Sparks Commentary

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

Wednesday, December 27, 2023

A review of “Medical Science” (audiobook)

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There have been some massive advances in medical science since the  Renaissance . Medical science goes back at least as far as the Ancient G...
Monday, December 25, 2023

Scriptures of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints

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“ We believe the Bible to be the word of God as far as it is translated correctly ; we also believe the Book of Mormon to be the word of God...
Wednesday, December 13, 2023

A review of “Horror in the East: Japan and the Atrocities of World War II” (BBC)

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Warning: This blog post contains several disturbing pictures. One of them shows the body of a child. The Japanese were racist against other ...
Wednesday, November 29, 2023

A review of “Swiss Gnomes and Global Investing” (audiobook)

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So I was recently listening to some additional presentations from an audio series about investment . This particular installment was called ...
Monday, November 27, 2023

A review of the BBC’s “The Crusades”

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The  Crusades  are one of the most infamous episodes in all of medieval history . More than 700 years later, they are still extremely contro...
Sunday, November 19, 2023

A review of the BBC’s “The Stuarts & The Stuarts in Exile”

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“… all and every person and persons, who shall or may take or inherit the said Crown, by virtue of the limitation of this present act, and i...
Wednesday, November 8, 2023

A review of “Duns Scotus and Medieval Christianity” (audiobook)

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The  Scottish   philosopher   Duns Scotus  got a bad rap after his death. The English word “dunce” comes from the name of “Duns Scotus.” ...
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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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