Sparks Commentary

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

Friday, October 25, 2019

A review of “12 Angry Men” (1957 movie)

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“You've listened to a long and complex case, murder in the first degree. Premeditated murder is the most serious charge tried in our c...
Saturday, October 12, 2019

A review of Rafael Lapesa's “Historia de la lengua espaƱola”

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“We hope that this book, which knows how to say the important and say it well, contributes to spread linguistic knowledge that usually re...
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, October 4, 2019

How did the Cold War lead to the Space Race?

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“ Poyekhali !” (“Let's go!”) – Yuri Gagarin , the first man in space, at the moment of the Vostok 1 rocket launch that first sent h...
Tuesday, October 1, 2019

A review of Michael Wood's “The Story of China”

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“Representing the will of the people of the entire nation, it has formulated the organization law for the Central People's Government ...

A review of PBS's “Silicon Valley” (American Experience)

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This documentary focuses on a historical company called “Fairchild Semiconductor” … I was expecting this movie to be about Bill Gates a...
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Saturday, September 28, 2019

Confucius and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints

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Leaders of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints have often quoted from various  philosophers  to make their point. European   ...
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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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