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SO YOU JUST GRADUATED FROM COLLEGE…
It was two or so weeks after I graduated from NC State University. I packed up my stuff and moved down to Atlanta, Georgia to start a job at the Department of Transportation. I
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LAW ENFORCEMENT IN URBAN COMMUNITIES: CIVIL DEFENDERS OR DOMINEERING TYRANTS?
Currently, the American Criminal Justice System (CJS) is failing many citizens of this country. As it stands now, it does a poor job of separating the guilty from the innocent, it does a decent
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THE NEW “B” WORD
Recently, the word bigot has been growing in popularity in today’s society. The word has mainly been used against those who are intolerant to any pro-gay marriage policies. Individuals who are labeled as bigots
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I WANT TO BE SUCCESSFUL…. BUT IS IT WRONG?
Success is something we all desperately chase after. We write books on how to attain it, we write songs about how we yearn for it, and we make movies about those who achieve it.
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THE BATTLE WITH ANXIETY
Over the past few weeks I don’t know how many times I have been asked about my summer plans and what I’ll be doing. It is not that I’m a prude or that questions
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REBUILDING HOMELESSNESS
The face of homelessness is usually seen as the unclean, bearded, bag toting, cart pushing, darkly dressed, old man that we see roaming our downtown streets and rummaging through public trash cans. While this
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WORRY AND SHRINKING THE GOSPEL
I constantly worry. In middle school, I worried about high school. Would I fit in? Would I find friends? In high school, I worried which colleges I would be accepted into. What if I
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MUSIC FROM THE FLESH VS. MUSIC FROM THE SOUL
One day I was standing in front of a crowd of young men as I was aggressively preaching the gospel. I was extolling the glory of God and the joys that come from an
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SLUGGISH AND SLOTHFUL?
As I stroll through this life, I have realized that there is always a deadline to be met. Life consists of a consistent flow of requirements, demands, and expectations. With this being known, the
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COMPUTER LOVE & SECRET STRUGGLES
It all began with a second look, a double take. I was searching for pictures of people in order to make a flyer. The search results returned inappropriate photos of women with minimal to
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