Thomas the Apostle

Philosophy is the study of knowledge. It helps us understand how we form our ideas and thoughts. Philosophy helps us lay the foundational basis for the acquisition of our knowledge and thoughts. It important to study the many different people that helped lay the foundation of philosophy for us. Some of those people include Aristotle, Plato, Socrates, and C.S. Lewis. Aristotle, Plato, and Socrates were the early philosophers that laid the general foundation of philosophy for all other…

Known for its fast paced lifestyle, experimentation, and break in traditions, the ‘Roaring Twenties’ produced ideals and technology that changed America forever. One of the many prominent features of the early 20th century was the emergence of the “flapper,” women who deviated from the traditional Victorian female standards at the time. These women often bobbed their hair, wore short dresses and skirts, and took on many characteristics that had only been deemed appropriate for men. The…

Brendon Burke proclaimed once that "The British Empire must be governed on a plan of freedom, for it will be governed by no other." This is what many British thought at the time of the empire, but to which extent was this really complied? At the beginning of the nineteenth century the British Empire became world´s naval and economic power, which they used in order to expand their empire to be larger than ever (Samson, 2001). The nature of this colonial rule was not homogeneous within the…

EXPLAINING DEMOTIC TURN TO CLASS WITH SPECIAL EMPHASIS ON REALITY TV SHOWS. In earlier times, men from high or royal classes, mainly protégés wrote most of the literature of that age. It had as its theme praise of elites or invocations on gods and as its hero an extraordinary man who completed extraordinary deeds. All the protagonists showed valor and sought glory. Then society witnessed the rise of middle class and along came the genre of novel. Gradually the heroes were of working class or…

The Catalan independence movement is a political movement that emerged from Catalan nationalism that is mainly dedicated to the support of the independence of Catalonia from Spain and France. This feeling is brought by the dictatorial times of Franco who attempted to suppress the Catalan identity. To give a more geographical sense of Catalonia, it is a roughly triangular region in Spain's far northeast corner, which is separated by the Pyrenean mountains from southern France to which they share…

The beginning of sound recording was an extranomical feet, shaking the ground of modern technology at the time, but now it has developed so rapidly to support our need of human connection that you might be surprised how similar we are to those who first invented it. The process of refining and marketing the phonograph from the texts “The History of the Edison Cylinder Phonograph” and “The Incredible Talking Machine” by Randall Stross is similar to the development of the Audio Spotlight in Mark…

call now the White House, it has been through a lot but we managed to keep it and maintain it from it’s roots since it was built. Pierre Charles L’Enfant was appointed by Thomas Jefferson on creating the city plan for the capital city, but he was dismissed after not showing any plans or blueprints on how to build the city. Then Thomas Jefferson proposed a design competition on the designs of the Capitol and the President’s Mansion. An amateur architect named William Thornton won the competition…

Mount Rushmore The presidents that are sculpted in mount Rushmore are Theodore Roosevelt, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and Abraham Lincoln. All of these presidents got chosen to be on Mount Rushmore because of all the different contributions they made to America. Every single one of these presidents deserve to be on Mount Rushmore, but there are also many other contributors that helped our country so much that also deserve to be on Mount Rushmore. George Washington was the very…

Frederick Law Olmsted, born April 26, 1822 in Hartford, Connecticut, is deemed the father of landscape architecture in the United States. At age 18, he moved to New York, where he worked as a scientific farmer. After this failed venture, Olmsted became a merchant seaman and traveled all over the European continent. After returning to America, Olmsted worked as a newspaper columnist, founded The Nation magazine and authored numerous books before becoming a renowned landscape architect. Olmsted…

Time may separate individuals, but not their beliefs. President John F. Kennedy and Patrick Henry both showed patriotism and confidence in their lives. They both shared similar viewpoints on their goals for their country and the people living there. John F. Kennedy Both Kennedy and Henry expressed that they strongly believed in the importance of freedom in their speeches. In his Inaugural Address, Kennedy stated; “We dare not forget today that the we are the heirs of that first revolution”…