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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...

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 ...

Technology and Contemporary Civilization

In twelve pages an analysis of contemporary civilization and technology is considered with the effects of military technology and ...

Sigmund Freud and W.E.B. DuBois' Common Themes

In 5 pages this paper examines the common themes shared by 'Civilization and Its Discontents' by Sigmund Freud and 'The Soul of Bl...

Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire and Dual Conflicts

In seven pages along with an outline of one page this paper presents an analysis of the dual conflicts that appear throughout this...

Goals of the Crusades and Their Impact

For hundreds of years pilgrims from Western Europe had been journeying to the Holy Land, Palestine, where Jesus Christ had lived a...

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...

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

The writer argues that in Fahrenheit 451, the burning of the books symbolizes the end of civilization. The writer uses the perspec...

Dark Child by Laye

In five pages this paper discusses this autobiographical memoir in terms of African society and the argument that the Europeans we...

Western Civilization Evolution

progressed spiritually. Additionally, when comparing centuries, another thing to look at is the distribution of world power. In th...

Overview and Description of the Silk Road

a "road," it can be argued that the Silk Road was the first information highway (Agnew; Jinski 40). This is because the various ...

The Greeks and Romans and the Creation of Western Civilization

the head of the Persian Gulf" (Poiycratis, 1991). But even Alexander couldnt stop history and another power was rising in the regi...

Canterbury Tales and The Song of Roland

should control the entire known world and so the theme of religion, and the power of religious men, was not questioned in The Song...

Ancient Artworks

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

Comparing Huntingdon and Fukuyama in the Post 9/11 Environment

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

The Influences of the Near East and Egypt on Minoan Civilization

In a paper of five pages, the writer focuses on the question of how much influence the Near East and Egypt had on the progress in ...

The Collapse of the Maya Society

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

Democracy Defined

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

10 Aztec Culture Questions

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

History of Western Civilization

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

Bruce Bower's 'Sacred Secrets of the Caves' Reviewed

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

The Crusades

2005). As tensions grew and fears increased, on the part of Christians, the Pope took action and in 1095 he essentially demanded...

The Importance of Astronomy and Galileo to Western Civilization

astronomers attempts to describe the motion of all heavenly bodies, including the earth. It was Galileos discoveries that are ofte...

A Short History of Progress - Or Lack Thereof

past, we can use it to predict what our likely future is, and that should give anyone pause, for our past is not particularly whol...

Civilizations and Conflicts

traditional rivalries between nation states, and the decline of the nation state from the conflicting pulls of tribalism and globa...

Freud And Malaparte

stronger than that instinct. He believed that if there were no checks and reins required by civilization that humans would just te...

Classical civilizations

classes of citizens, permitted behaviors within marriage and so on. Ancient Egyptian civilization also demonstrated a soci...

Medieval Times: The West and Islam

examination of this there is a letter written by Leo III to Umar II which states the following: "In brief you admit that we say th...

The Franks

of the empire; Christianity. In light of this it appears as though the Franks worked towards a relationship with the papal power...

Augustus, Alexander, Pericles and Western Civilization

excellent sense of humor" that made him popular with his troops (Syvertsen). His values and character, and his rapid conquest of m...