Posted on 24 August 2010. Tags: Capitalism, culture, Democracy, Finace, jobs, Society, Upper Class, Working Class, Working Class Joes, Yuppie
From David Anthony Hohol… Now at the very beginnings of a new millennia, working class citizens continue to live a life of permanent insecurity never being sure that the current job will last or how much longer they will be able to live in their rented houses. The experience of living in fear continues to [...]
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Posted on 12 August 2010. Tags: Alberta, Canada, Country, farm, Farming, Grandfather, Grandparents, Grandson, Prairie, Ranch, Two Hills
From David Anthony Hohol… The summer, for most of my life, has always meant time on the family farm. Sitting in the same house where my father was raised, the same house in which my grandfather was born, and the same house my great grandfather built with his own hands with timber from the trees [...]
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Posted on 06 August 2010. Tags: Canada, Chicago, Childhood, Fiction, Kamloops, Memoirs, Memories, Short Story
From David Anthony Hohol… As I drive down the highway, and as it’s been for what seems like forever this time of year, my mind is filled with memories. I am on a long journey to see an old friend. Reggie and I have always been friends. My mom always told me, right up until [...]
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Posted on 31 July 2010. Tags: Ban, Burka, France, Islam, Middle East, Muslim, Niqab, Secular, Syria
From David Anthony Hohol… Led by France and President Nicolas Sarkozy, Europe continues to move towards a full ban on both the full face-covering burka and the niqab, while cries of discrimination against Muslims run through the Arab World. A funny thing then happened – Muslims the world over were caught off guard when Syria [...]
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Posted on 02 July 2010. Tags: Energy, Iran, Jordan, Middle East, Nuclear Plant, Reactor
From David Anthony Hohol… The Iranian political regime (and not its citizens who we have supported in their fight for democracy ) have been the self-declared enemy of the West since the 1978 Islamic Revolution, when the Mullahs took over the country. They’ve repeatedly spewed hatred, issued threats and sounded entirely unstable as a result. The crazy, [...]
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Posted on 23 June 2010.
Social networking has changed the way we communicate and more importantly, how we share ourselves with the world. The all-consuming monster that is Facebook, will soon boast a startling half a billion users worldwide and is now the platform for new millennial communication. The result of electronic interaction is the displacement of social interaction, keeping people apart, along [...]
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Posted on 31 May 2010. Tags: Conditioning, Gay, Homophobia, Homosexual, prejudice
From David Anthony Hohol… We are all different, but we are all the same. It’s hard for many of us to fathom the self-image born from being a member of what society calls a minority. Standing amidst the towering forest of the status quo, showered with the seeds of conditioning, we don’t understand the enveloping sense of judgment [...]
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Posted on 29 May 2010. Tags: Books, Columbia, Illiteracy, Library, Poverty
From David Anthony Hohol… Through the Colombian countryside, a man hobbles along a gravel road atop a donkey carrying with him more than a hundred books. He is tired from a full week’s work, but come his day off the first thing he does is load up his mule and head into the hills on a [...]
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Posted on 25 April 2010. Tags: Animal Trade, Asia, Black Market, China, Exotic, Extinct, Wildlife
Despite the efforts of organizations around the world, human beings continue to hunt animals into extinction. Whether it be for simple vanity, supposed medical benefits, or the desire for an exotic pet, the illegal animal trade is alive and well. It seems to have forever been in our nature to pillage nature, and those we [...]
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Posted on 19 April 2010. Tags: Arab World, Hashemite Kingdom, Jordan, King Abdullah, Politics, the Middle East
From David Anthony Hohol… Earlier this month, on the eve of his trip to Washington, Jordan’s King Abdullah II warned if peace in the Middle East cannot be achieved, then Israel’s long-term future is in jeopardy. The young Monarch declared, “I think the long-term future of Israel is in jeopardy unless we solve our problems. I [...]
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