Thanks to the heroic people who started fighting for freedom many years ago, I am entitled to express my ideas and opinions freely. In my experience, the more we prove we can be trusted with freedom, the more freedom we are given. Still, freedom of all kinds can be dangerous, as it comes attached [...]
Archive for June, 2008
THINK ABOUT THIS!!
June 26, 2008AMA-GI
June 23, 2008AMA-GI was a symbol used in 3000 BC; many scholars believe that this ancient Sumerian cuneiform symbol was the first written reference to the idea of freedom or of liberty. The leader of the Sumerian city-state of Girsu/Lagash, established new laws that guaranteed the rights of property owners, ensured freedom of slaves, reformed the civil [...]
SOCRATES
June 20, 2008
The unexamined life is
not
worth living.
Socrates- APOLOGY
Socrates lived in the fifth century and did not write any works, but was a teacher and philosopher. His student, Plato, wrote Apology and this quote is attributed to his teacher, Socrates. Plato’s dramatic picture of Socrates, who was willing to die rather than abandon his commitment to [...]
JIM MAYOR – My everyday hero
June 18, 2008 Jim mayor was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada in 1957. He is the acting captain for the city of toronto fire services now in his 25th year as a firefighter. Jim grew up like any other ordinary child, he took piano lessons and was admittedly an over achiever when it came to sports.
Funny [...]
GEORGE MASON
June 16, 2008
George Mason was born in Fairfax County, Virginia in 1725. He was a lifelong friend of George Washington. He had no interest in politics but, when Washington was named Commander of the Continental Army, Mason reluctantly took over Washington’s seat on the Virginia legislature and was assigned by chance to the committee to write the new [...]
SARAH JOSEPHA HALE
June 10, 2008
The woman who gave us Thanksgiving. Sarah Josepha Hale was born in Newport, New Hampshire in 1788. She is well known as the author of the popular nursery rhyme “Mary Had a Little Lamb.” She is also known as one of the major forces behind the declaration of Thanksgiving as a national holiday in the [...]
ED SULLIVAN
June 9, 2008
Ed Sullivan was born in Manhattan New York in 1901. He’s the man who shaped popular culture in America for almost twenty-five years. When he was forty-six years old, The Ed Sullivan Show, originally called Toast of the Town, premiered live on CBS, the year was 1948. Within a few years roughly 50 million people [...]
ANNE FRANK
June 6, 2008
Anne Frank was born in Frankfurt, Germany in 1929. She is most popularily known for the diary entries she made while hiding in an attic during the Nazi regime. Anne’s father had been an officer in the German Army during World War I. In 1933, when Hitler began his campaign against the Jews, Otto Frank, Anne’s father [...]
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
June 5, 2008Benjamin Franklin was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1706. He was the youngest son of 17 children born to a candle-maker. He learned to read at age 4, and even though he only had two years of formal schooling, he had a passion for books. At age 16he founded his own newspaper, The New England Courant. [...]
I WANNA BLAB!
June 4, 2008
Hey everybody,
Hope you are all having a spectacular day today!! I’m pretty much a blabber mouth, just have to get my two cents in every now and then.
I just wanted to touch on something ever so briefly. When designing this blog, I was fully aware of the fact that nobody is perfect, hopefully you will keep that in mind [...]