Western Civilization Essays and Term Papers

Mali, One Of The Greatest Afri

can Civilizations Mali’s Culture and Government After the kingdom of Ancient Ghana, the next great West African Empire to emerge was the kingdom of Ancient Mali. Ancient Mali and Ghana shared a number of different features, however they also were extremely distinct from each other in many ways as ...

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Beer

Historically hops, yeast, malted barley, and water have all played the greatest and most important role in society. For almost 8000 years these ingredients have been mixed and have been appreciated by all classes of society in almost all civilizations. The old cliche "accident is the mother ...

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Bubonic Plague

Cantor states that, No one - peasant or aristocrat - was safe from the disease [], and once it was contracted, a horrible and painful death was almost a certainty. The dead and the dying lay in the streets abandoned by frightened friends and relatives (482). This certainly paints an accurate and ...

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Native Americans

People have been living in the Americas for thousands of years. Only fairly recently, the past few hundred years, have foreigners begun to arrive and drastically disrupt the way of life of the aboriginal population. The situation has become so severe that a population that was one believed to be ...

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Augustus Caesar

, the Rome's first true Emperor was the historical figure who had the greatest impact upon the western world between the dawn of civilization and the end of the middle ages. (31B.C. - 14 A.D.) was originally named Gaius Octivian, the name Augustus was granted by the Roman Senate, which means ...

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Lorenzo Ghiberti

was born as Lorenzo di Bartolo in 1378 in Florence, Italy. His mother’s second husband, Bartolo di Michele trained Lorenzo as a goldsmith. Ghiberti also received training as a painter. According to his autobiography, he left Florence in 1400 to work with a painter in the town of Pesaro for its ...

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The Role Of Entertainers As Educators

Both entertainment and education have been integrals parts of the human experience since the beginnings of time. Many scholars insist that the two institutions often serve jointly, with entertainers and entertainment serving as a main source of education. There is little argument, then, that in ...

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Confucianism

Religion affects many dynamics of a society. Although, at first glance most people do not realize the drastic effects religion has on a culture. It can have a major impact on the stability and growth of the economy, the people's family, and social lives. In the following essay, I will illustrate ...

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Fall Of The Roman Empire

In 133 BC, the Republic of Rome took control of the Mediterranean Sea. The empire was prosperous and strong, but eventually experienced a downfall. The fall of the Western Roman Empire was caused by internal decay in political and military issues, economics, sociology, and religion. The ...

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The Tokugawa Period

Throughout the course of history, all civilizations go through different periods that have a profound influence on the culture. In the Japanese culture this time period was . began about 1600, shortly after the feudal periods of Heian, Kamakura, and Ashikaga (Beasly 25). After the death of ...

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Augustus Ceasar

Augustus Caesar, the Rome's first true Emperor was the historical figure who had the greatest impact upon the western world between the dawn of civilization and the end of the middle ages. Augustus Caesar (31B.C. - 14 A.D.) was originally named Gaius Octivian, the name Augustus was granted by the ...

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Into The Wild

Sometimes a character may be pushed over the edge by our materialistic society to discover his/her true roots, which can only be found by going back to nature where monetary status was not important. Chris McCandless leaves all his possessions and begins a trek across the Western United ...

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The Works Of Clive Staples Lewis

Many people for different reasons know Clive Staples Lewis, from Christianity to his Chronicles of Narnia. Not only was Lewis a writer, but he was also a professor in England and a World War I veteran. Today he is known as C. S. Lewis because many of his works were always published under this ...

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Into The Wild By Jon Krakauer

Sometimes a character may be pushed over the edge by our materialistic society to discover his/her true roots, which can only be found by going back to nature where monetary status was not important. Chris McCandless leaves all his possessions and begins a trek across the Western United States, ...

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Brave New World: All Things Are Relative

The dictionary defines civilized as "advanced in social customs, art, and science". The keyword here is social customs. A persons idea of what is civilized is relative to his culture. Through out the history of man, one can see many changes in customs, and customs is what defines our idea of ...

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Capital Punishment

– An Overview “The question with which we must deal is not whether a substantial proportion of American citizens would today, if polled, opine that is barbarously cruel, but whether they would find it to be so in light of all information presently available.”- Justice Thurgood Marshall Imagine a ...

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Christopher Columbus Was A Villain

Christopher Columbus was often received and remembered by the “schoolbook” image of him as a heroic, brave, modern individual spreading Christian civilization. According to those absorbed in this “myth”, his most important heroic attribution was his discovering of the New World, which led to ...

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Spain

, a country occupying the greater part of the Iberian Peninsula, and bounded on the north by the Bay of Biscay, France, and Andorra, and on the east by the Mediterranean Sea. The Balearic Islands in the Mediterranean and the Canary Islands in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Africa are governed ...

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Homeopathy And Women

Over the course of the past several decades feminist scholars, in company with medical historians, have developed a sophisticated framework for identifying the ways in which Western medicine, as a system of social control, tends to reproduce and legitimate the construction of gender in the wider ...

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Memoirs Of A Mountain High

It was the summer of 94 when I took a Wilderness Leadership Semester from the Colorado Outward Bound School . Needless to say that it was the most emotional, challenging, and rewarding experience that I have had in all of my 19 ears of existence. One week spent running the Upper Green River in ...

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