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Comparing Annie Oakley and Oddysseus

Odysseus,/raider of cities gouged out your eye" (Homer 227). As Polyphemus is the son of Poseidon, Odysseus makes a powerful god h...

Contemporary Drama/2 New Plays & Aristotle

working class (Brown). Modern playwrights have expanded the conception of tragedy to include all walks of people in all circumstan...

Northrup on History

This 4 page paper discusses David Northrup’s idea that history should be considered as comprising two periods, before and after ...

Ancient Egyptians

It possessed, and still does possess, the natural condition of flooding and then leaving very fertile land behind. It was a perfec...

Literary Critique: The "Ancient Mariner" and "Great Expectations"

brought there. Pip tells of this meeting in a calm voice, almost serene, but his powers of observation are acute. He describes th...

Strong Women in Ancient Greek Theatre

the "sheet-anchors," i.e., the weapons that will be their salvation (Aristophanes). Lysistrata gathers together women from all o...

The History of Marijuana; Legal Status and Usage

6,000 BCE as well as for textiles in 4,000 BCE in China and it is also recorded as being used as a medicine in China in 2727 (Narc...

Western Civilization Research Documents Summarized

on twelve clay tablets. The epic tale is of a Babylonian king, two-thirds god and one-third man. Another key character in the stor...

The Warfare of Ancient Times

he seized the element of surprise and mobilized his army to attack Kadesh" (Carney, 2006). There were many armies stationed near M...

Ancient Athens and Contemporary New York City

Most of us recognize that New York City serves as a symbol of all that is possible in the world today. It is also a city that repr...

Mayan Empire's Ritual and Religious Practices

they conquered. MAYAN CIVILIZATION: THE SPANISH INVASION The typical Maya family consisted on average of five to seven members. ...

Works of Sophocles and Homer and the Gods

In five page this paper considers Gods and their roles in ancient Greek society and literature in a consideration of a passage fro...

Music of Persia

In six pages this research paper examines the music of ancient Persia in a discussion of its history, scales and intervals used, t...

Myth in Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison

This 6 page paper analyzes Toni Morrison's novel Song of Solomon and argues that it can be seen as a modern day myth in which a ma...

Israel's Prophets and Preserving Judaism during Exile

This research paper describes how the ancient Israeli prophets preserved the distinctive nature of Judaism during the people's per...

History's Origin According to Ernst Breisach

events surrounding the Peloponessian War, but also the views of other cultures which sometimes conflicted with his own sensibiliti...

The God Kings' Age in Ancient Egyptian Civilization

A paper consisting of seven pages considers the period from 3500 until 1500 BC in ancient Egyptian civilization referred to as the...

Oedipus the King by Sophocles and the Ancient Greek Gods

In three pages this report analyzes the power of the ancient Greek mythological gods in this consideration of Oedipus the King by ...

Religious Statues of Ancient Times

god Ningirsu, and Umma, with its god Shara. And begins as follows: "The god Enlil, king of all lands, father of all gods, determi...

Varied Works of Ancient Art. A Comparison

5 pages. 4 sources cited. This paper relates three significant works of ancient art through a comparison. This paper considers ...

John Gardner's Grendel and Epic Beowulf

oo well that here was the last of...

'Essay on Literature' or 'Wen Fu' by Lu Chi

In six pages this report examines this ancient Chinese literary essay....

Images and Energies of Apollo and Dionysus

the purpose of allowing the repressed feminine or nurturing side of man to come forth and for the brutal or aggressive side of wom...

Southern Great Britain and Henges

This paper discusses Great Britain's ancient monuments and what henges reveal about the Bronx Age in nine pages....

Comparative Analysis of Gilgamesh and Heracles

cultures. In addition, the kind of difficulties and trials faced by different ancient communities will also tend to be similar. On...

Modern Applications of Ancient Myths

involvement of magical powers that develop the processes and actions confronting the hero. As a direct result, there is generally...

Cellular Evolution and Aaron Goldman

to produce different needed effects in the process of cell growth and cell division; according to Goldman, this is an evolution of...

Gilgamesh, Genesis: Comparing Floods

This essay contrasts and compares the way that the "Epic of Gilgamesh" and Genesis describe the Flood. The writer argues that the ...

Acts of God

God uses to point to Himself as the power (Samons, 2012). Examples of miracles in the Old Testament include God parting the Red S...

God's Existence and Knowledge

In four pages this paper discusses how God's existence is argued through epistemology with Thomas Aquinas' arguments providing evi...