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It seems a lot has changed over the last 40, 30, and even 20 years when it comes to how women want to be treated.

The Rockville Maryland band Sister City talks about their musical influences, being honest musicans, and the importance of free music.

For Evelyn Rodriguez, publisher of a magazine created especially for at-risk youth, the printed word and visual arts can combine to create a powerful tool for change.

Obsession with striving for the perfect body and beauty image is our society's quest for the holy grail. This can also lead to eating disorders like anorexia and bulimia.

Becoming a learning organization can vault companies into a successful future. Learning organizations offer employees increased job satisfaction and productivity.

One of the most common reasons for claiming unfairness is that effort and achievement are muddled together.

In this poem, Dickinson personifies summer as a woman who struggles to overcome the coldness of late spring.

Health care professionals strive to make all outcomes positive. The patient's participation and cooperation is essential to the success.

It's ludicrous that the All-Star Game determines home field advantage in the World Series, but if it must be, than so should these rules.

The Quran makes repeated use of two key words, Jihad (striving) and Qital (fighting). Their proper meaning is found in the pages of the Muslim Holy Book.

Perfectionists face a unique set of challenges as they walk through life. Meditating on helpful life quotes can help them overcome their struggles with procrastination.

Learning to be disciplined-physically and spiritually- can be helpful in life. Time and time again there is a desire to go back to the basics.

Addressing his Muse in a confrontational tone in sonnet 117, the speaker, half in jest, begs forgiveness for his trespasses of neglect and carousing with lesser minds.

Spirituality is the study of the self--not the egoistic, selfish self, but the true self which is the soul. All spiritual leaders remind us of this important fact.

Parents can help their children realize educational success and achieve academic excellence by getting involved in school activities.

Your self image is the prime director that sets the perimeters for you achievements, your relationships, your responses and your creative ability.

Masochists, who are often also narcissists, utilize passive-aggressive behavior towards others to undermine the possibility of achievement and remain in a losing pattern.

As you plan and organize, optimize and produce, worry is always a temptation. Jesus' instructions in Matthew chapter 6 direct believers to trust Him instead.

Psychologist Alfred Adler believed that a person's behavior is motivated by a desire to achieve success or superiority. This is often moderated by social environments.

Prevention is not the answer when we talk about youth development. Youth Development theory asserts that there are five necessary markers for success.

Make the middle of the novel ramp up the tension and conflict and set the reader up for the exciting climax.

Children's book illustrator Kit Grady talks about her work.

Diets that involve rigid measuring, weighing or counting never last. But there are simple and fun ways of improving nutrition without becoming a scholar on the subject.

There is a strong link between the eating disorders anorexia and bulimia and perfectionism. Perfectionists are at increased risk of developing an eating disorder.

Free Will finally explains, after a heated argument, that the environment is where Free Jim can exercise his free will.

Although the Nobel Peace Prize committee was swayed by idealistic attempts to achieve global peace and an end to specific conflicts, the results often ended in failure.

The English Scottish Borderline took centuries of war and hostility before its lines were established. People of the Border lands would suffer great hardship as a result.

These simple words contained in these principles carry a powerful punch. Recite them when you need to remind yourself to do the right thing.

A look at the winner and four finalists in the 2009 PEN/Faulkner award for fiction.

The week of April 12, 2009 is the annual National Library Week, sponsored by The American Library Association. Here's a look at some of the events taking place.

When an idea comes to mind, what do you do? Do you act on it, or does it just slip away as easily as it came? You can actually do something about it, if you choose to.

Realistic career expectations can motivate career progression. Lack of experience, reporting relationships and salary history can prevent career advancement.

Web 2.0 technology from AltiusPAR allows for the luxury of personalizing hotel rooms. Before travel, guests can opt for specific room or suite detail preferences.

Gay men and lesbian women have a unique struggle with their body image and rates of eating disorders are on the rise in the GLBT community.

World renowned Cirque du Soleil will be holding auditions for a variety of their world-wide shows at ImPulsTanz in Vienna in August 2007.

The term "the sixties" encompasses much more than just the days from January 1, 1960 to December 31, 1969 in modern American history.

A brief explanation of why people need to eat locally grown and seasonal food as much as possible.

Most diets leave a person battling with hunger yet the most effective way to lose weight should not involve any struggle with hunger.

Antimilitarist, defender of Alfred Dreyfus and active supporter of the miners of Carmaux, Jean Jaurès was one of the most beloved pre war socialist leaders.

The article discusses the various facets of mechanical engineering and how it has found importance in all other areas of engineering also.

A group of independent contractors sounds conflicting, but there is safety in numbers. Should freelancers belong to a union, or does that matter in self employment?

The Yin Yang is perhaps the equivalent of Christianity's Cross in important symbolism to Taoism.

Paramahansa Yogananda, in his poem "One That's Everywhere," reveals that Divine Omnipresence strives to reveal Itself through all creatures, even the inanimate.

John Betjeman's interest in architecture often informs his poetry as he fumbles to add substance to his observations of line and curve.

Despite the technological marvels of the present, many people are not happy. They don't know the rules that can make every day an exciting event filled with hope.

With a little planning and insight you could be on your way to all the fitness goals you only literally dreamed about. Make them a reality today.

Setting realistic goals and ideals is healthy. However, when the ideals are rigid and unrealistic, a predisposition towards developing an eating obsession may ensue.

Self-help recovery for eating disorders is also an option for treatment, or a support method in addition to inpatient or outpatient treatment - help is available.

Learn how some breeders use inbreeding as a tool to set positive traits, as well as the negatives of inbreeding, like the possibility of inherited medical disorders.

According to the Quran there are three basic levels, or stages, to the human soul's spiritual growth; nafsi ammara, nafsi lawwama, and nafsi mutmainna.