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the Republic. Take pornography as an example. Plato argued that objectionable ideas can upset the understanding (Johnston). Femini...

pottery is, in fact, one of the most simplistic Cherokee art forms but yet it is one of the most utilitarian. Cherokee craftsmans...

the gods may not necessarily determine all aspects of humanity, that which has been labeled as free will may not be free after all...

various gods (Demand, 2000). The greatest contribution to the development of true civilization, however, occurred around 3100 BCE,...

boasts of his strength and courage, believing those alone are the lone criteria by which a hero is judged. The gods intervene to ...

Most scholars believe that animal worship is the oldest form of Egyptian religion (Egyptian religion, 2005). "Early predynastic tr...

from other planets where intricately linked with humans, involving themselves in the lives and development of human beings in Sout...

by wedding the daughter of Creon, the "lord of this land" (Euripides). As this speech indicates, Euripides begins the thematic c...

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...

Clouds by Aristophanes. Reasonably, Socrates points out that the character in the play speaks nonsense and should not be confused...

"unique Temple City" was the religious center of the "first great prehistoric civilization" (Eichman). Taramsa Hill : This site ...

rider must understand each other so well that they can move as one, which requires that true two-way communication exists between ...

made or coins minted (Ancient near eastern art). Because the figures on the plates are not labeled, they cannot be identified wit...

noted by the leadership of Menes, the first pharaoh, in which the communities of Egypt formed around the Nile delta and the Nile v...

era. The focus, then, of Eumenides was to bring about a sense of the life of Orestes, while also giving a view of the correlation...

exaggeration. Voltaire (1947) is in fact sarcastic and while the author is indirect in the way in which he writes, it seems that t...

of science there are two branches which are epistemology and metaphysics (Honderich, 1995). Science makes up an important part of ...

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...

and cunning. As Lysistrata so desperately asserts: "The nations fate is in our hands alone!" (Aristophanes, 1994). Lysist...

around the living room, checking the place out. Then it moved to the kitchen, I followed. Its silky black body moved against my ...

state ownership. In Sparta it was the state that owned all property, which also included land, citizens and slaves (Anonymous, 200...

was the force that recovered the information (Mathematics, 2005). In essence, in ancient times, "Scholarship supported science in ...

This is the beginning of his journey in terms of the importance of vows and oaths. Gawain will do as he is told...

of the Fifth Dynasty, Userkhaf (2465-2458 BC) "initiated reforms that weakened the Pharaoh and central government. After his reign...

the individual city-states again took control and then when the Amorites moved into Mesopotamia, around 1800 B.C., they created th...

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

noble. Socrates was doing the right thing. Today, as people wrestle with unjust rules and laws, there are some who simply follow ...

civilization and therefore conclusions about Roman civilization as a whole are pertinent to the topic under investigation. Therefo...

king of Egypt was unwilling to commit military to defend northern Syria" (The Gathering Storm, 2005). Perhaps because of their res...

the theory of survival of the fittest (AllPsych, 2003). Basing his thoughts on Darwin, Galton, in 1869, argued "that intellectual ...