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Hebrew, Greek and Roman Values in Ancient and Medieval Literary Works

of specific interest, and which concern morality in the context of war, are those that argue for and against putting the Mitylene ...

Ahmed, Satrapi/Growing up Female in the Islamic World

through her father that Ahmed first becomes aware of the conflicting political forces that shape her world, as he is hemmed in on ...

Women's Roles Thorough History: Ancient Times Through 1600

children to term, nurse them, and are endowed with a combination of hormones that render them the desirable caretakers. While wom...

Florida and Women in Power

property holders voted from 1691 to 1780. The Continental Congress debated the woman-suffrage movement question at length, decidi...

Do Women Need To Get Married?

own reason for and support of the holy vows of matrimony. For example, marriage is a very natural and expected occurrence within ...

Ancient Greek Theatre, Sophrosyne and Hubris

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

Ancient Greek Tyrants

2005). In the case of a dictator this individual ruler is elected, and a tyrant is not elected. "A tyrant is a person who came int...

Comparing and Contrasting Two Ancient Greek Vases

This 6 page paper compares and contrasts two Greek vases, one from the Archaic period and the other from the Late Geometric period...

Ancient Greek Literature and Gender Distinctions

out what women were like because of the way in which history is written. Dependent on what is studied, it seems that some texts l...

The Medicine of the Ancient Greeks

to promote schools, schools where medical pursuits were blended with the ecclesiastical (Draper, 1992). These schools would ultima...

Women's Roles in 'The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale' by Geoffrey Chaucer

The Wife makes it clear that she has always enjoyed sex and this verifies the Churchs depiction of women as licentious. In fact, t...

Ancient Greeks on Rationality and Science

store by astronomy, for example, and little by astrology, which is seen as having no scientific rationale and is therefore dismiss...

Cultural Understanding of Chinese Women Through Literature and Art

woman who traveled to a foreign land, worked hard and then returned to her family would never be perceived in such a way. In fact...

Ancient Greek Politician Pericles

him names and just generally egging Pericles on. Pericles said nothing as this man followed him all around town until, upon reachi...

Contemporary Drama/2 New Plays & Aristotle

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

Leviticus and Christianity

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

Post-Taliban Women's Rights And Government Implementation

the guise of personal agenda. The Taliban refused to honor Muhammads quest for gender equality by creating a harsh and oppression...

Early Civilizations and Their Influence Upon Contemporary Society

In three pages this paper discusses how the empires of ancient Greece and Rome influenced contemporary society in a consideration ...

A Consideration of Athenian Democracy

In five pages this paper considers whether Athenian democracy reflects the democracy concept including a case study from the perio...

The Common Thread of Ancient and Modern African Music

In comparison, Ethiopias krar music is played on a stringed instrument and carries overtones that are almost (but not quite) remin...

Near East During Ancient Times

In ten pages this paper discusses the Near East in ancient times in a consideration of how contemporary Egypt progressed socioecon...

Contemporary Japanese Women's Roles

Roles of women in contemporary Japan are the focus of this paper consisting of five pages in an overview from political and socioe...

Adult Education Today and Yesterday

This is a research paper comprised of five pages that discusses adult education as it existed in ancient Greec in contrast to avai...

The Changing Women's Role in Contemporary Chinese Economy

so. While both of these points are certainly debatable and very much dependent on a number of diverse factors, on thing is certai...

Reflection on The Ten Commandments

this theme forward, the next commandments lay the foundation for civilized society. The first of these social commandments is to...

Coleridge vs. Byron

Romantic poets Lord Byron and Samuel Taylor Coleridge were contemporaries who viewed the world through different perspectives. Thi...

Ancient Roman Medicine

in five pages this paper examines how ancient Rome used such medicines as St. John's Wort in a consideration of contemporary treat...

Contemporary Woman's Return Home in 'The Prodigal Daughter'

In one page this original feminist counterpart to 'The Prodigal Son' is presented. There are no sources cited....

Renaissance and Contemporary Women's Roles

that there was truly no separation of the sexes throughout the renaissance, short of the obvious physical differences; rather, her...

Herodotus and His Contemporary Influence

In 6 pages this paper discusses how the concepts of the ancient historian Herodotus continue to influence the contemporary world. ...