John Sebastian Bach was born during the year of 1685 and died during the year of 1750. He was a German organist and the most modern composer of the first half of the eighteenth century. Bach composed his music during Baroque period of European classical...
The music world is occupied by both the memory and current life of the musical equivalent to Albert Einstein. Often times these musical geniuses are grouped together based on their style, where they are from, or even their personal lives. An unfortunate example of this...
By the 19th-century, according to Hawthorne and Melville, a man’s home was no longer his castle, but an effete parlor-room, a locus of stripped and castrated masculinity that hampered the development of classically intellectual and original literature in favor of the mawkish and uniform. While...
Nature, or nurture? This centuries-old debate continues to spark intense research today, not just in social sciences, but also in many other disciplines like musicology and history. Particularly, in her article, “The blasphemy of talking politics during Bach Year,” Susan McClary essentially lays out the...
During the 19th century, education required a hefty sum of money that only wealthy merchants and government officials could afford. Elementary through high school which we take for granted, are now free due to a law which, according to the Washington Post, did not take...
Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev had been discussing resolving the Cold War for a long time to no avail. Mikhail Gorbachev partially agreed to resolving the Cold War if Reagan stopped his SDI project (Strategic Defense Initiative). SDI was a missile defense system that would...
On December 26, 1991, the dissolution of the Soviet Union was finalized when the self-governing Republics of the Soviet Union were granted independence as per declaration number 142-H. Historians have long debated the factors and implications that catalyzed the fall of the Soviet Union, with...
I stopped dead in my tracks. I had just heard the most appalling sound. I rushed toward the bedroom, and I stood in the doorframe. I knew what I was looking at, but I just couldn’t believe it. Electrical wiring dangled from the remains of...
