American Mirror

The Real Reason Women Love Barack Obama.

One of the identities of President Barack Obama is the profound love and admiration women have for him. The fact that our 44th President was smart, good looking, charismatic, trim, fit, intelligent, introspective, and possessed a sense of humor didn't hurt. But the quintessential reason so many women loved President Barack Obama is because women love men who love children; and Barack Obama loves children. This photographic walk down memory lane is a testament to that love. He demonstrated his love of children for all to see when he entered the White House. . Babies show love for Mr Obama... Read more →

Why Isn't Ugly Christian An Oxymoron?

Why do so many women on the Christians right seem angry and unhappy? Is it because they are? Is it because angry Christians have embraced the rhetoric of division, hate, and ethnic and moral superiority instead of the love for humanity The Christ showed? Shouldn't a professed love for Jesus Christ and the tenets of Christianity be a balm for anger, hate, ugliness,and unhappiness? Inside the church, we witness professed Christian heads bowed in saintly reverence to God and Jesus Christ. And we see eyes and hands raised to the heavens for the same reasons. Inside the church they seem... Read more →

Experimental Children In Eve's Garden

It wasn't an obvious thing for me to consider, but the thought was persistent. Perhaps that was the best God could do at the time. I don't remember when I first received this Impression or how many times I received it before it became part of what I knew and understood. Early on it annoyed me; for any implication that God could can be insufficient and less than an infallible God was more that I believed I could safely entertain. Besides, I was ambivalent about the source. When I chose to assert divine revelation, I experienced too much anxiety to... Read more →

Men Have No God Given Authority To Dominate Women.

It is important that mothers and fathers teach your sons and daughters that No God gave men authority to dominate women. Creation's design for rational sentient pairs intended the human sexual dyad to be a symbiotic bond. Created out of the same elements, men and women have the same biological systems except for differences in the emotional, physical, and reproductive designs necessary for the propagation of the human species. You can subscribe to the biblical assertion in the book of Genesis that "God took a rib from Adam, the first man, to create Eve, the first woman"; or you can... Read more →

Women Say No To Abuses From Conservatives And Male Partners

More women need to take up the mantra: "How can I hear what you say when what you are keeps ringing in my ear?" If they did, fewer women would love and sleep with men who do not respect them, invade their personal space, deprive them of their personal rights, and abuse them. And fewer women would vote for politicians who do the same. Sadly and inexplicably American women continue to vote for right wing conservative politicians who are active participants in the rampant GOP war on women and who pointedly refuse to support the best interest of women, especially... Read more →

Can Eve's Beautiful Daughters Form a Sisterhood to Save Humans from Extinction?

Are Eve's Beautiful Daughters and their children an exceptional branches of the human family tree that can satisfy the symbiotic needs of our Symbiotic God? Is it possible that a passionate and gifted Sisterhood of Savior Women can produce the synergistic energy needed to bring about the change that must occur if humankind is to avoid extinction on the living planet we call Earth? Or is it more likely that even Eve's genetic flaws render the experimental failure of her Beautiful Daughters and their offspring inevitable? A larger question is whether the magnificently beautiful but experimental gift of Symbiotic Grace... Read more →

Do Conservative Mothers Love Their Daughters?

If you are a mother who supports the conservative agenda of predatory billionaires, right wing Republicans, and Tea Party radicals you are not as smart or as patriotic as you think you are. Nor do you love your daughters and granddaughters as much as you think you do. What you are is delusional, suicidal, sexist, and homophobic. What you are is an opponent of democracy, the teachings of Jesus Christ, and women. And you don't love your female children. Furthermore, no amount of angry bitching and proclamations about how much you love your country and how much you love your... Read more →

When Women Vote For Conservative Republicans Bad Things Happen To Women.

It's true. When women help elect right wing conservatives and tea party Republicans, bad things happen for women. Critical thinkers are bemused if not astounded that working class and middle class red state voters keep voting against their own interest to help elect conservative Republicans. The record is undeniably clear. All of the policies that benefit the majority of Americans have come from liberal politicians not conservative politicians. Perhaps the first sentence in this piece help explains the problem. Conservative Republicans and conservative pundits lead their constituents by their emotional noses. And the inability to disengage from emotional thinking and... Read more →

Confessions Of A Black Male Feminist.

When my daughter was 12 years old she asked me if I really liked the poetry books in my library written by female writers. The books were: Love Poems By Women, Loose Woman, and Ain't I A Woman?: A Book Of Women's Poetry From Around the World , and a non-poetry book: International Women's Stories. Her curiosity indicated that she was more pleased than surprised. So much so that for my birthday that year she gave me The Book Of Birth Poetry. Her appreciation and gift gave me an even greater incentive to read prose and poetry by female writers.... Read more →

Commercials Create Debt Targeting Ego And Low Self Esteem.

I have never fully understood the power television commercials. Some are so simplistic and, dare I say, stupid that to believe them defy explanation. Yet, many women too often are willing to suspend reality and buy into a television commercial designed to do nothing more than entice them to spend their hard earned cash or go in debt to buy things they never wanted or never thought they needed until they saw the commercial. We understand the power that words have on the human psyche. We understand even better, the power of visual cues. Humans are slaves to slogans, flags,... Read more →

Don't Let Needy Friends Make You Unhappy.

Sometimes you can never do enough for your needy friends. While that statement is true for your men and women friends, this article is mostly about the relationships you have with your needy women friends. The main reasons most needy people are needy is because they tend to make bad decisions. And more often than not, they blame other people for their bad decisions and the resulting conditions in which they find themselves. As a result many women fall into the trap of accepting responsibility for their female friend's difficult situation even when they are not responsible for the situation... Read more →

Men Use The Bible To Suppress And Control Women

Many Conservative Republicans men and fundamentalist from the Christian Right have a penchant for quoting the Bible as validation for denying women the right of free will and free choice. But the conservative preoccupation with using God and the Bible serves only to motivate the scared and the gullible in order to perpetuate an agenda of suppression,control, and sometimes the abuse of women in order to make women submissive to men. It is past time that women, who live in a culture where they can legally make personal decisions and personal choices, stop putting up with this insanity. Women should... Read more →

What Women Can Learn From Female Lions.

Life is tough for females throughout the animal kingdom. Still, some women might enjoy life a lot better if they took life lessons from some female animals--especially female lions. One only needs to watch the National Geographic Channel and other real reality TV broadcasts to observe how lionesses share a sisterhood. Lionesses share a cooperative sisterhood that is beneficial for them and their off springs. Lionesses accept the male lion for what he contributes to their lives and for the survival of the pride. He is there for protection and for reproduction purposes only. Lionesses know that their role is... Read more →

Do Conservative Women Suffer From Self Hate Or Addiction To Abuse?

What is it about women that make them love their abusers? We see it in women who are caught up in domestic abuse. For some abused women, the reasons they stay are obvious. What is not so obvious is why so many women who make up the conservative Republican voting base love their Republican abusers. In the case of domestic abuse the abused woman often does not recognize that options are available to her. Or she becomes so mentally fatigued and scared that she finds herself without the energy to exercise the options made available to her. For her, she... Read more →

The Beautiful Daughters Of Eve's Garden And The Audacity Of Happy Women.

Validated by Impressions received from the ancestral memories of my primordial muse, I am compelled to promote the truth that women can have a healthy confidence about their attractiveness, their intelligence, their self-worth, their happiness, their self-respect, a healthy self-reliance and, in the process, help save the human race from extinction. The Beautiful Daughters in Eve's Garden is an extraordinary groups of self-selected and chosen women, ordinary and influential women from around the planet, the Beautiful Daughters of our Primordial Mother, who will resume the establishment of an emerging Sisterhood and help save significant branches of humanity from extinction. The... Read more →

Did Rush Limbaugh's Cat Lie To Him About Conservative Women?

Apparently, most of what Rush Limbaugh knows about conservative women he learned from his cat. Seriously. Rush is quoted saying: "My cat comes to me when she wants to be fed. She's smart enough to know she can't feed herself. She gets love. She gets adoration. She gets petted. And she doesn't have to do anything for it, which is why I say this cat taught me more about women than anything else in my whole life. Since nothing Rush says about women is applicable to liberal women he must have been talking about conservative women if his allegations are... Read more →

A Historical Look At The Power and Inflluence Of Women's Beauty

Women powered by a healthy emotional sense of well being and a strong healthy self-esteem cannot help but be more beautiful than she would be if she were drained by a weak emotional state of being and suffered from unhealthy low self-esteem. A strong healthy self-esteem as a contributor to a woman's natural beauty is, in part, greatly influenced by her realization and acceptance of the natural strength, power, and influence women have over men. Men have long understood the strength of women, women's influence over men, and the power of a woman's beauty. As a result men have gone... Read more →

Anger And Hate Are Toxic Enemies Of Beautiful Women

Hate fueled by anger is a vicious master. Hate hides the truth, binds the soul, and makes unhappy fools of its servants. Hate is also an enemy of beautiful women and should be an abhorrence for any woman who desires to be beautiful inside and out. Anger fueled hate assaults and destroy all that is beautiful in women who once were or could be beautiful. Anger and hate destroy the beauty in you. The reason for the rampant destruction of anger and hate is simple. The emotional child of these two demons produces toxins in the hater's body that metastasizes... Read more →

Men: Protect The Women You Love By Not Supporting Sexist Hate Radio.

On Mother's Day and every other day, Rush Limbaugh is not very kind to women, including the women most men say they love--their mothers, wives, daughters, and girlfriends. So how does any loving son, husband, father of good conscience believe they can foster the protection of the women they love when they support businesses that sponsor a sexist vulgar man who routinely slimes and bashes women? Men who think their own mother, wife, and daughters are not included in some of Limbaugh's vile sexist rant against women simply haven't been paying attention. But that one the delusions of one whose... Read more →

Liberal And Conservative Women Must Unite To Fight The War On Women.

At some point women must demand that male legislators, apart from the women with whom they share voluntary intimacy, must leave the vagina and uterus alone. In a democracy, a woman's vagina and uterus should not be a perpetual battleground. Does what a woman do with vagina and her reproductive organs really a business of politics, especially right wing conservative men in politics? At a time when sexual violence and assaults against women is at an all time global high, so called intelligent men in a congressional democracy seem obsessed with continuing and escalating the conservative war on women. But... Read more →

Real Christian Men Do Not Justify Rape, Slavery, And Sexual violence Against Women.

Americans, especially those claiming to be Christians, should be outraged that America's military leaders along with conservative politicians and pundits try to justify or ignore rape and other sexual violence against women in the military. Some men choose to ignore or try to justify any rape and military rape in the time of peace or war, slavery for any reason, pre-emptive war for economics reasons, and the rape of young girls by high school athletics. That these same men also can claim to be moral christians is a testament to the warped sensibilities and absurdities of the human male's mind... Read more →

When Men Write History Women Are Accessory Companions.

Following a glass or two of wine, my friend raised an interesting question. "About that Garden of Eden Story," she said, "at the creation of our birthing kind, which would a Rational Intelligent Being create first; one who could birth or one who could not? You don't have to answer", she cautioned, "because in reality, in this Patriarchal world, it really doesn't matter , does it? Because that's what happens when men write history--especially when history masquerades as religion, or worse, masquerades as the word of God!" Nevertheless, it was an interesting question, not the same as but not far... Read more →

Real Men Don"t Call Women Names; It's Ugly And Weak, Not Clever And Funny.

Some men are quick to openly call a woman overweight and unattractive, with or without a basis for saying it. Some jerks are even prone to using "fat" and "ugly" to describe women as if it were a funny or clever thing to say. But how many overweight men do you know who were openly conscious and self deprecating about their own ponderous weight and lack of attractiveness. One prime example of this ludicrous hypocrisy is Steve Vaillancourt a Republican State lawmaker from New Hampshire. In full misogyny mode, Vaillancourt had the gall to write a post which claimed that... Read more →

Nina Pillard And The Unqualified Radical Feminist Tactic Promoted By GOP Obstructionists.

On thursday, September 19, 2013, the Senate Judiciary Committee approved President Obama"s nomination of Cornelia "Nina" Pillard to fill one of three vacancies on the D.C. Circuit Court Of Appeals. But she faces opposition from Religious Rights groups and GOP Obstructionists who want to say that she is unqualified for the court because she is a "radical feminist". Professor Pillar has a unanimous rating of "well qualified" from the ABA Standing Committee on the Federal Judiciary. This Georgetown Law Professor has argued nine cases before the Supreme Court and has written briefs on tens of other cases. She is a... Read more →

Indictment And Confessions Of A Man Who Hates And Loves Women?

"Why do you hate women?" Serenely snuggled against my chest, she said it quietly, but I heard a scream. Of all the things she might have said or could have said, why this? This, only minutes after she had blessed the space around us with groans and moans that seemed to come from the fauna of her soul followed by tears and laughter that seemed to come from the flora that was her personality. Whether any of it was real or just for my benefit, I never posited a guess. I ignored the scream and sought refuge in the quiet... Read more →

Republican Super PAC Proudly Affirm GOP's Violence Against Women

Wake up America, it isn't just black women for whom Republicans have disdain. The conservative GOP have disdain for all women--black, white, brown, red, yellow. In another transparent display of the GOP's disdain for women, a Republican Super PAC has put out a new online "game" where the supporters are asked to slap Hillary Clinton across the face. The Super PAC is known as The Hillary Project. It is an anti-Hillary Clinton group that lists Christopher M. Marston--a Republican campaign consultant as its treasurer and a former member of the Bush administration. This Conservative Republican Super PAC proudly promotes the... Read more →

Why Does The GOP Work So Hard At Subugating, Irritating, And Humiliating Women?

The Republican Party's disdain and hatred of women is fairly obvious and ever present in legislative bodies and executive offices all across America. The GOP's misogynistic banner is proudly unfurled and waved unabashedly by conservative pundits and confederates like Rush Limbaugh. What is not so obvious is why. One would think that Republican men who have mothers would be more appreciative of women and the weight they bear--even in a democracy like the United States of America. One would think that Republican Women given their assumed awareness of and aversion to unnecessary male domination of women would not vote against... Read more →

BlamingThe Victim: A Defense For Rape And Murder.

Women Jurors in murder trials, like men, are often swayed by the "blame-the-victim-for-his-own-death" defense. This has been especially true when the victim is black, brown, and red young men. But blaming the victim is a slippery slope for women because it is a defense used successfully, mostly by white males in the rape and sexual violation of a woman's body--of any complexion-black, white, brown, red, or yellow. The similarities between the defense in murder and rape are eerily parallel. The blame-the-victim defense has been successfully used even when a woman is murdered and there is no doubt or dispute about... Read more →

Texas Republicans Exercise Dictatorship Style Violence Against Woman At Abortion Bill Hearing.

What happened to a woman in a Texas Senate hearing on a divisive abortion bill is eerily similar to what one might expect to see in a fascist dictator regime--not in a democracy. Republican leaders interrupts and shouts down a woman during her allotted time to speak at the hearing on Senate Bill 1 regarding abortion time limits. And at the urging of Republican leadership, Texas police, either state or local, strong armed the woman and forcibly took her away while she was still speaking. Why? The Republican leadership didn't like what she said in her opposition to the bill... Read more →

Protecting The Male Ego Isn't Worth The Price Of A Daughter's Emotional Health And Safety.

We live in a world dominated by men, often at the expense of women. So we expect that some people would have negative reactions to lessons that inspires a young girl's self confidence and promote the social, psychological, emotional, and physical power of women. Why? Because they think these kind of ideas bash all men as abusive or evil and don't identify the behavior of bad women. A daughter's ego is worth protecting Therefore it comes as no surprise that some people have objections to a list of items cited in a post titled: 21 Things Your Daughter Should Know... Read more →

Rape Is Not A Male Right Nor A Juvenile Rite Of Passage

Current news reports give serious credence to the belief that juvenile boys believe they have a natural male right to commit rape and other acts of sexual assault on young girls. We know this because so many incidents of rape and sexual assaults by young men are recorded by them and paraded around in cell phone pictures and proudly posted on Facebook and YouTube. Why? Is it because they are stupid, sociopaths, rape as a rite of passage is baked into their DNA,or society tells them that some rape is OK? Or maybe they have just been badly socialized by... Read more →

Prayers That Work, Promote Happiness, And Empower Women In Eve's Garden.

Life can sometimes seem overwhelming and all women seek prayers that work, empower them, and help them to feel safe and to enjoy a sense of happiness. The responsibilities of Savior Women in Eve's Garden can sometimes feel feel daunting. But God has need for your happiness and your success. Every one of Eve's Beautiful Daughters can Trust God to acknowledge your prayers of need with helping energies. Every Beautiful Daughter of the Primordial Mother can trust God to send them healing energy to provide solace and comfort for your deepest pain. What follows are sample prayers that work to... Read more →

Freeing Energy Is The Sixth Reward of God's Gift of Symbiotic Grace

God's Gift of Freeing Energy is the sixth reward of Symbiotic Grace. Its attendant Simple Reality is Simple Reality 12: "I must manifest and take pleasure in living a life that turns away from lies and deceit and instead embraces the Godlike Purity of truth and integrity." God reserves the gift of Freeing Energy for souls in mortal flesh who abhor lies and deceit and who, instead, manifest and take pleasure in a morality based on truth and integrity. Savior Women, the best representatives of Eve's Beautiful Daughters, join all members of God's Leigion of Symbionts who revel in the... Read more →

Are Humans God's Best Design Or Just The Best God Could Do At The Time?

Is the human species the best God could do? Or are we just Experimental Children who are part of The Experiment in Eve's Garden? We are a species that gave up virgin children to serve as human sacrifices to appease God and gods. We are a species that tortured and murdered our own kind for both punishment and for the entertainment pleasure of a ruling class. Countless times, we have invaded another people, raped mothers, wives, and daughters as the rightful spoils of war and conquest, and slaughtered the citizens of thriving cultures for control of their homeland. We have... Read more →

Does Evil Influence A Culture of Sexual Violence On Women And Some Men's Need To Abuse The Vagina?

While the sex drive is strong in all mammals, the human male's fascination with the vagina is obsessive. Men have always had a powerful sexual attraction for women. Without a powerful sexual attraction our species would be diminished or extinct. However, beyond the need to procreate and receive sexual pleasure, human males seems fascinated by and mesmerized by the vagina. Every year men spend millions of dollars in strip clubs and venues otherwise known as men's clubs or gentlemen's clubs just to gaze at vaginas. Given the male's sexual attraction for women and our fascination with the vagina, why then... Read more →

The Human Male Is The Best Argument Against Intelligent Design.

I am inclined to believe in a God of Creation but first must admit that the human male is the best argument against Intelligent Design. Nothing about the behavior, psychology, and sensibilities of men in Eve's Garden can lead any rational thinking man or woman to assume that the creation of the male of our species was an intelligent decision--especially if male domination and the violence that accompanied it was a predictable outcome by an Omnipotent God. We can be on one side or the other. Either the belief Christians have that our Creator God is a God of Love... Read more →

Violence Against Women In Eve's Garden Is A Real Outrage.

In 2013 let's hope America put its outrage in proper perspective. In 2012 we were witness to Americans being outraged over a variety of issues. Birthers were outraged over President Barack Obama's birth certificate, or as they considered it, the lack thereof. Some Americans were outraged that the POTUS did not show them his college transcript. Recently, some Americans were "outraged" over what they deemed was the POTUS' "abuse of power" in using an executive order to give members of congress a raise for 2013, never mind the fact that it was likely a ploy to give his GOP opposition... Read more →

We Must Teach, Nurture, And Protect Children Born Of Women

Simple Reality 5 affirms that we must not ignore our young. We must teach, nurture, and protect our children. We cannot abdicate this sacrosanct responsibility. God created all sexual species with the instinct and motivation to care for its young. This drive for sexual species to care for and not to ignore its young is necessary for the success and survival of every species. Though scientists observe the incidence of infanticide in many species-- including humans among mammals, as well as in fish, birds, insects, and amphibians--the killing of young offsprings by mature adults in any species is an abomination... Read more →

Why Women Haters Like Rush Limbaugh and Men of His Ilk are a Bane on America

Even men of moderate intelligence should realize that if America is to be and remain a great nation, men must take pleasure in having genuine love and respect for all women. And this love and respect for women must accrue to all women irrespective of any woman's economic status or social status, political party affiliation, ethnic background, nationality, the private or social relationship she shares with men, or any man's personal standards of physical beauty. Americans should show disdain for men like Rush Limbaugh who seem to find pleasure in the vulgar verbal abuse of women and in promoting and... Read more →

Unhappy Conservatives Feed On Hate, Chaos, And Anarchy.

Who can be happy in an America rife with greed, lies, bigotry, injustice, government controlled by corporations, and government influenced by the mass delusions of moral superiority by the religious right? No one. Not even the persons who hold on corrupt power creates the conditions that produces misery for so many others can be happy in such an America. chaos anarchy National happiness is reserved for a people who practice civility, common sense, honorable justice, and an affirmation for every citizen the right to personal dignity and the pursuit of a healthy happiness. No person, group, or nation can know... Read more →

The Spirit and Wisdom of Women Can Save The Human Race From Extinction.

The collective resolve, spirit, and wisdom of Women and the collective resolve and wisdom of the men who love them and their children can initiate the impetus to bring about the changes that can save the human race from extinction. Think about the awesome power of a collective global consciousness and the global vocal voices combined with the global behavioral voices of millions of bold and courageous women who decide to become part of a global Sisterhood of Savior Women and be Symbiotic Intimates of The Living God. A global collective consciousness of a momentous group of Savior Women invested... Read more →

A Good Time to Be A Woman

This is a pivotal time in the evolution of our species and a momentous time for Eve's Beautiful Daughters-the daughters who will form The Sisterhood of Savior Women. More now than ever, it is a great time to be a woman and the right time for Women to resume the establishment of an emerging Sisterhood to redeem what was lost in Eve's Garden. It is your time. You are self-selected. You are chosen. Everything is in place for women to conceive and give birth to a powerful force that can help bring humanity from the brink of extinction. Using the... Read more →

Savior Women Can Heal Where Men Protect And Respect Women

In hamlets, towns, cities, and countries where male domination is so entrenched that women do not and cannot generate enough power, social security, and determination to fight and overcome repression, women face severe challenges in their abilities to become part of a collective Sisterhood of Savior Women. some Branches of humankind are better equipped than others to accept the spiritual, vocal, and behavioral leadership of women. Consequently, The Sisterhood of Savior Women will heal the people and save the descendants of those branches of the human race where women enjoy the gifts of freedom, enjoy the benefits of self-reliance, can... Read more →

The Collective Power of Women is Real Power for Change

Obviously, some men and women do not possess the intelligence, the wisdom, or the moral perspective that will allow them to behave in any way other than that which condemns us all. All women will not and cannot become members of the Sisterhood of Savior Women just as not all men will join in a coalition with women to do what has to be done to save humans from extinction. Whether enough of Eve's Daughters will join the special group of Eve's Beautiful Daughters to help shift the balance of power from Divine Extinction to continued existence in Eve's Garden... Read more →

Savior Women and the Men Who Can Love All Women

If Creation continue to require both male and females of our species to propagate the human race, A sisterhood of Savior Women alone will not and cannot save humanity from our Symbiotic God. If Creation continues to preserve the two sexes to perpetuate our species, men who can love women--all women--must take part in the redemption process. They will not feel threatened by the fact that now is a good time to be a woman and a momentous time for a Sisterhood of the Beautiful Daughters of our Primordial Mother to begin the redemption of the human race from the... Read more →

The Vagina Has No Power if Men Control It

We are witness to many observations, speculations, and opinions about the powerful, captivating, and sometimes mesmerizing influence the vagina has over men. Whatever may be the cause or the apparent truth of the many observations, the fact is that millions of men enthusiastically and unapologetically pay generous sums of money in what men variously call, among other names, titty bars, strip clubs, and men's club just to look at it. But even if the vagina does have a hypnotic attraction for men, the vagina has no power over men if men control it. The Mutant Lesser Power, or whatever name... Read more →

Women Are the Key To Human survival On Earth

The survival of the human race cannot rest in the hands of men. If the human race will escape extinction, then a successful destiny for our species must rest in the hands of women. On the surface, placing the mortal fate of our race in the hands of women seemingly makes the redemption of our species even more of an impossible task, and our eventual extinction a fate we cannot avoid. With few exceptions, for most of Earth's history, men have forced women, both young and old, to serve both secondary and inferior roles to men--as inferior companions, compliant sexual... Read more →

Savior Women: Eve's Passion, Eve's Hope, and a Godsend

The implications of Impression Prophecy and the earlier Impression Question--Does the apparent fact of our imperfections make us incapable of change?--placed me in an emotionally tinged hole, out of which it was difficult to climb. If we are part of an experiment of a Symbiotic God, the implication that our design may be so defective that it renders impossible the self-governing part of our survival was disquieting. The perpetuation of its own kind is the fundamental charge of every species. But design flaws resulting in an inability to cope with eventful changes in their environment are the antecedents to the... Read more →