Ideas for all lovers of personal and political freedom. Topics range from philosophy to economics to art to how to achieve real freedom in the modern world.
Mental health is at a total decline, many high school and college students meet the standard for depression and an anxiety disorder. Studies were done and they showed a dramatic increase in mental illness over the last five decades. The increase in mental illness surprisingly had nothing to do with realistic dangers such as war. Anxiety and depression often correlate with a sense or lack of control
Sexism is an awful part of our society. It affects both men and women. But people do not understand how damaging sexism can be. It can endager attitudes, jobs physical and mental health. Many women avoid talking about their issues because they fear being called Hysteric, or bossy.
When you are pregnant, it is important that you watch what you put into your body. Consumption of illegal drugs is not safe for the unborn baby or for the mother. Studies have shown that consumption of illegal drugs during pregnancy can result in miscarriage, low birth weight, premature labor, placental abruption, fetal death, and even maternal death.
Domestic violence is the violent abuse between intimate partners, heterosexual and homosexual relations. Domestic violence can appear as many forms of abuse: emotional, physical, or sexual. Many of the signs of an abuser is the relationship starts out normal but the longer the relationship continuous the partner became more manipulative and controlling. In some instances, both parties attempt to gain and regain control of the other without knowing.
The article talks about privacy exemption and how it is used as an important tool for protecting personal information in the government. But it is overused to stop the release of a wider range of government information.
This article talks about the personal privacy of American citizens and how the government is using surveillance tactics through social media and other internet sources. The article mentions trying to find out how many people the government has surveyed and how they will not release a definite number. But the article does mention that it is for our protection and the purpose is to find foreigners. The article lists many different sights and products we use that are currently being surveyed.
It about a attorney general that wanted to show that we have a growing problem with baby born on drugs. Some groups don't what drug test on pregnant women.
This website is very interesting considering that it performed their own survey. The purpose of this article is that the findings were that there are political benefits.
The website includes information about the harmfulness of secondhand smoke. It gives specific statistics on how much secondhand has taken affect on society. The whole website also gives a lot more information on how harmful tobacco is in general as well.
The experiment that is being conducted in this study is to essentially test the correlation of whether their is a positive outcome in achievements when school uniforms are placed into action. The outcome of the study actually concluded that there is a positive correlation between school uniforms and achievements.
This is a website that discusses the story of a girl being sent home from school because of the color of her hair. The article also discusses other schools that have questionable rules that intervene with personal freedom.
Within the article, it has information on how an elementary school asked a child to remove his shirt. However, the most interesting part of the removal of the shirt is that the shirt was a US Marines shirt with guns on it. This action turned into a huge controversy because the shirt was supporting the nation rather than anything other than disrespecting it.
This website holds a research that was done to study the relationship of children and their creativity. The research explains that the declining creativity is due to children's restricted freedom.
Within this article, it explains how school uniforms violate the first amendment. The article also includes implications as to why uniforms are initially set in place.