Essays on Golden Years

Gustav Stresemann is a name familiar in Germany not only because the man who owns it was its chancellor from August 1923- November 1923 or even because he stayed on as the country's foreign minister until 1929, when he died. Although needless to say these factors contribute significantly to his popularity, he was a man known to have stood up for his country at a moment when it needed people like him the most. After the First World War, Germany was in grave trouble. It had lost its international reputation, it was blamed for the start of the war, inside the ...

Abstract

Customer request that this page be left blank. If tobacco remains legal, all other drugs should be made legal. The one difference between tobacco and other drugs is, it takes longer to manifest its harms; therefore it should be made illegal just like all the other drugs. Less than half century ago for the rich, smoking was the fashionable thing to do and it was the proclamation of adulthood for the poor. It was a time when one could not look into a magazine or drive two miles without finding a very handsome man with a lit cigarette, or a very attractive, ...

Before the age of Mohammed Muslims said that their people lived in the age of ignorance and the Arabian Peninsula was an archaic place that housed a myriad of religions and cultures – some sort of political wasteland (Basif, 2013). The Bedouins were the nomads that occupied the peninsula and provided the backbone for the social atmosphere. They were skilled travellers and controlled the commercial networks. While the peninsula housed a lot of towns and cities, Mecca stood out from them all. It was not a major trading city or a crossroad to one but it stood near an oasis marked by a black cube. ...

Retirement

Elizabeth knows that she has had a retirement like the one she dreamed of, but much of that is due to the careful planning and saving that she and her husband did while they were working. Instead of living beyond their means, or up to their means, they put money away throughout their working years, no matter how difficult it seemed at the time. Instead, by living a lifestyle that also enabled them to save money for their retirement has made their golden years much more enjoyable. Now, they see some of their friends that made very different decisions years ago ...

An Unlikely Medium: Comparing Film and Reality in ‘Jesse James’

Criticism of movies based on history, such as Jesse James, raises an interesting point about the purpose of moviemaking. Those who panned the film for being “notorious for its historical inaccuracy” overlooked the entertainment factor, which, after all, overrides all other artistic considerations. Even a “historical” film such as Lawrence of Arabia, widely considered one of the finest movies ever made, is more concerned with adventure and exploring the chaos that can arise from the ambiguities of human morality than with a strictly linear recounting of events in the Middle East ...