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"Sailboat" – To the Class of 2020
Ben Rector sings in one of his first hit songs, “I feel just like a sailboat, I don’t know where I’m headed … I’ve been lost and found, but mostly I’ve been waiting”. I listened to this song the other day and burst into tears, […] More
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One More Minute
So Gene is finished and the essential work week has been completed. There is an odd stillness combined with the scent of drying ink. The gloves and work uniform have came off. The thin paper mask is discarded properly. I put lotion on the bridge […] More
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The diaspora play a vital role in the political future of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Original article by Clark G. Curtis for Emerging Europe September 26, 2019 It has been well over a year now since Mirsad Hadžikadić, a professor of 30 plus years at UNC Charlotte and a native of Bosnia and Herzegovina, announced his intention to run for the Bosniak […] More
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I'm a Good Dog
Looking for a Pit Bull? You will find them sitting on a sunny spot on your couch. Do be warned: Pit Bulls are loving, caring, and think they are lap dogs. Yet, no other breed of dog has been so severely misaligned and misunderstood than […] More
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Zoom University: 20 Steps in a Day for the Current College Students.
Step 1: Try to respect your alarm that has been going off for the last 30 minutes. Step 2: Put on a clean pair of sweatpants. You’ve lived in your last pair for 2 days too long. Step 3: One slipper, then the other, aaaaannnnddddd […] More
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13 Proven Social Media Marketing Tips for Small Businesses & Entrepreneurs
source Brian Peters is an amazing creative. I hope this video helps you create viral content the whole world will want to share! Please share and comment if you would like to see more helpful videos that improve us all. More
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Embracing the seeds of change in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Original article by Clark G. Curtis for Emerging Europe February 21, 2019 There is a groundswell in Bosnia and Herzegovina as citizens (mostly young people) are beginning to embrace a vision of hope and change in their country—a change that could lead to democracy and […] More
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Feelings of Today: Liming on Cobblestone
It seems at the moment that the life we are in resembles well, nothing. Maybe it looks a bit like the questionable sweater your mysterious Aunt always wears or like the bottom of your backpack after a school year has ended. Confusing, loud, itchy looking, […] More
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Millennial Adulthood: My Struggle with Debt
When you were five or even ten years old and someone asked you, “How do you see yourself at age 30?”, what did your vision include? Were you earning six figures, married with kids, owning a home with a yard and a white picket fence […] More
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What You CAN Do For Him
Time and time again, I hear women complain about their husbands. Young women! Women in their twenties, complaining their twenty-something-year-old husband is working too long. Complaining their twenty-something-year-old husband doesn’t pay enough attention to them, doesn’t help clean up, leaves his shoes out, leaves his […] More
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The quest for change in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Original article by Clark G. Curtis for Emerging Europe When Clark Curtis, a former director of communications at the College of Computing and Informatics at UNC Charlotte learned that his old friend Mirsad Hadžikadić was running for president of Bosnia and Herzegovina he approached him […] More
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A Productive Member Of Society Means Something New Now
Two months ago, being a productive member of society meant we were in the workforce. We were out there every day, hustling to the rise and grind of the workweek. Some people’s workweek included a nine to five job, while others had shift work, and […] More
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3 Legit Typing Jobs That Pay (Work From Home)
Are you looking for a way to make money online while stuck in quarantine? How well can you type? If you answered confidently to both of those questions then a home typing job is right for you! Even if you are not a fast typed […] More
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The World Will Never be the Same (40 Days)
This world has been torn apart due to a microscopic virus… I have debated writing about this because I see in every commercial and every news story something about this pandemic. What I am going to write about is not to make you fearful but […] More
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Being Apart of the "Sandwich Generation"
Being Apart of the “Sandwich Generation” What it’s like taking care of my husband’s grandmother By: Kandice Confer According to the American Psychological Association’s 2007 Stress in America survey, “Mothers in the “sandwich generation,” ages 35-54, feel much more stress than any other age group […] More
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Let It Get Messy
You’re up to your eyeballs in laundry, the baby needs a diaper change, your dishes are starting to smell weird as they pile in the sink, and the only success your school-age kids have had in the last month is that they just completed level […] More
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Goosebumps
Here are a few quotes from my favorite authors, including: Kamila Shamsie, Rumi, etc. I call them ‘goosebumps’ because I got chills when I read these I think it strengthens love to be thus caught in the fierce embrace of inevitability. An atheist obsessed with […] More
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Saving The Planet
I am really tired of reading and hearing news reports and interviews on “saving the planet”. It’s not the planet that has to be saved. It is humanity. Or, saving humanity from itself. Regardless of what the human race does or does not do, the […] More
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Love in the time of Gene Simmons
Today is another day in the time of COVID-19. Life has been upended. As an essential worker, I’ve used my downtime here recently to strive to find my inner artist. In exploring art, I have found that an inner monologue with myself serves to ease […] More
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There Is No Absence, Only Presence
An Argument Against Derrida’s “Structure, Sign, and Play” Jacques Derrida, the inventor of deconstruction, asks literary critics to look for truth in the opposites. Derrida attempts to prove the”structurality of structure” and the interplay of absence and presence. Derrida explains, “classical thought concerning structure could […] More
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Eco-Friendly Zero Waste Alternatives To Start Using Right Now
In the world we reside in today, being eco-friendly is becoming more common. There is more awareness of how certain zero waste products can promote green living and help the environment altogether. What if I can tell you that you can make a difference by […] More
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Finding the magic in the mayhem
I have always believed that there is some unseen magic in the world. When I was a kid, I was convinced that adults had the secret key to uncovering it. As a grown woman, I am now convinced that kids are the ones in possession […] More
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