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John Ruskin (1819 -1900) was an English art critic and social thinker, also remembered as a poet and artist. He wrote a number of essays on art and architecture that became extremely influential in the Victorian era. He takes material for his lecture “Work” from the existing economic revolution which is generally referred to as […]

Socrates was a man of very strong conviction. A conviction to live his life for the pursuit of knowledge, true wisdom, piety, and God’s will. In Plato’s Apology, Socrates delivered a passionate defense for the way of life he had chosen. He believed that this way of life was not only right in every sense […]

Eliot’s claims of himself to be a classicist raised a noisy reaction among his critics and in his emphasis on the ‘generalizing power’ and ‘the critics’ need to objectify’ in his essay ‘The Perfect Critic’ gives a clue to his special type of classicism. The concern for the poem as an objective thing is a […]

I was a teacher for 25 years. When I started teaching at a cozy little independent school in the Hudson Valley of New York State, I was a young woman in my mid-twenties, newly married, just out of graduate school. I was so young that the stress of my first year in the classroom gave […]

DID YOU KNOW THAT… In the 1940s, baseball became the most popular sport in the country, thanks to such as Chino Melendez, Crisanto Adan Balmaceda Castrillo, Alfredo Garcia Mencia, Roberto Martinez, Alfredo Fonseca, Francisco Fletes Silva, Duncan Desmond Campbell Kaine, Timothy Mena Hodgson, and Jonathan Robinson Lee. DID YOU KNOW THAT… Nicaragua is a small […]

If we eat too much, we are liable to grow fat thus becoming vulnerable to so many diseases just waiting to do their dirty job on us. If we do not eat enough them we will suffer the consequences of malnutrition. Overeating and not eating enough are extremes. They do not help us to live […]

Ray Melnik is a master at writing mind-blowing scientific fiction that can also tug at your heartstrings, and he does so by using science in very plausible ways to open our minds to new possibilities. There are no extraterrestrials, no shoot-’em-up stormtroopers, and no spaceships going at warp speed in his novels. Instead, they are […]

I know everything attitude is a sign of overconfidence. This kind of people will always fall behind in their struggle of life. They will never try to learn from others. If self confidence is an ascending step on the ladder of success; overconfidence will drag you down while climbing towards success. Overconfidence is one of […]

Cheap, Bargain, Real Estate; Good Deals, Below Market, Low Priced properties are available if you know how to buy them. By Jody Hudson – Realtor since 1972. How to FIND and BUY: Cheap Bargain Real Estate, Good Deals, Below Market, Low Priced and Less Expensive; homes, lots, land, businesses, and condominiums. They are everywhere and […]

If you are planning to start a business, you cannot afford to neglect knowing how to write a business letter. Even if your business may be just a small entrepreneurial startup, knowing how to write a business letter is a key skill that you, or at least one of your assistants, should know. Before we […]