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Places Not Visited by William Shakespeare

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Afghanistan Albania Algeria American Samoa Andorra Angola Anguilla Antigua and Barbuda Argentina Armenia Aruba Australia Austria Azerbaijan Bahamas, The Bahrain Bangladesh Barbados Belarus Belgium Belize Benin Bermuda Bhutan Bolivia Bosnia Botswana Bougainville Brazil British Indian Ocean British Virgin Islands Brunei Bulgaria Burkina Faso Burundi Cambodia Cameroon Canada Cape Verde Islands Cayman Islands Central African Republic Chad Chile China, Hong Kong China, Macau China, People’s Republic China, Taiwan Colombia Comoros Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo, Republic of Cook Islands Costa Rica Cote d’Ivoire Croatia Cuba Cyprus Czech Republic Denmark Djibouti Dominica Dominican Republic Ecuador Egypt El Salvador Equatorial Guinea Eritrea Estonia Ethiopia Faeroe Islands Falkland Islands Federated States of Micronesia Fiji Finland France French Guiana French Polynesia Gabon Gambia, The Georgia Germany Gha
No one reads this. I'm going to run a half marathon in March of 2014.  I don't care that no one knows about it, I'm just doing it and I'm not going to talk about it or post pictures about it on the internet afterwards like an attention-deprived adult-child.  I am also going to do a couple of 5K races, not themed ones, just timed ones, for charity in between now and March. I got some lousy accreditation online in and in person, which I know doesn't REALLY amount to anything in the bigger picture.  Environmental Law Certification and Intellectual Property Law Certification (both of which were done online and frankly do not mean anything to a future boss), and I did a beginner Spanish course, which basically went over everything I learned in High School Spanish. I really haven't moved anywhere with my life in the past 12 months.  It is December now and I have had only one job this year, which was for 3 months, it was 10 hours a week, unpaid, and an internship

Sanity, Culture, and Global Customs and Mores Versus Globalization Theory

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Take a man out of his environment and place him somewhere unfamiliar, where he is completely uncomfortable and label him insane. Is it so hard to understand that different people like different places more than others and don't like certain places as much as other places? Since people, generally speaking, and individuals with their own minds, perspectives, and preferences in life, would it not be hard to believe that certain locales are more therapeutic to some, but not to all. For instance, take a Peruvian farmer and place him in downtown Los Angeles, he will surely feel discomfort and dis-ease.  But to label him mentally ill, through bipolar disorder, depression, or a number of thousand different psychological disorders, because he doesn't immediately adapt, take off his traditional clothing and replace his style and demeanor with that of a typical business professional, working on a 9 to 5 schedule with overtime, sipping on triple espressos from Starbucks midday, and b