by Amanda Read Sheik | Apr 14, 2008 | Literary Projects, The Crusading Chemist, World Views
Finally, I shall explain what all this research and writing and registering is really all about after all. What exactly is The Crusading Chemist about anyway? First of all, it is a biopic about a historical character already vague and yet increasingly curious to the...
by Amanda Read Sheik | Mar 9, 2008 | Journal, Literary Projects, The Girlhood Home Companion, World Views
I didn’t get to make a post on the first day of March, so I will begin this post with what occurred then. Our friends the Williams kindly invited Rachel, Joseph and me to accompany them to a splendid performance of Fiddler On The Roof. I saw the movie many...
by Amanda Read Sheik | Nov 26, 2007 | Journal, World Views
Colonial America, being the turning point for the Old World and the starting point for the New, ought not be misrepresented. The people and politics of the continental experiment could not have been perfect or utopian, and neither did they strive for such unrealistic...
by Amanda Read Sheik | Oct 31, 2007 | Comedy, Reminiscences, World Views
As the ways of the world expand and become more complicated, things that should be sharp and clear become hazy, dull and nearly unobtrusive to some. Is the majority simply too weary to debate ancient cultural traditions that have since been commercially modernized?...
by Amanda Read Sheik | Oct 18, 2007 | World Views
My father forwarded an e-mail from a friend of his to me last month. The e-mail contains a list of well researched statistics regarding military fatalities in the past. The significance of this information reveals a plain and simple (though often ignored) fact. Pure...
by Amanda Read Sheik | Oct 11, 2007 | World Views
Recently I saw an online article about intellectuals disputing the authorship of Shakespeare’s writings. They said that Shakespeare, “being a provincial lad”, could not have possibly written such excellent dramas regarding law, politics, philosophy,...
