Essays on Golden Age

A desperate request for President Trump: please stop promising to bring manufacturing jobs back into the United States. While blaming America’s free trade agreements serves as an easy scapegoat, we must accept a bleak reality: automation and technological advances of the supply chain means these low-skilled labor jobs will not return. Instead, we should focus on utilizing existing economic adjustment programs that retrain these workers and integrate them back into America’s technological and service-based economy. Throughout the duration of his…

The Islamic Golden Age and the Advancement of Math and Science Throughout the duration of history, there have been many eras in which science and math have flourished. But none advanced these two topics more than what is called the Islamic Golden Age. In this paper, I am going to examine the specific topics that were advanced as well as how these advancements are used in todays society. I will delve deeper into each of the scientific and mathematical ideas…

There is no nation, race, creed or religion, where the idea of the Golden Age has not existed. The English people ascribe the characteristics of a golden age to the Age of Queen Elizabeth, the French to the Age of Loius XIV, Greeks to the Age of Pericles, Romans to the Age of Augustus, Israelites to the Age of King Solomon, Indians to the Age of Guptas, and the Chinese to the Age of Ming. In the religious sense also…

Spain was at its most glorious stately place in the 17th Century, at the time when Miguel de Cervantes wrote his classic novel, “Don Quixote”. The country had established its colonies all over the world, controlling Mexico, Peru, Cuba, the Americas, and even going as far as Asia, in the Philippines. Silver and gold poured in to catapult Spain in economic and political splendor, making it the world’s superpower at that time. Historians call this period the golden age of…

The Netherlands is one of the smallest countries of the world. Even today, it has a population of only 16 million, a number slightly larger than that of the more populous metropolises of this planet. Despite its tiny size and miniscule population, the Dutch have been a major force in global affairs and have influenced the lives of millions of people in far away lands. Most of this global influence occurred in the seventeenth century, when the Dutch people strode…