Whether it's your cell phone, a Nintendo DS, your mp3 player, a fancy child toy, or a wireless mouse, our electronic devices would be useless without batteries
We are a state that glorifies food — fried butter, fried ice cream, fried Coke. This wouldn’t be so alarming if it was temporary like the State Fair that sells this visual nausea.
The onset of the Industrial Revolution in the mid 1700s resulted in a dramatic increase in air, water and soil pollution, which had already existed centuries before, perpetrated partly by metal forging.
From the day we're born, we are taught how to perceive the world around us. However, as children’s fragile minds develop into adulthood, we see few positive influences from commercials in the media.
The biggest world wide competition has come to a heartbreaking end. The last whistle was blown, the controversies are over and the Vuvuzelas have been silenced.
The unquestionably biggest sporting event in the world is upon us once more. The much- coveted FIFA World Cup trophy is once again up for grabs. A total of 32 teams meet every four years in a host country, each holding the hopes and aspirations of their respective nations.
A word once considered taboo by one generation is often used nonchalantly by the next. The most obvious example is that of nigger or nigga, a word that greatly disturbs baby boomers, but is shrugged off by much of modern youth. Many of us recall the NAACP holding a ridiculous “funeral” for the word in 2007. This is in spite of the fact that many young people from all ethnic groups use the term on a daily basis.
Hazing has become an accepted part of Greek life in colleges and universities around the country, but I am appalled to know that someone has to die before the issue is brought to the forefront.
If you’re interested in recording HD video on the go, but can’t afford professional equipment, then take a gander at Sanyo’s VPC-CS1, a slim camcorder that is part of Sanyo’s Xacti series, a line of cameras designed for everyday shooting.
Nudity and ludeness are two different things and Erykah Badu gracefully taught us all that with her quest to break the uniform thinking of people in society through stripping down in Downtown Dallas. It was up to us whether we all chose to receive that message. Most didn’t.
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