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Are things really better than they were 50 years ago?
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www.commonwealmagazine.org11/6/11
He writes: Progress cannot usefully be discussed without discrimination among orders of progress, since human knowledge obviously expands. Scientific knowledge progresses, as does technological knowledge, invention, …
Regimes And The People Who Could Change … – History In Progress
worldsways.com11/3/11
"Regimes And The People Who Could Change Them" by Jerry Waxman. Cameroon just had an election. Paul Biya, who has held the office of president was re-elected for a 6th term, received an overwhelming 78% of the vote …
Children have far less chance of being raised by both parents.
Teachers are now more often assaulted than valued.
Children now spend much less time with their parents and juvenile crime is up by 500% etc etc
“The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Families”.
It seems that things have got much worse in spite of having machines and gadgets to make our life easier.
Please give some hope and inspiration.
Do people’s names affect their lives and personalities?
How Much Does Your Name Affect Where You Work? – DailyFinance
www.dailyfinance.com3/17/11
Names define us, but do they determine our life choices? The idea that our names can influence those decisions is what psychologists call "implicit egotism." To test the concept, a recent study looked at how our names might …
The Name/Personality Relationship « life of a doctor's wife
Okay, sure, names themselves have a sort of personality. “Rose” might have some sort of universally feminine quality, for instance… Or “Victoria” might have some sort of perceived sense of classicality and strength… …
Publish Date: 08/19/2011 0:40
http://lifeofadoctorswife.wordpress.com/2011/08/18/the-namepersonality-relationship/
I have many friends and acquaintances whose names seem to fit them exactly and only one or two that feel that they should be called something different.
I can’t imagine that I would ever have dated people with certain names whereas other names always had a special ring to them for me.
And I once read that people with names starting or ending with the same letter are believed to have similar natures, and people with same names are seen to have similar personalities.
What do you think?
