There is a neoclassical painting that suspends on the wall at the National Gallery of Art In Washington DC, called The Emperor Napoleon in His Study at the Tuileries (Fig 1.) that was painted by Jacques-Louis David in 1812. The painting showcases a portrait of Napoleon Bonaparte as the French Emperor. However, the embedded symbols—like the honeybees, books written by Plutarch, classic French military uniform, map scrolls and dripping wax candles—in the composition communicates political power.…
One professor of law at the University of California, Eugene Volokh, was quoting Justice Hugo Black when he said that “First Amendment protection ‘must be accorded to the ideas we hate or sooner or later they will be denied to the ideas we cherish.’” Nevertheless, the previous statement is true. Millennials…
Eugene Onegin, a work by the hand of perhaps one of Russia’s most prolific writers, and arguably comparable to Shakespeare in many aspects, is a fictional tale satirizing the roles of gender in society and the constraints women must adhere to, as is expected in this time period. To stray from society’s moral path, in Russia, is to demean and tarnish one’s own name, as well as one’s family’s master status as perceived through the looking glass of society. Tatyana Lerin, initially the European…
Eugene T. Gendlin born in1926 in Vienna. His family emigrated to the United States to escape the Nazis when he was a child. During the 1950s, He studied under Carl Rogers, the founder of client-centered therapy. Gendlin received his Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Chicago, where he became an Associate Professor. Gendlin believes the discovery of meaning is not in the conscious, or, the unconscious as suggested by Freud, not even the congruence between feeling, concept, and expression…
is to “[articulate] ambiguous distinctions between human and divine realities, with the final goal being in the development of ‘civilized’ codes of morality, values, and ideology” (30). Any culture is influenced by the trickster and the narrator in Eugene Onegin, written by Alexander Pushkin…
opposing their violence or monopolistic nature. With this perspective, Bellamy suggested that all in the nation to contribute actively to the society’s welfare and economy as the soul of America perhaps influencing future Socialist Party members such as Eugene V.…
explaining that a citizen’s civil liberties cease to exist once if they themselves are found to be a “clear and present danger” to society. Another significant case in which the Espionage Act was used was that of Debs v. United States in 1918, in which Eugene V. Debs, a well-known socialist and head of the American Railway Union, was imprisoned for anti-war speech. Meanwhile, the fear of subversive violence strengthened already present xenophobic sentiments in the nation, specifically…
By creating a positive barrier between his Infantry and the enemy, it allowed for his men to deliver more accurate and deliberate fire at a greater pace and potentially avoiding every engaging in hand to hand combat. By using terrain to support the rifle fire, Marshal de Saxe effectively multiplied his armies effectiveness against the enemy without risking control of the battlefield that comes with hand to hand combat and battle lines mixing. His ideas and tactics found within Reveries on the…
CHILDREN IN the United States are routinely taught that Abraham Lincoln of Illinois freed the slaves. But few children learn that Eugene Victor Debs of Indiana devoted his life to ending wage slavery. Ray Ginger’s wonderful biography of Debs—The Bending Cross—first published in 1949, and reprinted by Haymarket Books in 2007—introduces readers to a working-class hero as well as a period of immense struggle from below often treated as a footnote in most U. S. histories. Some of Debs’ contemporary…
The Great Harry Houdini was born on March 24, 1874 in Budapest, Hungary, under the name of Ehrich Weisz. He was one of six children. In 1876, Eric and his family to the United States with the dream of a better life. When he first arrived in America, Eric was working low paying jobs to help support the family. At the age of nine, Eric had developed a love for magic and performed on stage for the first time. At about the age of twelve, Ehrich and his brother Theo began to perform in magic acts…