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the Republic. Take pornography as an example. Plato argued that objectionable ideas can upset the understanding (Johnston). Femini...

impacts of coal, however, have been positive. Indeed, the thesis can be presented that coal has impacted human culture in a diver...

boasts of his strength and courage, believing those alone are the lone criteria by which a hero is judged. The gods intervene to ...

and she wishes that she were "wife to a better man" (Homer Book VI). Through Helens eyes and, also, through Homers portrayal of He...

Antigone is a rebel who is willing to defy King Creon in order to accord her brother Polynices with the proper burial his twin Ete...

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

A surplus of economic wealth that leads to a division of labor means that certain social classes typically perform different jobs ...

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

Hutchinson never protests the against the injustice of human sacrifice, but rather that the selection her family was not fair. A....

Tigris and Euphrates are very different: the former is "rough and fast flowing" and difficult to navigate while the Euphrates can ...

fact that he was "the first king in history to sign a peace treaty with his enemies, the Hittites, ending long years of wars and h...

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

in membership in many different kinds of social and civil organizations over the last two generations (Putnam, 1995). The decline ...

The most prominent of the features in the area is Quirinal Hill; one of the Seven Hills of Rome. This is an areas that has...

is uncertain as to when it did emerge exactly. Some say that it first came about in Mesopotamia (Rimmel, 2005). Others claim that ...

Elements, to which he replied that there was no royal road to geometry. He is therefore younger than Platos circle, but older than...

does not have a split hoof; it is ceremonially unclean for you." As this suggests, only animals that chewed its cue and possessed ...

there lived another Orhan so much like me that he could pass for my twin, even my double" (Pamuk, 2006; 3). This image is presente...

mother, and until the age of 30 and possibly beyond were dedicated to their training and to their service to the state" ("The Cult...

was one of "battle and conquest" (Hooker, 1996). These people are the Mycenaeans; they are named after the "best-preserved of thei...

("Athena"). Clearly, the ancient Greek patriarchs considered Athenas virginity to be a salient and powerful factor in her mytholog...

by a monarch entailed certain secular dangers, such as possibility that a king might become oppressive in his rule or lead the peo...

I am more at ease...I feel nearer, more a part of the painting, since this way I can walk around it, work from the four sides and ...

time," then shortened to "ragtime" (Porter, 1973, p. 2). The innovations that Joplin brought to ragtime were remarkable and uniqu...

on the processes of becoming" (Grinker, 2001, p. 105). II. EIGHT STAGES THEORY People are not merely empty vessels waiting...

by art historians and critics. However, it is also true that a works intrinsic economic value, that is, how much it will sell for...

or are from cultures different from that of the viewer, nuances in meaning may not be readily apparent. For example, consider the ...

series refer to the fact that it took a ton of platinum ore, involving considerable human effort and the resulting blight on the l...

nude children as art continued to be deemed socially inappropriate, which is why several photographers of note were the subjects o...

5 pages and 5 sources. This paper provides an overview of the general issue of censoring artistry and the reason why this topic i...