2015 The Social Media Outrage about Clock Boy and How we are Missing the Obvious

  (CNN)When Ahmed Mohamed went to his high school in Irving, Texas, Monday, he was so excited. A teenager with dreams of becoming an engineer, he wanted to show his teacher the digital clock he'd made from a pencil case. The 14-year-old's day ended not with praise, but punishment, after the school called police and he was arrested. From <http://edition.cnn.com/2015/09/16/us/texas-student-ahmed-muslim-clock-bomb/>   This 'Clock Boy' has been a hot topic in the news lately, and included in this article was the 'social...

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2015 Why Understanding Conflict is to Prevent War

As I was watching this movie called Suite Française, which starts with scenes of German airplanes bombing civilian people who were walking on the road from Paris to a small town to find shelter and safety, I felt myself feeling shocked by those images of war-planes bombing 'innocent' civilians. But then I started looking at this concept of war and how it is that there is always this 'bad guy' or 'bad people' apparently without any reason or conscience killing a whole bunch of other people. Those 'bad guys' in this case being the Germans. I...

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