The Boy Who Cried Wolf

My experience with My Virtual Life was enjoyable as it gave me a taste of how being a parent would be. After doing the questionnaire, My Virtual Life assigned me a baby boy who I ended up naming him after me, Usman Jr. I tried to provide a soothing environment, and added the latest baby toys such as rattles, and toys so that he would be more active and curious about his environment. While raising Usman Jr. I tried not to be overly attached nor try to ignore his cries. For instance, when he would…

members and Dr. Chandler by consistently speaking on how “dead” I felt inside. My behavioral changes were an easy indicator as to what I was really doing when I would go to friends’ houses, but as the boy cried wolf, I cried depression. Yes, I was still very depressed about losing Allie, and I still cried many tears through the nights, but I was more worried about being caught by my parents and family. The combination of heartbreak and drug use became an intertwining life choice for me. After…

did, they still suffered from their legacy. “As his kids grew up, they began pressing him for details about his past, but he’d always resist a full recounting. Bornstein is 77, and his children have children of their own. Several years ago, when Jake Wolf, the eldest of his 11 grandkids, started asking questions, wanting to use the information for his bar mitzvah project, Bornstein couldn’t say no. He began to open…

ones inflicting damage to those who were anti-segregationally inclined. The White moderate’s interest was set more to keeping things as they were and keeping order, than to ridding themselves from injustice and discriminating African Americans. An example that is easier to understand for us in today’s thinking would be the dispute between the Black Lives Matter and All Lives Matter movements. Recently there has been increase of African Americans being shot by cops, who are supposed to be the…

learn and sympathize with the plight of the peasants brought on by the king, condemning him for his actions. Then as all good stories should, ends with good guy living happily ever after. In other words, fiction, even the simple story of the boy who cried wolf aids in drawing us together around the same common values we hold dear as our theme for living…

Every six years, Santa and DoJo, the leader of the Christmas elves, would have a contest. All elves under the age of 13 who wanted a chance at being a Christmas elf could make a toy and enter the contest. Santa and DoJo would choose who would get to come and live out their lives at the North Pole. “This year, I’ll have the best toy…

also attended the event and wrote a lovely article about my book and the work I do with kids, parents, educators and youth care professionals. All in all, it was dream publicity and since then, has sparked many conversations with people in my town who saw my photo in the newspaper and immediately related to the examples of bullying that were discussed.…

and hell. The kingdom where the new king and queen live, the baker who stuffed Hansel and Gretel…

the first Chairman of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina during the Bosnian War, filed the case. A document issued by the International Court of Justice stated that, “25,000 Bosnian Muslims, most of them women, children and elderly people who were living in the area, were uprooted and, in an atmosphere of terror, loaded onto overcrowded buses by the Bosnian Serb forces and transported across the confrontation…

Migration Through the Lens of Diasporas The Jewish diaspora of the 8th century BCE was the first of its kind, but the term which would grow increasingly difficult to define and apply as time went on. In his essay, “Diasporas,” James Clifford attempts to elucidate the history and development of the term ‘diaspora’ and critically look at its implications. Defining the term diaspora, a task which seems simple, turns out to be the biggest obstacle to overcome in studying them, and that is what…