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1.	Bookmarks: 0	Panama Canal History The opening of the waterway to world commerce on August 15, 1914, represented the realization of a heroic dream of over 400 years.
2.	Bookmarks: 0	Sugar Addiction: Few Talk About It, Yet So Many Are Driven By It Want to learn how to overcome your sugar addiction? Or maybe you know white sugar, high fructose corn syrup, and other addictive sugars are bad for you, but you want more information to motivate you to give it up, or help you help your children avoid it more. Melissa English was a huge sugar-aholic and has been abstaining from addictive sugars for close to 10 years. She’s passionate about helping others find the personal power to get over the compulsion to eat addictive sugars.
3.	Bookmarks: 0	Chavez's Inspiration - Simon Bolivar Simon Bolivar (1783-1830) is a Latin American folk hero, revered for having been a revolutionary freedom fighter, a compassionate egalitarian and a successful politician.
4.	Bookmarks: 0	A Bright Future: The Error Of Overly Optimistic Budgeting Optimism is known as the worldview in which people look at the planet with positive hopes and aspirations, generally seeing things in a so-called positive light. Being overly optimistic often blinds people to the reality and to the facts, causing them to make poor decisions that effectively limit their capabilities in a not-so-optimistic world. Bringing this attitude into budgeting would be treacherous because of the possible implications of aiming too high with your personal...
5.	Bookmarks: 0	The Chocolate Ice Cream, The Hero, The Insight And The Human's 'Being' When the insight hit me last week I happened to be ordering ice cream for my daughter.There we were, in Spain, by the sea front, enjoying the sun, having fun, buying a chocolate cone and not really looking for or expecting any special insights into life. But sometimes that's the way it happens. And it did happen.Earlier in the week I'd been in a similar situation - speaking broken Spanish to a Spaniard who was speaking back to me in very broken English and using body ...
6.	Bookmarks: 0	The Magical Qualities of Human Pheromones The Qualities and Effectiveness of Human Pheromones Are Considered.
7.	Bookmarks: 0	Dangers Of Prescription Drug Addiction In recent years, we have seen a growing trend, a dangerous trend that has unfortunately, cost people's lives. While years ago drug addiction was related to street drugs such as cocaine, methamphetamine, or heroin, we now see the dangers of prescription drug addiction. In fact, trips to hospital emergency rooms for prescription drug abuse from 2000 to 2002 rose a staggering 56%. Because of the huge problem, a number of new programs have been established to help educate doctors...
8.	Bookmarks: 29	Watermelon, An Ingredient For Skin Care Watermelon can be called more than a thirst quencher. With so many benefits lined up in its name it is not coincidence that it is stated as one of the favorite fruits for many people. It has been used in many forms such as fresh juices, smoothies, as well as pickles depending on your taste. As it is rich in fat and protein it is widely used as a favorite snack. Watermelon servings per day would help you in the long run. It helps you with conditions like asthma, atheroscle...
9.	Bookmarks: 0	Release Your Inner Hero With Superman Cufflinks Superman is a timeless figure that is known by everyone, regardless of age and race. Since 1938, this superhero has starred in many comic books, cartoons and movies. His image can also be found in cards and action figures. And, even though many improvements have been made in the comic art due to the advances in printing technology, the red and yellow S on his chest has remained the same throughout the ages. And, its appeal to the public has never faded. As a matter of fact, ...
10.	Bookmarks: 0	Visiting Stone Mountain Park, Georgia Stone Mountain Park, located in the suburbs of bustling Atlanta, Georgia, is a 3,200 acre family oriented theme park centered around the wondrous natural rock formation that is the largest exposed piece of granite in the world. This natural wonder is amazing in itself, but the Stone Mountain carving is one of the main attractions to visitors.The Confederate Memorial Carving on Stone Mountain is an extremely detailed depiction of three Civil War heroes, Jefferson Davis, R...
11.	Bookmarks: 0	Sports Collectibles And Memorabilia Collection of sports memorabilia or sports collectibles, antique or modern is restricted by two factors: the money available and the space to be occupied. Once having decided on these basic factors, then it becomes a personal affair. The collectors taste may lead to Basketball Memorabilia, Baseball Memorabilia, NASCAR memorabilia, Golf Memorabilia, Football Memorabilia, Bobble Heads, Diecast Collectibles, Hero Posters, or innumerable other factors. Acquisition of an admired p...
12.	Bookmarks: 0	How to Determine the Value of Sports Memorabilia Perhaps the most important factor in determining the value of sports memorabilia is the athlete or the sportsman. If you have a real popular and well-known sports hero's merchandise with his name on it the value may be more.
13.	Bookmarks: 2	Admiration Of A Better Player Is A Good Thing I like to think we all seemed to have our heroes and greats in our early years. Growing up in front of a television had us dashing around with a sword or packing a six-shooter at our side. Depending on what we were watching at the time, whether it was in front of a television or out on some field watching a football game. We all seemed to mimic someone at one time or another. In our early years finding someone we admired as a Mentor kind of kept the spirit alive in direction ...
14.	Bookmarks: 0	After Dinner Speaking, Hero Or Coward? During my time as Chairman of Forum, the Public Speaking Group of the Australian Institute of Management, I have often been asked about speaking after dinner.Before I discuss this opportunity, I want you to think back to a time when you were at a dinner event and the speaker came on.How did you and your party react?Did you give him or her a chance to get started?Did you listen intently to the point of view being put across?Or did you, after you realised th...
15.	Bookmarks: 0	The Butterfly Effect: Why Everything You Do Matters Chaos theory, a recent groundbreaking theory in applied mathematics, asserts that even a butterfly flapping its wings in Texas can cause a chain of events leading to a typhoon in Japan a month later. It's called sensitive dependence on initial conditions. What that means in plain English is that the matrix of cause and effect is so delicately balanced and interdependent that if you change one thing, you change everything.What fascinates me is how that idea might transla...
16.	Bookmarks: 0	Spice Up Your Sex Life With Pheromone Not a lot of people are familiar with Pheromone, which is quite unfortunate because its ability to drastically improve our sex life is something that can only be described as revolutionary. Join me in my initial brushes with Pheromone, and how I discovered its wondrous and invigorating effects.
17.	Bookmarks: 0	Who Are The Underminers? How many of you had the experience growing up of being told in various ways to limit yourselves from being all you can be? The movie “The Incredibles” is a wonderful metaphor for this. In this movie, the superheroes – the people with extraordinary powers – are restricted from using their powers.
18.	Bookmarks: 0	Patriachy And How It Can Affect You! Many girls have never really known what it is like to be treated like a princess by their guy. I find this terribly sad! They are not in love with a man who wants to be her HERO! For thousands of years womankind has been dominated by PATRIACHY - where men have resorted to cruelty and violence to take control of civilization and rule over women with the upper hand. It is certain that many men see woman as this kind of 'underling'. It is very sad when you are noticing (time and...
19.	Bookmarks: 0	Achieving Your Goal Most marathons provide more than their fair share of heroes and heroines who provide great examples. The London Marathon in April 2005 provided one or two especially heroic examples. The competitors have much to teach about achieving goals.
20.	Bookmarks: 0	7 Steps To Effective Goal Setting You don't have to be a fantastic hero to do certain things - to compete. You can be just an ordinary chap, sufficiently motivated to reach challenging goals.- Sir Edmund Hillary, first climber to successfully summit Mt. EverestSetting goals is one of the most commonly used training tools. Goals can organize the competitors’ focus and endeavors towards achieving a specific task. They also increase persistence and motivation for long term training. Having a goal can hel...
21.	Bookmarks: 7	The Personal Life Coach as Modern-Day Ally Joseph Campbell's hero's journey spoke of allies and mentors the hero meets on the way to the golden elixir -- in other words, helping characters who assist the hero in his goal. In this article, a personal life coach explains what a coach does and who he is.
22.	Bookmarks: 2	Psychology Of The Hero Soul “There is the known, and there is the unknown, and in between is the doors.” – Jim Morrison“Break on through to the other side...Where the day destroys the night and night divides the day...Break on through to the other side.” These were the famous haunting words sung by the American poet, rock artist, Jim Morrison of The Doors. With these words, he electrified an entire generation. And with these words, he began his own destruction. Morrison was talking about the g...
23.	Bookmarks: 4	Hope In Humanity Let us renew our hope in humanity. It’s so easy to lose faith when someone cuts us off on the highway, when a ‘friend’ blows us off (for the second time) and fails to show, when we get burned in a business deal, when a co-worker doesn’t do what they said they were going to do, or when a colleague fails to keep their promise, etc.At the same time, we DO encounter people showing heroic acts of kindness in our day-to-day lives. I’m talking about the simple things. In m...
24.	Bookmarks: 9	Courage “Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway.” – John WayneCourage is the cliché hallmark attributed to the hero. I say cliché because people talk about courage as if it is some mysterious force only a hero is born with. Courage is a vague and fleeting concept for many people because they lack it themselves. People lack courage because they lack knowledge. They have no idea where the true source of courage comes from. Even worse, they don’t know ...
25.	Bookmarks: 5	A Leader Should Be Willing To Take Responsibilities Who would forget the ever-famous line of Peter Parker’s grandfather, “With great power comes great responsibility.” The society expects Spiderman, a comic book, TV, and movie superhero, to be responsible for saving his town, or even the world, in some instances, from evil because he has super powers.From all the episodes he appeared in, he never let us down. With the power he possesses, he makes sure to be responsible in using it for the good of the people around him....
26.	Bookmarks: 0	Sarah Meets Wayne Gretzky - And A Lifelong Dream Is Fulfilled A true story about how the Law of Attraction brought the Hero of a 'special' girl to the same city she lives in.
27.	Bookmarks: 0	Sardinia destinations - Alghero The Catalan town of Alghero is located on the Northwest coast of Sardinia. Known throughout the world for its stunning beaches and characteristic old town centre it is fast becoming one of Europe’s holiday hotspots.
28.	Bookmarks: 0	Sardinia - Paradise in the med The majestic island of Sardinia is located off the west coast of Italy just below the island of Corsica. The second largest island in the Mediterranean it runs approximately 250 kilometres from north to south and 110 kilometres from east to west.
29.	Bookmarks: 0	Further Proof That Blogs Rule The World No one I’ve ever met is neutral on Wal*Mart. Let me begin by saying that Sam Walton is one of my heroes. He was a humble genius who as a multigazillionaire still rode to work every day in his pickup truck and frequently took his dog with him. I don’t go to Wal*Mart. I like to buy American where I can and in Wal*Mart I can’t. I’d rather go see my friend Dan Sorrentino at Newtown Hardware for my sundries than some guy I don’t know that I have to walk the length of a f...
30.	Bookmarks: 0	What Name Do You Give That Article Or Book? The title of my book is as important as the characters themselves. So the name of the book is as important as the characters themselves. You can choose an important event as I did in The title of my book is as important as the characters themselves. In my first I named my book La Roe's after the Heroine in which the story was told from her POV, Secondly it also describes part of her. La Roe means The Red and her first name Emerald means Green she consequentially has red hair ...
31.	Bookmarks: 0	What Makes A Heroine? Wow I knew I put this question off for a reason.How to even begin? First, she has to be strong. I don't even mean strength wise; she has to have a strong constitution. Grit, personality, doesn't take anything from anyone, basically Emerald La Roe From my first book. She didn't take anything from no one and stood on her own two feet. Which of course if why her and Max didn't make it. You know Alfa male werewolf and all.Emerald was beautiful in her own way, yeah she ha...
32.	Bookmarks: 0	What Inspires You? Wow this is a truly hard questions; to start with what gives me the inspiration. I have to say it's the characters themselves that inspire me. It depends on who they are what's happening in their life, one heroine may have had tender feelings for the hero for a long time and impending doom could set it in motion or maybe she will never see him again. It all depends on what's happening to the hero and heroine. Since it is the characters that determine why and how the scene tak...
33.	Bookmarks: 0	The One You Love To Hate Many of the best stories in fiction have both an antagonist and a protagonist.The protagonist is the main character or hero that we cheer on and hope conquers all.The antagonist is the story’s villain. The best bad guys are the ones we love to hate. We don’t need to know why they are bad, we don’t need a play by play of the choices they made early in life, we simply recognize they are bad and we don’t want them to win.A story can operate without an antagonist; how...
34.	Bookmarks: 0	What Does Stories Like Conduct In Question Have To Do With Joseph Campbell And The Hero With A Thousand Faces? WHY WE LOVE STORIESTell me a story! Just one more story!Okay, here’s one for you about a forty-six year old lawyer.Harry’s stuck in the backroom of a creaky, old law firm and under his senior partner’s thumb. Life is going nowhere and his chances of making real money are fading fast. His wife plans to leave him because, she claims, they are ‘in different worlds.’ Wishing his life were different, he has no idea how to change it.Next day his senior partner comes...
35.	Bookmarks: 16	Imagine This, Part 1 Imagery and Characterization, can the two ever meet outside of an English class?Is your hero a volcano, seething with fury and ready to burst at any moment? Is your heroine a skittish crane attempting to fly far, far away whenever trouble startles her? How about something more basic? Earth, air, fire, or water. When they’re angry, do they darken, flash, seethe, or boil? When they’re excited, do they thicken or sear, experience lightning or rivers of fire? Talk a...
36.	Bookmarks: 2	Do Writing Groups Really Help? You want to write about that heroine driving you insane or the hero of her dreams, but how to start? I suggest writing groups; you will find them both on the Internet and off. In your town or out of another country, but nowhere you go or where you look you will find the group that is right for you. How do I know, how can I be sure? Well i personally Co-Own my own group and am the member of another. I can tell you that my second novel would have not made it to paper witho...
37.	Bookmarks: 6	Book Review: A Broad Abroad In Thailand By Dodie Cross This is to say the least an interesting and entertaining read that covers far more ground than the title implies. Told with a huge amount of humor we follow Dodie on her sojourn to Thailand, where things do not work out as planned. As she ruefully reflects on in the final chapters, what seems like a great opportunity at the time, had enough flashing warning lights that she should have spotted early on.The story opens with our heroine working a mundane office job during th...
38.	Bookmarks: 4	Who Is The Hero In The Hero's Journey? During the past thirty years, much has been (rightfully) made of Joseph Campbell’s breakthrough research in cultural anthropology, most famously published in “The Hero With A Thousand Faces.” In this book, Campbell examines the many cultural expressions of the heroic role model, and in doing so helped to establish the universality of human hopes, dreams, and lives. Hollywood, in particular, has embraced this vision, which powers dozens of films a year, and has become clic...
39.	Bookmarks: 3	The Billionaire Writer's Secret During a career spanning twenty-five years of novel, film, and television work, I've two major tools most valuable: the yogic “chakras” for characterization, and Joseph Campbell’s model of the Hero’s Journey for plot structure.
40.	Bookmarks: 49	The Man who worked laboriously so you can bloom Every father is a hero to his children. When children grow-up and become busy in their lives, they commonly forget about their fathers, who greatly helped them in becoming the successful individuals they are today.
41.	Bookmarks: 4	Pheromones To Attract Man Male Female Attraction through PheromonesThe only way the lower living beings like ants, butterflies, birds, dogs or even a tiger can communicate is through pheromones. The pheromones are the way they communicate as they cannot communicate through oral or written word. The communication starts when the particular species it at its very best to procreate and ends when the species is not in a position to attract the opposite sex. Apart from the natural desire to find a mati...