Victoria's Reading Alcove – Page 2 – Humanities for the Unbound Mind

To be a Giver of Flight

I recently entered a poetry contest sponsored by a writers’ group of Facebook. The group has over 117,000…

by Victoria Adams August 14, 2023

During the week I spent going through my mum’s things a few years ago, I discovered a scrap…

by Victoria Adams July 2, 2023

According to the information provided by Study.com (updated 9/22/2022) the following appears to be the case. NOTE: Banned…

by Victoria Adams June 18, 2023

This was another case of starting a post on social media and finding an article instead. There has…

by Victoria Adams August 7, 2022

Last week we explored a sense of what “Originalist” means in the field of Constitutional law studies. This…

by Victoria Adams July 10, 2022

Originalism is a legal theory of interpretation. It is a viewpoint when seeking guidance from legal texts such…

by Victoria Adams July 1, 2022

In July of 64 CE, a fire ravaged Rome for six days turning seventy percent of the city…

by Victoria Adams June 12, 2022

I recently watched the movie Snowden, a bio-thriller released in 2016. The movie received mixed reviews and was…

by Victoria Adams November 23, 2021

First and foremost, never, ever use their images. Which of course is why there are no Disney images…

by Victoria Adams November 13, 2021

This past week from November second through the sixth, East Indians around the world have been celebrating Diwali,…

by Victoria Adams November 6, 2021