Articles written by Paula Marie Deubel

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Bears as Indian Spirit Guides
Native American Indians felt a constant reverence for all creatures of earth and considered animals to be close relatives of man.
Sep 24, 2011 - Paula Marie Deubel
Help Save Urban Birds (and Why)
Perhaps no animal on earth is as magical or inspiring as a bird in flight.
Jul 23, 2011 - Paula Marie Deubel
Naughty Border Collie Puppies
Border collie puppies usually have special needs other puppies don't always have.
Jul 19, 2011 - Paula Marie Deubel
Contemporary Native American Pow Wow
PowWows are enjoyable social events still celebrated today, deeply rooted in the past and to a solemn time.
Jul 19, 2011 - Paula Marie Deubel
Curing Psychopathy: Healing the World?
"The beast at the center of the labyrinth is also an angel." (Thomas Moore)
Jul 15, 2011 - Paula Marie Deubel
The Undervalued Poor
The concept of wealth continues to be idealized in today's world, while poverty remains as devalued as ever.
May 10, 2011 - Paula Marie Deubel
Devastation of Iraq
The destruction of Iraq was an overkill where the punishment of thousands of innocent people did not fit any crime.
Apr 27, 2011 - Paula Marie Deubel
Denying Free Health Care in the U.S.
Some Americans feel winning wars is the ultimate patriotic act.
Apr 24, 2011 - Paula Marie Deubel
The Psychopath Wars: Soldiers of the Future?
Psychopaths are ideal exemplary material for the futuristic soldier - troops in possession of their mental faculties without the burden of emotion.
Apr 20, 2011 - Paula Marie Deubel
A Blessed Cup (of Coffee and Cacao)
Many lovely little luxuries attributed to our modern western world have origins in the Middle East, or to the past.
Apr 6, 2011 - Paula Marie Deubel
Goldstone Report Still Debated
The Goldstone Report remains controversial even today.
Mar 29, 2011 - Paula Marie Deubel
Frost/Nixon: How to Deal with Psychopaths
Frost/Nixon, a 2008 film based on Peter Morgan's 2006 play and directed by Ron Howard, is a unique profile of what it's like conversing with a psychopath.
Mar 4, 2011 - Paula Marie Deubel
Border Collie: Changes from Puppy to Adulthood
Border collie puppies, like all infants, undergo many changes until adulthood.
Jan 21, 2011 - Paula Marie Deubel
How to Entertain a Spoiled Border Collie
A border collie is considered a high-maintenance dog, very active both mentally and physically, and is sometimes described as intense or obsessive.
Jan 19, 2011 - Paula Marie Deubel
The Mystery of Interspecies Friendship
The interrelating of different species reflects evolution, survival instinct, plus many other unknown and more mysterious factors.
Jan 17, 2011 - Paula Marie Deubel
The Intelligence of Canines as Proven by Border Collies
When Rico, a border collie from Germany, splashed across the news in 2004 scientists began to take a brand new look at the I.Q. of dogs.
Dec 16, 2010 - Paula Marie Deubel
Most Intelligent Canine: The Border Collie, Pet or Relationship?
It's often said border collies need warning labels; after all, genius comes with a price.
Dec 13, 2010 - Paula Marie Deubel
Mackinac Island: Somewhere in Time
Mackinac Island is often called Michigan's jewel, an attractive and unique destination to visitors of this Midwest Great Lake state.
Sep 30, 2010 - Paula Marie Deubel
Authentic Native Indian Naming Ceremonies
A Native American Naming Ceremony is considered to be a sacred event in American Indian culture.
Aug 16, 2010 - Paula Marie Deubel
Catacombs of Paris: Walls of Skulls
It is said half of Paris is hidden underground.
Aug 15, 2010 - Paula Marie Deubel
Paris's Pere Lachaise Cemetery: Art Museum of the Dead
Pere Lachaise cemetery is among Paris's most interesting and renowned graveyards.
Aug 15, 2010 - Paula Marie Deubel
From Paris with Love by Director Pierre Morel
This movie needed an exotic place and big name star - John Travolta - to make the big screen.
Feb 20, 2010 - Paula Marie Deubel
Don Juan DeMarco
Don Juan DeMarco (1995) is a delightful and romantic tale about a delusional man kept in an asylum because he imagines himself to be Don Juan.
Feb 4, 2010 - Paula Marie Deubel
Suicidal Soldiers
More U.S. military members have been slain by their own hand than by combatants in Iraq or Afghanistan.
Feb 4, 2010 - Paula Marie Deubel
The Hidden Cost of War in Afghanistan and Iraq
The U.S. war against Iraq and Afghanistan may come with a final jolt and hidden price tag.
Feb 2, 2010 - Paula Marie Deubel
The Hidden Intelligence of Animals
The beauty of science is that it admits whenever it's wrong (as part of its core creed) in the endless process of new discovery.
Jan 25, 2010 - Paula Marie Deubel
The Living Will and Advance Directive
Anyone can become unexpectedly injured or acutely ill resulting in an unconsciousness state.
Jan 12, 2010 - Paula Marie Deubel
U.S. Domestic Problems vs. War
America collectively raised its patriotic sword after 9-11 while a closer battle was overlooked: the one at home.
Dec 7, 2009 - Paula Marie Deubel
Life's Meaning in Hard Times
America is well into the new millennium and some believe modern society has forgotten how to honor beauty.
Dec 4, 2009 - Paula Marie Deubel
Children as Casualties of War
More Iraqi civilians died in the aftermath of the 1991 Persian Gulf War - due to sanction induced hunger and sickness - than from the actual war itself.
Dec 3, 2009 - Paula Marie Deubel
American Indian Etiquette and Culture
The Native American Indian culture is alive and colorful, but nuances of it are often unknown by others.
Dec 3, 2009 - Paula Marie Deubel
1991 Tragedy of Iraq
A massacre is described as being a one-sided battle, extreme and brutal; the heaviest casualties are either civilians, or an army unable to defend itself.
Oct 13, 2009 - Paula Marie Deubel
Raccoons as Indian Spirit Guides
Animal medicine may have served as pre-modern ways of practicing psychology.
Oct 10, 2009 - Paula Marie Deubel
American Indian Animal Guides
America's indigenous people regarded earth's creatures as being brothers and sisters of mankind, seeking metaphoric meaning from living animal spirits (totem guides).
Oct 6, 2009 - Paula Marie Deubel
War and Ecology
The intense bombardment and use of new weaponry against Iraq (in both 1991 and 2003) were so horrific, the environmental effects may not be known for years.
Sep 30, 2009 - Paula Marie Deubel
Making War Obsolete
Although there has always been war, the same holds true of its opposite - there was and always will be a continued resistance against it.
Sep 28, 2009 - Paula Marie Deubel
The Other Side of Midnight - Review
The Other Side of Midnight (1973), by Sidney Sheldon, is a story of dark, suspenseful love made into a movie in 1977.
Sep 22, 2009 - Paula Marie Deubel
The Ongoing Debate About Global Warming
Global warming is now considered an acknowledged scientific fact, confirmed by NASA and top world scientists using the most advanced equipment of our time.
Sep 20, 2009 - Paula Marie Deubel
Zelda Fitzgerald
Zelda (Sayre) Fitzgerald (1900-1948) had a spirit that defined the intoxicating and mad Roaring Twenties that she loved.
Sep 3, 2009 - Paula Marie Deubel
Are Psychopaths Ill or Evil?
A psychopath is someone unable to feel remorse and therefore has no conscience.
Sep 2, 2009 - Paula Marie Deubel
My Cousin Rachel-Book Review
My Cousin Rachel is a suspenseful 1951 gothic novel by English author Daphne Du Maurier (1907-1989) written in partial flashback.
Aug 31, 2009 - Paula Marie Deubel
The Psychology of Carmen, the Opera
Bizet's(1838-75) famous opera, Carmen, was based on Prosper Merimee's 1845 novella, which gained little success at the time.
Aug 26, 2009 - Paula Marie Deubel
Mental Illness Versus ESP
That mental illness can manifest as Extra Sensory Perception (ESP) is an observation worth further study.
Aug 25, 2009 - Paula Marie Deubel
Native American Indian Spirituality
America's indigenous people observed nature with a rich understanding surprisingly compatible with modern science, regarding man's place in the world.
Aug 14, 2009 - Paula Marie Deubel
Lolita – Nabokov's Classic Novel
Lolita is a tale of a young girl's long relationship with an emotionally disturbed pedophile written by Russian author, Vladimir Nabokov, in 1955.
Aug 13, 2009 - Paula Marie Deubel
Charles Baudelaire, the Edgar Allan Poe of Paris
Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867) was a prominent European poet and writer of prose who was born April 9th in Paris to an x-priest and an orphaned pauper.
Aug 12, 2009 - Paula Marie Deubel
Native American Indian Beliefs
American Indians never questioned an animal's ability to communicate knowledge and they also believed in animal totems.
Jul 30, 2009 - Paula Marie Deubel