“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife. However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his first entering a neighbourhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of the surrounding families, that he is considered as the rightful property of some one or other of their daughters.” – Jane Austen, Chapter I, Pride and Prejudic..
June 11th, 2010
In 1860, Mr Tipping purchased land in Lancaster, and in September of the same year, a smelting company was started a mile and a half from his premises. The noxious fumes from this company injured the trees and shrubs in the premises of Mr Tipping and rendered his cattle unhealthy, whereby he was unable to use his land in a beneficial manner. So Mr Tipping took the case to the Court and it was held, in what is more commonly kno..
April 22nd, 2010
The extremities of human nature never fail to amaze us. Good and evil, anger and passivity, love and hate- they all are woven into the fabric of our humanness. But of all the extremes, evil bewilders us the most, and sometimes, overpowered by fits of sanctimoniousness and engulfed by our ideologies, we unleash immense horror upon fellow human beings. Such is the story of Adolf Hitler. He was a man who was born to achieve great..
April 5th, 2010
In a free, democratic society, each of us has a right to breathe pollution free air, a right to move around freely, a right to privacy, a right to adequate shelter, a right to livelihood. But have we ever stopped to wonder what it is that guarantees us these rights? From having the right to legal aid, to the right to a speedy trial; from the right to food, water and education, to the right to having an appropriate life insuran..
April 2nd, 2010
“I said if you're thinkin' of being my baby it don't matter if you're black or white…”
Just lyrics? Not quite… they represent an ideology, an idiosyncratic faith in equality, an iconoclastic rise to fame for an ordinary boy born on August 28, 1958 in Gary, Indiana with an extraordinary musical talent who would go on to change the very definition of song, dance and entertainment, and became the legend, the King himse..
March 17th, 2010
If there lived a woman who could turn heads like no other, her name was Marilyn Monroe. Perhaps it was her patent charm, or her blatant sexuality impeccably blended with girly innocence that made her the legend she is; or maybe it was the controversies – the nude photographs, the three marriages, and the alleged affair with one of the most famous Presidents of the United States. But the secret (as D..
February 21st, 2010
