Eastern And Western Culture Essays and Term Papers

Buddhist Art--two Periods Of B

Two Periods of Buddhist Art in India Less than 1% of the population of modern India is Buddhist. Therefore, it is reasonable to say that India’s importance for Buddhism and its art is mainly its historical influence. Not only is India the country where the historical Buddha, Shakyamuni, ...

Save Paper - Premium Paper - Words: 2923 - Pages: 11

History Of Turkish Occupation Of Northern Kurdistan.

Since 1984, and especially the last few months, the domestic problems of a major N.A.T.O, Middle Eastern, and American ally state have come to the forefront of the international news scene. That state is the Republic of Turkey and it's primary troubles stem from the past seven decades of ...

Save Paper - Premium Paper - Words: 4100 - Pages: 15

A Consise History Of Germany

Germanic warriors decisively defeated Roman forces at the Battle of Teutoburg Forest. 486 The Frankish king Clovis overran the Roman province of Gaul. Clovis introduced features of Roman life into western Germany. 843 The Treaty of Verdun divided Charlemagne's empire into three kingdoms. The ...

Save Paper - Premium Paper - Words: 4697 - Pages: 18

Africa 2

AFRICA. There are more than 50 independent countries in Africa and on the islands off its coasts. Together, they make up more than one third of the membership of the United Nations. In 1991 Egyptian Deputy Prime Minister Boutros Boutros-Ghali became the first African and the first Arab to serve ...

Save Paper - Premium Paper - Words: 4678 - Pages: 18

A Consise History Of Germany

Germanic warriors decisively defeated Roman forces at the Battle of Teutoburg Forest. 486 The Frankish king Clovis overran the Roman province of Gaul. Clovis introduced features of Roman life into western Germany. 843 The Treaty of Verdun divided Charlemagne's empire into three kingdoms. The ...

Save Paper - Premium Paper - Words: 4697 - Pages: 18

Comparing the M-16 and AK-47

The great military debate that has existed for decades attributes to which firearm has the better rifle platform, Eugene Stoner’s M-16 or Mikhail Kalishnikov’s AK-47? Both are used extensively by police and military forces around the world. These two weapons platforms have been going head to head ...

Save Paper - Premium Paper - Words: 10286 - Pages: 38

Green Aid in India and Zimbabwe - Conserving Whose Community?

Green Aid in India and Zimbabwe - Conserving Whose Community? Abstract What happens when global institutions try to assist community conservation in some of the world's least industrialised areas? Among the `cutting edge' projects grant-aided by the Global Environment Facility (GEF, a World ...

Save Paper - Premium Paper - Words: 9838 - Pages: 36

The Rise Of The Manchus

Although the Manchus were not Han Chinese and were strongly resisted, especially in the south, they had assimilated a great deal of Chinese culture before conquering China Proper. Realizing that to dominate the empire they would have to do things the Chinese way, the Manchus retained many ...

Save Paper - Premium Paper - Words: 4449 - Pages: 17

Frankenstein: The Subjectivity Of The Character "Safie"

Even though she is only mentioned in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein for a relatively brief period, the character, Safie, is very interesting as she is unique from the other characters in that her subjectivity is more clearly dependent on her religion and the culture of her nation. Contrasts can be ...

Save Paper - Premium Paper - Words: 1954 - Pages: 8

End of the Civil War and Reconstruction

Before the end of the Civil War and emancipation which freed the slaves, the Wade v Davis Bill was passed by congress in July of 1864. The bill stated that military governors would lead each of the southern states known as the confederate states. It also stated that after half of those states ...

Save Paper - Premium Paper - Words: 4932 - Pages: 18

Development of Tourism In Dubai and United Arab Emirates

Title: Tourism Development in Dubai and UAE 1.1 Background to research Study Unlike any other Middle Eastern state, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) is a federation, consisting of seven tribally based emirates that rein the southeastern portion of the Arabian Peninsula south of Bahrain and ...

Save Paper - Premium Paper - Words: 9925 - Pages: 37

Violence In Religions Such As Islam, Christianity, And Hinduism

To say that all religions are spread by violence is equally unfair and untrue - because contrasted religions has been spread in exceedingly diverse regions of the world, by vastly different cultures. Islam, as a prime example, has been characterized inequitably by historians and the media as a ...

Save Paper - Premium Paper - Words: 1854 - Pages: 7

Religions

When studying history, both in a professional and academic sense, we try to make connections between civilizations and time periods. Historians have attempted to discover universal constants of human nature, a bond that forms from continent to continent, human being to human being. Is there a ...

Save Paper - Premium Paper - Words: 2357 - Pages: 9

Migration System Theory

Analyses of "Why Does Immigration Occur?" by Douglas Massey and "Communities Across Borders" by Paul Kennedy The social phenomena of the increasing number of immigrants migrating from Third World countries to developed ones has long been explained by various social, political, and economic ...

Save Paper - Premium Paper - Words: 1583 - Pages: 6

Greek Literature

. The great British philosopher-mathematician Alfred North Whitehead once commented that all philosophy is but a footnote to Plato . A similar point can be made regarding as a whole. Over a period of more than ten centuries, the ancient Greeks created a literature of such brilliance that it ...

Save Paper - Premium Paper - Words: 4164 - Pages: 16

United States Modernization and Change

The first people to reach North America were Asian hunters and nomads. Following game along the Siberian coast, they crossed the land bridge that connected the two continents about 30,000 to 34,000 years ago. Once in Alaska, it took these first North Americans, the ancestors of Native American ...

Save Paper - Premium Paper - Words: 6270 - Pages: 23

Difference Between Sephardic A

For the most part, modern Jewish history deals with the political, social and economic advancements achieved by the Ashkenazi communities in Europe, America, and later -- Palestine. Because of it's relatively small size and involvement in the affairs of "civilized" countries of Europe and America, ...

Save Paper - Premium Paper - Words: 2254 - Pages: 9

Byzantine Notes

Byzantine Period -Western Roman Empire falls in 476AD. -Roman Emperor moved the capital to Byzantium and renamed it Constantinople. -Constantinople was advantageous to Rome in that it could deal with barbarians, was a huge trading port, and it made protecting the eastern front ...

Save Paper - Premium Paper - Words: 1345 - Pages: 5

World Leaders: Joseph Stalin, Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, and Moa Zedong

The years preceding and following World War II had a profound effect upon the entire world. Especially important to world events were the reigns of four particular leaders, Joseph Stalin, Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, and Moa Zedong. Joseph Stalin ruled the U.S.S.R. from 1929 to 1953. Born ...

Save Paper - Premium Paper - Words: 2009 - Pages: 8

A Timeline Of The Holocaust

The Holocaust was the systematic, bureaucratic annihilation of six million Jews by the Nazi regime and their collaborators as a central act of state during World War II. In 1933 approximately nine million Jews lived in the 21 countries of Europe that would be occupied by Germany during the war. By ...

Save Paper - Premium Paper - Words: 2936 - Pages: 11


« Prev 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 ... 11 Next »

Copyright | Cancel | Statistics | Contact Us

Copyright © 2025 Essayworld. All rights reserved