Sparks Commentary

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

Monday, August 24, 2020

A review of “The Dark Ages: An Age of Light” (BBC)

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The Early Middle Ages are today remembered as the  “Dark Ages.”  The art historian Kenneth Clark made this argument in his landmark docum...
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Friday, August 14, 2020

What college majors are best for entering the finance field?

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“The most powerful force in the universe is compound interest .” – The greatest Albert Einstein quote that  Albert Einstein  (most like...
Monday, August 3, 2020

What should I study to go into marketing research?

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I should preface this by saying that I have a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, with a Concentration in Marketing. I don’t ha...
Sunday, July 26, 2020

A review of Ken Burns’ “Horatio’s Drive: America's First Road Trip”

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“♪ He'd have to get under—get out and get under—to fix his little machine He was just dying to cuddle his queen But ev'ry minute...
Friday, July 10, 2020

A review of Ken Burns’ “Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio” (PBS)

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Sometimes these three men were friends … At other times, they were cutthroat business rivals The filmmaker  Ken Burns  became famous whe...

What is “Blackstonian property”?

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“There is nothing which so generally strikes the imagination, and engages the affections of mankind, as the right of property ; or that so...
Thursday, July 9, 2020

The Fourteenth Amendment is something of a mixed bag …

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It might seem strange to say it today, but the “Bill of Rights” amendments were once understood to apply only to the federal government, ...
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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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