Have you ever repeated a word so many times that it seems to lose its meaning? One-syllable words always seem especially funny somehow, and I spent about five minutes this morning daydreaming about meat, of all things. I looked into the history of the word meat, and this led me to wonder about other edible …
The Minoans of ancient Greece embodied one the world’s first great civilizations, with innovations that pervaded nearly every facet of their lives. The Egyptians, across the sea and equally great in their own right, had a rich, ancient culture that undoubtedly influenced all who encountered it. When the two civilizations collided, an exchange of goods …
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In searching for themes among William Shakespeare’s plays, I observed numerous parallels between the views that the poet chose to assert regarding love and romance in Midsummer Night’s Dream and Twelfth Night. It’s confusing, really, to try to determine exactly what his position on the love actually was. The story Shakespeare tells in the plays …
As often as I take for granted the comforts and conveniences of today, I also contrive to understand how our culture came to be as it is now. Compelled by an unspeakable desire to connect with my earliest ancestors, to I decided to do a mini-research study into the beginnings of art and civilization. Since …
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