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Essays 571 - 600

Mysticism in Island by Aldous Huxley

anywhere else. We are all, if we already knew it, already there" (Huxley 35) displays a sharp Taoist influence. Looking at Huxle...

Traditional Practices and Child Abuse Distinctions?

an overseeing entity be in place that looks out for the interest of those that cannot look out for themselves....

Euro Disney's Challenges and Problems

One of the cultural differences - the willingness for American parents to drive long distances and sit in traffic for long periods...

The Depiction of Troy in The Iliad and in Film

is not identified as a goddess except for when a servant speaks to Achilles about the legends that have begun to be spun concernin...

Concept of Spirituality

from its past and divorced it from having any real sense of future. "The past becomes merely a theme park to visit occasionally fo...

Body Image Perceptions and Western Society

is essentially a rejection of the traditional values and argues for an "authority of our own experiences" (Bordo, 1993, 283). In p...

Theme of Revenge in Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare, 'The Inferno' by Dante, Oedipus the King and Antigone by Sophocles, 'The Odyssey' by Homer

short temper gets him into trouble. In Book IX, Polyphemus, the son of the sea god Poseidon, decides to dine on a few Greeks who ...

Third World Countries and Corruption

(Internet source). Even those nations which seem to receive the greatest amount of assistance from their international "friends" i...

Western Dental Clinic and Business Information Systems

to major transportation lines, people from outlying areas also come to see the dentists. The clinic itself was founded by ...

State of Texas is More Western Than Southern

simply because it was one of the nations most important cattle producing states. This was not a state that caused people to thi...

Western Civilization of the Future

countrys blossoming authority. The two incidents that prompted such a drastic stance toward foreign policy dealt with Russi...

Iranian Women

were enjoying these achievements, those who were from the traditional sector of society reacted negatively, saying in public that ...

Women's Roles in Western and Hindi Cinema

The movie industry in India is the largest in the world and produces over 800 films a year, twice that of Hollywood and is referre...

Western Cultural Visions and National Geographic Magazine

in manner that applies to Western ideals. In fact, it seems as though most of the pictures and stories only inform us about how th...

Western Religion - Trends

faith, new scientific discoveries and theories appear to be offering support for many traditional religious views, particularly in...

Western Roman Emperors and Power Disintegration

When discussing the fall of the Roman empire, what is actually being discussed is the fall of the "western" empire (including Ital...

'Bearing Illness and Injury' Review

...purpose of this study was to describe the process of bearing illness and injuries among individuals with catastrophic illnesses...

Cultural Differences and Business Communications

They may all rely on email, fax transmission, and other forms of immediate and electronic communication but they are still steeped...

Western English Society and Male and Female Suicidal Behavior

and other obligations, as well as having a higher level of courage to commit such an act, men reflect a significantly higher suici...

Universality, Cultural Diversity, and Human Rights

the imposition of a single set of standards it is argued that there is a loss of cultural diversity, but it is also argued that th...

Paris During the Eighteenth Century and London During the Nineteenth Century

(Burns, 1969, p. 566). This worldview came to full flower in the eighteenth century with the philosophical movement known as the E...

War in the Nineteenth Century

to. For example, during the Civli War , the Confederacy imposed a national draft (Miller & Faux, 1997). The union would also impl...

Art from Classical,, Romanesque, Gothic, and Early Renaissance Periods

As Adams indicates, the archaic smile is now gone and stylization has decreased. Another marked change involved the materials used...

All About Nationalism East and West, Positive and Negative

within the last two centuries. The United States itself first proclaimed its independence in 1776. Just a few years late...

Napoleon Bonaparte and the French Revolution

note that the king was somehow able to alienate all sides. This required a direct approach in the form of legislation: "Revolution...

Occidentalism Article by Margalit and Burma and Global Hatred of Western Culture

2002, p.PG). The author explains that the things Occidentalists hate about the West are not just the ones that inspire hatred ; so...

Eighteenth and Nineteenth Dynasties of Western Asia and Nubia's Egyptian Imperial Presence

Egypt know as the New Kingdom (1540-1070 BC) the government of the newly formed 18th Dynasty after ridding itself of the Hyksos re...

Two Canadian Historical Writings Compared

In Peter MacLeods (University of Ottawa) 1996 article "Catholicism, Alliances and Amerindian Evangelists during the Seven Years Wa...

History and Linguistics of the Jamaican Creole Language

example of the many languages which are participating in the "Latinization" of the English language and are important in the lingu...

Eastern and Western Civilization and Nationalism

been far behind on the nationalist bandwagon, however. Since the collapse of the former U.S.S.R., in particular, nationalism has ...