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Income Segregation and Urban Development

are not desirable, and therefore, the demand for the property in this area is limited only to those that cannot afford any better....

Peloponnesian War Defeat of Athens in 404 B.C.

turned into tribute to Athens" (Greer, 1977, p. 74). Many neighboring city states were appalled by Athens avarice and abuse of po...

Immigrants from Ecuador in the United States

the helm in the "New World". Each component group of the immigrant wave was subjected to the same pressure to become...

Firearms Carrying and Crime Deterrence

which carrying firearms by private is banned, and that is Washington, D.C. (Leff, 2004). The real issue currently at hand is whet...

Impact of Audits on Accident Rates in Hong Kong/A Research Proposal

for all industries the rate is only 17.7 accidents per 1,000 workers (LegCo Panel on Manpower, 2004). The improvement should not...

The Dangers Of Smoking

to break. To bring the point home, half a million people die each year from cigarette-related causes (Whelan, 1994, p. 77), with ...

Middle Eastern Immigration in America

During the earlier waves of immigration the Muslims would move to rural areas in addition to urban areas (Smith, 2008). There was ...

The Temple-State System in Egypt and Mesopotamia.

references that appear when "temple-state" is the prompt refer to Mesopotamia, which may indicate that it was the civilization whe...

Everyday Government in Fifth Century Athens

who lived in this great city were influential on others around the world, so too were they influenced by others. The Greeks of co...

Jean-Paul Sartre/The Flies

plagued by both flies and a sense of overwhelming guilt. The stage is dominated by a statue of Zeus, "god of flies and death," whi...

“Restoring Prosperity: The State Role in Revitalizing America's Older Industrial Cities”

growth in the 1990s and economic well being of the city residents in 2000 (Vey, 2007). Two indices of economic health were create...

Is The Rise Of China Real

of the United States. Trade accounts for 70 percent of Chinas GDP (Venables and Yueh, 2006). By comparison, trade accounts for 20...

Both Modern and Ancient Views of Beruit and Cairo

is still regarded as sacred ground. "The citys long journey across history started more than four millenia ago. Throughout the ag...

Disillusioned Characters in Brave New World

this brave and controlled new world. Happiness is a mass illusion in this new world order, and as is the case with most widesprea...

Warfare Technological Change and Sociological Impacts

There are many points of comparison between wars. This is certainly true of the Jacobin phase of the French...

Heroism in the Ancient World: Gilgamesh and Achilles

This essay pertains to the characters of Gilgamesh and Achilles and how they each warrior-heroes representing their culture. The w...

Medea, An Overview

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

Two Art Figures from the Ancient World

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

Judaism and Ancient Egyptian Religion

the soul: the Egyptians thought that the there were several "psychical elements" comprising existence, including the ka (Dyson). T...

Figurines of Ancient Mycenae

This research paper discusses the figurines produced in ancient Mycenaean civilization and their possible uses, including the inte...

The Age of Aquarius, Ancient Worlds and Worship

is presented, a thesis that posits that religion exists in a cycle of change that, over time, shifts in its fundamental ideals and...

Ethiopian Romance by Heliodorus

in Charicleia, who is a long-lost princess of an Ethiopian queen, even though she appears to be white. Heliodorus relates that her...

Beowulf and Ancient Greek, Roman, and World Societies

In five pages this paper compares and contrasts these various peoples who lived in different societies during different time perio...

A Description of World Civilizations from Ancient Times to 1500

well as carried new innovative things from other societies and so served to pass ideas along from village to village. Back then t...

Ancient World and Art

called herself the Goddess (1989). In ancient Egypt it seemed as if dynastic power had passed through females even when the Pharao...

Ancient World and Rights for Women

This paper contrasts and compares how women's rights are depicted in The Bible, 'The Odyssey' by Homer, and The Thousand and One N...

An Overview of Ancient Egypt

In ten pages this ancient civilization is examined in terms of the significance of agriculture, the Nile River, and farmers' taxes...

Creative Dialogue on Cultural Discourse

In five pages a dialogue between an ancient Roman character and one from ancient Greece is developed with and exchange of cultural...

Ancient World Letters

wife, and particularly Athena, the Goddess of Wisdom. Our beautiful city is named after her, and Melitta wants to honor her and as...

Gift Giving in Homer's Odyssey

he will gild her horns as part of the sacrifice (Homer). Such sacrifices were meant as "gifts" to the gods, which were designed to...