Getting that Call Back and Other Audition Tips

Auditioning can be stressful especially if you are new to the experience of it all. Unfortunately, it's the best and usually the only way to find work in theater, film and commercials

Gypsy-Roma - Facts and Fiction

Some facts and fiction about the gypsy culture. The technical term for a gypsy is Roma. These are a vagabond race, traveling from one place to another. Not everything you've heard about them may be true.

Does a Father by Any Other Name Nurture as Sweet? Yes!

Father's Day was created with biological fathers in mind. However many men help mold us into successful people by being a key mentor in our lives! Read about a few good men who helped make these celebrities the success they are today.

Nuclear Weapons and Global Warming - An End to Humanity

Mother earth has been serving humanity since the world began. Yet the gratification to satisfy humanity doesn't even cease a bit. From manual to advance technology, the human still search for a much more resource for a comfortable life. Mother earth gives as these entire things unknowingly and continues to give us her strength and powers with out anything in return, an example of unconditional love.

The World Needs Love and Peace - A Poem for Humanity

The World Needs Love and Peace, we all need our fellow man, so let's join together hand in hand. May God bless us all tonight and give tranquility to all, this is not such a hard request for the love of man can be so small.

Terrorism Hits Second Life?

The self - proclaimed Second Life Liberation Army (SLLA) is launching large - scale attacks akin to nuclear weapons on the Second Life servers. As with nearly every idealistic revolutionary terrorist organization, they claim they'll disband when their demands are met. Yeah, 'cause that's totally different than taking hostages and demanding a helicopter and ten million dollars while holding an AK-47 to the head of a defenseless woman...

The Drive - Thru Bandit

The Drive-Thru Bandit leaves several victims in his wake, each one praising their assailant! Will they catch him before he strikes again?

German Memories in Asia - Germans' Sufferings

Stephan, a Saxon-Anhalt in our discussion on various Second World War issues, posed vaguely the world should know how the Allied Forces destroyed buildings and killed thousands of people ruthlessly. There was frustration always in Germany though they apologized to the world for the massacres of Jews, Gypsies and other atrocities committed by Adolph Hitler and his Nazi Forces, the world has not so far apologized properly for the atrocities against the Germans around the world. Ethnic Germans were systematically targeted based on their ethnicity in various parts of the world. Anti-German hostilities had been developed after the major World Wars of recent past, for which the German state had been held responsible. The German populations were identified with German nationalist regimes of Kaiser Wilhelm or Nazis.

German Memoirs - Ethnic Germans' Sufferings After World War I in the United States and Europe

German-Americans were the most visible non-Anglophone group in the US during the 18th and 19th centuries. But the hostility against these groups took place during the nineteenth century, but were largely non-systematic. The Germans' stance of anti-slavery position in the Southern United States brought about violent clashes in slave states such as Texas during the American Civil War. In Britain, Germans were demonized in the press well before the First World War, when the Kaiserliche Marine started to challenge the Royal Navy, but particularly around 1912 and during the First World War. Anti-German sentiment was so intense that the British Royal Family (which was, in fact, of German origin) was advised by the government to change its name, resulting in the House of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha becoming the House of Windsor. The German Shepherd dog was renamed as Alsatian. The waters that had been known as the 'German Ocean' were also renamed - the North Sea (as in German Nordsee) despite being east of the British Isles.

Leading By Example in Russia

The 15-year-old Russian girl shuffled when she walked, afraid of giving her legs the freedom to take her where her eyes could not see. She had a small wristwatch that spoke the time and grandparents that dutifully set meals down in front of her. Beyond that, her blindness had blackened her world.

German Memoirs - Latin American-Germans & Their Early Migration to Brazil

Birget, a student on city planning was telling her experiences in Cuba. Her experiences in the Caribbean Island were quiet strange. While she was narrating some of her observations, my discussion with walker came to mind. Walker had a marvelous experience in Belize and other Latin American countries with German descendant Latin Americans. When the first group of Germans arrived in 1824 to Sao Leopoldo, in the State of Rio Grande do Sul in the southern Brazil, after 4 months of traveling, there were 39 people, being 33 Lutherans and 6 Catholics. They found a country with a climate, vegetation and culture very different from those of Germany. Southern Brazil was a land of gauchos, the cattle herders who used, and still live, in the Pampas region of Southern Cone.

How You Can Help in Honduras and Central America

At the Online Think Tank our teams are constantly working to solve the World's problems. Indeed there are challenges around the Globe that will not go away without intervention and action. Our most recent project was taking a good hard look at Central America and our own Western Hemisphere and considering what pressing issues needed to be addressed.

Kampung Improvement Plan Project - A Success but it will Not Work Everywhere

You cannot put a square peg in a round hole and humanitarian efforts are never a one size fits all. It is entirely obvious to me that for far too long we have been taking academia solutions to humanitarian crisis far too seriously. To often we take academic credentials at too high a face value, as we allow these experts to dictate policy. What is really needed is some tough love.

Meiji Art in Japan

The Meiji restoration was a huge moment in Japanese history, it lead to rapid industrialization and ascent to world power status. However it also caused many problems, sentiments of the people can be seen through Meiji era art.