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The Economic Crisis and the State of Economics Essay Sample, Example
By Rob Killick The Institute for New Economic Thinking, funded by billionaire George Soros, held its first Conference in early April 2010. Just in case we were not already aware of its intellectual underpinnings, the event took place at Kings…
China: Triumph and Turmoil Essay Sample, Example
By Sam Burt The most insightful documentaries about China’s journey through the 20th century were all made before the 2008 Olympic Games, before China was called upon to bail out tottering Western financial institutions, and even before China joined the…
Rethinking Art and Disability Essay Sample, Example
By Denis Joe We were introduced to Nondumiso Hlwele, Bongiwe Mba, and Thobani Ncapai, three members of Bambanani, and the artist Rachel Gadsden. Last year, Gadsden won awards from the International Unlimited London 2012 Cultural Olympiad Commissions to create Unlimited…
Obama and the Middle East Essay Sample, Example
By Ben Lazarus Barack Obama came into office having promised to distance America from the neoconservative philosophy of George W Bush’s presidency. As a senator, he had opposed the Iraq war, and during presidential campaigning, he vowed to negotiate peace…
Nostalgia and Newness: David Bowie Is, V&A, London Essay Sample, Example
By Nicky Charlish Ziggy Stardust, Aladdin Sane, the Thin White Duke, The Man Who Fell to Earth, the man of seemingly endless identity changes. David Bowie has been all of these, and more. So an exhibition which purports to tell…
How Deeply the Fish Knife Cuts: Coloniality and Its Discontents Essay Sample, Example
A response to “Decolonial Aesthesis: From Singapore, To Cambridge, To Duke University” by Walter Mignolo By Jorel Chan Whenever we engage in discourse on how the western canon has inevitably molded the modern person, I find myself (as an Asian,…
The Doppler Effect Essay Sample, Example
Imagine the wave pattern made by the tip of a vibrating rod which is moving across water. If the rod had been vibrating in one place, we would have seen the familiar pattern of concentric circles, all centered on the…
The Surprising Effects of Western Classical Music Essay Sample, Example
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. Being extremely diverse in its nature and sound, the moods it creates, and the instruments…
Richard Hakluyt and Early English Travel Essay Sample, Example
This article [Richard Hakluyt and Early English Travel] was originally published in The Public Domain Review [http://publicdomainreview.org/2016/10/26/richard-hakluyt-and-early-english-travel/] under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0. If you wish to reuse it please see: http://publicdomainreview.org/legal/ By Nandini Das In June 1586, William Harborne,…
What Insomnia Can Do to Your Mind and Body Essay Sample, Example
One of the most common health problems of modernity is insomnia—or, how it is also often called, sleep deprivation. Its prevalence is caused by the fact that it, firstly, accompanies a large number of mental conditions (starting from regular anxiety…
Inertia and Noninertial Frames of Reference Essay Sample, Example
One day, you’re driving down the street in your pickup truck, on your way to deliver a bowling ball. The ball is in the back of the truck, enjoying its little jaunt and taking in the fresh air and sunshine.…
Why Donald Trump Is the Worst Presidential Candidate for the US Essay Sample, Example
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 bring fresh air to American domestic and foreign policy, but also to solve a number…
The Progressive Apocalypse and Other Futurismic Delights Essay Sample, Example
By Cory Doctorow (Originally published in Locus Magazine, July 2007) Science fiction is a literature of the present. Many’s the science fiction writer who uses the future as a warped mirror for reflecting back on the present day, angled to…
Cat Pianos, Sound-Houses, and Other Imaginary Musical Instruments Essay Sample, Example
This article [Cat Pianos, Sound-Houses, and Other Imaginary Musical Instruments] was originally published in The Public Domain Review [http://publicdomainreview.org/2015/07/15/cat-pianos-sound-houses-and-other-imaginary-musical-instruments/] under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0. If you wish to reuse it please see: http://publicdomainreview.org/legal/ By Deirdre Loughridge and Thomas Patteson…
“Unlimiting the Bounds”: The Panorama and the Balloon View Essay Sample, Example
This article [“Unlimiting the Bounds”: The Panorama and the Balloon View] was originally published in The Public Domain Review [http://publicdomainreview.org/2016/08/03/unlimiting-the-bounds-the-panorama-and-the-balloon-view/] under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0. If you wish to reuse it please see: http://publicdomainreview.org/legal/ Until the late eighteenth century,…
Direct and Indirect Causality Essay Sample, Example
Many of the arguments that turn up in the Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) movement—between people who apparently should agree—are because of a difference of view over the appropriate degree of causality that applies to the situation. This conflict…
What Burns Me about the Bern: The Fellow Traveling of Bernie Sanders Essay Sample, Example
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 officials displayed apologia for communist regimes, which were perceived as budding utopias or victims of…
Bad Air: Pollution, Sin, and Science Fiction in William Delisle Hay’s The Doom of the Great City (1880) Essay Sample, Example
This article [Bad Air: Pollution, Sin, and Science Fiction in William Delisle Hay’s The Doom of the Great City (1880)] was originally published in The Public Domain Review [http://publicdomainreview.org/2015/09/30/bad-air-pollution-sin-and-science-fiction/] under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0. If you wish to reuse…
Wild Heart Turning White: Georg Trakl and Cocaine Essay Sample, Example
This article [Wild Heart Turning White: Georg Trakl and Cocaine] was originally published in The Public Domain Review [http://publicdomainreview.org/2014/10/29/wild-heart-turning-white-georg-trakl-and-cocaine/] under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0. If you wish to reuse it please see: http://publicdomainreview.org/legal/ By Richard Millington This remark is…
Scurvy and the Terra Incognita Essay Sample, Example
This article [Scurvy and the Terra Incognita] was originally published in The Public Domain Review [http://publicdomainreview.org/2015/05/06/scurvy-and-the-terra-incognita/] under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0. If you wish to reuse it please see: http://publicdomainreview.org/legal/ When the archangel Michael in Milton’s Paradise Lost explains…