I love helping people and I wanted to find a way to volunteer in my area but unfortunately, there aren't many opportunities for me to volunteer locally. So I went to VolunteerMatch.org to see if there was anything I could do from home and I was surprised but just how many virtual volunteer positions there are. I know I can't be the only person that is interested in volunteering. But I know it can be difficult, especially when you're already so busy with your own life. That's where virtual volunteering comes in. There are many ways (both large and small) to help your fellow humans right from your own computer or home. Being Emotional Support For Others Have you ever gone through an extremely difficult time? Maybe you felt that no one in your life would understand what you were going through? Or maybe you just really didn't have anyone that you could confide in? I think we've all been there before. One of the simplest ways to help someone is just by being there to listen. One way to…
If you can read this, you're not living in a dystopia! You know how teenagers end up so negative, depressed, and pessimistic? Maybe it's because we shove gloom and doom down their throats as part of their required reading. In the United States, George Orwell's mid-20th-century dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four is heavily picked by teachers as required reading for students, and the blues don't end there. Here is a list of required reading titles for American high schools, let's see how negative these works are…
The Catcher in the Rye - Young boy rants about "phony" society, rages at the world.
Lord of the Flies - Group of stranded boys descends into homicidal savagery.
Animal Farm - Political revolution on a farm turns into dystopia for the animals.
Fahrenheit 451 - Dystopian society burns books because they're for smart people.
1984 - World has taken over by totalitarian regime just for the evil LULZ.
Brave New World - See the previous novel, filtered through Elon…
It's
the year 2021. Why are people still racist? We have occasion, over and over, to keep wondering. The
Washington Post pondered the question during the Trump administration, when the 2017 Charlottesville uprising showed us that America's ugly KKK roots are still alive and well. Of course, the WaPo arrive at no answer, only a bald examination of the puzzle. Racism, and all forms of bigotry, make no sense, and yet they seem to be hard-wired into our brains. In fact, recent years show that we divide ourselves along an increasing spectrum of arbitrary differences. Ageism has reared its head with the perpetual generation war. We just got through talking about how
politically divided the "United" States is. We sit around in our idle time and make up more ways to divide us: rich vs. poor, dog people vs. cat people, whether or not we put pineapple
on pizza. People:
Sort us into two groups, and we will find a reason to hate each
other. Since we will find endless reasons to hate each other,…
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