Nokola Tesla was born on a dark night at precisely midnight, between July 9th and 10th in 1856, in the village of Smiljan, Province of Lika (Austro-Hungary). His father, the Reverend Mulitine Tesla, was a Siberian Orthodox priest; his mother Djuka Mandich, was unschooled, but she was very intelli...
Concepts and social factors like class, gender roles, family relationships, and religious values among others have been cultural constants throughout history. As such they have had a tendency to creep into aspects of popular culture. Stories serve as a cultural medium to transfer values, ideas, and expectations of a society to a younger generation, and the Grimm Brothers stories such The Frog Prince, The Ungrateful Son, and, Cinderella all perform this function. In The Frog Prince such social aspects manage to show themselves throughout the tale. The story starts with the narrator talking of...
The Ideal of Womanhood in Kate Chopin's The Awakening Throughout most of history women generally have had fewer rights than men. The Women's Rights Movement began in cities of the northeast in the early to mid-1800's and soon emerged in cities of the Midwest and western states. It was not until the 1890's that women in the southern states joined the bandwagon. The Awakening by Kate Chopin, set in the coastal region of Louisiana, was written and published during this time. Industrialization, urbanization and changing social norms in the United States were great i...
In this modern age of cell phones and palm pilots we often find ourselves relying on technology to make it though the day. How many people can say that they could do without a car or a phone? Indeed we all take a lot of technology for granted. Some of the technology is so pervasive that we tend to f...
He had just recovered from his second wound when he received word that the soviet troops supporting the regime were moving against their former allies in the extreme left-wing, the anarchists and other border socialists, to which at this time Orwell was fighting with. ... He left the world with a picture of communism, socialism, and totalitarianism that cannot be matched for either accuracy nor influence. ...
