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Can the American Culture Survive?
Website DIVISIONS (Over 600 articles to help you to grow in every facet of your life) Written by Jimmie Burroughs Email to a friend Some have the mistaken idea that culture only means fine arts or highbrow pursuits, but it is far more than that. Culture is that complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, art, law, morals, custom, and any other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of society. -1 Foreigners base their opinion of American culture on American T.V. and movies, but that is far from what characterizes our culture. Freedom is the greatest tenant, a people free to pursue the life they want, free to…
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Overcoming the Hate in Your Life
Website DIVISIONS (Over 600 articles to help you to grow in every facet of your life) Written by Jimmie Burroughs – Email this article to a friend “Kim Kardashian Joins Drop Dead Diva to Romance Fred” is the title of an article I just read. I have never watched one of the Kardashian shows, and I know little about the family, but the comments that followed the article were clues that lots of people hate Kim and the show. I only read the first two pages of comments, which were 40 out of the 3,289 posted, and they were almost without exception extremely negative in terms of hate. I am…
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The Parable of the Talents and Personal Development
Website DIVISIONS (Over 600 articles to help you to grow in every facet of your life) Written by Jimmie Burroughs – Email this article to a friend The parable of the talents is a great teaching of Jesus on morals. It was given as an exhortation to his disciples. In the parable, each servant was given a different amount of money based on his or her qualifications to manage it. While a talent in Greek is a measure of weight, it is interesting to apply the parable to the English word talent or ability. Different people are gifted with different talents. Some are far more gifted than others, but the…