… breath, you are besieged with strange sensory data pouring into your newborn self. You immediately begin to discriminate this data to find meaning in what would otherwise be a meaningless world. Sadly, we are not born enlightened, but born into…

… vs. Common Sense Of all the things learned and decided in ones life, the subject of religion is always considered the most important. This report very well may upset some of the “Bible belt” Christians, who cannot seem to allow any thought…

… the seventeenth century was an exceptional era for detail and baroque painters to flourish. Leiden itself was a cultural centre for these styles, especially if one considers the influence’s of Rembrandt van Rijn and several of his Leiden pupils.…

… hour before our expected arrival. Great, I thought, an extra hour I would be waste at my grandparents'. Wasn't it good enough that I was spending the entire weekend here? Did we have to get there so soon? When you are thirteen, each minute at your…

… score with "brilliantly written" as a professor's comment) Masaccio’s fresco The Tribute Money (1427) is a continuous narrative which uses contrapposto, aerial perspective, and humanistic facial expressions and body postures to illustrate purposefu…

… was educated at a Jesuit college which was firmly grounded in the scholastic tradition. After furthering his education in Paris, he enlisted in the Dutch and, later, the Bavarian militaries. In 1629 Descartes moved to Holland where he lived in seclusi…

… Responses. Since the 1980’s academia and professionals alike have been picking at the bones of discussion regarding the ‘decline’ of Trade Unions, their strategies of ‘survival’ and issuing prescriptions as to the most suitable form…

… the ruling authority must decide what is right when allocating wealth to its individual citizens. The same ruling authority does this by intervening with the inner workings of a marketplace to uphold its fundamental values and ideals. The…

… What did Leo say about the poor people? Leo said that: The present age has handed over the working poor to inhumane employers and greedy competitors. (a. 6) He saw the working poor as needy and helpless, (a. 66) And they are insufficiently…

… guard against what one of the Founding Fathers called an "excess of democracy," the Constitution was built with many ways to limit the government's power. Among these methods were separating the three branches, splitting the legislature so laws passed…