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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...

Conflict in Willa Cather’s Short Story ‘The Sculptor’s Funeral’

(Cather 68). It became readily apparent that these local men were there more out of a sense of civic duty than out of any love fo...

Augustine’s Confessions

grace precedes faith."7 Augustine argues that it is impossible "to believe without having heard," yet is also impossible for the i...

Analysis: “Six Characters” Author

writer create something unless it comes at least partly from within? Trying to provider a brief synopsis of the play is impossibl...

Shamanism

a great array of dysfunctional lost souls in a European society. Without their culture, their history, their mystical beliefs, the...

Hindu Religious Text Bhagavad Gita

In five pages this religious work is critically examined and considers how maintenance of the social status quo is a primary featu...

Ancient Greece to the New Testament and Dreams, Oracles, and Prophecy

In eleven pages this paper discusses the concepts of interpreting the future through prophecy, by the prophets, and through dreams...

Ancient Mayan Tradition and Breath on a Mirror and Popol Vuh of Tedlock

In 6 pages the Old Testament is compared and contrasted with the myths of the ancient Mayan civilization in a consideration of the...

Bhagavad Gita and Concepts of Good and Evil

Ovey Mohammed states that for both Krishna and Jesus, "God has made salvation possible to all by becoming incarnate" (Mohammed 664...

Athens and the Mitylenian Debate

In five pages this paper discusses the effects and involvement of Athens in the ancient Mitylenian debate with Thucydides' texts c...

Book of Genesis, 'The Odyssey,' and Order versus Disorder

In 5 pages tis paper discusses the conflict of order vs. disorder as depicted in these ancient Hebrew and Greek texts. There are ...

Thucydides' The Peloponnesian War and the Melian Debate

In five pages this paper discusses the issue of the weak being subjugated by the strong that is presented in this ancient historic...

Gay History

In five pages this paper considers the history of homosexuality in ancient Greece, Japan of the seventeenth century, England of th...

Women's Role in the Epic of Gilgamesh

lost natural state, at which point Shamhat offers to take him to the city where the joys of "civilization shine in their resplende...

Tom Morris's If Aristotle Ran General Motors

happens, people fail to achieve happiness and feel only increased levels of stress (Morris, 1997). If businesses incorporated Ar...

Historical Analysis of Edward Gibbons' 'The Decline & Fall of the Roman Empire,' Thucydides' 'History of the Peloponnesian War,' and Tacitus' 'The Annals'

In ten pages three ancient historical texts are analyzed in terms of author's approach to history, the representation of the past,...

Religious Comparison Between the Book of Genesis and Epic of Gilgamesh

it. The man proceeded immediately to build an ark" (Noss, 38). Marietta Moskin agrees that many of the earliest Hebrew stories d...

Knowledge and Education According to the City States of Athens and Sparta and Philosophers Socrates and Plato

perception required for awareness is decidedly unique to human beings. Man looks upon his world as a direct reflection of him, hi...

Changing Chinese Women in Death of Woman Wang by Jonathan D. Spence

In five pages this paper contrasts seventeenth century Chinese women with their female counterparts and the changes that have take...

4 Multicultural Literary Works and the 'Feminine Principle'

and mother. This relegation of women to one sphere and men to another is reflected in his stories and novels as well. In "Arab...

Male and Female Protagonists in the Writings of F. Scott Fitzgerald

In 6 pages this paper analyzes the male and female heroines in the texts The Ice Palace, Winter Dreams, The Last Tycoon, This Side...

Mundurucu Culture Females and Yolanda and Robert F. Murphy's Women of the Forest

This paper examines females in the Mundurucu culture as represented in this text from an anthropological perspective consisting of...

Reading as a Form of Resistance

imagine a more severe disparity of power than the one that exists in present-day Iran since its revolution and the institution of ...

Margaret E. Felt's Gyppo Logging

or even to survive in the very competitive industry of logging. Margaret Elley Felts biographical account of her experiences as t...

Deborah Gray White's Aren't I a Woman?

sub-human and not capable of sharing the same type of human fears and emotions as true human beings. The assurance of inferiority ...

E.C. Deloria's Waterlily Analyzed

Dakota Sioux during the 19th century is as different a life from our current society as one could imagine. And yet, Deloria has t...

Ancient Myth, Carl Jung, and Robert A. Johnson on Gender Psychological Differences

feminine principle in its archetypal form." It is the archetypal myth that serves as Johnsons primary guidance in underscoring and...

Comparative Analysis of 2 Texts on Women's Issues

Tanenbaum points out, "Even today a common way to damage a womans credibility is to call her a slut" (2000, p. 2). In many ways, ...

Judith Walkowitz's City of Dreadful Delight and Gender History

in other arenas. On the other hand, a womans ponderous role germane to pregnancy, menstruation (considered a time of illness, debi...

The War Against Boys How Misguided Feminism is Harming Our Young Men by Christina Hoff Sommers

In five pages this report considers Sommers' 2000 text and the assertion that in contemporary America boys are having a more diffi...