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How To Unlock Creativity And Depression
Edgar Allan Poe, Honore de Balzac, Ernest Hemingway, Ezra Pound, Audrey Hepburn, and even Jim Carrey all had something in common. Aside from being renowned artists, they were also afflicted with depr...

The Intolerable Federal Income Tax
Ron Paul, during the 2008 presidential election, campaigned against the IRS and federal income tax. To me, this was a novel suggestion and it sounded crazy. No IRS? No income tax? How would th...

Finding Your Own Freedom
Harry Browne, the 1996 and 2000 Libertarian Presidential Candidate and author of How I Found Freedom In An Unfree World, believed that finding freedom was easier done alone than changing societ...

The Literary Genius of F. Scott Fitzgerald
On many of the world's lists of the best books ever written in the twentieth century, F Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby is admirably almost always second, painfully always pipped by the old genius...

The Life of Ezra Pound
Ezra Pound pops up everywhere, whether it be as an influence, a precursor, a patron, a link, a facilitator, a whatever; once you read literature you come into contact with the name Ezra Pound. Curious...

The Beat Generation
The Beat Movement, The Beats, The Beat Generation - what exactly was it? Truth is I don’t know and I don’t think anybody else does. I mean beat generation was a moniker that Kerouac applied to his clo...

Chinese Has A Unique Ideographic Writing System
My students are always asking me whether the Chinese language is hard to learn.I answered YES but using the right approach, you can easily learn it just like being amazed when watching magic tricks.B...

Creativity - The First Cousin to Genius
”Genius knows where the questions are hidden.” Mason Cooley What exactly is the difference between the mind of a genius and the mind of an ordinary person? Michael Michalko, in his book Cracking ...

A Biography of James Joyce
James Joyce was born in Dublin on 2 February 1882, the oldest of ten surviving children; two of his siblings died of typhoid. Joyce was initially educated by the Jesuit order at Clongowes Wood College...

Novelists and Cigars: A Long-Running Romance
Like coffee, alcohol and other, somewhat more illicit pleasures, cigars have a longtime fascination for certain kinds of creative folks. Perhaps this is especially true of novelists, whose work compel...

4 reasons why you should learn Chinese Language!
The first question my students always ask me would be "Is Chinese hard to learn? I would say 'YES, if you use the wrong method!', so, for me, Chinese isn't hard to learn at all, It's just like...

Being a Disobedient Writer
Some lessons from past time personal experiences could help you decide to revolt or not, if you live in a conservative traditional area in the world, where the elders are always right even if they are...

Iconic Females Who Enjoyed Cigars
Who comes to mind when you hear the word "cigar" smoker? If you're like too many people - most of them nonsmokers - you imagine a well-dressed male, perhaps wearing a sweater vest, someone...

I Love Touring Italy - Latium East Of Rome
If you are planning a European vacation, why not consider the Latium region of central western Italy on the Tyrrhenian Sea? Latium, also called Laszio, is the region that includes Italy’s ca...

Unlocking the Link Between Creativity and Depression
Edgar Allan Poe, Honore de Balzac, Ernest Hemingway, Ezra Pound, Audrey Hepburn, and even Jim Carrey all had something in common. Aside from being renowned artists, they were also afflicted with depr...

A Conversation with Legendary Copywriter Gary Bencivenga, Part 1 of 6
Welcome, Business-Builder! If the thought of an extended interview with Gary Bencivenga doesn't already have you quivering with anticipation, you are obviously in desperate need of a quick course in...

Urdu Nazm An Introduction
The ghazal in Urdu represents the most popular form of subjective poetry, while the nazm exemplifies the objective kind, often reserved for narrative, descriptive, didactic or satirical purposes. Unde...

Tour Egypt for Ancient and Exotic Adventures
If you've ever dreamed of witnessing the magnificence of the Great Pyramids, standing in awe before the Great Sphinx, or reveling in the treasures found in King Tut's tomb, the magic of Egypt awaits y...

Israeli 'junta' continues to pound its 'citizens'
Israeli 'junta' continues to pound its 'citizens' Posted by jewishindy on Monday, March 20. [This gentleman was cha...

Budget travel to Beautiful Paris

My first draft of this article began something like, "here are the top ten things to do and see when you travel to Paris." My plan was to show how to plan a cheap travel excursion to Europe...