InThe Help, a novel about black maids in 1960s Jackson, Mississippi, the story is told from the first-person point of view of three women, looking at similar events from their own perspectives. 11. Allegory Take a metaphor, put it on steroids, throw in a dash of realism, and you have...
Those Greek smart boys Plato, Aristotle, and Cicero started the ridiculous idea 2,000 years ago that every individual in a society should have a right to have access to their own fulfillment as a human being. In the Second Century even good ol’ boys now known as Roman Catholic popes agre...
The Greek wordbrontemeans thunder and brontophobia means fear of thunder. Even though people with brontophobia may realize thunder won't hurt them, they may refuse to go outside during a thunderstorm. They may even hide indoors by crouching behind a couch or waiting out the storm in a close...
Conformity to Traditional Mediterranean Diet and Breast Cancer Risk in the Greek EPIC (European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition) Cohort. Am. J. Clin. Nutr. 2010, 92, 620–625. [Google Scholar] [CrossRef] [PubMed] [Green Version] Buckland, G.; Travier, N.; Cottet, V...
weeks of mango consumption reduced blood sugar in arandomized trial. Not only that, the mango didn’t even come in the form of whole fruit, but rather in a quickly digested freeze-dried powder form (which would not be the choice of glycemic index adherents …RIP glycemic index usefulness)...
[including the usual tired, disreputable names of Averroes etc. yawn, boring]; who impacted the European scientific mind. For the big-brains, a handful of Moslems who might have slightly amended or added to Greek thought; is certainly more important to modernity, than the dozens of European ...