Consumer Culture Affects Children

Kids have a lot more money than they used to. They are also exposed to a great deal more advertising, not only in front of the television and computer ...

Ben Stein on Life's True Priorities

Author and actor Ben Stein wrote a column published by E!Online for nearly eight years. Titled "Monday Night at Morton's," the column detailed ...

Woman Uses Valuable Coin for Parking

When we possess something of great value, we generally safeguard it. Through a series of errors, a South African woman failed to properly care for a collection ...

Counterfeiter Misused Artistic Talents

As a counterfeiter, Emanuel Ninger is legendary. When arrested on March 28, 1896, The New York Times reported that a search of the suspect turned up $244.25 ...

Jonathan Edwards on True Happiness

"The enjoyment of [God] is the only happiness with which our souls can be satisfied…. Fathers and mothers, husbands, wives, or children, or ...

Teen Wanted Mother Dead and TV Unharmed

Calos Chereza tried to hire a hitman and got caught. The "killer" Chereza hired turned out to be an undercover detective.

Sadly, Chereza is only ...

"Wallstreet": Greed Is Good

In the movie Wallstreet, Gordon Gekko is a business tycoon bent on success at any price. During his takeover bid at a paper company's stockholder ...

Mahatma Gandhi Lists the "Seven Blunders of the World"

Mahatma Gandhi Lists the "Seven Blunders of the World":

1. Wealth without work

2. Pleasure without conscience

3. Knowledge without character

4. ...

Cheating on an English Test

Allison Asimakoupoulos writes in Campus Life:

My first grade teacher, Mrs. Ayres, taught me things I needed to know to start school right, including one ...

Movies Influence Behavior

According to a study published in Effective Clinical Practice, teens whose parents restrict them from watching R-rated movies are one-third as likely ...