Valerie Desilets - Yahoo! Voices

Domestic Violence, the Human Condition

contributor-community@yahoo-inc.com (Valerie Desilets) — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 19:12:01 EDT

Most of us become advocates for women victims as we jump on the cultural bandwagon. Meanwhile we are encouraging, invaliding, downplaying, or outright denying men who are victims of women.

Contributor: Valerie Desilets
Published: Sep 13, 2010

While Your Were Sleeping: A World Crisis

contributor-community@yahoo-inc.com (Valerie Desilets) — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 13:49:32 EDT

At least the rest of the world knew it was coming, but Americans, they had their American Dreams. But this isn't about America, or about any country in particular. No, this is about the entire human race. Maybe this will serve as an awakening.

Contributor: Valerie Desilets
Published: Nov 14, 2008

Hypervigilance

contributor-community@yahoo-inc.com (Valerie Desilets) — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 11:37:04 EDT

Anxiety and panic attacks are an intense response to trauma. This is a look at the hypervigilant state of mind, in which one is constantly on the lookout for more threatening situations, with an anxious response.

Contributor: Valerie Desilets
Published: Nov 11, 2008

Locked

contributor-community@yahoo-inc.com (Valerie Desilets) — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 11:27:30 EDT

Perhaps this poem expresses a symbolic representation of our strange need to keep things hidden.

Contributor: Valerie Desilets
Published: Nov 11, 2008

Ode to the Turkey

contributor-community@yahoo-inc.com (Valerie Desilets) — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 11:14:32 EDT

Tradition is lost in the metaphor of gluttony.

Contributor: Valerie Desilets
Published: Nov 11, 2008

Restaurant Review of the Hibachi Bar and Grill

contributor-community@yahoo-inc.com (Valerie Desilets) — Tue, 16 May 2006 09:57:00 EDT

If you are looking for a unique cultural experience this is the place for you….

Contributor: Valerie Desilets
Published: May 16, 2006

Just Spill it Website Review

contributor-community@yahoo-inc.com (Valerie Desilets) — Wed, 10 May 2006 15:10:00 EDT

Reaching for my coffee to quench the desert that had surfaced in my mouth, I swilled it back hoping to hold back the quick reflexes of a defense.

Contributor: Valerie Desilets
Published: May 10, 2006

Sovereignty Over Native Land Diminishing

contributor-community@yahoo-inc.com (Valerie Desilets) — Mon, 08 May 2006 08:10:00 EDT

The Euro Americans claimed stake to unoccupied land, and wars broke out. The land was already occupied, but not owned in the Euro American sense. Now the Euro American government decides, since they had slaughtered so many, they should give it back.

Contributor: Valerie Desilets
Published: May 08, 2006

Divided We Fall

contributor-community@yahoo-inc.com (Valerie Desilets) — Mon, 08 May 2006 08:06:00 EDT

It is a disease among men to think they are different enough to separate themselves into groups. It is a plague to insist it is an entire group that is responsible for any particular event or action.

Contributor: Valerie Desilets
Published: May 08, 2006

Defining Ethnic and Cultural Backgrounds Without a Definition

contributor-community@yahoo-inc.com (Valerie Desilets) — Fri, 05 May 2006 13:33:00 EDT

Despite the teachings of modern sociology; I am more inclined to continue the path of doctrines by modern anthropologists and biologist constructivists. Ethnicity is a phenomenon created by man.

Contributor: Valerie Desilets
Published: May 05, 2006

An Anorexic Ideal: Television Advertising Delivers Negative Effects on Its Viewers

contributor-community@yahoo-inc.com (Valerie Desilets) — Wed, 26 Oct 2005 00:07:00 EDT

Television Advertising is becoming a wasteland of false idealistic images, and society is defenseless against its regime.

Contributor: Valerie Desilets
Published: Oct 26, 2005

Marijuana: Taming the Beast

contributor-community@yahoo-inc.com (Valerie Desilets) — Tue, 25 Oct 2005 12:57:00 EDT

In the late 19th century, hemp was banned from the United States, leaving us with costly alternatives in industry, and leaving marijuana to settle in the soils, unregulated in the black market.

Contributor: Valerie Desilets
Published: Oct 25, 2005