Artemisia I – Warrior Queen of Halicarnassus Artemisia I, brilliant military strategist and commander, acted as adviser to Xerxes I on his campaigns in the Persian Wars. She was born in the late 6th century BC, purportedly in Halicarnassus, Asia Minor modern Bodrum, Turkey and known as The First Woman Admiral. Most of […]
Predestination and Free Will by John Calvin – a Satirical Synopsis
Briefly, the essay on predestination and free will by Calvin discusses the preordaining and predetermination of events discussing an incorrigible helplessness towards fate on one hand, and on the other, it demurs the first by discussing ‘free will’, where fate is rendered incorrigibly helpless towards man’s ordaining and determination of events. Calvin propounds the elaborate […]
Online Dating: 13 Tips to Write a Winning Online Profile and Attract a Date
How long do you spend getting ready for a night out? At a guess I would say that if you’re a woman you can probably spend 1 hour upwards preening and titivating and if you’re a man you can be showered, shaved and out of the door within 20 minutes (unless, of course, you’re a […]
Langston Hughes – The Life, Times, Works as Well as Impact of a Versatile African-American Writer
Langston Hughes stands as a literary and cultural translation of the political resistance and campaign of black consciousness leaders such as Martin Luther King to restore the rights of the black citizenry thus fulfilling the ethos of the American dream, which is celebrated universally every year around February to April. Hughes’ overriding sense of a […]
How to Improve Your Writing Skills
Writing is an art – a creative art. Craft and creativity are two inseparable ingredients of writing. Writing is not just the mere craft of constructing grammatically perfect sentences with proper spelling and punctuation, but much more than that. The craft in writing can be effortlessly learned or fine-tuned substantially. But the creativity in writing […]
Using Rebuttals in Argumentative Essays
In college writing, most essays argue for a position. They are persuasive essays in that the goal is to get the reader to believe a statement is true by providing support. This is what distinguishes high school writing from college writing. I have mentioned in other essays that sometimes one already knows what they want […]
A Biblical Criticism of Sir Francis Bacon’s Essay, Of Unity in Religion
“Religion being the chief band of human society, is a happy thing, when itself is well contained within the true band of unity.” On first glimpse, the statement incites a utopian ideal in which a single belief governs man, bearing the same intuitions and opinions from the faithful. Yet the essay, within its context is […]
Values Are Caught and Not Taught
According to some people, values are caught not taught. It means that values or behaviors are learned from the people who practice them, instead of being told. We catch these values by seeing them lived by example. The values that we actually live are caught rather than merely taught. Factors affecting values formation of a […]
The Tradition of Magic Realism in American Letters
Given the abundance of criticism labeled ‘European’ or ‘Latin American’ magic realism, one might think that the genre’s provenance is either European or Latin American. Not So. Writers (of different generations) in the United States have a tradition of magic realism. If one considers magic realism to be a literary genre that combines fantastic or […]
Fun Facts About Kenya
DID YOU KNOW… Kenya is an African country with vast mountains and beautiful scenery.It is a diverse collection of coastal waters, sanbanks, rivers, waterfalls, lakes, and deserts.This land is home to a staggering diversity of plants and wild animals such as hippopotamus, cheetahs, hyenas, snakes, rhinoceros, lions, and leopards. There are more than 65 national […]