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

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

countrys blossoming authority. The two incidents that prompted such a drastic stance toward foreign policy dealt with Russi...

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

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

would be no hope of redemption or change - precisely the atmosphere that existed in Levis account. The "eye for an eye" mentality...

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

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

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

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

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

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

depending on outside influences from other cultures. If there is migration from one culture to another, then the behaviours of bot...

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...

that were once great and in some cases spanned the globe no longer exist. The Roman Empire was feared throughout the known world o...

Toynebee (1935, p5) describes breakdowns in civilizations as failures of those civilizations to ascend from the stage of primitive...

The geographical aspect has been argued as one that is essential, as all civilizations may be located in a map (Braudel and Mayne,...

west to spread democracy and aid in economic modernization are making the situation worse as these are related to the differences ...

established that women were not always inherently oppressed around the world, a fair question arises: what is it about Western civ...

This essay pertains to T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land and Sigmund Freud's Civilization and Its Discontent, as well as the influence t...

The treatments Breuer and Freud developed for treating hysteria had an impact on the development of psychoanalysis. This is discu...

This paper goes back to ancient times to examine wine as a commodity. There are two sources in the bibliography of this three page...

There are many theories that attempt to explain the violence that seems to be such an inherent...

This essay is an outline for a proposed paper on warfare in pre-Islamic Arabia and late Antiquity. The outline includes causes, l...

of human beings is of far greater impact than the behavior of human beings as separate individuals. How humans act based on their...

state has cast religious zeal ... to the wind ... in that battle the Iranians have tilted toward Christian Armenia" (Kaplan, 1997,...

which is being stated can be immediately observed and seen to be valid. He also makes the point that for primitive peoples, to be ...

This paper addresses Machiavelli's Discourses on Livy in terms of how ambition affected society during the Roman Empire. This fiv...

In two pages this Journal of World History article is discussed in terms of its emphasis that the silk road trade routes of Africa...

This paper examines the formation of the severely dysfunctional society in William Golding's classic novel. This five page paper ...