas party becomes the holiday party...people praying before meals in the office cafeteria. If you haven't seen this in your office yet, it looks like it you may soon. "First companies...
created by Denise Royal | 6 years ago | updated 6 years ago 649 views | 0 recommendations | 1 comment