Category: Standard People

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WE HAVE REAL PROBLEMS

Most people know the misquoted line from the Apollo 13 moon mission when Jack Swigert and Jim Lovell, the main astronauts on the aborted mission, sent word back that “Houston,

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LIFE SKILLS OR KILLS

It is extraordinary how every day we learn some important points even when we do not plan to do so, and even when the events are not desirable. If we

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WHAT ARE YOU DOING ABOUT IT?

There is a popular cartoon on the internet highlighting changes that have occurred in schools over the years. In both pictures an angry mother and a father are asking the

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FROM GREASE TO GRACE

The hugely-popular film Grease (astonishingly only a PG rating), starring John Travolta and Olivia-Newton-John, was made in 1978 but was set in Chicago in 1959, and set out to portray

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COOL SIGHTINGS

There is a wonderful, and very telling, scene in the hugely popular 1993 film Cool Runnings (a film loosely based on the true story of Jamaican sprinters who, having failed

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PILGRIM’S PROGRESS OR SPORTMAN’S SUCCESS

Almost four hundred years ago, while he was confined to prison for twelve years, John Bunyan wrote what some believe was the first book written in English, namely The Pilgrim’s

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WHO WILL LET THE DOGS OUT?

Dogs do some amazing things! At different times and in different places we have seen dogs patiently, gently, graciously, quietly, faithfully, compellingly serve their human owners in extraordinary ways, from