Sparks Commentary

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

Friday, January 24, 2014

Why Adam Smith is still relevant today

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" ... every individual necessarily labours to render the annual revenue of the society as great as he can. He generally, indeed, neit...
Thursday, January 2, 2014

My experience with Spanish

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"♪ Mexicanos, al grito de guerra / el acero aprestad y el bridón. Y retiemble en sus centros la Tierra, al sonoro rugir del cañón. ♪...
Friday, December 27, 2013

My search for the Greek New Testament

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"Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find ; knock, and it shall be opened unto you: For every one that asketh receivet...
Thursday, December 5, 2013

My favorite superhero

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Batman has always been my favorite superhero. This is not to say I haven't enjoyed other superheroes as well - I loved the old Supe...
Saturday, November 16, 2013

Some thoughts about third parties, refusing to vote, and choosing the lesser of two evils

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I'm a believer that sometimes one has to choose the lesser of two evils, because no good choice is then available. But I've heard ...
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Tuesday, October 29, 2013

A few problems with “The Communist Manifesto”

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" A spectre is haunting Europe - the spectre of communism . All the Powers of old Europe have entered into a holy alliance to exorcis...
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Tuesday, October 22, 2013

My positive experience with psychology

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One of the great surprises of my  education  was how much I liked psychology. This would have surprised me in my younger days, as I though...
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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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