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which is being stated can be immediately observed and seen to be valid. He also makes the point that for primitive peoples, to be ...

Theravada Buddhism was the original form, which was based on lengthy meditation and required...

the fact that the Persian fighters outnumbered those from Greece (History of Ancient Greece, 2001). Interestingly enough, the vict...

meaning of Hinduism as it has been expressed during the twentieth century (1978). Buddhism embraces similar concepts as Hi...

state has cast religious zeal ... to the wind ... in that battle the Iranians have tilted toward Christian Armenia" (Kaplan, 1997,...

of human beings is of far greater impact than the behavior of human beings as separate individuals. How humans act based on their...

This paper addresses Machiavelli's Discourses on Livy in terms of how ambition affected society during the Roman Empire. This fiv...

This paper examines the formation of the severely dysfunctional society in William Golding's classic novel. This five page paper ...

In five pages these five religions are explained in terms of their community and individual influence and then contrasted and comp...

was considered a good location from which the people could watch for the enemy. Warfare was a very big part of Mesoamerican civili...

from the Olmec cradle could have entered its grave. But the Mesoamerican ethos survived. It contracted, and then began to spread a...

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

that of his fathers and yet, he knew how to take advantage of the elevations and his engineers made the walls steeper, so that ove...

differences. In respect to the Islamic and Asian societies that sprang up, these occurred largely by 1000 B.C. (Roberts, 1993). ...

was the reaction of Europeans to many aspects of Eastern culture when they first encountered it. However, Parrinder indicates that...

the quest for atman , the knowledge of the self" emerged (Hinduism History, 2005). This took place between 400 B.C. and 600 A.D. (...

this person was not to be disobeyed or even questioned, his rule was absolute; "the monarch ruled with absolute power" - power he ...

This essay is an outline for a proposed paper on warfare in pre-Islamic Arabia and late Antiquity. The outline includes causes, l...

was 38.2 pregnancies per 1,000 women between the ages of 18 and 17 years. This is not evenly spread, with some areas having much h...

There are many theories that attempt to explain the violence that seems to be such an inherent...

cultural heritage of Confucianism (Pharr xiii). In Confucianism, supreme emphasis is placed on maintaining harmony, which is seen ...

the land granted to the Native Americans offers a microcosmic consideration of the settlement of the American west and a possible ...

world population was only about 425 million and most of those people lived in Asia (Roberts 279). Hence, Asia had quite a lot of p...

This paper goes back to ancient times to examine wine as a commodity. There are two sources in the bibliography of this three page...

Psychiatry is a relatively new discipline yet its roots can be traced back to philosophers such...

This research paper presents a comprehensive analysis of this scholarly article, which examines the controversy of precisely why t...

In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at the works of Xunzi. Logical arguments presented in his writings are analyzed. Paper...

human understanding. He saw the concept as being equated with something that exceeds any individual persons comprehension. Transce...

a shrew mouse" (Remarque, 1987, p. 10). He observes that much of the misery in the world is caused by little men (not an original...

of souls (Frost 104). It is possible that Plato was attempting to use popular belief to promote the teaching of more profound trut...