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...Brown. These are some of the thoughts that occurred to me during my Hell Week (except the part about Brown; I mean, really). The point is that our campus suffers an emotional shift every year and causes a decline in our quality of life. So how do we counter...
...sure that we can entirely counter the sentiment because it is a part of life. There are always going to be immense challenges and difficulties in life, and anyone who expects otherwise is mentally divergent. The task is to make it through these extra rough spots in one emotional piece...
...1990s was an insistent desire to feel passion again and show us you care. In 1995 psychologist Daniel Goleman published Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ. The best seller was embraced in educational circles because EQ (emotional quotient) offered a way to counter IQ as a standard of intelligence. But it was also a signal that the public at large might be ready, indeed eager, to return to the flagrant emotionalism of the 1960s, though fired by new and different causes...
...first, I took the growing holiday fashion pressure badly. Wasn't it enough that by Dec. 20 my arches had fallen, my credit cards were maxed out, and my eyes had been blackened in skirmishes at the Beanie Baby counter at Toys "R" Us? The enthusiasm for dressing as Christmas trees brought back painful memories of the Alzheimer's facility where my father spent his final days in a perpetual countdown to the holiday du jour. THE NEXT HOLIDAY IS ARBOR DAY (or whatever), a giant poster near the nursing station announced, AND IT'S ONLY 15 DAYS AWAY...
...argument for pre-marital sexual abstinence: While accidental and unintended pregnancies occur in marriages all the time, those children are usually brought into the world with significant advantages (such as a stable environment in which they can be physically and emotionally nourished and protected) over their less fortunate counter-parts born to parents out-of-wedlock...