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How to Avoid Making Bad Career Choices

How to Avoid Making Bad Career Choices

By JP George While it may be tempting to live in the moment and not worry about what the future holds, it could be a poor way of making career choices.

How to Help Kids Learn with Family Trees

You can help your kids learn many important things by using your family history. Not only will they learn about their own history, it can be utilized with other school lessons.
Two Distinct Lives, like Mason & Dixon

Two Distinct Lives, like Mason & Dixon

He's heading home A homeless shelter holds different personality types. There are people living there due to fires and floods; others due to job loss; still others due to personality disorders.

NYC Historymaker Marie Van Brittan Brown and Home Security

Although home security systems today are more sophisticated than ever, the idea for a device that could allow you to watch your home remotely seemed almost unthinkable back in the early 1960s.

Lame Duck, My Ass!

By Michael Milton Listening to Senator Mitch McConnell on television this morning--ironically, while I was on a gym treadmill-- really got me steamed up, with the one positive effect that I increased both my speed and my endurance as I suffered your

Grow Your Tax Refunds Brooklyn!

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Keeping the Ship in Shape

Keeping the Ship in Shape

Keeping Track of Expenses Any facility needs each staff member to their part to have a good outcome. Good outcomes are gotten through planning and supervision.
Teen Voices: One High School's Fight to Show Why Black Lives Matter

Teen Voices: One High School's Fight to Show Why Black Lives Matter

By Nia Renee Gilbert The "American Dream" is bullshit. Well, maybe it's not complete bullshit. But the way it is taught and known here in the U.S., it is. For many Americans, we are taught the "American Dream" at a young age.
Services, Services!

Services, Services!

Life's Elements It's just another work day at the shelter providing s-e-r-v-i-c-e-s, Big Cheez's mantra. A native of Chicago and another from Guinea are transferred to the shelter over the weekend.

We Are All Flint

By Robin Smith, Excellence Baby Academy As Nick Kristoff writes in his The New York Times piece entitled " America is Flint ," lead poisoning goes far beyond Flint and seems to be even worse in many parts of the United States.