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If you have an interest in how news is constructed, as I do, you might enjoy reading The News: A User’s Manual (2014) by Alain de Botton. The author notes (p. 11): The news known how to render its own mechanics almost invisible and therefore hard to question. It speaks to us in a natural […]
The Nov. 20, 2013 New York Times article – entitled: “24,000-Year-Old Body Is Kin to Both Europeans and American Indians” – begins as follows: The genome of a young boy buried at Mal’ta near Lake Baikal in eastern Siberia some 24,000 years ago has turned out to hold two surprises for anthropologists. The first […]
As I’ve discussed in previous posts, relatively little is known about Colonel Samuel Smith of Long Branch (Toronto not New Jersey) as a historical personality. There hasn’t been much of a mythology built around him. Consequently, our attention isn’t taken up with Colonel Samuel as a brand. He doesn’t have a brand, as many of […]
In earlier decades, I often came across variations of a statement for young people thinking of their future careers. Typically, the advice would be along the lines of: Focus on what you love and your career will follow from that. In more recent years, I’ve tended to come across the advice that young people would […]
In Orientalism (2002), Alexander Lyon Macfie analyzes the ongoing debate regarding orientalism. This blog post will highlight Macfie’s definition of and his concluding comments regarding orientalism. His comments in the book’s concluding chapter highlight the role of individualism, a topic that appears to be of relevance in relation to the emergence of postmodernity and postmodernism. Definitions […]
Many people in Long Branch, I’ve learned, have an interest in the history of the mouth of Etobicoke Creek. Some time ago I selected this area of Toronto as a focus of study and began sharing what I was learning. Jane’s Walks and Heritage Rides offer great two ways in which we can share what we’ve learned. […]
In a previous blog post, I spoke of a recent lecture by Denise Harris about the War of 1812. Along with changes in the technology of warfare, as discussed in the previous blog, the conventions of warfare have also changed since 1812. Denise Harris noted, in her lecture on May 16, 2012, for example, that […]