Chick-Fil-A

I thought I'd write about this topic because I feel strongly about it. I myself am against it, so if you don't agree, that's fine, it's just my opinion. Whether you agree/disagree is upto you. Be sure to let me know what you think afterwards.

I've known many people who say they are for or against capital punishment decide so quickly you'd think I asked them if they were a boy or girl. A minority of these people answer so quickly because they actually know the facts and therefore know where they stand. The remainder, however, don't have a clue. They either give an answer that seems the most logically...

We conceive of racism as a set of institutional conditions of group inequality and an ideology of racial domination, in which the latter is characterized by a set of beliefs holding that the subordinate racial group is biologically or culturally inferior to the dominant racial group. These beliefs, in turn, are deployed to prescribe and legitimize society's discriminatory treatment of the subordinate group and to justify their lower status. link

The common definition of racism, and the one used by people who believe in reverse racism, is just "the belief that one race of people is better than...

I found this in my notes for my English class... I figured I'd share them with you here.

In Classical times, heterosexuality, or the love of a man for a woman, was considered to be "an animalistic urge to be slaked quickly only for the purpose of reproduction" (Henry Staten, English 202 instructor) while "platonic love" or the love of a man for another man, was considered idealistic and "above the beasts."

Such close friends were in fact called "lovers," like Hercules and Hylas. To fall in love with a man was the "proper" thing to do at the time, and signified a wonderous thing.

This "homosociality"...

Several of you already know that I am in the process of earning a masters degree in elementary education. As part of this process, I have to take courses in social justice and differentiated instruction. In these courses, I've learned about people's "frames of references."

It's a phrase I've heard before, and maybe one you know as well. I used to think it meant "point of view." And it does, more or less, mean that. But it's more than that. It's not just someone's point of view or perspective. It's how they came to that perspective. What experiences they've had in live that's brought them to...