Death is coming

The closer death creeps up upon me the less I am able to understand the reasons for life or living.

Yes I have experienced a close family member dying and unlike television it takes decades to handle such a thing. To think I am going to put my family through such a thing when I finally leave is more horrific to me than the thought of death itself.

My life was and is still a learning experience but when all said and done what am I to do with all this accumulated learning over my lifetime if I just die. There is no logic or reason to this.

Long ago I became aware that the God story that is sold to the majority is just a nice story to give mankind with a message of a basic layout of how nice life could be if everyone followed these ideas. Not many in life do and if one thinks about it the good and evil structures actually depend on each other. The good that can be experienced in life is only understood as good when there is it's opposite to compare it to. This is not rocket science only common sense in reality. I am not saying we need to experience bad but understanding in it is needed to appreciate the great things many of us can have in our lives. From birth to death there are many ways mankind helps his fellow man. How many ways can you help?


Thursday, July 28, 2011

The Biography of Ayn Rand

By Elis W. Pumphrey


Although the woman's selected name would definitely one day grace the covers of important literary books, Ayn Rand came into this world Alissa Rosenbaum in St. Petersburg, Russia on Feb . 2, 1905. A remarkable teenage young woman, she normally fled from the dismaying community around her to the lively, upbeat realm of journal fictional works. From the time she was eight, this girl jumped right into formulating her own tales, and by nine, the girl decided to become a master author.

Fiction provided the girl a intermittent relief from the challenge of living through the Russian War, the earliest attacks of which she observed through the actual balcony of her parent's flat. Her own dad's drug store retail outlet was eventually seized by way of the brand new communist lawmakers, and so the Rosenbaums moved from a suitable existence to that of poverty and despair.

As a thoughtful developing woman she researched beliefs and history at the School of Leningrad, yet , very quickly noticed her own foreseeable future would definitely be poor in the event that she remained in her birthplace Russia. She started to focus on getting a way to go on to North America and begin a better existence.

During the 1926, at the age of 21, Alissa Rosenbaum left Russia once and for all simply by acquiring a passport using the guise of traveling to her loved ones in Chi town. The woman arrived at New York having no more than fifty dollars in her own savings, but with zeal in her vision and a different title: Ayn Rand.

After the limited holiday in Chicago, the woman left for Hollywood to carry out a career in screenwriting. A lucky meeting with a famous director enabled Rand to land a role as a motion picture extra in his film King of Kings.

Whilst on the actual set, she came across a guy which took her breath away - and then lost sight of him. As luck would have it, she saw the man once more on a public bus, she purposely tripped (!) him to help ensure he would not be separated from her again. Very quickly after doing that, Frank O'Connor turned out to be her husband and also the major love of her entire life.

Ayn Rand worked random jobs for the following 10 years, scrambling to perfect the dialect and honing her qualifications as a writer. The lady created her first basic work of fiction, We the Living, in the nineteen thirties. The actual novel just didn't arrive at amazing success, suffice to say, partly due to United states audiences' higher infatuation, during this time, with communist Russia.

Though upset, Rand carried on with her work. She began groundwork for the epic saga that would help make her widely known: The Fountainhead. At the same time employed in an architect's agency to build up history for the project, she also wrote the book Anthem, that she circulated initially in Great Britain, in the late thirties, and then soon after in North America.

Of course, the publication of The Fountainhead in 1943 launched a firestorm of dispute. Ayn Rand offered to the general public a kind of hero they had not witnessed until now: Howard Roark, an amazing, obsessive architect whose conviction and resolve for logical self-interest enabled him to blast all the way through the droves of mediocrity. Over a half-century following its initial publication, The Fountainhead goes on to sell off roughly 100 thousand replications yearly, in English as well as in a number of other different languages across the world.




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What Parents Need to Know About Trauma In Children

By Allen Cardoza


Allen Cardoza and Dr. Melody Foxx on L.A. Talk Radio discussed trauma in children with Caelan Kuban, the Director of The National Institute for Trauma and Loss in Children.

Topics discussed included how a teen can be potentially exposed to trauma and the differences between grief and trauma. The interview also discussed why trauma should be considered a sensory experience rather than a diagnosis.

Parents and other adults can help children and youth following a traumatic experience. Kuban provided essential therapeutic information about how they can help children and youth who have experienced, or are currently experiencing, a traumatic life situation.

Participants leave Kuban's workshops feeling energized and inspired to work with at-risk and traumatized youth. Kuban, LMSW, is the Director of The National Institute for Trauma and Loss in Children (TLC), which is a program of the Starr Institute for Training. She has trained professionals working across the country and provided training on how to deal with traumatized children and families. She has been called an excellent teacher and passionate workshop trainer.

The National Institute for Trauma and Loss in Children (TLC), achieves its mission to bring out the best in every traumatized child by working to create the kind of environment where children can flourish.

Over 50,000 trauma professionals have been trained by TLC since 1990. Thousands of enthusiastic professionals and clients have given testimony.

Every day more than 5,000 TLC Certified Trauma and Loss School Specialists and Clinical Specialists provide TLC interventions and resources to children, adolescents, families, schools and other organizations.

The value of TLC school and agency based programs is supported by published evidence-based research.

It wasn't until 1990 that TLC identified childhood trauma as the root cause of behavior issues that were beyond the reach of traditional cognitive therapies.

TLC training programs are in place in more than 3,000 places, including schools, community-based programs, treatment centers and childcare facilities across North America and overseas.




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