PC - Political Correctness

Political Correctness means using words or behavior which will not offend any group of people. Most people think it is important for everyone to be treated equally, fairly and with dignity. Some words have been used for a long time that are unkind to some people. Sometimes these words have now been replaced by other words that are not offensive. Such words are described as politically correct. The term is often used in a mocking sense when attempts at avoiding offense are seen to go too far.

Political correctness- or PC for short - is the latest trend in United States in linguistic etiquette. There are a lot of inoffensive terms in THE OFFICIAL POLITICALLY CORRECT DICTIONARY AND HANDBOOK. 

Here you have some examples:

Politically correct = "culturally sensitive" or "appropriately inclusive"
Artificial/synthetic = "man-made"

Himself/herself = "coself'' - gender-neutral substitute
AIDS victim = "person living with AIDS" or "PLA/PLWA" in short

Prostitutes = "sex workers"
Wives = "domestic incarceration survivors"
Fat people = "horizontally challenged"
Bald men = "hair disadvantaged"

Bespectacled = "optically challenged"
Man and woman = "melanin impoverished human animals"
Blacks = African-Americans or Caribbean-Americans

Pregnant woman = "parasitically oppressed"
Dead = "living impaired"
Homeless = "residentially flexible"

Poor = "financially inept"

The Story of Chocolate

Chocolate grows on trees. 
To make chocolate, cocoa farmers crack open the pods, scoop out the seeds, ferment them and dry them. The cocoa "beans" that form the basis of chocolate are actually seeds from the fruit of the cacao tree, which grows near the Equator. The seeds grow inside a pod-like fruit and are covered with white pulp. The beans are shipped to factories, where manufacturers inspect and clean them, then roast and grind them into a paste called chocolate liquor. More pressing, rolling, mixing with sugar and other ingredients, and heating and cooling yields delicious chocolate.
The cacao bean begins life primarily in remote areas of West Africa, Southeast Asia and Central and South America. These delicate, flower-covered trees need much tending and, when farmed using sustainable methods, grow in harmony in tropical forests beneath other cash crops such as bananas, rubber or hardwood trees. Grown on small family farms, the beans leave cocoa farms by hand, in carts, on donkeys or rugged trucks to be sold to a local buyer and then to processors abroad.

Once in the factory, they are ground, pressed, heated and stirred to create luxurious chocolate.

Humans’ love affair with chocolate began at least 4,000 years ago in Mesoamerica, in present-day southern Mexico and Central America, where cacao grew wild. When the Olmecs unlocked the secret of how to eat this better seed, they launched an enduring phenomenon.

The making of chocolate has evolved into an industry so large that 40 to 50 million people depend on cocoa for their livelihoods.

Random acts of kindness☺

A random act of kindness is a selfless act performed by a person or people wishing either to assist or to cheer up an individual person or people. Random acts of kindness are a means by which we make a deliberate attempt to brighten another person's day by doing something thoughtful, nice, and caring. Kindness is a way of showing others that they count and that, even in the face of hostility and selfishness, you're making a stand for kindness. Originally associated with Anne Herbert, who is said to have once written "Practice random acts of kindness and senseless acts of beauty" on a place mat in a restaurant, this concept has become an organized celebration through various events around the world, as well as referring to a general call to action in the name of kindness. And you don't need to wait for someone else to initiate a day or week of celebrations to practice random acts of kindness; you can put them into play any time you like!
Here are some suggestions for encouraging others with your random acts of kindness:
1. Be kind
2. Be thoughtful
3. Use your manners as a form of kindness

4. Give out compliments generously

5. Think about people who quietly make a difference to your community and thank them
6. Cheer up the lonely
7. Volunteer
8. Shower a coworker with kindness
9. Share a little wealth around

10. Give your family a break
11. Hold a friend's night-in
12. Write some thoughts on hope and leave it somewhere for a stranger to find

13. Forgive somebody
14. Share a smile

15. Expect nothing  

SO.. BE KIND☺

The Black History Month - Rosa Parks

Rosa Louise McCauley Parks was an African-American Civil Rights activist, whom the United States Congress called "the first lady of civil rights". She was born on February 4, 1913 and on December 1, 1955 she was refused to surrender her bus seat to a white passenger, spurring the Montgomery boycott and other efforts to end segregation. Rosa's childhood brought her early experiences r
acial discrimination and activism for racial equality. After her parents separated, Rosa's mother moved the family to Pine Level in Alabama to live with her parents - both former slaves and strong advocates for racial equality. In 1932, at age 19, Rosa met and married Raymond Parks, a barber and an active member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. With Raymond's support, Rosa earned her high school degree in 1933. She soon became actively involved in civil rights issues by joining the Montgomery chapter of the NAACP in 1943, serving as the chapter's youth leader as well as secretary to NAACP President E.D. Nixon—a post she held until 1957. The Montgomery City Code required that all public transportation be segregated and that bus drivers had the "powers of a police officer of the city while in actual charge of any bus for the purposes of carrying out the provisions" of the code. While operating a bus, drivers were required to provide separate, but equal accommodations for white and black passengers by assigning seats. This was accomplished with a line roughly in the middle of the bus separating white passengers in the front of the bus and African-American passengers in the back.
When an African-American passenger boarded the bus, they had to get on at the front to pay their fare and then get off and re-board the bus at the back door. When the seats in the front of the bus filled up and more white passengers got on, the bus driver would move back the sign separating black and white passengers and, if necessary, ask black passengers give up their seat. On December 1, 1955, after a long day's work at a Montgomery department store, where she worked as a seamstress, Rosa Parks boarded the Cleveland Avenue bus for home. She took a seat in the first of several rows designated for "colored" passengers. Though the city's bus ordinance did give drivers the authority to assign seats, it didn't specifically give them the authority to demand a passenger to give up a seat to anyone (regardless of color). However, Montgomery bus drivers had adopted the custom of requiring black passengers to give up their seats to white passengers, when no other seats were available. If the black passenger protested, the bus driver had the authority to refuse service and could call the police to have them removed.
As the bus Rosa was riding continued on its route, it began to fill with white passengers. Eventually, the bus was full and the driver noticed that several white passengers were standing in the aisle. He stopped the bus and moved the sign separating the two sections back one row and asked four black passengers to give up their seats. Three complied, but Rosa refused and remained seated. The driver demanded, "Why don't you stand up?" to which Rosa replied, "I don't think I should have to stand up." The driver called the police and had her arrested. Later, Rosa recalled that her refusal wasn't because she was physically tired, but that she was tired of giving in.
The police arrested Rosa at the scene and charged her with violation of Chapter 6, Section 11, of the Montgomery City Code. She was taken to police headquarters, where, later that night, she was released on bail.

 

New Year's Resolutions

Popular New Year's Revolutions        

• Lose weight
• Volunteer to help others
• Quit smoking
• Get a better education
• Get a better job
• Save money
• Get fit
• Eat heathly food
• Manage stress
• Manage debt
• Take a trip 
• Reduce, reuse and recycle
• Drink less alcohol 

My New Year's Revolutions
It's a new year and it's time to start again. Stop thinking about what I'm going to do and start doing it. It's time to live my life in the way I want and be who I am. Forget what happened in 2014 and make this year better.

• Lose weight
• Save money
• Get fit regular
• Eat heathly food
• Study more
• Drink more water
• Read all books I want to read
• Help others
• Learn something new
• Travel and discover
• Be more gentily with others
• Be ALWAYS myself
• Go to concerts of my favorite bands

Happy Days♫

Happy Days in an American television sitcom (a genre of comedy that features characters sharing the same common environment) that aired first-run from January 15th, 1974, to September 24th, 1984. 


Plot
Set in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the series revolves around teenager Rich Cunningham and his family: his father, Howard, who owns a hardware store; traditional homemaker and mother, Marion; younger sister Joanie; and high school dropout, biker and suave ladies' man Arthur "Fonzie" Fonzarelli, who would eventually become the Cunninghams' upstairs tenant. The earlier episodes revolve around Richie and his friends, Potsie Weber and Ralph Malph, with Fonzie as a secondary character. However, as the series progressed, Fonzie proved to be a favorite with viewers and soon more story lines were written to reflect his growing popularity, and Winkler was eventually credited with top billing in the opening credits alongside Howard as a result. Fonzie befriended Richie and the Cunningham family, and when Richie left the series for military service, Fonzie became the central figure of the show, with Winkler receiving sole top billing in the opening credits. In later seasons, other characters were introduced including Fonzie's young cousin, Charles "Chachi" Arcola, who became a love interest for Joanie Cunningham. Each of the eleven seasons of the series roughly tracks the eleven years from 1955-1965, inclusive, in which the show was set.

Dark humor☺

The Dark Humor is a form of humor that regards human suffering as absurd rather than pitiable, or that considers human existence as ironic and pointless, but somehow comic. It makes light of subject matter usually considered taboo. It arises from stressful, traumatic, or life-threatening situations, often in circumstances such that death is perceived as impending and unavoidable.


So a guy is walking with a young boy into the woods.

Boy: "Hey mister its getting dark out and I’m scared"Man: "How do you think I feel, I have to walk back alone"


A taxi passenger taps the driver on the shoulder to ask him a question. The driver screams, loses control of the car, nearly hits a bus, goes up on the footpath, and stops centimeters from a shop window. For a second, everything goes quiet in the cab, then the driver says: "Look mate, don't ever do that again. You scared the daylights out of me!". The passenger apologizes and says: "I didn't realize that a little tap would scare you so much.”. The driver replies: "Sorry, it's not really your fault. Today is my first day as a cab driver. I've been driving a funeral van for the last 25 years."