Nonfiction

Nonfiction Writings That Educate and Inform You
Make learning an ongoing experience by sampling nonfiction books, essays, and articles from Sam Sackett. Because he is fascinated with history, many of Sam's articles are historical in nature. One is about Major Clifton Wharton, who was assigned to scout part of the route for the Oregon Trail. The article details Major Warden's travels, providing you with a vivid picture of what life was like during a time when America was still young and a good deal of it was still unexplored.
 
Sam gets more serious with writings about such topics as animal intelligence and human evolution. He presents evidence that animals have intelligence, and from that premise draws conclusions about how human beings may have developed. With Sam's approach to nonfiction writing, you're allowed to make up your mind about where you stand on historical or controversial issues.

The nonfiction writings listed on this site are only a few that Sam has written.  Come back often to find new articles and essays to inform and challenge you.

Sam Sackett Nonfiction Writings

• ANIMAL INTELLIGENCE AND HUMAN EVOLUTION
  Animals have intelligence, and a consideration of how their intelligence functions has implications for understanding how human beings evolved.
  
  
• THE ESL PROGRAM AT THE UNIVERSITY OF WEISSNICHTWO
  How English should be taught to people who grew up speaking other languages.
  
  
• EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT RETIRING IN THAILAND BUT DIDN'T KNOW WHOM TO ASK
  
  
• JOSEPH ADDISON AS CRITIC
  Addison wasn't the greatest literary critic of the early eighteenth century, but he was the most representative.
  
  
• MATTHEW ARNOLD AND WALTER PATER
  Two Victorian writers sought to replace religion by literature.  Arnold has had greater influence, but Pater saw clearly something Arnold missed.
   
• THE MEDEA OF EURIPIDES
  The ancient Greek playwright had insights into human psychology which foreshadowed the findings    of Carl R. Rogers.


• A NEW LOOK AT CAPITAL PUNISHMENT
  Instead of the death penalty, murderers should receive sentences which generate capital.
  
  
• THE WHARTON EXPEDITION
  Major Clifton Wharton in 1844 was assigned to lay out the first part of the Oregon Trail.  He failed comically.  He began by losing the Missouri River, and things went downhill from there.