?Audience: Parents who want to enroll their children in a ballet class for the first time. As a child I was very active in ballet. When I first asked my parents to let me enroll in a ballet class, they were skeptical. They weren't too sure of what a ballet class consisted of or what kind of exercise I would have to undergo. My parent...
Approximately 30 million people world-wide use the Internet and on-line services daily. The Net is growing exponentially in all areas, and a rapidly increasing number of people are finding themselves working and playing on the Internet. The people on the Net are not all rocket scientists and computer programmers; they are graphic designers, te...
Is our society becoming post-l Is our society becoming post-literate? Thousands of years have passed since our culture invented an alphabet to allow spoken words to be permanently recorded. This 'great leap' from orality to literacy had many consequences that will be discussed here. However, many other technologies have come into existenc...
In high school, there were the preps, the skaters, and the burnouts, just to name a few. These groups were not only distinguished by the way they acted, but they were also differentiated by the way they dressed. By looking at a particular student in high school, one could probably infer the clique he/she belonged to. So if a person had...
Why do we exist? What is the aim of the human kind? What is the meaning of life? Those are the questions every person thinks of at some point in it?s life. World religions try to give answers to these questions. Art and science give us some interpretations of the meaning of life as well. Ever since humanity exists, individuals tried to capt...