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Fascinating Funeral Traditions From Around The World

Five cultures that deal with death in a completely different way from what you may be used to When you think of funerals, certain images may come to mind. For a lot of us, we think of black clothing, graveyard...

We Are All Addicts, So What Can We Do About It?

Brenden Dill and Richard Holton's The Addict in us All posits an alternative view on addiction based on the current scientific literature. With the help of over 130 references, Dill and Holton outline that addi...

Positive Emotion And How To Get It

At the beginning of a relationship, emotions are intense. One frown from your partner and you start to descend into the realm of chaos, or one smile and you feel ecstatic. Why is that? It's because if you succe...

Develop These Key Elements of Success To Win In Sports Or Life

Let's talk about those elements of success that will inevitably help you reach and exceed your goals TIME Time is a luxury you must have if you are going to perform your best. You have to have massive amounts...

For The Love Of The Game: Intrinsic vs Extrinsic Motivation

For the love of the game. It's the reason why so many small-town sports clubs survive against the odds. Clubs which, economically speaking, never should have tried. The "love of the game" is why every successf...

Why I Decided To Skip My Twenties

I walked into my dentist’s office with my beautiful wife in December. I was getting my wisdom teeth removed just before coming down to Georgia to work on a farm for 6 months. As he was preparing to yank body pa...

The Louisiana Coast Comes Back Strong After Massive Oil Spill

The coast of Louisiana—an area that is no stranger to disasters (a hurricane strikes about once every three years)—has many animals, industries and vibrant people that call it home. But in April of 2010, thi...

Travel Writer Robin Esrock at Bacuit Bay, Philippines

Robin Esrock: The Life Of A Travel Writer

Globe-trotting, note-jotting Robin Esrock opens up about what it really means to be a travel writer. In The Beginning… In 2004, Robin Esrock was riding his scooter to work as he did every day, when a car went...

Maria Toorpakai Squash Player from Pakistan

Squash Star Maria Toorpakai Masqueraded As A Boy To Survive The Taliban

Disguised as a boy for 16 years, Maria Toorpakai put herself and her family in the cross-hairs of the Taliban in order to achieve her dreams of becoming a world class athlete. Growing up in Pakistan with the a...

Jesse Martin Becomes Youngest To Sail Solo Around Globe

At 17, Jesse Martin wanted to become the youngest person to sail solo around the world. Imagine yourself on a boat looking out at the horizon, and all you can see is the water meeting the sky with no land in s...

Young Adventurer Zac Sunderland Sailing Solo Around The World

16-year-old Zac Sunderland becomes the youngest person to sail solo around the world The wind stayed steady all through the night. Zac Sunderland was making good progress in his attempt to sail around the worl...

The New Water Hole: Small Miracles In Rural Malawi

The African sun blazed overhead as we rumbled along. From the back of a Jeep I gazed at the rolling landscape – a vast panorama dotted with fruit trees and the grass-roof huts of scattered settlements. In the ...

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The Importance Of SEO In Digital Marketing

Digital marketing in the current era Marketing is no longer a department that has intakes of a fund with no statistical proof to show that they worked. It is all about seeing a return in the form of conversion...