On Reliving the 60s: The Conflict Between the Old, Entrenched Power Structure and the Youth Movement

Reviewing the Realities of Reaganomics' Supply Side Strategies and Their Effects on the Current Amer

A Critical Mass

Seductively Satirizing Hollywood's Seduction: Woody Allen's Anti-Genre Films
Genre films are Hollywood’s staple. Many genres exist among contemporary film categories. The plots are consistently copies of previous successes and the actors are typecast in nearly identical roles in movie after movie. The endings are so predictable that every teenager knows what to expect every time they go to the show. The experience breeds conformity and provides a fundamental, subconscious confirmation that all is right with the world.Genre films continue to enrich actors, directors and producers with huge incomes from their shares of the ever-increasing, box office receipts. These salaries translate into obscene, self-indulgent lifestyles which cap

Understanding Classical Greek Mythology and Its Avenues for Enlightenment
The ancient religion of Classical Greece is one of a culture which based its religion more on reality than the unreachable paragon dictated by an autocratic god embraced by contemporary monotheistic nations and cultures. The Greek gods and goddesses not only exhibited human traits, but often to excessive degrees. The immortals can be more accurately understood as personifications of essential or basic energies extant throughout time which infuse and influence the lives of humans (or so the Greeks of the Classical period believed). The gods and goddesses, at their best, exemplify traits of excellence - arêtes to be emulated. However, they also offer

One World Day
One World Day - an idea whose time has come, baby, can you dig it? One World Day: an event enlisting all of you, the roughly 6.6 billion people on the planet, to unite with the voice of one human peace-army for a day – telling it like it is, telling it like you really want it to be. One World Day sings the demands for world leaders to heed the voices, needs, wishes and agenda of you, the people, for peace, sustenance, comfort, cooperation, understanding, fulfillment and opportunity instead of promoting the mad money mania the world has been forced to endure for ages! One World Day – an expression by you, the people of the world, who, through your sheer numbers, your

A Wasted, Stubborn Gaze
Glance upon the shadows cast by ficus limbsas their growing fingers span memories' bridge,creeping across dandelionclock facesthat mark the consistent progress of seconds'subconscious wile; while marijuana's wasted,stubborn gaze persists in calculating odds:seeping seeds spend evolution underground.Childlike drifting fascination, feathersleaf through the creole backstreets of Mardi Grasrevelry under ash blackened foreheads, dreamssquander faintly demented marching brigades'bound captives; coffin gagged, violence resistentbodhisattvas' sing supine supplication - winding a forest carpet, silent, sublime.

Passion Spent Spills
Heated flesh radiates with a red aura:rubbing up against attraction’s golden glowin the still midnight hush, a fragrant flushblushes urgency to flower petulantlyas the whitewater rapids of desire plycuriosity with a provocative pretense.Forms embody souls’ impressionsand curve-cuddle close like the linesof fingerprints, they shadow danceon momentary eternity’s wall –illuminated by united bliss-brilliancein separation’s dark desert of illusion.The fresh scent of passion spent spillsupon quivering petals like dewdrops’crystallized ambrosial nectar: innocenceyields like fading star