WORLD VIEWS

Anomalies, or deviations from life's norms, are far more common than they're ever given credit for - and yet we all have a tendency to look the other way when we encounter them. Do they scare us? Threaten us? Yes, if our world views are shaky. They do.

Religious studies help you to not only understand your own views and beliefs more fully, but also to understand the cultural and religious backgrounds of people you encounter.

Elizabeth Ashley Kelsey, writer and world traveler, attempts to depict the 'American Character ' to the rest of the world.

The highest levels of the Obama administration are infested with members of the Bilderberg group, an elitist cabal intent on installing a one-world government that subverts the will of the American people.

How do we organize and understand the world around us? In this review of seminal scholarship on the subject Phin Upham reviews some of the major theories and integrates their conclusions.

An historical overview of the world's transition from international relations to world government. Who is in control, and how did they get that control?

According to religious and political officials, homosexuals are a problem whose only solution is alcohol. They also say they should be tortured and executed.

Maybe it's time so many lived their lives wishing for an end and helped make our communal existence better.

Three historical figures are presented as champions of their time and ours. They are the gladiator Spartacus, the sixteenth president of the union, Abraham Lincoln, and Juan Pablo Duarte,father of the Dominican Republic.

Money talks - big corporate money screams.

An evocative essay on literature

This article is about things that could effect the world's ability to go round and what effects they have on the human race.

In a world where thin is in, how do Olympians like Shawn Johnson "fit" into the picture? What are teen opinions about body shape and athleticism?

A book review of The World is Flat. Decide for yourself if you would like to read this book by Thomas Friedman. Or if you have read it, do you have the same perspective as I do?

Design of the natural world has been authoritatively dismissed by scientific authorities, and has been claimed the sole province of God by religious authorities -- but there there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in either of those views.

Take a look at why violence is a growing issue in the world of sports in today's world. Is it enhancing drugs, the intense rivalries, or just the natural emotions of the game.

This paper details the global changes caused by World War I and II. It looks specifically at England and the United States, and it uses exclusively the editorials found in the English publication "The Spectator."

This new role of women challenged traditional views of women as being unable to do the work of their male counterparts, giving rise to self-sufficient and liberated young woman with her own place in the work force making her own money.