Jazz,Blues, and Gospel aren't mainstreamed like r&b and hip-hop though. Especially among our younger generation. Rap started out as an almost positive entity and then got corrupted.

And how do you expect parents to be parents when they didn't have good examples of parenthood themselves. That goes back to the lack of men.

I don't think the rules are changing. We aren't bothering to even try to follow them.

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I'm very politically correct, handsome, intelligent and modest.

ok, we just agree to disagree, then.

Rap got corrupted as everything gets corrupted.

Europe's geography was better for industrialization. They had all the resources necessary, particularly Britain. Until industrialization, many nations (particularly China) were ahead of Europe.

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"Moreover, I am cognizant of the interrelatedness of all communities and states...Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. Never again can we afford to live with the narrow, provincial "outside agitator" idea. Anyone who lives inside the United States can never be considered an outsider anywhere within its bounds."



~Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Here is small bit of results due to malnutrition, and should be considered especially important in undefed and not properly fed children. American children and those on social programs should be kept in mind in arguments over school lunches and reductions in welfare benefits.

As a result, their weight and height did not rise as it should, and they did not have enough reserves to cope with the next episode of diarrhea or respiratory infection. In addition to suffering poor health, underweight children suffer long-term problems in their ability to learn and solve problems, and in their emotional and social life.

The most immediate, but not the only, cause of malnutrition is the lack of calories that provide energy and protein for building body cells (Waterlow, 1992). Both are needed to put weight and height on a child. Calories are present in many foods, particularly those high in sugars, starches, and fats. These include fruits such as bananas, tubers such as potatoes, animal or vegetable oil, grains and rice. Fatty acids from oils are particularly important in forming the myelin sheath that surrounds nerves, allowing for a rapid response from the brain; researchers now realize that fatty acids are essential for maturation of the eye nerves and detection of light. Protein is found in certain foods such as meat, fish, eggs and legumes; only 15% of calories need be protein so this is not usually a problem. Recently we have come to realize that other nutrients required in smaller amounts are also necessary for physical and mental health. These include vitamin A, iron, iodine, and zinc (World Health Organization, http://www.who.int/nut).

Iron deficiency leading to anemia curtails the oxygen-carrying capacity of hemoglobin and so prevents full vitality of the brain and its development.

Iodine deficiency is thought to be the main cause of reduced brain capacity through its effect on the thymus and thyroid gland. It is simply bad fortune to live in a region where this element is not naturally found in the soil and so is lacking in plant food.
Online Readings in Psychology and Culture: Unit 7, Chapter 2

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One Tin Soldier Walked Away...............


Vote like your life and your families life depends on it - because it does.

Vote like you want peace & prosparity for America - because the right wants more wars, more casualities, more VA hospitals.

Vote like you want a secured border from terrorists, illegal aliens, drugs, and gun runners - because the right offerred you a few miles of wire fence.

I got hungry thinking about hungry kids, so I got us all this bowl of sorbet frozen fruit to share with ya!



This strawberry daiquari sorbet

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One Tin Soldier Walked Away...............


Vote like your life and your families life depends on it - because it does.

Vote like you want peace & prosparity for America - because the right wants more wars, more casualities, more VA hospitals.

Vote like you want a secured border from terrorists, illegal aliens, drugs, and gun runners - because the right offerred you a few miles of wire fence.

LooooooL I know some people are incapable of advancement.

I like cheery or strawberry.

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Yea can't keep the words of your great leader.

Prophet Muhammad - “Do you love your creator? Love your fellow-beings first.”

Ewwwwwwww cherry. Blech!

It always tastes so artificial.

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Every race is capable of advancement, what matters is culture. Take the native aborigines of Australia, they were capable of advancement but didn't because they did not act as if they were the owners of the land, but the stewards of the land who had to protect it. However, if they did not have the Dreamtime which forbade them from destroying the land, then it is quite possible that they could have been just as advanced as the Europeans.

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It's a lot more complex than that, given they lacked key resources in the interior, as well as contacts.

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Is that at me?

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