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Giving to those who are truly in need

=ImaRawkStar:iconImaRawkStar: reports, 2d 16h ago
This is the time of year of which we all get tangled up in our own troubles and do not focus on some of the real issues of the world. Well, heifer.org can help us with this, by giving animals to families who are truly in need of food, shelter and security.

By donating a small sum of money, such as ten to twenty dollars, you could provide a family with an animal such as a cow, which could produce milk for the family, for food and cooking. With the extra milk it produces, the family can go to the local market and sell the milk to gain more money, which could go towards food and shelter. Over time, the family will start to gain an income and will be able to earn an education.

With the education, they can receive a steady job and produce a stable income for the family to survive. Just by donating a small sum of money, you could not change one life, but many around them. But this is not just it, the family MUST produce offspring to give to another family, which will do the same thing as the family before. Over time, the community will grow and sooner or later, the impoverished areas will start to gain strength.


Even if you can not donate any money, please donate a few seconds or minutes by adding a favorite to this article and sending it on to other deviants around deviantart. It would be really awesome if we could get some support on this, and maybe as an art community we can pull together to help others in need! I know it can be done!

When did we start hating everything?

`Rahll:iconRahll: reports, 2d 18h ago
When did it suddenly become cool to hate everything? It's a growing problem, especially in the entertainment world, and no one benefits from an increasingly hard to please, pessimistic audience.

Art Theft; Harassment is not the answer

*RSR-Productions:iconRSR-Productions: reports, December 21
We are not e-thugs, we're just artists who want to take care of our community.

Why the @#$% should I care about Art Theft?!

*KikaiSaigono:iconKikaiSaigono: reports, December 21
Why the @#$% should YOU care about art theft? The answer may surprise you. A few tips for art thieves, those who report them, and dA staff on how to better prevent art theft, and make dA a real art site once more.

A NEW PLACE TO PLAY

*dA-Morgue:icondA-Morgue: reports, December 20
Warning:
This article may contain disturbing or offensive images. Please proceed with that in mind

We could have done it on Halloween, but no. I have to wait till Christmas to announce a new "Dark Club"
On December 13th :iconda-morgue: *dA-Morgue opened its doors.

Differences -- America & England -- A must read!!!

*llama-doll:iconllama-doll: reports, December 12
Differences between systems in america and england, a must read, school systems, currency, slang, law

Loss of faith...

~DouglassDumas:iconDouglassDumas: reports, December 8
DA policies and double standards.

Horror News.

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Horror News straight from the Harleyquinn and her Babies

Photo-manipulation: A Beginner's Hand Guide

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Don't know what photo-manipulation is, or do you want to try it but don't know where to begin?

This article contains frequently asked questions (with answers) involving the process.

Project Comment: Around dA Issue 6

#ProjectComment:iconProjectComment: reports, December 6
Project Comment is all about the community, so instead of just sticking to one thing and effectively closing all our walls and doors, we’re issuing a weekly Around dA, Project Comment style.

This news article includes things you can take part of (Groups, Features, Projects and More!), FAQs and Tuts, Guides and Resources. Each category is limited to only five things so that you have time to visit each individually.

Have something to suggest? Note us! :D

Editorials This Week

When did we start hating everything?

`Rahll:iconRahll: reports, 2d 18h ago
When did it suddenly become cool to hate everything? It's a growing problem, especially in the entertainment world, and no one benefits from an increasingly hard to please, pessimistic audience.

Why the @#$% should I care about Art Theft?!

*KikaiSaigono:iconKikaiSaigono: reports, December 21
Why the @#$% should YOU care about art theft? The answer may surprise you. A few tips for art thieves, those who report them, and dA staff on how to better prevent art theft, and make dA a real art site once more.

Art Theft; Harassment is not the answer

*RSR-Productions:iconRSR-Productions: reports, December 21
We are not e-thugs, we're just artists who want to take care of our community.

Giving to those who are truly in need

=ImaRawkStar:iconImaRawkStar: reports, 2d 16h ago
This is the time of year of which we all get tangled up in our own troubles and do not focus on some of the real issues of the world. Well, heifer.org can help us with this, by giving animals to families who are truly in need of food, shelter and security.

By donating a small sum of money, such as ten to twenty dollars, you could provide a family with an animal such as a cow, which could produce milk for the family, for food and cooking. With the extra milk it produces, the family can go to the local market and sell the milk to gain more money, which could go towards food and shelter. Over time, the family will start to gain an income and will be able to earn an education.

With the education, they can receive a steady job and produce a stable income for the family to survive. Just by donating a small sum of money, you could not change one life, but many around them. But this is not just it, the family MUST produce offspring to give to another family, which will do the same thing as the family before. Over time, the community will grow and sooner or later, the impoverished areas will start to gain strength.


Even if you can not donate any money, please donate a few seconds or minutes by adding a favorite to this article and sending it on to other deviants around deviantart. It would be really awesome if we could get some support on this, and maybe as an art community we can pull together to help others in need! I know it can be done!

A NEW PLACE TO PLAY

*dA-Morgue:icondA-Morgue: reports, December 20
Warning:
This article may contain disturbing or offensive images. Please proceed with that in mind

We could have done it on Halloween, but no. I have to wait till Christmas to announce a new "Dark Club"
On December 13th :iconda-morgue: *dA-Morgue opened its doors.

Welcome to socialist america.

~Hell-butterfly45:iconHell-butterfly45: reports, December 22
What's happening to America. (All complaints will be ignored)

Happy Christmas!

~Hell-butterfly45:iconHell-butterfly45: reports, 1d 23h ago
Let's just enjoy ourselves for one day.
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Who's Worse?

~LestateKane:iconLestateKane: reports, April 1, 2007
I had a good laugh the other day when someone in the chat room that I frequent said and I quote "America is less descrimitive then Canada." Unquote.

Is that so?

Seems to me that Canada doesn't have a president or a prime minister for that matter, who is trying to make same sex marriages un constitutional and pushing an amendment which states that marriage shall only be between a man and a woman, since that's what it says in the bible which was written before anyone was born by a white man with a tape recorder who watched God create the earth.

Good piece of Fiction in my opinion.

See that's what I don't understand because twenty to thirty some odd years ago someone got all bent out of shape because there was prayer in school, now I for one don't care if there is prayer in school, what gets me is that they make it so you have to separate church and state.

Which means no prayer in school, no holy symbols on college campuses and one town had to take down a large marble statue of the ten commandments, but it's okay to make a amendment stating a marriage is the union of a man and a woman.

How is that right? Schools, college campuses and any Government type buildings have to keep church and state separate, so how is our "president" able to blur that line?

But remember the US isn't descrimitive. I'm thinking that the person who said that either has been living out of the country, been dropped on their head one to many times when they were a kid, has smoked to much pot or drank to much alcohol and has killed off way to many brain cells.

Look at what the United Stated did to the people from Africa, brought them over on tiny boats in order to live in a life of servitude for fat, lazy, aristocrats that figured free labor was better because it allowed them to line their pockets.

The Irish came here looking for better opportunities and were either turned away or worked for very little money that hardly paid for food let alone a place to live.

The tribes that were here before the settlers even thought about coming here were moved from their land, killed and even hunted for sport simply because they were different.

A once proud nation is now scattered to the winds with some tribes no longer existing and how do we repay them?
We stick them on reservations, take their land and call it outs simply because of our greed.

Even the children weren't immune to this countries greed. Sweatshops hired them and paid them little. So many children had died because they were trying to help their family make better lives for themselves and it wasn't until someone brought it to another persons attention that it was stopped and a law was passed, but how many years did it last before someone noticed?

Now it's the homosexual's turn. We are the Africans, the Irish and the "Native" Americans, but we come in all races and walks of life. We are hated, protested against, murdered, beaten and raped simply because we love differently.

It is like the color of our skin. We cannot change it or be cured because of it. There is not one among us that simply woke up one morning and said, "Today and for the rest of my life I am gay, because I want to be thought of as a disease, I want the crap beat out of me at school, I want my parents to disown me, I want some kid to yell across the street that I'm gay, be called a freak, a faggot, a carpet muncher, and told that I'm going to hell because God hates homos. Yes, that's what I want!"

No one would simply get up and choose to live in constant fear that one day you're going to end up dead because someone hates you for loving someone else that just so happens to be the same sex.

No one wants to tell their parents that they're gay when they know that their parents are homophobic and their children live in fear that their parents will find out. So they put up a mask, date people of the opposite sex, keep who they are in the "closet" and pretend that they are "normal". Because they fear that their parents will disown them and cast them aside.

No one wants to go up to their best friend since first grade and tell them that they are gay only to have that friend tell them that they can't handle that and end their ten-year friendship then and there. Not even caring that even though they are attracted to the same sex, they are still the same person that the friend has known forever.

Do people think that the homosexual community wants those things to happen to them? That they "choose" to be gay so that those things and so much more will happen?

No! We don't choose to have our lives be miserable, always looking over our shoulders and wondering if someone will get offended and try to off us. We don't choose to have our lives turned upside down by hate crimes, but remember folks. According to all the closed minded people out there, we "choose" to have this crap in our lives. We "choose" to be called child molester and be told that we're recruiters.

Because the United States isn't discrimintive, so therefore, it must be our fault, because we "choose" to be this way.

-LestateKane

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I can see your point very clearly but I for one do not think that is very fair. The United States should not be considered discriminative because of the actions of individuals in our country. The Irish were hated because they were taking jobs at lower wages in the north than the current workers. The Native American issue is not bound to our country alone, nor is it the United States fault for the bringing of African Americans to the new world. Now I'm not saying that there wasn't mistreatment, but America has changed, and if there are people who still discriminate, then they should be pitied, not hated. As for homosexuals, they enjoy many more freedoms than you think. In some countries, you die for being gay. Here, people have so much freedom that they CAN argue over issues, and that is what constitutes freedom, our right to our opinion.
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I'm sorry, but even though this is really well written, I hate it. Why?
Simple, it sounds like you're blaming all America... well if your going to blame present America (illegal immigration, war, etc) then talk about current problems. What has happened, has happened. It's done, it's over with, and it's taught in high school. Now for you to have true and total rights to whine about what America has done , then please build a time machine, and fix it. Other wise, whining about it will do nothing but make quick-to-judge people very piqued.
I wonder if you ever heard about the civli rights movement? Well, it's over. The only people that protest African Americans are the KKK.
I don't believe anyone protest and beats up people for being Irish in America anymore, I have never gotten an black eye, or beat up.
If you haven also realized, some Native Americans want to the stay on the reservations. That's because they don't want to change. You almost could relate them to the Amish people. They would like the "outsiders" out.
Now homosexuality isn't that much of a problem. I'm guessing in the next few years there will be a "rainbow" movement. Even though I'm straight, some of my friends are bisexual, and hell, I'll be joining in for this movement, because I really don't care what kind of sexual preference my friends have.

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:iconlestatekane:
It's not whining as you put it, but more of a look into what the US is like. Not blaming the US, but more along the lines of showing what they have done before. Yes it is in the past and no I don't have a time machine to make it better, but it more or less is a look at how people look at what homosexuality has to deal with.

It's more or less explaining that the US isn't known for it's "open mindedness" and that maybe we aught to be in light of past events.

If you see this as whining then you aren't getting the entire picture of what I am trying to say. I'm not blaming the US as a whole, but pointing out that it needs to be FIXED.

Though everyone has their opinion and you are entitled to yours. I just thought I'd clear that up for you.

~Les

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:icondreamingcharlotte:
I almost completely agree with you. I just don't quite understand what your oppinion is about having prayer in schools... I for one do agree with the fact that the church and the country are made seperate. Eveyone is allowed to choose his or her own religion, even if he or she chooses not to have one. By joining country and the church sooner or later they would also announce one religion as the official one. In the worst case it might come as far as to discriminating other, unofficial religions. So I believe it's better to keep church and country seperate.
I'm sorry if I missunderstood what you said, I just couldn't make out what your standpoint was...

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:iconlestatekane:
Actually the school prayer was used as an example to how the church and state became seperate. This was just the rough draft of a paper that I was doing. I did go through and redefine my stand point. I forgot which paper was which and must've put my more rambling one on here. The other one makes more sense. I'm truly sorry for that.

~Les

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