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.
Why we exist
Why do we exist?
What is the reason for our life on this earth, and who put us here in the first place? These are questions that have haunted Mankind from the moment we began to stand upright and gaze at the stars in wonder. Wondering among all of those billions of stars and galaxies about our own place in the grand scheme of things.
So let us look at the first question: Why do we exist? This is a question
Write nowvote now: Yes or No - (view results)
Yes
by Rikijeanne
Role playing not only provides value to literature, it is used in the business world on a daily basis.
No
by Judy Joyce
ROLE PLAYING DOES NOT PROVIDE VALUE TO LITERATURE.
This question has been posed upside down. Literature
Playwrights & Plays
- Plot summary: I Lombardi alla prima crociata (The Lombards on the First Crusade), by Giuseppe Verdi
- Plot summary: Alceste, by Christoph Willibald Gluck
- Essays: Oscar Wilde and his personal influence within his plays
- Society's true face as seen in the plays The Importance of Being Earnest and Sure Thing
- Play reviews: Traditional themes in Shaw's Pygmalion and Euripedes' Medea
- Plot summary: Bastien und Bastienne, by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Plot summary: Siegfried, by Richard Wagner
Political Philosophy
- Defining the concepts of license, liberty, and freedom in a democracy
- Is the United States really defending human rights and democracy around the world?
- The history of communism in the United States
- Property rights and democracy in South Africa
- Challenging Karl Marx and his communist manifesto
- Essay analysis: The harm principle as discussed in On Liberty, by John Stuart Mill
- The pros and cons of capitalism
Writing Resources
- Web site reviews: Livejournal.com - not just a blog
- Experience with the Print-On-Demand company LuLu
- The best online writing courses
- Book reviews: How I write - Secrets of a Bestselling Author, by Janet Evanovich
- Book reviews: Self-Editing for Fiction Writers, by Renni Browne and David King
- Book reviews: On Writing Romance, How to Craft a Novel That Sells, by Leigh Michaels
- Guide to British literary magazines
Writing for Success
- How to protect your idea from getting ripped off
- What makes a best-seller?
- Book reviews: Pen On Fire, by Barbara DeMarco-Barrett
- How to write and sell your first horror novel
- Book reviews: Writing Romance, by Vanessa Grant
- Reasons why you should try to write about what you know
- Speed writing: Producing a novel in just 30 days
by Chris Pearce
Grammar is all about words and their arrangement. It is about rules relating to these things so that we can communicate in such a way
by Eutychus
When learning to draw its important to remember that you are learning, your not Leonardo Da Vinci. Alot of people simply give up because
How many times can we say we were wrong in our lives when it came to what we thought was beautiful only to find the opposite?
Growing
by Rukhaya Mk
The world is too much with us; late and soon,
Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers;
Little we see in Nature that is ours;
We
Writing Assignments
- Arts & Humanities (Other)
- Book reviews: The Victorian Visitors, by Rupert Christiansen
- Theater & Drama
- 17th Century French actors
- Show the kids: Children's theater in Connecticut
- Theater reviews: The Seafarer
- Theater reviews: Walking with Dinosaurs, Rose Garden, Portland, OR
- Theater reviews: Colonial Theater, Boston
- Theater reviews: Menopause, the Musical
- Play reviews: Lookingglass Alice
- Shakespeare in modern day South Africa
- Theatre reviews: Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, at The Courtyard Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon, UK
- History Mysteries
- History mystery: Southern Wisconsin's Mound Man
- History mystery: The disappearance of Richard Lionheart's Sons
- History mystery: The Beast of Bray Road
- History mystery: Was the Philadelphia Experiment real?
- History mystery: New Zealand's Kaimanawa Wall
- History mystery: Underwater structures at Moselles Shoals
- History mystery: The submerged walls of the Pescadores Islands
- History (Other)
- History for Kids: The Guy Fox Educational Program
- The history of international prosecution of genocide
- Wars in which paramilitary forces played a prominent role
- The Danish Laws of Standing in 1871
- The history of the Evenk people of Siberia
- A history of the Turkic people of Siberia
- The history of the Yenisei people of Siberia
- The history of the Altaic people of Siberia
- A history of the Amur people of Siberia
- Clothing: Native American peoples of the northwest coast
- The World Wars
- The forgotten cavalry charge of the Royal Savoia
- Book reviews: Hitler's Scientists, by John Cornwell
- Looking at the hidden connection between Zionism, Naziism and the holocaust
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- Business of Writing (Other)
- Does selling used textbooks hurt authors and publishers?
- Should faculty sell complementary copies to book resellers?
- Are used textbooks the solution to the high cost of textbooks?
- Which is better for writers: Finding a print or online publisher?
- 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?
