As a surveyor of historic sites, I’ve had the chance to see a number of ghost towns in Indiana up close and personal. These aren’t the ghost towns you’re used to seeing in movies where the buildings still stand and all the people are gone. Instead these are towns where the buildings are completely gone ...
At the core of the Enlightenment was philosophy, and using reason and logic to determine truth and expose religious corruption and the manipulation power it possesses. Science and art were the most powerful tools utilized by the Philosophers in their various unique, but similar goals. The means to progress and productivity use their tools to ...
The characterization of death in Everyman sheds an important light on the beliefs of the people of the middle ages and thus, the audience and intention of the play. This role of death as God’s minion shows forth the truth that drives and permeates the play and nearly all medieval literature, the omnipotence of God. ...
The legend of Pocahontas has been told and retold for years and in various ways, but none are as well-known as Disney’s 1995 animated version. This version of the tale being so well-known also, unfortunately, makes it the most widely accepted. While many historians still do not completely agree on the finer details of Pocahontas’ ...
These 3 amendments all were focused on helping African Americans and other minorities strive in America, and not be discriminated for their race. All information used from U.S. Constitution Online. 13th Amendment Ratified by 3/4 of states on December 6, 1865, the 13th amendment to the Constitution outlawed slavery in the United States. It took ...
When I was in college, I joined a civil rights organization called the DuBois Club. The DuBois clubs were widely known to be communist fronts but the plan by my friends and me was to infiltrate it and use it for non-communist civil rights activities. Not much came of any of this but I did ...
Spinach, zero, sugar, coffee and algebra all have one thing in common. They are words commonly spoken in the English language that derive from the ancient and vast Arabic language of the Middle East. Though not as well known in the western hemisphere, the Arabic language is one of the major languages of the world ...
Martin Luther King Jr. was famous for his dreams. He was born January 15th, 1929 in Atlanta Georgia to Alberta King and his Michael Luther King. He was originally named Michael Luther King Jr. and later changed his first name to Martin. He started out as a Baptist minister and helped to found the Southern ...
The Mexican flag has looked roughly the same since it was first established in 1821: three vertical stripes of green, white and red with an eagle crest in the center. The meaning of the Mexican flag colors has changed over the course of the history of the Mexican flag, as has the design of the ...
Aeschylus was a dramatist who lived in the ancient Greek city of Athens. He treats his native city with honor in a drama entitled “Eumenides.” “Eumenides” is a somewhat unusual tragedy. No one dies, and it has a happy ending. However, it is the third play of a trilogy in which there is plenty of ...
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