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Most people think the average teenager isn't capable of much beyond hanging with their friends and wasting time. But Zach Hunter isn't your average teenager. And he's hoping to show you that you're not either. Zach has been trying to end slavery around the globe. Most people (maybe even you) think that slavery has been over for a long time. But sadly, there are more people bound in slavery now than at any of the times we read about in our history...
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Can the mind not be a slave to knowledge? 21 July 1974.
When consciousness invents a super-consciousness is it a part of thought aware of the past? Is there a part of the brain which has not been touched by the known? Is it our education to escape from 'what is' through ideals? Has the mind been trained to operate and function in the field of the known? Observing the movement of thought and its source, can one come upon something beyond thought?...
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Most lawyers don't set out to be business owners. They become business owners when they open their own law firm, and from that point forward, their work tends to become disconnected and chaotic. They're so busy with HR, bookkeeping, and marketing that they're lucky to have twenty minutes a day to work on cases. Many lawyers are drowning, which contributes to the profession's unsettling levels of alcoholism, drug addiction, and depression.
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As a youth born and raised in Jamaica and through some African history we were taught in school, we acquired very little knowledge of the history of black nations. I also learned and accepted a Christ-like way of life which, up to this present time, remains the major force in my life on this planet and has also given me a great feeling of passion for all people. We were financially poor but always had plenty of food and drink. As a country boy, when...
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The time has come for women to be equal to men in various works of life. In the world today, almost 90 percent of women are not meeting up with life, they are suffering despite the fact that they are good managers if given a chance. Culture especially in Africa and the middle east are not helping matters. Women that are given a chance in the public and private sector perform excellently well better than men. Women are confident, and should be allowed...
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Famous memoirs of father and son Quaker ministers, who travelled and preachers widely across North America and the World on the precepts and tents of the Friends.
Nathan Hunt's family emigrated to what were then the colonies of New Jersey and Pennsylvania between 1670 and 1719. His father, William Hunt, was born in New Jersey and moved to North Carolina about 1752 and was a charter member of New Garden Monthly Meeting in present-day Greensboro when...
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Collected here in this omnibus edition are three influential autobiographies of prominent men whose rose up from slavery to greatness. Essential reading for anyone interested in African American Heritage. Included are Up From Slavery by Booker T. Washington, Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup and Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave by Frederick Douglass. Up from Slavery is one of the most influential biographies ever...
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Collected here in this omnibus edition are three influential autobiographies of prominent women whose rose up from slavery to greatness. Essential reading for anyone interested in African American Heritage. Included are Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs, Narrative of Sojourner Truth by Sojourner Truth, and The History of Mary Prince, a West Indian Slave by Mary Prince. Slavery is a terrible thing, but it is far more terrible...
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