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Essays 271 - 300
This research contrasts and compares two art figures from ancient civilizations, which are part of the collection at the Metropoli...
The geographical aspect has been argued as one that is essential, as all civilizations may be located in a map (Braudel and Mayne,...
Toynebee (1935, p5) describes breakdowns in civilizations as failures of those civilizations to ascend from the stage of primitive...
west to spread democracy and aid in economic modernization are making the situation worse as these are related to the differences ...
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...
This essay presents an overview of Medea in Greek mythology, referring to scholarly assessment of ancient sources and also the way...
The treatments Breuer and Freud developed for treating hysteria had an impact on the development of psychoanalysis. This is discu...
This paper goes back to ancient times to examine wine as a commodity. There are two sources in the bibliography of this three page...
This essay is an outline for a proposed paper on warfare in pre-Islamic Arabia and late Antiquity. The outline includes causes, l...
There are many theories that attempt to explain the violence that seems to be such an inherent...
that of his fathers and yet, he knew how to take advantage of the elevations and his engineers made the walls steeper, so that ove...
It is for this reason that Greek art conveyed abstract ideas such as "beautiful" concepts of the human body through a dichotomous ...
In another aspect regarding agriculture we see that in the 10th century "a new collar was developed that distributed the weight ar...
was considered a good location from which the people could watch for the enemy. Warfare was a very big part of Mesoamerican civili...
from the Olmec cradle could have entered its grave. But the Mesoamerican ethos survived. It contracted, and then began to spread a...
Mexico and other areas of central America, demonstrates a number of similarities with Egyptian culture: the main architectural for...
Indeed, Muhammad prescribed a life full of "lofty ethical ideals and peaceful coexistence" (Bruning 56) that non-believers of Isla...
exercise, even participating with men at times, indicating that there was not a great deal of difference in the way the men and wo...
the ancient Egyptian pharaohs and the sphinx, a two-hundred and forty foot long statue with the body of a lion and a head of a man...
which is being stated can be immediately observed and seen to be valid. He also makes the point that for primitive peoples, to be ...
and designs as well. Until they had developed concrete most of the architecture was constructed with traditional models that used ...
and was replaced by Claudius (41-54), the emperor whose forces conquered Britain. Nero followed him and when he was overthrown, Ro...
of alluvium, i.e., silt, which has been deposited as a result of the annual flooding of the Nile for centuries (Lau, 1991). Lower ...
ethnic cleansing" (Huntington, 1998, p.35). To this author, the world is changing and the fact that terrorism has risen is simply ...
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...
world population was only about 425 million and most of those people lived in Asia (Roberts 279). Hence, Asia had quite a lot of p...
is thought to have healing properties and it is known to lower blood pressure for example. Yet, meditation stems from Buddhism (Vi...
differences. In respect to the Islamic and Asian societies that sprang up, these occurred largely by 1000 B.C. (Roberts, 1993). ...
this person was not to be disobeyed or even questioned, his rule was absolute; "the monarch ruled with absolute power" - power he ...
man of the house. Catherines father took Heathcliff in and ultimately one could argue he had lofty ideals, ideals that were closer...