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Medea, An Overview

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

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...

Western Civilization and Its Ancient Influences

be the hub of all cultures and each harbored great concentrations of people. As people and cultures evolved they radiated from th...

Ancient Greek Philosophers

Aristotles concrete, scientific theories are more relevant than Platos deductive and abstract ideology. Aristotle believed...

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...

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...

Art of Ancient Greek Civilization

It is for this reason that Greek art conveyed abstract ideas such as "beautiful" concepts of the human body through a dichotomous ...

The Evolution of Stoicism

This 5 page paper discusses the philosophical thinking known as Stoicism, and why it appealed to the ancient Romans and Greeks. Th...

The Contribution of the Westphalia Treaties on the Emergence of the Modern State Model

modern state system which is based on the territorialization of politics. The treaties changes the political structure from one th...

Is the Social Constructivism Paradigm the Most Appropriate Security Models for the 21st Century?

The writer considers whether or not the adoption of a social constructivism approach to security is the best model for the modern ...

Why Surveillance Is Good

that suitable frameworks to prevent, or detect and stop abuses cannot be put into place, just as they have in the past with older ...

Classical and Modern Rhetoric

one of the differences between classical and modern rhetoric. The only way to understand what it means to express oneself persuasi...

Aspects of Modern and Postmodern Art

from representational meaning and locating the meaning of the art within the work itself (Fleming 364). On the other hand, abstrac...

The Impact of World War I on Australian Art and Artists

to the gracious host to the worldwide event known as the 2000 Summer Olypmics. Art, Wartime and the land "Down Under"...

The Goddess vs. Christianity

Many modern feminists have embraced the worship of the Goddess as more liberating and less patriarchal than most mainstream monoth...

History Of Leadership Models

considers the times, the Dark Ages, brutality was a common thing. The Hebrew leaders, Abraham, Joseph and Moses are well known to...

Contemporary Manifestations of Terrorism

indoctrinate, train, and reward the individuals, but they do not seek out depressed or mentally disturbed people to go on their m...

Escape and Myth in Comic Books

Do comic books as an art form simply represent a desire to escape from reality or are they the embodiment of a new form of modern ...

London Borough of Southwark

is a former PowerStation, the shell remains, and the inside has been refitted (Tate, 2002). The area may already have been...

Japan, Contrasting Views

Japan's emergence as a modern power has been chronicled as a major tale of the 20th century. This paper compares Kenneth Pyle's Th...

Comparing the Empire of Ancient Rome with Ancient Greece

to Egypt would also pay homage to some Egyptian Gods such as Isis and Horus. In Britain and Gaul there is evidence of the Romans m...

Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, Pagan and Jewish Women

In five pages this paper contrasts and compares Pagan women with Jewish women in ancient Greek and Roman societies in terms of the...

Ancient Rome, Ancient Egypt, and Women's Roles

time expresses: "Rank creates its rules: A woman is asked about her husband, A man is asked about his rank" (Callender 12). By fa...

Sample Application Letter for University of Chicago

and expansive the world and its peoples truly are. Because of the diversity to be found on the University of Chicago campus, as we...

Potential Strategy for Samsung

In a competitive environment a firm has to be able to adapt and adjust, understanding the environment within which it is operating...

Choosing an Application to Create Value within an International Organization

In order to manage their inventory, including management with the vendors, Wal-Mart utilize an Oracle database, the database is on...

The Tertiary Level of Prevention

family violence has occurred relate the importance of a community base and social support mechanisms for reducing recidivism by pe...

A Contract Law Case Study - David Lynch and the Melbourne Recital Group

The writer uses a case study supplied by the student to demonstrate the application of common law to an Australian contract case....

The Application of Game Theory

the market were large and there were a number f player then the situation may be a degenerate game, where the payoff will only be ...

Web Based Application Tool and Cross Platform Programming Language Known as Java

to view pages which contain applets and the applets code is transferred to their systems and executed by the browsers Java virtual...