Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wrote, "The Village Blacksmith", as a ballad in which he is describing the deep emotions and the great sorrow in "The Life of a Hard Working Smithy" in the early 1900's. His poem expresses the smithy's pride at being an honest, hard-working man. This is something that se...

A worldview is very much what it sounds like it would be--a certain way of seeing the world. Worldviews can be grounded in a focus that is artistic, economic, political, and many others, but they are all essentially philosophical. For example, two prevalent worldviews in today's politics are...