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the Republic. Take pornography as an example. Plato argued that objectionable ideas can upset the understanding (Johnston). Femini...

impacts of coal, however, have been positive. Indeed, the thesis can be presented that coal has impacted human culture in a diver...

pottery is, in fact, one of the most simplistic Cherokee art forms but yet it is one of the most utilitarian. Cherokee craftsmans...

various gods (Demand, 2000). The greatest contribution to the development of true civilization, however, occurred around 3100 BCE,...

the gods may not necessarily determine all aspects of humanity, that which has been labeled as free will may not be free after all...

boasts of his strength and courage, believing those alone are the lone criteria by which a hero is judged. The gods intervene to ...

of the House of Savoy became King of Italy in 1861 and Rome was incorporated in 1870 (U.S. Department of State, 2006)....

of patriarchal privilege and set society against her is not sufficient justification for ignoring what she perceived to be a highe...

and dodged the most important matters, continually laying the blame for the killing of millions at the feet of others (Cockburn, 2...

King of Salem (ancient Jerusalem) befriended Abraham and his men after their victory over those kings that had taken Sodom and Gom...

at the sky, the sun is viewed but so are a myriad of planets, and this has been something quite intriguing to scientists and ordin...

6,000 BCE as well as for textiles in 4,000 BCE in China and it is also recorded as being used as a medicine in China in 2727 (Narc...

killed in battle. Whatever the precise thing or event they represented in that hazy chapter of mans early history, one thing is c...

Elements, to which he replied that there was no royal road to geometry. He is therefore younger than Platos circle, but older than...

working class (Brown). Modern playwrights have expanded the conception of tragedy to include all walks of people in all circumstan...

began making pottery, there was "an influx of immigration from China, Manchuria, and Siberia" (Korean traditional pottery, 2002). ...

is uncertain as to when it did emerge exactly. Some say that it first came about in Mesopotamia (Rimmel, 2005). Others claim that ...

The most prominent of the features in the area is Quirinal Hill; one of the Seven Hills of Rome. This is an areas that has...

(Egyptian Temples, part I: Divine Kingship, 2007). "[I]t was vital and necessary to keep the gods satisfied and wanting to stay in...

be no real need to war because Egypt possessed what everyone needed. As such the political and intellectual perspectives turned in...

not possible to work backwards to reconstruct the Harappan faith from the Vedic (Hooker, 1999). The second period is that of the...

a great array of dysfunctional lost souls in a European society. Without their culture, their history, their mystical beliefs, the...

mother, and until the age of 30 and possibly beyond were dedicated to their training and to their service to the state" ("The Cult...

does not have a split hoof; it is ceremonially unclean for you." As this suggests, only animals that chewed its cue and possessed ...

there lived another Orhan so much like me that he could pass for my twin, even my double" (Pamuk, 2006; 3). This image is presente...

("Athena"). Clearly, the ancient Greek patriarchs considered Athenas virginity to be a salient and powerful factor in her mytholog...

by a monarch entailed certain secular dangers, such as possibility that a king might become oppressive in his rule or lead the peo...

Tigris and Euphrates are very different: the former is "rough and fast flowing" and difficult to navigate while the Euphrates can ...

fact that he was "the first king in history to sign a peace treaty with his enemies, the Hittites, ending long years of wars and h...

was one of "battle and conquest" (Hooker, 1996). These people are the Mycenaeans; they are named after the "best-preserved of thei...