Louie – Reflective Review
In medieval times, kings enjoyed almost unlimited power. Well, there was also the Pope, and God, and sometimes kings ended up in cellars waiting for…
In medieval times, kings enjoyed almost unlimited power. Well, there was also the Pope, and God, and sometimes kings ended up in cellars waiting for…
Western movies, extremely popular several decades ago, have now turned in a niche genre; once or twice in a year, an unsophisticated viewer can notice…
One of the finest examples of cultural legacy that humanity has produced so far, and that will undoubtedly endure through centuries, is western classical music.…
When talking about psychoanalysis, psychology, and mentioning other topics connected to the human psyche, people mostly remember Sigmund Freud, and sometimes Alfred Adler, or even…
Kepler’s laws were a beautifully simple explanation of what the planets did, but they did not address why they moved as they did. Did the…
What about cases where the total force on an object is not zero, so that Newton’s first law does not apply? The object will have…
Newton would not have been able to figure out why the planets move the way they do if it had not been for the astronomer…
Soon the United States will have a new president. After two terms of Barack Obama’s presidency, the country expects the new leader to not only…
By Nevin Gussack A number of leftist senators and congressmen developed positions and attitudes that were favorable towards communist dictatorships. In some cases, such elected…
Over the last few months, billionaire businessman Donald Trump has taken the political world by storm after rising to the position of the Republican frontrunner…
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In the 2016 US presidential primary election, the most revolutionary figure had been Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, who ran as a democrat, though he identified…
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The beginning of the 21st century was stained with one of the most tragic events in human history: the First World War. Although it started…
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By Frank Delaney In the early nineteen-eighties, for a commission about the sense of place in John Betjeman’s poetry, I worked with a photographer named…