

Julius Caesar II: Beware the Ides of March
In the second half of the Shakespeare play Julius Caesar , Brutus has already aided in Caesar’s death. Now what? Soon after Marc...
JulieC Clark
Apr 164 min read


WWII: The Average Intention
Bombing during WWII was happening after China refused to concede unconditionally. The popular opinion is that the bombing going on like...
JulieC Clark
Apr 142 min read


Julius Caesar I: The Fool & the Trickster
“Et tu, Brute?” One of the most well-known examples of betrayal is when Julius Caesar’s best friend participated in his murder. What got...
JulieC Clark
Apr 93 min read


FDR - Hitler
In WWII, Hitler and FDR were obviously on opposing sides, so you'd be surprised to find so many similarities between the two leaders....
JulieC Clark
Apr 71 min read


The Faerie Queene IV: Book 1 Cantos 10-12
Canto ten of Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene is set in the House of Holiness. Una took the Redcrosse Knight there to help him heal...
JulieC Clark
Apr 22 min read


The Influence of Hitler’s Mein Kampf
Most Nazis had a copy of Mein Kampf in their home, but very few people had actually read the thing, they just took each other’s word for...
JulieC Clark
Mar 312 min read


The Faerie Queene I: Book 1 Cantos 1-6
In canto 4 of Book 1 of The Faerie Queene by Edmund Spenser, there is a lot of focus on the seven deadly sins, and the characters...
JulieC Clark
Mar 302 min read


The Faerie Queene II: Book 1 Cantos 7-9
In Canto 8 of Edmund Spencer’s The Faerie Queene, the main antagonist Duessa unveils her true form. Stories use appearances to highlight...
JulieC Clark
Mar 272 min read


Mindset of Communist Russia
Communist Russia, for a long time they believed their ideology was backed up by science, which made them even more steadfast in their...
JulieC Clark
Mar 241 min read


Beginner Sonnet: A Rough Draft
The Greeks watched the changing of seasons Flowers come and go the sun rise and set The people watched and wanted a reason Dreaming...
JulieC Clark
Feb 51 min read


Karl Marx: Labor Theory of Value vs Supply & Demand
Karl Marx used the labor theory of value. The basic idea of this theory was that the value of goods and services should be based on the...
JulieC Clark
Feb 32 min read


What was the Romantic Period?
Romanticism. An artistic movement in Europe starting around the late 18th century in contrast to the Neoclassical Era. The Neoclassical...
JulieC Clark
Jan 271 min read


The Wife of Bath
In Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, the wife of Bath had married five times and she described each marriage before telling a tale of a knight...
JulieC Clark
Jan 152 min read


Oliver Cromwell
The seventeenth century was an interesting time for England because the government started trying new things. At this point, Henry VIII...
JulieC Clark
Oct 5, 20242 min read


Poetic Edda: The Trickster
The Prose Edda has many sections, and within each section there are sometimes a dozen stories. Mentionable sections for now include...
JulieC Clark
Oct 2, 20244 min read


80/20
Richard Kotch authored The 80/20 Principle, and many books surrounding this helpful philosophy. His main point throughout his books is...
JulieC Clark
Sep 28, 20241 min read


Prose Edda Part II: Life’s Journey
About half way through the "Gylfaginning" in the Prose Edda , there is a section between the setup, introduction to new characters, and...
JulieC Clark
Sep 25, 20243 min read


The Eutopians
The utopians of the 17th century were various groups of people that historian Jacques Barzun referred to collectively as "Eutopians"...
JulieC Clark
Sep 24, 20243 min read


Astronomy: The Seasons
It is typical to think of the seasons as an earthly thing that happens in nature, and space to be a separate category from nature all...
JulieC Clark
Sep 21, 20243 min read


Prose Edda Part I: Fenrir
The Edda was a story created a few centuries after Christianity had become widespread in Norse cultures. The author, Snori Sturluson,...
JulieC Clark
Sep 18, 20243 min read

