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		<title>Culture Beat</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 May 2010 20:16:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Long Huynh &#38; Mwila Kapunguyla Music is used by cultures around the world as a means of expressing traditional values that the community lives by which have been handed down from generation to generation. This paper will look at similarities and differences in Vietnamese and Zambian culture. It will focus on traditional music and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=beyondorange.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12968921&amp;post=81&amp;subd=beyondorange&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Leftovers</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 May 2010 20:08:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by &#8220;The Leftovers&#8221; Everyone knows how it feels to be left out.  It&#8217;s an experience everyone faces at one point or another.  Learning how to deal with being a leftover and finding the positive lessons can make the ordeal a lot less painful. I have always considered myself a shy person. Growing up with a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=beyondorange.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12968921&amp;post=78&amp;subd=beyondorange&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Arizona: The Land of the Free or the Home of Bigotry?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 May 2010 19:54:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Anna Volovik The inscription on the second floor of the Statue of liberty reads: Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door! Unfortunately, as these “tired and poor” [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=beyondorange.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12968921&amp;post=74&amp;subd=beyondorange&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Waiting Children</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 May 2010 19:48:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Brenda Applequist Bill Clinton, Marilyn Monroe, Jesse Jackson, and Louis Armstrong all have something in common. They have each contributed their talents and gifts to society in their own way but yet each share the common bond of adoption (Adoption Open). Adoption is a word used rather lightly in our society. You can adopt [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=beyondorange.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12968921&amp;post=71&amp;subd=beyondorange&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Orange Wall</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 May 2010 16:20:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Mwila Kapungulya Every Tuesday evening when the door cracks open the wall smiles, so delighted it can almost touch the ceiling. It counts every minute and second that goes by, dreading the time to come when it will have to say goodbye. So on Tuesday night when the door closes shut, the wall cries. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=beyondorange.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12968921&amp;post=62&amp;subd=beyondorange&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 May 2010 16:06:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Kristin Mitchell The United States has a drug problem. There’s no denying it. About 6.8 million people in the U.S. are drug users. There are over two million prisoners in America’s prison system, and about one-fourth of them were convicted for a drug offense. We send more people to prison for drug charges than [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=beyondorange.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12968921&amp;post=57&amp;subd=beyondorange&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Just a Kid</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 May 2010 15:38:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Brenda Applequist I’m sure that mom was feeling alone and overwhelmed. The divorce was final and we were finally settled in a house of our own. The five of us kids were in the routine of school and daycare. At 31 years of age, mom was working two jobs. I don’t remember exactly how [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=beyondorange.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12968921&amp;post=55&amp;subd=beyondorange&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Depression Through the Eyes of Three Twenty-Somethings</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 May 2010 01:30:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by &#8220;Dopey,&#8221; &#8220;Happy,&#8221; and &#8220;Grumpy&#8221; Depression affects people from all walks of life, yet few people are willing to talk about it openly. These three young women who have experienced it firsthand are here to share their stories. “Dopey” has suffered from depression for six years and still struggles to cope: I know what it’s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=beyondorange.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12968921&amp;post=51&amp;subd=beyondorange&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Children of My Own</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Apr 2010 16:41:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by &#8220;I.M. Wyzer&#8221; Sitting in the grocery cart ahead of me in line was an adorable, curly-haired boy. Smiling at me, he reached over to grab a candy bar while his mother unloaded the cart. She saw the candy bar in his hand and said, “Not today, honey.” The little cherub responded by transforming into [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=beyondorange.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12968921&amp;post=48&amp;subd=beyondorange&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Is It Just Me?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Apr 2010 16:19:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by &#8220;Anita Neulyfe&#8221; At times you just have to wonder, “Is it just me?” My day started out like any other. However, once I arrived at the gym for my early morning workout things began to change.  So there I was in my navy blue track pants, loosely fitting t-shirt, tennis shoes, red faced and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=beyondorange.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12968921&amp;post=45&amp;subd=beyondorange&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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