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Civilization and Religion of Islam

in war and conflict for generations. Islam is a unique and comprehensive ideology which serves as a guide for the worldly...

Carl Jung and Sigmund Freud

The ego is that part of the individual known as the self. This part of the individual is the one that consciously deals with the e...

Bruce Bower's 'Sacred Secrets of the Caves' Reviewed

when some archeologists needed assistance in searching through caves that seemed to bend and twist and go on forever, with at leas...

10 Aztec Culture Questions

that life is a dream (Leon-Portilla 7). The Aztecs reasoned that, eventually, everything vanishes, even things such as rocks and p...

History of Western Civilization

the centralisation of political power as potent nation-states emerged throughout Western Europe. The Northern Renaissance was also...

Democracy Defined

for a third alternative to what he sees as the two ways of looking at democracy, either as a having "negative rights" or "positive...

World Affairs and The Clash of Civilizations by Samuel P. Huntington

in ideology, but will be conflict arising between civilizations due to cultural differences.2 A civilization is a group o...

Overview of Early Civilizations

to Cyprus, where copper was mined and alloyed with the tin to produce bronze" (Bronze Age, 2005). The tin, upon analysis, was rev...

Jesus Christ, Socrates, and Sigmund Freud

As in most of his essays, Freud (1952), in Civilization and its Discontents, wrestles with human nature and why there is such a ch...

Disagreeing with The Clash of Civilizations by Samuel P. Huntington

the overwhelming ethnic condemnation he puts forth in his book. According to Ajami, who openly spoke of his feelings in a 1993 is...

Ecological Theory of Feminism

the path has become terribly burdensome. If women are to shed their oppressed existence, then it must first be acknowledged that ...

Byzantium Emperor Justinian I

By 476, the fall of Rome left the eastern city the undisputed imperial capital. During the reign of Justinian (527-565) the Byzant...

Typee by Herman Melville and the Themes of Savagery and Civilization

Melville sees civilisation as exemplified by whites, but this is a civilisation which, right at the start of the novel, he rejects...

Western Civilization Architecture

The original castles prior to reflecting architectural influence lacked much style or finesse; in fact, they were relatively munda...

A Review of Harrison Bergeron

their identity. The bands make the citizens equal in physical strength and intelligent. They are, by all accounts, supposed to be ...

Opposites and Conflict in The Tempest by William Shakespeare

daughter, Miranda; his faithful fairy, Ariel; and his loyal Councilor (advisor), Gonzalo. But also living there is a lifelong nat...

A Review of David Christian's Article, 'Silk Roads or Steppe Roads? The Silk Roads in World History'

This paper discusses in 5 pages the notion that silk roads represent broad terms in world history not just in terms of civilizati...

Swahili and Islam

In five pages this paper considers the historical relationship between the Islamic religion and the east coast African civilizatio...

Numbers

In fourteen pages this paper discusses the development of numbers systems in the civilizations of Europe, China, Mesopotamia, Sout...

Freud and Hard Times

In five pages the conduct of James Harthouse and Louisa Bounderby in the novel Hard Times by Charles Dickens is analyzed based upo...

The Natural and the Artefactual by Keekok Lee

In five pages this essay examines this philosophical text in terms of how it portrays the correlation between the natural world an...

The True Heart of Darkness

Heart of Darkness, the seminal masterpiece by Joseph Conrad, is a study in cruelty and the degeneration of man into beast as the t...

Perspective Comparisons of Western Civilization A Brief History by Marvin Perry and Ishmael by Daniel Quinn

of a standard basis that is typically found in western civilization textbooks. Believing that man is a selfish being who has limi...

Jackson J. Spielvogel on the French Revolution

In five pages this paper examines the French Revolution and its definitive traditions of revolution, reform, and restoration as co...

Demise of the Prehistoric Harappan Culture

of more recent discoveries. The Aryan invasion theory is one of the most popular theories that attempts to explain what happene...

Number 0 and its History

Mesopotamia is that cultural region which existed in Southwest Asia between the Tigris and the Euphrates Rivers during ancient tim...

An Analysis of How the Irish Saved Civilization by Thomas Cahill

This paper discusses this famous work and draws parallels between it and the textbook Western civilization by Noble. This paper h...

Five Decades of Western Civilization Photography and Its Impact

In six pages this paper assesses the impact of photography on Western civilization over the past 5 decades. Five sources are cite...

Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra

Rome itself is portrayed as moving from a society dominated by heroes, such as Julius Caesar and Pompey, to one which is more frag...

Prospect of Global Democracy

by critics, encouraging readers to conjure up huge armies divided by race, language and religion, moving forward across thousands ...