“You better not never tell nobody but God. It’d kill your mammy” (opening lines). The Color Purple offers a heart-wrenching revival of the epistolary novel –it is told through a series of letters written by Celie (pronounced “See-Lee”), a young black girl living in the South during the early half…
Reflections On Aristotle’s Prime Unmoved Mover
The summit of Aristotle’s examination of “first philosophy” occurs in Book XII of his Metaphysics. Chapters 1-5 of Book XII reiterate Aristotle’s examination into the nature of thinghood (an inquiry which had previously appeared in Aristotle’s Physics). Thinghood is a kind of whole (not a part of a whole) representing…
The Tudors: Henry VIII & The English Reformation (1509-1547)
Was he the delightful “Bluff King Hal,” famous Renaissance Prince? Or instead was he a bloated and arrogant tyrant who sacrificed the common good for his own vanity? Do we remember him fondly as an intellectual purveyor of freedom, or rather as a self-seeking opportunist who opened the door to…
The Tudors: Henry VII (1485-1509)
From out of the darkness and strife of civil war, late 15th century England emerged stable, intact, and full of hope in a new ruling family: The Tudors. The thirty years of civil war, known as The Wars of the Roses, had torn the country apart in an unraveling political…