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

This research paper discusses art and architecture in the ancient Mayan civilization. Three pages in length, two sources are cited...

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

This research paper addresses lessons that the Umayyad Caliphate (661-750), the Holy Roman Empire (814-1806), and the Mongol Empir...

This research contrasts and compares two art figures from ancient civilizations, which are part of the collection at the Metropoli...

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,...

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 essay presents an overview of Medea in Greek mythology, referring to scholarly assessment of ancient sources and also the way...

particular motif is also seen in biblical passages that indicate Yahwehs strength: "Was it not you who split Rahab in half, who pi...

science fiction, the reality is that the problem of labeling and drugging children in the world is growing. Of course, Freud wrote...

of the history attached to the pictures. It is often argued that these murals were merely implemented to add to the oral tradition...

by Homer, Vergil, by establishing Aeneas as a Trojan also justifies Romes invasion and conquest of Greece as retribution for the f...

complex. They are creative. They need their freedom and not necessarily to think or be alike. If the people do try to resolve the ...

of the civilizations are important. In fact, one source claims that the Sumerians, Akkadians, Babylonians and Egyptians were consi...

on a new meaning. Prior to 9/11, his ideas might have been construed as being somewhat the antithesis of the thinking of the world...

encouraged their initial growth and continued development overtime, which also served to contribute to their unique characters. I...

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

also stand in testament to the fact of the existence and power of a central government and a strong social stratification. The ru...

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

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

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

territories" a process that wasnt stopped until the Peace of Westphalia in 1648 (Holy Roman Empire, 2005). As to the various empe...

1993). China or eastern Asia is so large and the population so great that China is considered to be a civilization all of its own....

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

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

would be no hope of redemption or change. Frankl supports this position by contending that mans search for meaning "is the primar...

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

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