Sparks Commentary

Part history, part politics, and part random other stuff.

Thursday, December 25, 2025

What areas of archeology are most relevant to Biblical Studies?

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I have been learning the Ancient Greek language since 2013. I’ve even used it to read some Plato in the original . But my main goal with th...
Tuesday, December 16, 2025

What are the Intolerable Acts?

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“An act to allow a drawback of the duties of customs on the exportation of tea to any of his Majesty's colonies or plantations in Ameri...
Thursday, December 11, 2025

How the British Empire was replaced by the British Commonwealth

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“We refer to the group of self-governing communities composed of Great Britain and the Dominions. Their position and mutual relation may be ...
Wednesday, December 10, 2025

On the merits of using re-enactments in documentary films

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Budgets are the bane of documentary filmmakers, as well as their biggest constraint I’ve watched a few films by Elizabeth Deane, who has mad...
Monday, December 1, 2025

History of Antarctica: From the earliest explorers to the 21st century

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“Antarctica shall be used for peaceful purposes only . There shall be prohibited, inter alia, any measure of a military nature, such as the...
Monday, November 24, 2025

A review of “Baruch Spinoza” (audiobook)

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In 1656, Baruch Spinoza was excommunicated , from the  Jewish  community into which he was born. He had taught some doctrines that offended ...
Friday, November 21, 2025

Philosophy posts by time, place, and topic

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Here is a sort of “table of contents” for my philosophical posts: By philosophical topics: Philosophy generally Political philosophy specifi...
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Jeffrey Sparks
By training, I am a business major with a concentration in marketing, and a certificate in economics. I originally wanted to do market research for businesses because I enjoyed the social science aspects of marketing, and I have studied psychology a little on my own; but I now wonder if this will ever be my field. I have also taken a fair amount of communications classes, because I thought about grad school in advertising or public relations (or even business & economic journalism), but I'm not sure I will ever do these things. (I'm glad I studied them just the same, though.) By inclination, I learn about a lot of other things in my spare time. For example, I am a history buff, an aspiring polyglot, an amateur linguist, a political philosopher (after a fashion), and a student of the Bible. Most of the things I study on my own these days have something to do with one of these subjects (or sometimes even more than one), and I write about many of them on my blog. So my actual profession is … you guessed it … a math tutor! Not what you'd expect, right? (Not what I would have expected, either … )
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