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People and Society related guest posts by a selection of established and upcoming authors.

The Upside of Down: Misfortune Renders Opportunity

The upside of Down: We have all been tested over the course of our lives. If you have lived a few years, you must…

The greater the threat, the higher the level of arousal and greater motivation to eliminate it.

Grief: The Great Yearning I've come a long way in the three years since I wrote the following journal entry. …

Van Gogh Self-Portrait with Bandage Before Vincent van Gogh cut off his right ear lobe and presented the bloody…

They carry the food and They ride bicycles They are the worker bees of Manhattan’s food industry.On…

Organized Ignorance Over recent months I have been pondering over noisy debates, mainly in social media, on…

For many years, I was subject to depression and debilitating allergies that so enervated me, getting out of bed in…

"Oh, God, I wish it would rain. Just a bit, just enough to break this spell."

Experts say that when we come in contact with new people, our minds form first impressions in seven-tenths of a…

Camp Cucumber I found an advertisement on the bulletin board at the Career Counselor Center at York University…