Arts & Humanities
Discussions of the quality craftsmanship or practice of trade, expressions of beauty and appeal, and the study of the human arts. From classic theater to Greek philosophy. Debate on great literature, talks of museums holding the collected works of the greatest artists, and analysis of the great moments of history. All can be found in the Arts & Humanities channel.
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Silly stories
by Kefilwe Das
The Fox and the Watch Chapter 1 At the mere hour of 7 am on a Sunday morning, a curious head peeped over the blankets. These blankets were contained in an illustrious wooden hand carved bed. In a matter of seconds there was a crash. The curious head, followed by the body to which it was attached, had suffered a slight bump. Rising from the floor, a man appeared. He was rightful the owner of t... read more
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A simplified (not simplistic) life is actually the only cure for globalization. Thoreau's idea o... read more
20th & 21st Century US History
- Biography: Theodore Roosevelt
- How Bayard Rustin advanced the gay and civil rights movement
- Biographies: Lizzie Borden
- The response to Ronald Reagan's "Tear down this wall" Speech
- The Galveston hurricane
- The history of US involvement in the Vietnam War
- How American infantry fought the Viet Cong early in the Vietnam War
Museum Reviews
- Museum reviews: Utah State Historical Society Museum, Salt Lake City
- Reviews: Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum
- Museum reviews: The MoMA (Museum of Modern Art), New York
- Museum reviews: Boston Children's Museum
- The museum of the Cherokee Indian in North Carolina
- Museum reviews: East Anglian Transport Museum, near Lowestoft, Suffolk, England
- Museum reviews: National Museum of Art, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Playwrights & Plays
- Play reviews: Bad Seed, by Maxwell Anderson
- Play reviews: Dr. Faustus, by Christopher Marlowe
- History of the opera
- Identity crisis and split personality in Nagamandala, by Girish Karnad
- Biographies: Edward Bullins, Playwrite
- Plot summary: Cyrano de Bergerac, by Edmond Rostand
- Comparing character presentations in "Death of a Salesman" and "The Glass Menagerie"
Writing Jobs
- How to break into the children's market with nonfiction
- Music journalism: Getting started in the field
- The Writing Industry
- How to be a parent and a writer
- Tracking the problems and successes of modern journalism
- How to get health insurance as a freelance writer
- Business communications: Ghostwriting for management
The question is, if a tree falls in the woods and there's no one to hear it, does it make a sound? That is a difficult questio... read more
by Heather Lyon
Hera is the queen of the Gods and the wife of Zeus (as well as his sister). She is the matron Goddess presiding over the fami... read more
Knowledge is a self-reflective concatenation of experience that has formed a coherent complex of information about topic and r... read more
by John Devera
The English word "love" can mean so many things to so many people in so many circumstances. The ancient Greek philosophers had... read more
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- Arts & Humanities (Other)
- Book Review: The Love Dare, by Stephen and Alex Kendrick with Lawrence Kimbrough
- Magazine reviews: Star*Line, official journal of the Science Fiction Poetry Association
- Theater & Drama
- A guide to South Australia's Festival Theatre
- 17th Century French actors
- Show the kids: Children's theater in Connecticut
- Evaluating the Palace Theater, Syracuse, NY
- Evaluating the Royal Oak Music Theatre, Royal Oak, MI
- Theater reviews: Walking with Dinosaurs, Rose Garden, Portland, OR
- Theater reviews: Colonial Theater, Boston
- European History
- Maritime history: The emergence of the Royal Scots Navy
- How the accession of Charles 1 affected the standing of the Royal Navy
- The history of progress: The industrialization of Spain
- The Royal Navy and the Beira patrol
- The history of the gay Popes in the Catholic church
- Europes social order in the 18th century
- Cromwell and the new model army in Ireland, 1649-53
- The Tudor conquest of Ireland
- Biography: Queen Agnes, the Regent of England
- Biography: Herrad von Landsberg, the Abbess of St. Odile
- Biography: Queen Margaret of Denmark
- The origins of the British Empire
- Similarities between the Japnese Empire and the British Empire
- History of the Balkans
- History of Bucharest, Romania
- Ancient History
- Biography: Diotima of Mantinia
- The rise of the Toltecs in Mesoamerican
- The collapse of the Mayan civilization
- The history of Mayan society
- The decline and fall of Teotihuacan
- The history of ancient Greek colonies in Southern Italy
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- Ethics
- Do German reparations as restitution for the Holocaust place a burden on the wrong generation?
- Is taking the easy way out cowardly or smart?
- Theater & Drama
- Should a script be changed to suit the audience?
- Are standing ovations becoming overused by theater audiences?
- European History
- Was Anne Boleyn responsible for some of the most sweeping changes in Europe during her lifetime?
- Should Spain strike Franco from the history books?
