Sam Moore

The bitter disagreements between the Democratic-Republicans and the Federalist Party came to a head with the passing of the Alien and Sedition Acts: a series of successive legislative acts passed...

The following is a rough paraphrase of what Wordsworth is saying in the first three stanzas of "Ode to Duty": In the first stanza, Wordsworth talks to a personified version of the concept of duty,...

T. C. Boyle's short story starts with a Bruce Springsteen lyric as its epigraph and takes its title, "Greasy Lake," from the lake in the Springsteen song "Spirit in the Night." The story parallels...

I will assume in this question that you are referring to the first known agricultural revolution: the widespread transition from hunter-gatherer to settled farming cultures which occurred somewhere...

Parts of Chatwin's book In Patagonia mirror the key plot device of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, namely, the Mariner's journey southward to the South Pole as a metaphor for hell. Both Chatwin...

Although Ronald Reagan’s line “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!” from his 1987 speech at the Brandenburg Gate is now one of the most famous sound bites of its era, at the time of the speech his...