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Agriculture Discovery and Its Effects

In four pages this essay considers the 'domino' of the discovery of agriculture in the early civilization creation chain. There i...

Myths on Creation

In ten pages the various stories on creation such as Western, Aztec and Mayan, Greco Roman, China, Mesopotamia, and Egypt civiliza...

2 Perspectives on Hinduism

In six pages An Introduction to Hinduism by Gavin Flood and Hinduism The Anthropology of a Civilization by Madeleine Biardeau are...

Human Civilization and Geology's Influence

that results in California becoming an island. Nevertheless, the evidence that this has happened repeatedly across time is irrefut...

Greece and Rome Civilization Development

This paper consists of five pages and examines the Western civilization contributions of Greek and Roman development. There are n...

Political Structures of Inca and Maya

the end" (Mosio 27). Indeed, the connection between political structure and the rest of lifes interaction is inseparable, for the...

Bisexuality, Homosexuality, and Infantilism According to Sigmund Freud

In ten pages this paper considers these concepts according to Freud's psychoanalysis as represented in Freud's account of Dora and...

Parallels Between the Roman Empire's Fall and the US from 1946 to 1970

This research paper consisting of four pages considers the parallels that exist between these two civilizations with politics, eco...

Barbarians and Civilization

In five pages J.M. Coetzee's Waiting for the Barbarians is considered in terms of civilization concepts as revealed by the charact...

Character of Mersault in The Stranger by Albert Camus

This essay consisting of eight pages evaluates the ways in which this good man is destroyed by the civilization that refuses to ac...

Traffic Law and its Western Civilization History

In four pages this paper presents an historical overview of traffic law that traces its chariot origins to its present incarnation...

Future Shock by Alvin Toffler

In a paper containing five pages the continued relevance of Toffler's 1970 text is considered in terms of the changes civilization...

Huxley and Conrad: Two Views of Civilization

changed dramatically. Huxley writes: "In place of the old pleasures demanding intelligence and personal initiative, we have vast o...

Agriculture and Mesopotamia

fertile lands coupled with the ability to utilize the discovery or creation of irrigation. One author notes, "It was the two river...

Chinese Civilization, Continuity, and History

In four pages historians such as Jacques Gernet are consulted in this consideration of Chinese civilization in a discussion of its...

The D. Keightly Book Shang & Zhou Dynasties An Historical Examination

The writer reviews the D. Keightly book Shang & Zhou Dynasties, which provides an analysis of the Chinese civilization includi...

Musical and Artistic Influences of African Americans

In five pages this research paper considers how music and artistic influences of African Americans have been significant since the...

Early America and the Oppression of Women

established that women were not always inherently oppressed around the world, a fair question arises: what is it about Western civ...

Civilization Collapses and Transformations

Toynebee (1935, p5) describes breakdowns in civilizations as failures of those civilizations to ascend from the stage of primitive...

Comparing Huntingdon and Fukuyama in the Post 9/11 Environment

west to spread democracy and aid in economic modernization are making the situation worse as these are related to the differences ...

Wolfman Case and Other Topics

The treatments Breuer and Freud developed for treating hysteria had an impact on the development of psychoanalysis. This is discu...

The True Heart of Darkness

Heart of Darkness, the seminal masterpiece by Joseph Conrad, is a study in cruelty and the degeneration of man into beast as the t...

A Review of David Christian's Article, 'Silk Roads or Steppe Roads? The Silk Roads in World History'

This paper discusses in 5 pages the notion that silk roads represent broad terms in world history not just in terms of civilizati...

Swahili and Islam

In five pages this paper considers the historical relationship between the Islamic religion and the east coast African civilizatio...

Numbers

In fourteen pages this paper discusses the development of numbers systems in the civilizations of Europe, China, Mesopotamia, Sout...

Freud and Hard Times

In five pages the conduct of James Harthouse and Louisa Bounderby in the novel Hard Times by Charles Dickens is analyzed based upo...

The Natural and the Artefactual by Keekok Lee

In five pages this essay examines this philosophical text in terms of how it portrays the correlation between the natural world an...

Jackson J. Spielvogel on the French Revolution

In five pages this paper examines the French Revolution and its definitive traditions of revolution, reform, and restoration as co...

Poetry, Literature: Influence of Victorian Society, World War I

This essay pertains to T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land and Sigmund Freud's Civilization and Its Discontent, as well as the influence t...

Ancient Artworks

deal about the civilization that created it. This paper discusses three antiquities found at the Art Institute in Chicago, and wha...