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71Discovering Charles Morgan, a forgotten British author
Charles Morgan, the playwright and novelist, was a household name in the 1930s and 1940s and enjoyed an immense reputation in his lifetime, winning the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction in 1940. He...
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82My Top Ten List of Literary Characters I Would Date
My creative writing professor encouraged us to keep a journal of our more interesting ideas. One night, one of my friends commented that if he had to sleep with a member of the Greek pantheon, he'd choose...
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70Old-Time Southern Recipes: Food From the Past
Sharing a few interesting recipes from a very old cookbook of traditional Virginia foods, "Cooking of the Old Dominion Prior to 1838. The introduction explains: "let these present day cooks recall that the cook of the plantation days was daily called upon to serve guests in a number which would tax the capacity of many modern hotels." The recipes serve huge quantities and show several anachronisms of the era.
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56The Plain Truth About Your Right To Vote
Don't misunderstand me; I encourage most of you to vote! With elections looming, the present race(s) in these United States of America is in a roller coaster free fall toward her change. It is both...
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69Social and Gender Implications to Victorian Women and Their Writing
I have always had a strong interest in Victorian literature specifically written by women. It was such a challenging time for women, but instead of keeping their heads down and busying themselves with...
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64western masterpieces, part 2
the time of neoclacism at the 18th century will change arcaic styles and old ways of thinking in the concepts of writing western masterpieces, nacionalism was curiosly intertwined with polital...
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72A Very civil War in the Arctic
The MSN Encarta Dictionary on line gives six definitions for the word civil, with the first one describing it as referring to being polite in a cold and informal manner, and the second definition describing...
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64America meets Japan
Beginning of United States/Japan Relations: How a Modern Country opens Negotiations with a Medieval Nation Japan was a country with ancient practices and closed to the world with a feudal system of...
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67Christian Church Controversies Today: Are They Worth Schisms?
From time to time, as a part time seminarian and licensed American Baptist minister, I’ll be exploring various issues of faith. Feel free to comment from your tradition to what you read here. My only...
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49Vineyards of the Nineteenth Century
At the beginning of the nineteenth century the countryside, which until then had been noted for its brigands, became safer.The wealthier wine growers began to build large houses in the middle of their...
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