Human Rights and Sex Trafficking: A Film Forum
For every person who views a documentary, there is an exponential effect. They talk about it, they write about it, and sometimes they turn activist.”
Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer
Client 9 delves into an interesting set of circumstances. However, it is not built upon the questions that I brought to the film.
America’s Veterans: The Collateral Damage of War
“It is estimated by veteran suicide counselors that perhaps as many as three times as many veterans have taken their own lives than the number who died in the Vietnam War.”
“Make Me Young: Youth Knows No Pain”
Living longer, working longer, dating later in life. Is plastic surgery the answer to ageism?
Women and the Political Landscape: Unraveling Perplexing Issues
Maatz posited that “the goals of feminism were to create social, political and economic independence—allowing women to take full advantage of life opportunities and to express independent opinions and decisions.”
New Study: Women Making a Difference Through Philanthropy
The new study, Women Give 2010, is the first of its kind to compare philanthropic giving “between men and women across all income levels based on a nationally representative sample.”
Mae Jemison: Insights from a Barrier-Breaking Astronaut
A classic pro-active personality, Jemison maintained, “The choices we make create the realities of today and tomorrow.”
Carly Fiorina: “Because It’s Good For Us”
For those who may not have caught the core of what she was suggesting, she reaffirmed that helping women become self-empowered was beneficial because, “It’s good for us.”
Lessons from Philadelphia
The guided tours of Independence Hall and Carpenters’ Hall (the meeting place for the First Continental Congress) offered plenty of information on the Founding Fathers. Without a doubt, they were a contentious lot—each convinced that their point of view had the greatest validity.
What Price Beauty? New Legislation Seeks Safety Regulations
The premise of the Safe Cosmetics Act is to secure legislation that would terminate those loopholes in federal law that currently allows companies to use any ingredients—even those known to have an adverse effect on human health and the environment.
