In my personal (and anything but humble) opinion, reading and writing satire is one of the greatest pleasures known within the literary realm. This in no way implies that satire is easy to write because nothing could be further from the truth. Many people think that satire and comedy are synonymous. They are again off ...
Every day there is something new on the market for us to buy. Our favorite television shows are routinely “interrupted” with commercial breaks, and advertisers try to temp us with their late night infomercials. While many products are useful, admittedly, many of these items we buy are often unnecessary. Regardless of the products importance, they ...
Much of humanity today enjoys a great number of technological wonders including: email, the personal computer, the Internet, household appliances of every sort imaginable, the automobile, railroads, radio, aviation, satellite technology, cellular phones, video conferencing, television, digital cameras, magnetic resonance imaging, laser surgery, and countless other technologies that impact us on a daily basis. Each ...
How has creativity affected a historical period and the future? Well, there are many instances where creativity has done just that. One of these instances is the invention of the printing press. The printing press was invented by Johannes Gutenberg in 1436. The invention not only made an impact on its historical time period, but ...
Because of the Internet’s popularity here in the 21st century, we often take our books for granted. Sometimes they serve as status symbols; bookshelves adorned with the entire Western literary canon can speak volumes of one’s intellect – or at least give that illusion. But do you ever stop to think what it would be ...
1) Ice Cream– Yes, the Chinese invented the delicious dessert enjoyed the world over today. According to Maguelonne Toussaint-Samat , author of History of Food, “the Chinese may be credited with inventing a device to make sorbets and ice cream. They did it by mixing snow and saltpeter over containers filled with syrup. The inventor ...
Johann Gutenberg, which was short for Johannes Gensfleisch zur Laden zum Gutenberg, was born in Mainz, Germany, in about 1398. The true year of his birth is unknown. Johanne’s father was a merchant. His father’s name was Friele Gensfleisch zur Laden, and he married Else Wirich, who was the daughter of a local shopkeeper. At ...
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