Climate Change and Civilizations: Lessons from the Past
Essay - 6 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Anthropogenic climate change constitutes an alarming threat to the safety and health of humankind. According to a 2007 report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, some of its consequences will include heat waves, loss of biodiversity, food and water insecurity, an increase in water-...
The impact of the French Revolution (1789-1815) on social structure, legal system and political life and institutions during the nineteenth century in France
Essay - 5 pages - Modern history
Some events stamp on the history of mankind forever : the French Revolution is definitely one of these. Indeed, really few upheavals such as this one triggered so many thoughts, comments and passionate reactions all over the world. Although lot of scholars tried to understand and qualify this...
Journeying Abandonment
Essay - 3 pages - Literature
Dante's Inferno, while a fictionalized version of the dichotomy of Heaven and Hell, is in many ways an accurate portrayal of the doctrines of Christianity. However, this Hell he creates is a Hell the Bible never expected. Influenced by the growing mistrust of the Pope throughout his native...
Book Review: Women in the Viking Age
Book review - 3 pages - Literature
Women in the Viking Age by Judith Jesch is a detailed and informative publication that discusses women during the Viking Age through the close examination of a vast amount of resources. Judith Jesch is currently teaching at the University of Nottingham, and has extensive experience in a variety...
The Parthenon
Essay - 4 pages - Medieval history
After the Athenians defeated the Persians in defense of their glorius city. Pericles had proposed a resurrection and rebuilding of the Athenian temples that were destroyed by the Persian invaders. The best materials, artists, and laborers were called upon from the entire region to take part in...
Archetypal criticism - Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
Essay - 5 pages - Literature
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark by William Shakespeare is one the most acclaimed and widely read pieces of literature in the history of Western civilization. It is the story of a young prince named Hamlet who must battle his adversaries and his own demons in order to avenge the fratricide committed...
National identity
Essay - 5 pages - Sociology & social sciences
What separates human being from other animals within our world is our innate ability to recognize and define our own existences. This ability in which we posses can not only create cohesion amongst groups and societies but it can also lead to dissonance and division. Our identities, whether...
A Post-Jungian perspective on the psychology of the pre-modern person in today's modern western culture
Essay - 6 pages - Psychology
The psychology that shall be articulated in this essay can from the outset be described as relatively pre-modern and relatively psychoanalytical. It is pre-modern because we will be focusing on the pre-modern psyche without arguing that it should be vanquished in favor of a modern psychological...
Transformations of literature: Augustine's 'Confessions' and Virgil's 'Aeneid'
Essay - 4 pages - Literature
Both St. Augustine's Confessions and Virgil's epic The Aeneid marked a new direction in literature for the West. Each one was inspired by the works of previous authors, but was willing to forge a new literature for their times. In the Aeneid, Virgil established Rome as indebted to the...
Contemporary key Post-Jungian thinkers
Essay - 6 pages - Psychology
Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961) had a rational and irrational side. The rational side of Jung was scientifically orientated. It was an empirical side that studied psychic contents as psychological facts. Meanwhile the irrational side of Jung lapped up and experienced esoteric and numinous...
Belgian comics and constructing Belgian national identity
Thesis - 6 pages - Journalism
Belgium is a unique country that uses a federal solution to construct a civic nation from two competing ethnic and cultural identities. In the north is the Flemish region, in the south, Wallonia, and in the middle, the capitol and mainly French speaking, city of Brussels. There is also a small...
Shakespeare's plays illustrated by Blake and Fuseli: The artists as critics - publié le 16/01/2009
Essay - 11 pages - Literature
It has judiciously been pointed out that “pictures from Shakespeare account[ed] for about one fifth -some 2 300!- of the total number of literary paintings recorded between 1760 and 1900” (R. Altick). As a matter of fact, the renewed interest in nineteenth century British art in the...
The light and the dark - Goethe's faust and the theme of the search for inner wholeness
Thesis - 6 pages - Philosophy
In dramatic literary history, tragedies are a form through which dark elements in human motivation, character and decision making are explored. Often the tragedy revolves around the flaw of its main character, known as the tragic hero. The hero may have a tragic flaw such as egoistic hubris, or...
Transformations of literature: augustine's 'confessions' and virgil's 'aeneid' - published: 07/07/2009
Thesis - 5 pages - Literature
Both St. Augustine's Confessions and Virgil's epic The Aeneid marked a new direction in literature for the West. Each one was inspired by the works of previous authors, but was willing to forge a new literature for their times. In the Aeneid, Virgil established Rome as indebted to the Greek...
To hell and back: A human's tale by Dante Alighieri
Thesis - 4 pages - Literature
When asked to name the most influential authors in the history of literature, a person would most likely refer to authors whose acclaim is so great, one only has to say a single part of his or her name. Poets and playwrights, these authors composed works that transcend time and place and carry...
Crime and Italian identity
Thesis - 3 pages - Social, moral & civic education
The story of the Italian American experience after World War Two has been one of paradox, the move towards assimilation with the mainstream, and dealing with the feeling of regret of the younger generations of having lost many of the visible markers of Italian American identity. As...
Renaissance Literature is indebted more to emblematic and allegorical modes, than to modern forms of realism
Thesis - 6 pages - Literature
The aftermath of reformation, mid 16th.Century, left the art and literary world in upheaval. The former art of Catholicism which had been figurative and vivid, depicting the saints in all their glory, was redundant and even despised. Many reformers believed that to idolize the saints and to...
Visual analysis of an Assyrian winged deity
Thesis - 2 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Walking slowly through the cool, dark room of Ancient Near Eastern art at the Museum of Fine Arts, visitors come across the superhuman-size, alabaster relief of an Assyrian winged deity. It is this striking deity that catches viewers' eyes easily with its intricacy and precision of pattern as...
Exploring Afrofuturism: Artists and Filmmakers Shaping a Technologically Empowered African Future
Essay - 5 pages - Arts and art history
Afrofuturism is a cultural and creative movement that boldly confronts common preconceptions about Africa, arguing that the region is culturally immobile and technologically "backward". On the other hand, Afrofuturism asserts Africa's entitlement to modernity and technology while honouring...
An essay on Charles Hartshorne's mnemonic metaphysics
Thesis - 4 pages - Philosophy
Our ancestors of the ‘pre-philosophical' era - much too often called Ionian thinkers - engaged themselves in an admirable quest to make sense of everything that struck their awe. As a consequence, the concept of deity, as well as the supernatural forces attributed to nearly all types of...
Private Equity and Wealth Management
Market study - 4 pages - Management
Investment listing in the stock market should be considered long-term in nature and involve a high degree of risk and uncertainty. According to Alison et al. (2015), there is a need for careful consideration of all the consent information set out in the prospectus, the risks that relate to the...
Bacardi vs Smirnoff
Case study - 35 pages - Brand management
Founded in Cuba in 1862, by Don Facundo Bacardi, Bacardi has grown to become the world's leading producer of rum. When rum was first produced by distilling sugar cane juice, it was an unrefined, fiery drink that became associated with the sailors and pirates of the Caribbean seaports. When, Don...
Status of Dramatic Serials in India and South Korea
Case study - 4 pages - Sociology & social sciences
Television dramas can provide a wealth of information about different nations' cultures and social dynamics. This comparative analysis explores the dramatic serials produced in India and South Korea. In this comparative study, we examine the dramatic serials in India and South Korea, which...
Strategic marketing : the secrets of Harry Potter's success
Case study - 12 pages - Brand management
Over ten years ago, the world witnessed the inception of one of the most impressive success stories ever - the Harry Potter books. Since the publication of the first book, Harry Potter has become a commercial, cultural and social phenomenon. With each passing year, the Potter mania has captured...
Bacardi vs Smirnoff - published: 29/09/2010
Case study - 35 pages - Services marketing
Founded in Cuba in 1862, by Don Facundo Bacardi, Bacardi has grown to become the world's leading producer of rum. When rum was first produced by distilling sugar cane juice, it was an unrefined, fiery drink that became associated with the sailors and pirates of the Caribbean seaports. When, Don...
Strategic marketing : the secrets of Harry Potter's success - published: 29/09/2010
Case study - 12 pages - Services marketing
Over ten years ago, the world witnessed the inception of one of the most impressive success stories ever - the Harry Potter books. Since the publication of the first book, Harry Potter has become a commercial, cultural and social phenomenon. With each passing year, the Potter mania has captured...
Anthropology of Religion: The study of Myths based on Alan Dunde's and Lévi-Strauss's articles
Text commentary - 2 pages - Culture, religion & civilization
This essay is based on Alan Dundes's article Earth-Diver: Creation of the Mythopoeic Male and Claude Lévi-Strauss one The Structural Study of Myth. With Levi Strauss and Alan Dundes's works we have two examples of different approaches to study myths in anthropology. Both of them seem to...
The Threat of the New World to the French Wine Market: Are historically traditional wines are being usurped by aggressive new competitors?
Dissertation - 77 pages - Services marketing
The objective of this dissertation is to identify the difficulties that the French wine market faces with regard to the competition of the producers of new wines. Simple, easy to drink wines, have been commercialized on a large scale in the past ten years or so by Australia, South Africa, Chile...
The Making of English National Identity
Book review - 17 pages - Social, moral & civic education
In the recent decades, it seems that many scholars have tried to find when and how nationalism was born among the English people. Some of them have argued that the starting point of English nationalism took place in the medieval period; others think that it was created in the early-modern period...
The American strategic culture in the international relations
Essay - 12 pages - International relations
Culture can be defined as a persistent group, through which traditions, ideas, means of thought, and attitudes are transmitted socially and more or less specifically in a community of geographically located security and historical experience which is unique. We move towards a standardization of...
