Sparks Commentary

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

Monday, June 22, 2015

Why we allied with Soviet Russia during World War II, and then fought against it later on

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"The Government of the German Reich and The Government of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics[,] desirous of strengthening the ca...
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Tuesday, June 16, 2015

Why I majored in marketing

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This post expands upon a story from a previous blog post, linked to here .
Friday, June 12, 2015

A review of PBS's movie "George H. W. Bush"

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"My opponent won't rule out raising taxes. But I will. And the Congress will push me to raise taxes and I'll say no. And they...
Tuesday, June 2, 2015

What history can tell us about economics

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I've had a number of people tell me over the years that with my interest in  history , I should have been a  history teacher . Thus, i...
Friday, May 29, 2015

JFK and RFK: A few movies about their lives

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"And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you--ask what you can do for your country . My fellow citizens of ...
Monday, May 18, 2015

A review of “The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression”

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We've all heard stories about how bad things were during the Great Depression , with extensive poverty and massive unemployment - perh...
Wednesday, May 13, 2015

Some thoughts about business education

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"In a free-enterprise, private-property system, a corporate executive is an employee of the owners of the business. He has a direct r...
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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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