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  What is the Meaning of Freedom?

  By Shirley T., Philadelphia, PA

  November of 1863, the uttermost grandeur of the year, brings one and all the fruition of months of toils, care, and thoughts. Here I am sitting here at this dilapidated state, mahogany writing desk on a dark night, preparing to give a speech that may or may not have any impact. Regardless this is i...
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  Dinner with Locke

  By Shirley T., Philadelphia, PA

  The autumnal moon beams its mellow light in the blue sky. The autumn sky is clear. A few patches of bulging pieces of clouds float swiftly by. As I walk down the crooked, narrow, unpaved street, I try to make my way through the river of hackney coaches and untamed livestock. Merchants and traders fl...
• Opinion > Social Issues / Civics
  Science and Censorship

  By Shirley T., Philadelphia, PA

  Adam Cohen’s article summarizes different opinions about the question of censoring selected results of scientific research on the grounds of national security. There are those who feel limiting publication of information, such as how to make a contagious bird flu virus, is a good idea. They feel t...
• Opinion > Current Events / Politics
  Florida Welfare Drug Tests

  By Shirley T., Philadelphia, PA

  Have you ever been victim of a stereotype? Maybe it was in a joke? Well, right now in America, there is a false stereotype so deeply embedded in our culture that its believers want to make a law out of it. Have you ever heard that welfare recipients are all drug dealers and/ or drug users? Well, thi...
• Hot Topics > Health
  Psychosis Risk and Temper Dysregulation

  By Shirley T., Philadelphia, PA

  According to Disabled World, “One in ten children has mental illness." This number is too high to be created primarily by drug companies influencing physicians, parents, and teachers as Allen Frances suggests. This is not a problem that has been exaggerated but instead is something that shoul...
• Nonfiction > All Nonfiction
  Continuation of the Free Enterprise System

  By Shirley T., Philadelphia, PA

  Marco Rubio said that, "Americans chose a free enterprise system designed to provide equality of opportunity, not compel equality of results. And that is why this is only place in the world where you can open up a business in the spare bedroom of your home." The free enterprise syste...
• Nonfiction > Memoir
  Something that Unsettled Me...My Self-portrait

  By Shirley T., Philadelphia, PA

  “To banish imperfection is to destroy expression, to check exertion, to paralyze vitality.” This John Ruskin quote from "The Stones of Venice" reminds me of my struggles while sketching a self-portrait. Every time I reject my drawing, thinking, "This is not me." I am surround...
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  Girl with a Pearl Earring (d'apres)

  By Shirley T., Philadelphia, PA
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  Graduation Portrait 1

  By Shirley T., Philadelphia, PA
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  Graduation Portrait 2

  By Shirley T., Philadelphia, PA
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  Nutcrackers

  By Shirley T., Philadelphia, PA
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  Mona Lisa (d'apres)

  By Shirley T., Philadelphia, PA
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  Red Blood Cells

  By Shirley T., Philadelphia, PA
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  Pointe Shoes

  By Shirley T., Philadelphia, PA
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  T-ara Eunjung

  By Shirley T., Philadelphia, PA
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  Kim Taeyeon

  By Shirley T., Philadelphia, PA
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  Lee Min Ho

  By Shirley T., Philadelphia, PA
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  Goo Hara

  By Shirley T., Philadelphia, PA
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  My Sister and Laura

  By Shirley T., Philadelphia, PA
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  A Ballet Dancer

  By Shirley T., Philadelphia, PA
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  My Sister and I

  By Shirley T., Philadelphia, PA
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  Aiswaria and I

  By Shirley T., Philadelphia, PA
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  A Tooth

  By Shirley T., Philadelphia, PA
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  Jason Mraz

  By Shirley T., Philadelphia, PA
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  My Art Teacher and her daughter

  By Shirley T., Philadelphia, PA