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Showing posts with label Simon Schama. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Simon Schama. Show all posts
Wednesday, April 15, 2020

A review of “Civilizations”

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A modern series inspired by Kenneth Clark’s “Civilisation” (which aired in 1969) … Before watching this program, I knew next to nothi...
Tuesday, October 8, 2019

A review of Simon Schama's “The Story of the Jews”

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“For thou art an holy people unto the L ORD thy God: the L ORD thy God hath chosen thee to be a special people unto himself, above all ...
Friday, May 1, 2015

A review of Simon Schama’s “A History of Britain”

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"That the two Kingdoms of  England and Scotland  shall upon the First day of May which shall be in the year One thousand seven hundre...
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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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