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Essays 1561 - 1590

Ancient Kemet and the Role of Women

the concepts of order and harmony rendered ancient Kemet a strong and prosperous society: very long-lived civilization; very prosp...

Letters Accounting Daily Life In Ancient Greece and Rome

of herself and reassure her that all will be will. You know what her days are like: as the wife of a noble (how silly that sound...

Comparing Two Ancient Civilizations

Crete ("Barbarians," 1999). The region was very peaceful. In fact, there has been only scant evidence of a military force ("Barbar...

Ancient Greek Theatre, Sophrosyne and Hubris

According to Plato, in his dialogue Charmides, the qualities associated with sophrosyne, give rise to the admirable characteristic...

Herodotus and Ancient Leaders

of the Persian Empire" (Herodotus, 2006). Herodotus begins his story with "an account of the first western monarch to enter into c...

Beowulf & Odysseus/Ancient Heroes

peers by acclamation rather than divine right. The thane is spoke of as a "giver of treasure in gladness" (Beowulf 46). In other w...

The Great Ziggurat: The Ancient Ziggurat

image of solidity (Amazingart.com). Another author indicates the following in terms of its construction and design: "This ziggura...

Gilgamesh/An Ancient Man for All Seasons

Mitchells translation, Mark Jarman argues that Gilgamesh enlightens the modern reader as to what the ancient Mesopotamians valued ...

Ancient Artworks

deal about the civilization that created it. This paper discusses three antiquities found at the Art Institute in Chicago, and wha...

Myths From Ancient India and Mesopotamia

The controversy over the federal funding of stem cell research is outlined in an article titled "Stem-Cell...

Turning Points from Ancient History to Now

There are numerous so-called turning points in history. The way that turning points should be defined,...

Female Characters and Ancient Texts

is clear that each of them has some wish in his mind that he cant articulate; instead, like an oracle, he half-grasps what he want...

Mummification Practices in Ancient Egypt

the heat. Since its the culture most often thought of in this connection, well explore the ancient Egyptian method of mummificatio...

Time Travel and the Architecture of Ancient Rome, Greece and Egypt

Greek life was impacted in many ways by its art and architecture (Dickinson, 2008). Two of the most visible of these ways were th...

Kingship and Architecture in Ancient Egypt

These are the Old Kingdom, Middle Kingdom, and New Kingdom time periods. THE OLD KINGDOM STRETCHED BETWEEN 2686 AND 2125 B...

Medicine from Ancient China

(Traditional Chinese medicine, 2000). But it declined from the end of the Ming Dynasty until 1949, when the Chinese government "b...

Art and Visual Culture

or are from cultures different from that of the viewer, nuances in meaning may not be readily apparent. For example, consider the ...

Simon Starling, One Ton II/An Art Report

series refer to the fact that it took a ton of platinum ore, involving considerable human effort and the resulting blight on the l...

How is "Good" Art Determined?

by art historians and critics. However, it is also true that a works intrinsic economic value, that is, how much it will sell for...

The Issue of Censorship as it is Applied to Art

5 pages and 5 sources. This paper provides an overview of the general issue of censoring artistry and the reason why this topic i...

Comparing the Rococo and Sensibilte Genres of Art

The author discusses how works of arts from these different eras are indeed different genres. Greuz's "Broken Eggs" can ...

Scott Joplin & George Gershwin

time," then shortened to "ragtime" (Porter, 1973, p. 2). The innovations that Joplin brought to ragtime were remarkable and uniqu...

Erik Erikson: Biography and Theory

on the processes of becoming" (Grinker, 2001, p. 105). II. EIGHT STAGES THEORY People are not merely empty vessels waiting...

Art Criticism and Pollock

I am more at ease...I feel nearer, more a part of the painting, since this way I can walk around it, work from the four sides and ...

A Trio of Minimalist Artists Compared

In ten pages the minimalist art of Donald Judd, Ulrich Ruckriem, and Marcel Duchamp are compared. Five sources are cited in the b...

Art and Techniques from 1300 to 1700

bottom of the painting, first highlighting the travelers, then an interim space of field, forest and hills where a winged angel gr...

Prevarication or Why People in Western Culture Lie

In eight pages this research paper considers the art of lying as a Western cultural component. Six sources are cited in the bibli...

Art, Religion, and Cultural Anthropology

In seven pages this paper considers how cultural anthropology is influenced by religion and art with the argument presented that e...

Fine Arts of China and Japan

the Chinese cultural influence continued to increase. Efforts to compose poetry became quite popular and Tang poets such as Li Po,...

Haiti and the Impact of the Art of Africa

In ten pages this paper discusses how the art of Africa contributed to the culture of Haiti in a consideration of artists, craft, ...