Essays on Continental Drift

The American Dream, once a noble ideal of freedom and individualism, has been replaced by a ruthless game for money, at the expense of freedom and morality. In his novel Continental Drift, Russell Banks highlights the interplay of money and freedom in his characters’ lives...

Since ancient times, humans have always been full of curiosity about the earth. In fact, humans began to observe and describe geological phenomena, especially, the composition of continents from the middle of the 16th century. In 1596, Abraham Ortelius, a Belgian cartographer and geographer, proposed...