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Meaning in Translation

How does one create a context for understanding in translation when words can have a multiplicity of meanings in one language and a single meaning in another language?

Ideas require the specificity of definition with words in order to be fully comprehended in all spheres of sensation, but what happens when there is no specificity to be had in the translation of a word into an idea?

What is immediately lost?  Subtlety?  Humor?  Context?  Frames of innate understanding?

As the world crumbles in space and time how it is possible for nations — let alone people of the world — to agree on anything important that involves words and meanings and definitions that pull us beyond the universal human myth of shared beauty and aesthetic?

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Trumping the Droplet

I have always been appalled by the idea that if a person has “one drop” of “Black” blood in them, then they are “Black.”

If you have “The Drop,” then no other ethnicity, skin color, or culture can trump that Black droplet.

I wonder where that notion of a single drop of blood making you Black was invented.

It seems impossible that idea came from the scientific community.

A single drop of pure water doesn’t make the ocean any less salty. Adding a single speck of sugar to cookie dough doesn’t make the cookie any sweeter.

If Racial identification by blood droplet isn’t chemical or scientific — then is it a cultural condemnation and a preservation of a social pecking order used to falsely mediate expectation? 

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The Definition of a Hero

by Andrea Puckett

Tonight, I learned the definition of what a hero is. Since I was a child I have always known the technical definition of a hero as being a person noted for feats of courage or nobility of purpose, especially one who has risked or sacrificed his or her life; however, I have heard the term used so freely by the government in the times of war as either a propaganda technique or as a way to consul grieving family members that somehow it lost its meaning.

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Gay Adoption

I realize there are many who feel Gay adoption is wrong and immoral. I would like to propose the opposite — that Gay people can parent children the same as traditional parents with no proven ill-effects on the child.

There are more children living in foster homes today than there are families who are willing to take them into their homes.

With that shortage of adoptive families why would anyone wish a child live in a foster home or in an orphanage until they reach the age of reason?

What reasonable person would prefer a child not live in a home where the want to raise a child is so strong that the prospective parents will suffer discrimination and hatred and inequities in the law just so they can share their gift of a better life for an abandoned child?