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Russian Modernization and 'the Liberator' Peter the Great

and embarked on a plan of self-improvement that would later define his leadership (Riechers, 2003). An impatient man who had tire...

Overview of Ethnomusicology

seen with a study on Chinese music by J van Aalst in 1884 and Japanese music with F T Piggotts Music and Musical Instruments of Ja...

Sociology and Why Human Behavior Cannot be Explained by Common Sense

become the individuals they do, noting that a combination of genetic and environmental influences mark the two most significant as...

Western Civilization and the Architectural Contributions of Rome

and designs as well. Until they had developed concrete most of the architecture was constructed with traditional models that used ...

Roman Culture and Apuleius' The Golden Ass

see in this is the fear of witchcraft and the existence of magical faith held by a society. And, it plays a very powerful part thr...

Analyzing the Works of Edgar Allan Poe

he ventured upon insult, I vowed revenge. You, who so well know the nature of my soul, will not suppose, however, that I gave utte...

Live Burial Theme in Edgar Allan Poe's Writings

stupor, Montressor begins to wall him in...alive. As Fortunato begins to sober up and realize what is going on he begins to scream...

Mozambique and Western Intervention

Also, Africa is suffering from a whole host of other societal upheavals due in a large part to the introduction of Western culture...

Analysis of Two Poems by Sharon Olds

her sister as "buddies in wartime" and the stairwell is described as a "shell hole." Like soldiers, Olds states that she and her ...

Hong Kong's Economic and Social Changes

Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) as "mature," rather than developing. As such, their economies are well-established an...

Positions of Women in Ancient Greek and Roman Civilizations

exercise, even participating with men at times, indicating that there was not a great deal of difference in the way the men and wo...

Rewrting Western Civilization and Artistic Liberty of 'Captain Corelli's Mandolin' and 'Das Liebeskonzil'

construct of war from one in which emotions such as love have the power to overwhelm the realities of death and dying which surrou...

Second Vatican Council and Roman Catholic Church Changes

(Huebsch, 2003). New rites were formulated and the new Mass was ready within a year. On the first day it was allowed, Pope Paul VI...

Personality Approaches East and West

notes, in other words, people are constantly changing and re-inventing aspects of themselves in order to adapt to the equivalent c...

Employee Motivation Research Known as the Hawthorne Studies

55). As a result, an entirely new way of thinking had to develop regarding how such workers would be managed and directed. Recog...

History of Western Civilization

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

Comparative Analysis of Pregnancy and Birth in Asian and Western Cultures

This paper contrasts and compares the pregnancy and birth rituals of Asian and Western cultures in ten pages. Five sources are ci...

Western Philosophy and the Middle Ages

human understanding. He saw the concept as being equated with something that exceeds any individual persons comprehension. Transce...

Western Civilization Research Documents Summarized

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...

Communism and Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front

World War I spanned a four year period between 1914 and 1918. Nearly ten million lives were lost. World War I, and in fact,...

Reinvention of Western Films

There are other types of westerns though as well. Some westerns depict life in Americas colonial times or may take place in terra...

Issues and Challenges of Organizations

apparent that the management had not considered this from the employees perspective, there was no consultation and the relationshi...

East and West Divide of Europe

in a communist state where all business is controlled by the state to see extent there is not role of risk taking entrepreneurs. ...

Family and Okonkwo in Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

the end. What the story explains is that when a man leaves his community and the community changes while the man does not, the two...

Roman Catholic Church and Homosexuality

must refrain from homosexual activity if they are to abide by Biblical directives. The issues which the Catholic Church is confro...

'Recipe' by Janice Mirikitani

the eye takes looses its Asian fold and looks more Western. Then Mirikitani tells how to use eyeliner and false eyelashes to hide ...

World Music of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

common between music of the world. The student can, for example, quote musicologist Bruno Nettl and his works, that basically stat...

Defining a 'Media Event'

In twelve pages this paper defines a media event and then examines different types that fall under this category. Five sources ar...

Economy of Malaysia

its back on its Asian neighbors. Seven countries of the world receive 68 percent of Malaysias total exports. These represe...

Politics of Western Europe

core, nationalism rips people apart from one another. This is clearly evident by observing activities that have transpired in var...