Changing History for the Better 2,503 years ago, foes met on the plain of Marathon in Greece. They were the Persians and the Athenian Greeks. In the year, 490 B.C, the Persians and Athenians were in a stalemate, the air tense and both armies bristling. The Persians were a very diversified group with light spearmen, Read more…
Ambition Ambition must be made to counteract Ambition, itself its greatest hindrance. Old ambitions are so often attacked, Crushed, replaced, leaving only an imprint. See, Ambition’s prey is satisfaction, Satisfaction, the result of getting. Getting, the end of a vast reaction, Catalyzed by a sneaky Read more…
Roosevelt, Vidal; Reagan, Buckley The two modern political traditions of our country are liberalism and conservatism, and they can be characterized by Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Ronald Reagan, respectively. These two men established standards of excellence that politicians now aspire to. Gore Vidal and William Buckley Jr. are two of the most Read more…
Morality and Perspective in Eudora Welty’s Flowers for Marjorie and A Memory The great thinker Socrates once said, “A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.” This statement of Socrates reflected his frustration with an Read more…
