Category: Critical Thinking

Maximilien de Robespierre, a ruthless tyrant during the French Revolution who was the leader of the Committee of Public Safety (they did all of the terror), stated that “The King must die so that the country can live”, and I agree with him. King Louis XVI was a bad leader, an unworthy and terrible king…

Hammurabi’s code of laws was the law of the land of ancient Babylon. The laws state the rules for the members of the community to go by. It had been created to keep order within the community; this implies that the members were controlled to a high customary of ethics. Hammurabi wrote this code himself…

The Crusades were undoubtedly one of the most impactful wars that took place in the Medieval Ages between the people of Christian and Islamic faiths. The four hundred years of wars that occurred in three phases had shaken the entire European continent and simultaneously the world during the time period during which it occurred. Even…

Throughout an era of war, we dominantly sympathize with those offering their lives on the battlefield; nevertheless, those who aren’t directly involved in the war still personally derive the detrimental effects by losing their innocent mindset into a path of vigilance. Thus, Yolanda is a Dominican immigrant who is attending her first year in a…

Homework has been around since the early 20th century. “The roots of education are bitter, but the fruits are sweet”. This quotation reminds us that success is really hard to achieve and the road is long. However, there are times that I want to contest the message of the quotation, especially when education is involved.…

If you don’t want to take care of yourself, then taking care of your baby should be more important to you. Imagine if you were a baby, in a stomach and what you had for breakfast was a cloud of smoke. Smoking during pregnancy is more common than we think. According to a 2008 study…

Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, a gothic epistolary novel, is a narrative of a scientist who in his quest to create life and therefore achieve personal greatness, assumes the role of God. He creates life in a laboratory, thus eliminating not only the female’s cultural power but also her biological role, and as a result, suffers the…

Medievalism can be defined as “the ongoing process of recreating, reinventing, and reenacting medieval culture in postmedieval times” (Emery and Utz). David Lowery’s The Green Knight is a modern adaptation of one of the most well-known romances Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. The film The Green Knight has an accurate representation of the themes…

At his introduction from Brandeis University in 1979, Mitch Albom ensured his most refreshing teacher, Morrie Schwartz, that he would remain in contact. Life intercedes, in any case, and Mitch loses contact with his old guide until sixteen years sooner or later when he sees him being met by Ted Koppel on ABC’s ‘Nightline.’ Morrie…

Every day, major changes will occur in our lives and it’s this kind of change that can or will affect us. Between married couples, the biggest change they might face would be divorce. And, unfortunately, it has been on the rise. So to understand divorce, the discussion of the topic will regard the age difference…