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Essays 541 - 570

Independence of Samoa and the Mau Movement's Role

government which is heavily influenced by family and religion (Ryen, 1993). Slavicek (2002) observes:...

Civilization of Mesoamerica and the Sacred Mountain's Role

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

Ancient Mesoamerican Civilization Descendents

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

West Misperceptions of the History of East Asia

of French historian Michel Foucalt, and makes three principal arguments. The first argument that Said presents is that Orientali...

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 Transformation of China in the 20th Century

and 3. Chinas policy towards the Soviet Union and its leaders as opposed to those it formulated in regard to the U.S. and its lea...

Staples Theory Applied to Canadian Prairie Development

those resources. The latter culture, that associated with the fur trade, is of particular interest when discussing the developmen...

Analyzing the Orientalism of Edward Said

their own power and superiority. There was no real learning about the culture on the part of the Westerners, but rather a sense o...

Themes of Death and Disease in John Donne, Thom Jones, and Margaret Edson

Edson shows how Vivian uses her poetry as a means for tenaciously clinging to her identity as a person. However, it also becomes c...

Civilizations of MesoAmerica, Egypt, and Greece

Mexico and other areas of central America, demonstrates a number of similarities with Egyptian culture: the main architectural for...

Nietzsche's The Collapse of Western Metaphysics in the Areas of Reason, Morality, and Religion and Underground Man of Fyodor Dostoevsky

understandable given the conditions of the time. He opposed the rigid moral constraints of the time inflicted by the ruling bourg...

'Collegue' by Datatel and User Acceptance

The results, according to Stoik (2001), were that the "ability to systematically track student progress and intervene appropriatel...

Case Study of China's STS Manufacturing

produced relaxed a great deal. The move toward a "market economy" from one that has been state-run has been slow, however ...

Education Contributions of Desiderius Erasmus

preoccupation with metaphysical and theological subtleties rather than with biblically based ethics" (Gutek 101). Rather than get ...

Comparison of Capitalism and Imperialism

"launched" capitalism through the working class, which was considered a "historical agent for change" (Chen, 1997, 81). As imperia...

Student Case Study on WOI Western Oceanography Instantiate Case Study

project is projected as taking part in four phases over a period of eight weeks. Mission Objectives The mission is convert the W...

Film as Nightmare '28 Days Later'

course, 28 days later, when a bicycle courier named Jim (Cillian Murphy) awakens from a coma and finds himself in an abandoned hos...

2 Studies on Orphaned Africans Reviewed

2008, 2005). In Namibia alone, officials expect that 13 percent of all children under the age of 15 will be orphans by 2006 (Aids...

African Orphans Studies II

provide additional income. Environmentally, the water supply is inadequate and healthcare is of poor quality and also inaccessibl...

Islamic World, the West, and the Relevance of Medieval History

is based solely upon the influence of culture. Louis Rene Beres 2001 article entitled Terrorism and the Global Clash of Civilizat...

Discipline and Islam

in the different aspect and practices, but to look at the way in which discipline manifest in the main practices of modern Islam. ...

Western Nightclub Rituals and Male Behavioral Patterns

and who a man is to be. Non-verbal male language Within the nightclub it may be noticed that a good deal of the communication tha...

Ancient Civilizations, Art, and Propaganda

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...

Triangular Relationship Between Islam and Eastern and Western Christendom

existed a triangular relationship between Islam and Eastern and Western Christendom. The Council of Chalcedon (451 AD) was exempla...

Egypt Invasion by Napoleon and Culture Clashes

that in Egypt, he would not be able to simply occupy and conquer as he had previously. For, here was a firmly entrenched religion...

Feasibility of a New Western Hemisphere Zipper Manufacturing Facility

of the weight used in denim jeans are in greatest demand (Egia Slide Fastener Industry Co Ltd). Q.5. What is the destination of mo...

1100 to 1250 Western Europe and Processes of Metal Working

seen in the extraction of iron ore (Hunter and Ralston, 1999). Smelting is the way in which the iron is separated from the other ...

The Origins of Western Law

But surprisingly, even after the Protestant Reformation and native languages began supplanting Latin in speech and literature, "a ...

Comparing Two Regional World Civilizations

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

Fourteenth to Sixteenth Century Church and State Relationship

that the secular governments. Priests were often criticized as being greedy and extortionate. As a result of this unrest conflict...