Sparks Commentary

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

Monday, September 23, 2013

A review of Melvyn Bragg's “The Adventure of English” (ITV)

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"What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet." - William Shakespeare 's "...
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Tuesday, September 17, 2013

Our Constitution

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A document may not seem To be of much worth. But one of them is among The best of things on Earth. It is our Constitution. It hel...

Miracle at Philadelphia

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A miracle occurred in Philadelphia on September 17, 1787. The  United States Constitution  was signed. It was the product of four lon...
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Thursday, September 12, 2013

Adam Smith and the American Revolution

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"The rebellious war now levied is become more general, and is manifestly carried on for the purpose of establishing an independent em...
Saturday, September 7, 2013

Movies I've watched with foreign-language subtitles

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Specifically, Spanish and French subtitles
Saturday, August 31, 2013

A review of “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington” (1939 film)

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"Your friend Mr. Lincoln had his Taylors and Paines. So did every other man who ever tried to lift his thought up off the ground. Odd...
Saturday, August 24, 2013

The Founding Fathers and the History Channel

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The History Channel has made a few documentaries about the lives of the  Founding Fathers . There is one in particular that I would like t...
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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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