… mind to uncover knowledge. Knowing one can obtain knowledge motivates the mind to gain more knowledge. Plato explains the theory of recollection by first questioning what virtue is, then demonstrating the process through the questioning of a slave…

… dependency, political fragmentation, and technological stagnation from the first days they set foot upon African soil. According to Walter Rodney, a black activist from Guyana, slavery and colonialism were the very movements Europeans implemented…

… the world today concerns human population. The number of people living off the earth¡¦s resources and stressing its ecosystem has doubled in just forty years. In 1960 there were 3 billion of us; today there are 6 billion. We have no idea what maximum…

… by Alice Walker, is a very intense book to read. By intense, I mean it is a book touching very difficult and hard aspects of life of a poor, black oppressed woman in the early twentieth century. Walker does social criticism in her novel, mostly…

… the 20th century, it has been the media’s job to pinpoint what events and people would prove to be an effective story. This was certainly the case for Howard R. Hughes. Son to the wealthy Howard Hughes Sr., Howard became the interest of the American…

… Flack immediately knew she wanted to become an artist. Despite her family’s lack of enthusiasm about her artistic goals, Flack attended the high school of Music and Art, where she won the St. Gaudens medal. Following graduation from Cooper Union…

… 1805. Tocqueville's father was a royalist prefect from Normandy who supported the Bourbon monarchy, his great-grandfather was a liberal aristocrat killed in the French Revolution, and his mother was a devout Roman Catholic who strongly advocated a return…

… April 20th, 1889 a child was born in the small town of Branau, Austria. The name of the child was Adolf Hitler. He was the son a Customs official Alois Hitler, and his third wife Klara. As a young boy Adolf attendated church regulary and sang in…

… a brewer at all: he was a super-salesman, and perhaps the greatest ever heard of in America. Granted that he knew good beer and ever sought after it, the fact remains that he did not know how to make it at all. In the same course of time he found…

… of a Vermont storekeeper. He was born in the house at the rear of his father's combined general store and post office in Plymouth Notch. In 1891 he enrolled in Amherst College in Amherst, Massachusetts. His favorite subjects at college were philosoph…