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Sentiment and Reason According to Adam Smith and Aristotle

existing moral standard. This fact should be kept in mind in understanding that for Aristotle whether a certain kind of behavior w...

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass and Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin

were incapable of having the same feelings, the same needs, the same emotional attachments to loved ones that white people maintai...

The Bicycle Thief and Citizen Kane

This research report compares and contrasts two important films. A comprehensive analysis is provided as thematic elements are exp...

Comparison of Ethel Wilson's 'The Window' and Joyce Marshall's 'The Enemy'

In five pages the similarities and differences that exist in these two short stories are contrasted and compared. Two sources are...

The Wives of Henry VIII

Two of King Henry VIII's wives are compared and contrasted. These two wives have markedly different experiences with the King. T...

Various Species and the Nervous System

nervous system is not as clearly designated, its anatomical parts are the spinal nerves, the cranial nerves, and the autonomic ne...

Wilson's Crab Antics and Kottak's Assault on Paradise as they relate to Gender

This research report compares and contrasts these two works. Gender is discussed in this context. This sixteen page paper has two...

Beowulf & Odysseus/Ancient Heroes

peers by acclamation rather than divine right. The thane is spoke of as a "giver of treasure in gladness" (Beowulf 46). In other w...

Beowulf & Aeneas

past, which is now gone, and his son is the future (the founding of Rome), and he is the transitionary figure destined to bring th...

Freedom and Culture

so evident in official circles before. Individuals adopted rules and standards of behavior designed to serve "appearances." Youn...

American Impacts of the Inca and Maya Cultures

the reverence toward their higher being, as well as their basic concept of lifes political journey, spoke to the "humble attentive...

Rome's Engineering and Law Contributions to the West

force in this particular body of the state. The army did not only serve as our armies do today, but also as simple police forces t...

Western Civilization Historical Periods

was an incredibly powerful and influential time in mankinds history and in the development of Western civilization. Prior to the R...

Pivotal Historical Point of the 1789 French Revolution

so deplorable a condition as it did in France under the reigns of the last three Bourbon kings, Louis XIV, Louis XV and Louis XVI ...

Spartan Civilization

Lakedaimon, a king himself, named his country after himself. The capital of that country he named after his wife. Lacedaemon, of...

Egyptian Literature, Indus Valley, and Feudalism

that they were very connected as well. It is also important to note that any works which have survived the ages do not even begin ...

Spread of Christianity and Development of Trade/Capitalism as Two Significant Contributions of the Middle Ages ‘Gothic World’ to the Phenomenon of Civilization

and had to rely upon trade and barter to exchange goods, services, and currency. Trade was the only means by which poorer classes...

Three Historical Points

found seems to be religious in intent, but no one is sure (Swanson, 1998). The civilization reached its height in about 2500 BC an...

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...

Samuel P. Huntington's Clash of Civilizations

on a new meaning. Prior to 9/11, his ideas might have been construed as being somewhat the antithesis of the thinking of the world...

Comparative Views of G.K. Chesterton and Sigmund Freud

science fiction, the reality is that the problem of labeling and drugging children in the world is growing. Of course, Freud wrote...

Freud on Society and Individuality

complex. They are creative. They need their freedom and not necessarily to think or be alike. If the people do try to resolve the ...

Bruce Bower's 'Sacred Secrets of the Caves' Reviewed

when some archeologists needed assistance in searching through caves that seemed to bend and twist and go on forever, with at leas...

Democracy Defined

for a third alternative to what he sees as the two ways of looking at democracy, either as a having "negative rights" or "positive...

10 Aztec Culture Questions

that life is a dream (Leon-Portilla 7). The Aztecs reasoned that, eventually, everything vanishes, even things such as rocks and p...

History of Western Civilization

the centralisation of political power as potent nation-states emerged throughout Western Europe. The Northern Renaissance was also...

The Crusades

2005). As tensions grew and fears increased, on the part of Christians, the Pope took action and in 1095 he essentially demanded...

Augustus, Alexander, Pericles and Western Civilization

excellent sense of humor" that made him popular with his troops (Syvertsen). His values and character, and his rapid conquest of m...

Counseling Ethnic Minorities

at once the most primitive and most efficient means of communication throughout time: the art of narration, or storytelling. Huma...

Medieval Times: The West and Islam

examination of this there is a letter written by Leo III to Umar II which states the following: "In brief you admit that we say th...