My Favorite Hubs This Week: Feb 12

As we gear up to celebrate Valentine's Day, or not, we can look back and see what we've accomplished so far this year. It is the middle of the month; how are you doing on your February goals?

There has been a variety of great hubs that came across my reads this week, and I am happy to present them here for your viewing pleasure. I hope you enjoy them as much as I did.

As a genealogist, I have often thought about the legacy I will leave behind. I learned my grandmother's name just a few short years ago. She had died when my father was very young, so he did not have any recollection of her. By knowing her name, I feel I can honor at least a little part of her.

What will people remember about me? Will I leave a mark on the world, or will I blend into obscurity in history? Sharon's Slant asks What Legacy Will You Leave Behind in a thought provoking hub, and lists the five things for which she will be remembered.

In order to become good writers, it is important that we know and understand grammar and use it correctly. A series of hubs by cclitgirl, including The Cantankerous Comma - Uses and Rules helps us make sure we do just that in a fun and entertaining way.

There are many women who have shaped history and have helped us get to where we are. In her hub, sholland10 highlights Lucille Ball in Important Women in History Who Changed Business Forever: Lucille Ball. The photos and clips that go along with this hub helps us remember Lucille and share in her antics once again.

I generally try to stay away from religion and politics, but I do like social history, and sometimes that requires dipping my toes into those topics a bit. I Am Rosa wrote an interesting analysis about the birth of apathy. She believes it was due to The Five Cent War that occurred in 1947 in Canada. Activism does ebb and flow in countries at different times, and people feel more empowered to make a difference at times at some times more than others, probably due to their successes or adverse results of early efforts they have made.

By the way, this hub is also a great example of writing turning a review (of a documentary) into a commentary and making it more evergreen.

I have viewed the Success Stories on HubPages several times and tried to think of how that information can help me on my HubPages career. There is so much good information there, but it is hard to compare and analyze. Then this week, I read The Highest-Paid Hubbers Make $650 to $3,800 per Month: Learning from their Stats - Part 1, Basics by alocsin. Yes, there is a Part 2, which is linked. I am counting both of them as one favorite. He has taken the information from that page and put them in a couple of nice table formats that make it much easier to compare the stats and determine how best to use the information.

I only wrote one hub this week, but it was great to be able to call it finished. It is a book review on No We Can't: Radical Islam, Militant Secularism and the Myth of Coexistence. I do not like debating religion and politics on an open forum like HubPages, but I did want to finish the review so I could move on to writing other things.

It frustrates me when people are lumped into groups. All secular people are not militant; in fact, most of them aren't. All Muslims are not radical; in fact most of them aren't. To lump them into categories like this just fans the flames and tries to separate instead of uniting the people of the world.

I whole-heartily believe that we can all coexist. I believe we have the ability to not only tolerate people of other cultures, but actually learn from them, and grow as a community.

I hope you have a great week, and enjoy reading these hubs. There are some hubbers who are gearing up to do the 30 hubs challenge again in March, and others who are writing hubs for the contest, for which prizes will be awarded for hubs published in March. I hope this still means there will be quality hubs written during the remainder of this month. Maybe they can start practicing now for March.