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Ancient Mayan Tradition and Breath on a Mirror and Popol Vuh of Tedlock

In 6 pages the Old Testament is compared and contrasted with the myths of the ancient Mayan civilization in a consideration of the...

Civilization of Mesopotamia

In six pages this paper discusses ancient Mesopotamia and how it profoundly influence the civilizations which followed. Five sour...

Literary Critique: The "Ancient Mariner" and "Great Expectations"

brought there. Pip tells of this meeting in a calm voice, almost serene, but his powers of observation are acute. He describes th...

Ancient Egyptians

It possessed, and still does possess, the natural condition of flooding and then leaving very fertile land behind. It was a perfec...

Women in Ancient Greece

conceive was thus a serious problem" (Women in the Ancient World). Now, of course one could also argue that this was a patriarch...

Ancient Art

Both are clearly made of very different materials. The Head of a Roman Patrician is carved from marble and is thus a three dimensi...

'Essay on Literature' or 'Wen Fu' by Lu Chi

In six pages this report examines this ancient Chinese literary essay....

Comparative Analysis of Gilgamesh and Heracles

cultures. In addition, the kind of difficulties and trials faced by different ancient communities will also tend to be similar. On...

Women in Ancient Greece by Sue Blundell

expected to appear in the public sphere, being confined to the household, Blundell notes that they do appear in the artwork and li...

Southern Great Britain and Henges

This paper discusses Great Britain's ancient monuments and what henges reveal about the Bronx Age in nine pages....

The Warfare of Ancient Times

he seized the element of surprise and mobilized his army to attack Kadesh" (Carney, 2006). There were many armies stationed near M...

Western Civilization Research Documents Summarized

on twelve clay tablets. The epic tale is of a Babylonian king, two-thirds god and one-third man. Another key character in the stor...

Pottery of Ancient Greece

of vase painting was the Protogeometric Style wherein Wikipedia (2007) notes, "Indeed, it is one of the few modes of artistic expr...

Paris During the Eighteenth Century and London During the Nineteenth Century

(Burns, 1969, p. 566). This worldview came to full flower in the eighteenth century with the philosophical movement known as the E...

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...

Wartime and Anti-Civilization

In five pages the ways in which Primo Levi reveals how anti civilization commences during times of war in his texts Collected Poe...

Herbert Marcuse's Eros And Civilization

In three pages this paper examines how Marcuse confronts Sigmund Freud's arguments presented in Civilization and its Discontents a...

Middle Ages and the Rise of Western Universities

This research paper discusses the few Western universities that originated from this time period and their influence upon Western ...

T.S. Eliot's 'Waste Land' and Its Cultural Influences

In a paper consisting of 10 pages the aethetic, scientific, and sociopolitical influences on Eliot's 1922 masterpiece is considere...

Ancient Political Systems

A 6 page research paper that discusses the political positions of various authors from the ancient world. The writer asserts that ...

Political Power, Supernatural Rituals and Anthropology

in society provide numerous functions while at the same time explaining mans origins and how man relates with nature. Many of the ...

Civilization at Risk According to Sigmund Freud

the formation of civilization. In Civilization and Its Discontents, Freud expresses the opinion that people are driven an instinct...

Friedrich Nietzsche and Sigmund Freud on Civilizations' Rational and Irrational Thought

lead to irrational ends (Lear, 1995). For Freud who used psychoanalysis to try and account for human irrationality it was determi...

Western Civilization Development and the Impact of Christianity

In thirty two pages this paper assesses the far reaching influence of Christianity upon Western civilization's development. Thirt...

Western Civilization and Hebrew Cultural and Religious Contributions

as deeply related to their existence. AS Spielvogel indicates, "According to the Jewish conception, there is but one God....God...

Decline of the Dark Ages

In five pages this paper discusses the Medieval civilization's end from the perspectives of 2 important religious leaders. Three ...

Western Civilization's Failure in Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

In 5 pages this paper examines how Western civilization's failure is conveyed by Joseph Conrad by the characterization of Kurtz in...

Arnold J. Toynbee and Pitirim Sorokin

In four pages these sociological theorists are contrasted and compared in terms of their views on human civilization's future and ...

Athens Rise and Eventual Fall in 410 to 360 BC

In eight pages the meteoric rise of Athens and its influential democracy are discussed as well as the events that culminated in th...

Samuel Huntington and Conservative Ideology

The work of Samuel P. Huntington on world conflict breaks all problems down to seven different groups of civilizations. This paper...