Great Books of the Western World

Chua wrote “Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior”, a passage from her book, Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mom. The article was then excerpted and put into the Wall Street Journal, and was written to show her strict approach to parenting. This article quickly gained attention from parents around the world and was surrounded by conflicting opinions. The piece has caused controversy throughout America and has made parents from around the world question their parenting style. Allowing the readers to reflect…

the peak of his career, he was harshly affected by a mental disorder known as schizophrenia. Even though he was able to contribute greatly to mathematics, he still spent years living as a disabled man, suffering from constant halucinations. Through great perseverance and support form his close ones, Nash was able to fight back the major parts of schizophrenia.;…

Essay Topic 3 Changing a Global Perspective All Quiet on the Western Front, an international bestseller, was named the greatest war novel of all time for a multitude of reasons. These reasons do not include his ability to tell an enticing story or describe key points in great detail, but because it changed the perspective of millions of people all over the world and their concept of war. In Remarque’s All Quiet on the Western Front, he shattered the idea of war everyday citizens had by…

Inquiry project-WW2 I recently changed my inquiry project topic from drugs effect on the brain to WW2. For my first blog post I am going to summarize World War two and the book I just finished, Front Lines by Michael Grant. WW2 was a war from 1939 to 1945 that involved over 30 countries, 100 million people and all of the great powers which would turn into 2 sides the Axis and the Allied. Marked by mass deaths of civilians, including the Holocaust in which approximately 11 million people were…

in New York. The website represents an overview of World History as students explore the many challenges of world civilizations beginning with the emergence of Early Cultures and River Civilizations, leading…

“Western Christians in Global Mission” by Paul Borthwick looks at the state of Christianity around the world, and provides a glimpse into how Americans and Western Christians can and should be involved in missions. The thesis of the book is that we need to get beyond ourselves to see what God is doing in the world, and be challenged to discover afresh where we fit and how we can be a part of God’s global missional plan for humanity. Throughout the book, Borthwick gives a great comprehensive…

view till today. St. Augustine bishop of Hippo had an immense influenced the development of western ideological and political thoughts. This was because St. Augustine gave important insights that were taken up by successors, scholars and experts of politics and government. These thoughts by later scholars that were based on Augustinian foundations generally developed along lines that Augustine presumably would not have wished. St. Augustine Bishop of Hippo never postulated a political theory of…

one of them is his religious background as a famous Tibetan Monk, the second factor is the environmental role he played to take care of the environment to put an end to environmental degradation. The third factor is the unlimited western support he gained from USA and Western countries against the cruel Chinese occupation to the Tibet plateau and region in Himalaya, but in my point of view the most important reason for his fame or reputation is getting the Nobel Peace Prize in 1989 for being…

connected to the world and accepted by it. Novelist, Doris Lessing, gives her opinions on the topic with her work, “Group Minds,” in which she challenges those who have the knowledge of how humans can be influenced and teach it in schools, so that it may better the current lives of western society. It’s commonly said, “knowledge is power,” but Lessing is expressing her opinions on the topic in a similar way to Marvel’s comic book character, Benjamin Parker, when he says, “with great power there…

though, the novel retains an incredible humanity. The characters and relationships in the novel are both strong, believable characters with agency, and strong representations of Meiji-era struggles between tradition and western modernization. Western modernization was the seed of great change for the main characters and the classes they represent, representing…