Category - Academic

Stanley Morison

Stanley Morison was a British typographer who designed and revived many typefaces, Times New Roman being the most famous one of them. During his life, Morison worked for Monotype Corporation, The Times newspaper and Cambridge University Press, and served as the editor of a typographic journal called The Fleuron. He was the typographic advisor at...

Cool

“Cool” is a “new-generation” word used to describe something or anything that a person likes or finds original, fancy, surprising, trendy, or fun. It is used to describe something that appeals to the person: a thing, an idea, another person… “Cool” depends on a person’s tastes, so every person has a...

What is Gothic

What is Gothic? To first answer this question, one must first acknowledge the existence of a Gothic subculture. So what is the Gothic subculture exactly? A subculture is “a group of people with beliefs, attitudes, customs, and other forms of behavior differing from those of the dominant society, while at the same time being...

Exorcist II

Horror, according to Oxford dictionary, is “intense shock and fear or disgust”. Have you seen The Exorcist II? It’s supposed to be a horror movie, but doesn’t really stand up to these horror standards. It’s a terrible sequel to the original movie, and has a storyboard that’s anything but clear, making it...

Nicolaus Copernicus

The Polish astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus is often considered the founder of modern astronomy. He is best known for his astronomical theory that the Sun is at rest near the center of the universe, and that the Earth, spinning on its axis once daily, revolves annually around the Sun. This is called the heliocentric or Sun-centered...

TV Addiction

In her argumentative article “Television Addiction”, taken from her book The Plug-In Drug, Marie Winn talks about television addiction and its dangers. First she defines addiction then she looks at the destructive side of television addiction. Winn tries to show the reader that TV addiction should not be taken lightly for it is...

Blast Furnaces

Blast furnaces are structures used mainly in extracting metals, mainly iron and copper, from their ores. The ores are reduced by the action of CO and the removal of oxygen from the metal oxide in order to obtain the metal. Iron usually occurs in the Earth’s crust as ore. The most common ore is Haematite, which is iron oxide. This is a...

Mathew Arnold

About Mathew Arnold (1822-1888): Mathew Arnold was born in Laleham-on-Thames, England, and educated at Balliol College, Oxford, where he became a close friend of the poet Arthur Clough, whom he later eulogized in “Thysris” (1866). In 1851 Arnold became an inspector of schools, a position he held for 35 years. His writing on education...