When I was a freshman at New York University, the manual for the requisite speech course was titled, “Handbook of Objective Speaking.” At the beginning of the course, I assumed that “objective” was a ...

It is easier to interact with people who have the same opinions that you do. It is easier to stay in your own social media silo. You may not have even considered thinking about things from another ...

POV: Your teen says it all the time. But why? Everyone knows that “POV” is short for “point of view” to represent a first-person perspective but teens also use it in the second-person to strengthen ...

Having conversations with people who have different perspectives can be a great opportunity to learn and grow, especially in college when you’re developing your own opinions. By listening and ...

Hal Ketchum recorded Gary Burr’s song “In Front Of The Alamo” in 2007. Point of view is the single most important decision you make early in the development of your song: Who is talking? To whom? And ...

Return to: "The Hive" (September 2006) Can thousands of Wikipedians be wrong? How an attempt to build an online encyclopedia touched off history's biggest experiment in collaborative knowledge. By ...

"Lead by example"--those were the words emphasized during the Yearling's two-day Noncommissioned Officer Academy training. Though their ultimate goal at West Point is to become commissioned officers, ...