Chapter 1. geography, people and language. Think and talk. Do you know the full name of Britain? Do you know the geographical features of this country? Do you know its major cities, London, Ed…
What were the absolute monarchs in Europe? Absolute Monarchies: Following the fall of Roman power in the west, the birth of modern Europe saw the rise of new forms of government. In the Middle Ages, one of these types was known as an absolute monarchy. ...
Hope and love are popular themes of literature and art in many human societies. The human physiology of love and hope is less well understood. This review presents evidence that the lack of love and/or hope delays growth disturbs development and maturati
and certainly not as Literature.Perhaps literature is definable not according to whether it is fictional or 'imaginative', but becauseit uses language in peculiar ways.On this theory, literature is a kind of writing which, in the words of the Russian critic Roman Jakobson, represents an 'organi...
If you’re a regular listener or reader, you will remember that just a couple of weeks ago we talked about the origin of the names of the days of the week, and in Roman times, Tuesday was “dies Martis,” with directly led to the French and Spanish words we use for Tuesday today....
Thomas Paine, especially, in his essay “Common Sense” appealed to the reason of the people to make his political point. These writers framed the dramatic shift in who “owned” ideas. Ideas and education were no longer for the privileged and rich of society. They belonged to everyone, ...
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...
restaurants in Beverly Hills. He turned the church over to his arrogant son shortly before the Covid lockdowns of 2020 and 21; just the other day, I heard that this mega-church had locked its doors. To be honest, I felt some sadness about this rumor because there were many good ...
What were the social classes in medieval Europe? What were the main characteristics of the Medieval period? How was the medieval church organized? What did a king do in medieval times? What was the Medieval period? What was life like for a medieval peasant?
Plutocracy doesn't have to be a purposeful, overt format for government. Instead, it can be created through the allowance of access to certain programs and educational resources only to the wealthy, thereby making it so that the wealthy hold more sway. The concern of inadvertently creating a ...