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by Dr. Olga Bonfiglio
Assorted essays, reviews, and other articles from writer Olga Bonfiglio. Click on the title of an article to read the full version.
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Fri, 11-Apr-2008, 04:38
Although most Americans regard Sept. 11, 2001, as a day that changed the world, the investigative reporter Craig Unger would argue that the presidential election in 2000 served as a point of convergence for certain groups of people who helped create what he calls “the greatest foreign policy disaster in American history—one that could result in the end of American global supremacy.”
Reviews of books about society, culture, politics, and economics
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| Peace
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Sat, 16-Feb-2008, 06:24
“War is sweet to those who have not tried it. The experienced man is frightened at the heart to see it advancing.” Pindar of Thebes
Published articles on the peace movement
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| Common Dreams
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Sun, 20-Jul-2008, 22:45
“We are at a stage in human history that is as monumental as changing from a hunter/gatherer society to an agricultural society and from an agricultural society to and industrial society," said Dr. Grace Lee Boggs. "Where we’re headed now will be different because we have exhausted planetary space and human space for us to continue to look at things through the Cartesian measurement of material things.”
Dr. Bonfiglio's articles published on the Common Dreams website.
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| Urban Revitalization
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Wed, 01-Aug-2007, 20:55
It may take a village to raise a child, but it takes the vision and determination of its residents to make that village. Residents in Kalamazoo's neighborhoods are working hard to make life safe, enjoyable and beautiful for all -- and they are doing it through their own initiative, as Jay Walljasper suggests in his book, "The Great Neighborhood Book."
Published articles on Urban Revitalization
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| Religion
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Wed, 03-Oct-2007, 19:50
The first thing a visitor notices about the woodsy lakefront property of Camp Beechpoint is the quiet. It is this same quiet that scares many of the inner-city children who come for a week in this natural setting in southwestern Michigan. Because they are so accustomed to traffic noise, gunshots, drugs, prostitution, and physical abuse, it takes the children two or three days to acclimate themselves.
Published articles on Religion
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| Education
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Wed, 03-Oct-2007, 17:45
The global society is a relatively new phenomenon in human history. It has been taking shape since Columbus first sailed to the New World, and now has evolved into a global society of five billion-plus people. Different cultures have been in contact with each other throughout history, but the past 500 years have intensified these encounters so that they have formed a political, economic, social, historical, cultural, and environmental web characterized by constant change, complexity, and connectedness, and much contradiction.
Published articles on Education
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| Travel
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Thu, 09-Aug-2007, 20:27
For a complete experience of the aesthetic life, look to Stratford in Ontario, Canada. In this town of 29,000 people, west of the fast-paced metropolis of Toronto and in the heart of nation’s agricultural belt, you not only get the very best in repertory theatre, but the finest in cuisine, gardening, architecture, and British-style ambience. And although Stratford hosts hundreds of thousands of out-of-town visitors each year during it’s April-November theatre festival, you don’t feel like a tourist but rather like a communicant of culture and leisure without pretentiousness.
Published articles about Travel
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| Food
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Sun, 23-Dec-2007, 14:41
Imagine walking into a popular tourist area restaurant at 7 p.m. on a Saturday night and getting a table?
That’s what we did at the Grande Mere on our way home from a day trip in southwestern Michigan one fine, fall day.
Published articles about Food
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| Agriculture and Nature
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Fri, 20-Jan-2006, 19:15
High school biology labs with their black table tops, microscopes, glassed-in specimen cabinets, and pervasive smell of formaldehyde appeared to be a world waiting to be unlocked and shared. But for many students this world was reduced to the memorization of phylum without an essential understanding of the subject. In THE LOST LANGUAGE OF PLANTS, science and non-science buffs alike are extended an invitation to enter the fascinating world of Nature in a different and more profound way.
Articles related to the environment, farming, and agriculture
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