Like every other community in the United States, Detroit experienced devastating poverty during the Great Depression of 1929. It was during this time that the city's poor came knocking at the St. Bonaventure Monastery on Mt. Elliot Street, home of the Capuchin Order.

Hamlet said: "... we end the heartache, and the thousand natural shocks that flesh is heir to ..." It has always been the function of the actor to be the emotional physician, who gives solace, encouragement and freedom of feeling to people who need it - when they need it.

Brief study of the life and philosophy of Spinoza and how he began the turning of Jewish intellectuals from traditional faith to modern secularist thought.

Do you really want to be happy? Everyone says yes, but the gateway to happiness makes some of us frown. The gateway to happiness, is giving to others.

Today, most companies try to preserve some degree of cultural competence, accepting and understanding the value of cultural diversity in the work environment. Employers boasting policies of "equal opportunity" pervade our society. However, there is some evidence showing these companies only support cultural diversity to a certain degree --just enough to reduce their being liable for discrimination.

With Compassion International's help, a mother who is HIV-positive realizes her purpose in life and shares her experiences to influence others.

Some just feel sorry fot them, some have no sympathy. But until you have felt the sting of flooding, it is hard to understand what it is really like.

Novelist, Darrell L. Bock challenges Dan Brown claims to "historical facts".

A review of the Da Vinci Code Story

Researchers believe that about 140 million people, mainly in developing countries are being poisoned by arsenic in their drinking water.

For hundreds of years, what is now the Detroit area was so important to commerce between Native American tribes that only traders were allowed into the territory.

Shamanism is big in most Native American cultures. It serves a great function within the tribes and it has even begun making a way into modern cultures through shaman drums and drumming circles.

Native American drums are one of the most recognizable Native American instruments. Drums for generations have been at the center of Native lifestyle, forming what has become the foundation the history of Native Americans.