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Where to find free patterns for knitting
Do you want to create chic, boutique-worthy sweaters, head-turning scarves, and other marvelous knitwear without having to buy boutique-priced patterns? Fear not. You can have several excellent resources for free knitting patterns at your fingertips as easily and quickly as you are reading this article, without paying a cent. Read more
Struggles associated with an invisible disability
A little boy is throwing various objects-paper, pens, anything he can get his hands on-across the long brown table. His Sunday school teacher is frantically trying to calm him while he yowls several unintelligible words. To an outsider who doesn’t know Alex,* this episode just looks like an oversized temper tantrum. But Alex has a form of PPD, Pervasive Development Disorder, a broad spectrum disease ‘umbrella’ that includes severe cases of non-verbal autism (where the person affected cannot vocalize) as well as more mild cases like Asperger’s Syndrome.
PDD is a confusing disease. No one seems to agree on what causes it, why it…Read more
Reflections : Loneliness
An outcast girl-woman with no place in the world, I have always been lonely. Not alone, just lonely. Like a solo oboe left playing a haunted melody that no one wants to hear, I was trapped in a soundproof room while the rest of symphony ignored me. The people around were ghosts, nothing but faces on the cover of a rich story they would never share, prepackaged humans freeze-dried in memory. All I wanted was to be heard, to fit, to belong to those called my peers, but I had become a nothing, a no one. I was a devilishly wicked girl who was a bound and gagged puritan. “Good” people were floating on meringue-y fluff leagues above me and “bad” people felt the simmer of the molten lava pits of eternal fire just from looking at me. Read more
Should women be forced to serve if a country i m p o s e s a military draft?
The military draft is a highly debated and hotly protested subject in a country whose military strength relies on a strictly volunteer force. In our culture of fierce individualism and self government, the right to choose what we will do with our bodies and our lives is an essential, tightly held principle. The very concept of a draft grates on the freedom we hold dear, yet, we know that in extreme circumstances where a threat to our security and our way of life cannot be dealt with our current military, a draft maybe a necessary measure, if not the only way, to secure our future. Traditionally, a military draft consists of all eligible young male citizens of a country being called to serve. However, due to our current culture of gender equality and equal standing of men and women in our society, a pressing question has arose. If a draft were invoked, should our young women be required to serve as well? Women have the same…Read more
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