Science Essays for College Students

Tag: history

  • Suggestions for distinguishing between a visionary leader and one incapable of recognizing reality

    A  leader’s inability to recognize glaring and inescapable “truths” may be confused with having a “vision”. In US History during our first 250 years, we have been fortunate in having a few visionary leaders. Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, and Teddy Roosevelt have their images carved on Mount Rushmore for a reason. Each made decisions during their…

  • Science Lesson on Autocratic Rule

    There is an immutable law in physics, the second law of thermodynamics, that any isolated system not receiving the input of energy (work) from the outside will tend toward states of greater disorder. Examining human history, one might suspect another immutable law: that societies will progress to autocratic rule if there is no effort (work)…