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-Pedro Dominguez | Wednesday, November 15, 2017
The effects a bad night’s sleep can have is not to be underestimated, and though the causes of insomnia can be difficult to determine, its negative consequences are readily apparent. Daytime sleepiness, irritability, difficulty concentrating and forgetfulness are just some of the immediate results of failing to get the clinically recommended seven to nine hours.
Pedro Dominguez | Wednesday, November 1, 2017
Leo Tolstoy had everything a man can desire, with the exception of one thing. His parents were members of the Russian aristocracy. He was a prodigious student, and of course, became a literary icon. He married, had a family and lived in a comfortably large estate. His works received countless accolades and by the time
Pedro Dominguez | Wednesday, October 11, 2017
How shall I quell my constipated mind, When all thoughts are irregular at best? To write a worthy poem of any kind, And hence finish my literary quest. Just when I find a theme to write about, Youthful love captured by vibrant flowers, My wand’ring mind decides a different route, Merely to waste away the
Pedro Dominguez | Wednesday, September 27, 2017
Education is the means by which we sculpt our children into informed and participatory members of society. Our academic institutions play a pivotal role in the safeguarding and prosperity of the republic; civic engagement demands a populace capable of critically examining those unique issues that hinder both the local and the national community, respectively. In
Pedro Dominguez | Wednesday, September 6, 2017
Unbowed, citizenship — more than a birthright — is a vocation, is more than a document; it is a duty to uphold the ideological sentiments upon which the nation was founded in the first place. How often does this calling dissolve into a soft murmur? Millennia ago, in the age of ancient Greece, cradle of