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Europe's Disenchantment Period

In a paper of fifteen pages an examination of European history includes the Middle Ages, Baroque period, and The Enlightenment in ...

Opposition to Islamic Beliefs

their lifetime. Presumably this requirement is for the spiritual edification of the Islamic adherent. During the ten days of rites...

Women and Obesity

to join a health club or try to fit some other structured activity into her already-full schedule, at least not on a long-term bas...

An Examination of Irish Ornamental Art

can tell that ornamentation is a large part of this model. The Irish often added spirals and curves. One might look at these as co...

Middle Ages and Regional Differences

both the state and culture of the Eastern Roman Empire during the middle ages ("Byzantium," 2002). Both the state as well as the i...

Issues of Middle Age and Male Baby Boomers

Clearly, there are many issues which correlate to this particular group, namely a host of health concerns which are becoming more ...

A History of Temperament Theories

1995; Classical Astrology, 2003). If the person were healthy, there was a balance among these fluid substances (Heineman, History,...

'Peter Pan Syndrome' and Men of Middle Age

members of our society, however, we must force ourselves to separate truth from fiction and to ferret out the reasons within which...

Panic Over Aging in 'Mirror' by Sylvia Plath

the limited life choices facing women during her era. Women were destined to be wives and mothers - the "pink" professions. Plath ...

Globalization and the Influence of the Middle Ages

of words" (Suzanne, 1996). With a rhetorical epistemology solidly entrenched in his psyche, Gorgias held firm to his convictions ...

Middle Ages, Freedom of Thought, and Dogma

One of the quests that sprung from employing the notion of feudalism was to create the vassal/lord union as a means by which to es...

Poetry of the Romantic Age and Men's Role

previous era and so many would experiment with free verse and would place special emphasis on the exploration of human feelings an...

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...

The long and wonderful voyage of Frier Iohn de Plano Carpini by Carpini

He also speaks in considerable detail of their personal habits, which he apparently finds both appalling and fascinating. Interest...

Great Britain During the Victorian Age and the Roles of Women

police and the criminal justice system as well as voluntary workers and professional helpers (van Dijk, 2002). Prior to 1970, v...

Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales and its Allegories

the next line. Its primary purpose is to establish a series of repetition in the name of sensible progression. For those words a...

Morally Justifying Mutilation of Female Genitals

sexuality of the individual. However, FGM is far more drastic and damaging than male circumcision. A more appropriate analogy woul...

Middle Ages and Daily Religious Involvement

by parishioners. By the Middle Ages, most of Europe still lived under feudalism; that which did not was purely barbaric. T...

Identity and Gender Reflections in Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth and Kate Chopin's The Awakening

it threatened who she was as a member of the white race and the upper classes. Therefore, it can be seen that Ednas desire to pa...

Downsizing Problems in the Delaware Valley

has only happened in J.C. Penney or in the Delaware Valley. It is a trend that seemingly began to peak in the 1990s, but today, ma...

Machiavelli's and Boccaccio's Reality Verses Appearance

a man runs into a colleague with a woman half his age. He might assume that this married man is engaged in a clandestine romance, ...

Emergency Room Decision Making

attack if irreparable harm and indeed loss of life is to be prevented (Isenstein, 1999). The statistics regarding coronar...

Use of Allegory in The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer

events during his and previous eras in history" (Tolisano, 2002; tolisano.htm). In better understanding how Chaucer did use all...

Religion and its Influence on the Law

Catholic canon law, after all, has a long history of development, a history stretching back some two thousand years in fact (Hartm...

The Thesis of Henri Pirenne

In five pages Pirenne's thesis that the European economic decline of the Middle Ages began with the seventh century rise of Islam ...

Economic Comparisons Between Medieval Europe and Twentieth-Century America

This economics paper compares the demand for the stirrup during the Middle Ages to the leverage buyouts in the US during the 1980s...

Humanities: Late Middle Ages

and architectural works of the time. One could likely argue that in one form of art in particular the Catholic religion was strong...

Medieval Burial Rites and Christian Iconography

In fourteen pages the Middle Ages are considered in terms of iconography and Christian symbolism's influence. Ten sources are cit...

Bildingsroman Aspects of Lakota Woman by Mary Crow Dog

In seven pages this paper discusses the bildingsroman characteristics of Lakota Woman, which metaphorically depicts a Native Ameri...

Thousand Years of Italian Music

In eight pages this paper traces the development of Italian music in a consideration of contributions, important works, and compos...