Feature Stories: Articles on Racial Profiling, Immigration Today
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November 23rd, 2010
Written by Wendy Innes in Feature Stories with 0 Comments
“Our harvest being gotten in, our governor sent four men on fowling, that so we might after a special manner rejoice together after we had gathered the fruit of our labors. They four in one day killed as much fowl as, with a little help beside, served the company almost a week. At which time, among other recreations, we exercised our arms, many of the Indians coming amongst us, and among the rest...
November 3rd, 2010
Written by Diane Reynolds in Spotlight, Feature Stories, German with 0 Comments
On April 9, 1945, German Lutheran theologian, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, was hanged at Flossenburg concentration camp as an enemy to the Nazi state.From the beginning of the Nazi rise to power in 1933, Bonhoeffer grasped the evil and anti-Christian ideology of the regime. Not long after his return from Union Theological Seminary in New York City, where his faith was transformed by his experiences at...
November 1st, 2010
Written by Jodie Blankenship in Cover Stories with 2 Comments
The hallowed halls of higher education may be filling up with more of the same faces this fall semester. In fact, since 2000, the trend of increased diversity at colleges and universities is in serious jeopardy of subsiding. Who is the culprit threatening higher education diversity? That culprit is the current economic climate, and the states’ reaction of slashing their budgets, thus negatively...
October 26th, 2010
Written by Wendy Innes in Feature Stories with 3 Comments
Halloween is always a favorite time for children and adults, alike. This holiday is celebrated the world over by many different cultures, but some misconceptions about the holiday exist, including the belief that it’s an evil day, but that isn’t the case. Do you know where Halloween came from? Do you know what all of the traditions mean?Halloween as we know it in America today gets its roots from...
October 21st, 2010
Written by Wendy Innes in Feature Stories with 0 Comments
A breast cancer diagnosis is devastating to any woman, as well as her family. According to the American Cancer Society, at some point in their life, one in every eight women receives a breast cancer diagnosis. In 2006, the last year showing complete statistics, doctors diagnosed more than 190,000 new cases of breast cancer, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Sadly...