The New Generation It can easily be seen that there are differences between the older Latin American generations and the new. Differences can be seen through communication, discipline, and different traditions. With communication playing a huge role especially with the older generation whi...

Cupid and PsycheEdith Hamilton takes the love story of Cupid and Psyche, Love and Soul, from a Latin writer of the second century A.D., Apuleius, who, similar to Ovid, creates beautiful, entertaining tales. Consequently, the author uses the Latin names of the gods. The story of Cupid and Psyche re...

Mary the first was born on FEB. 18. 1516 at GREENWICH PALACE. I WAS THE DAUGHTER OF HENRY THE 8 AND CATHRINE THE FIRST OF ARGON. I WAS A GOOD STUDENT AND ACCOMPLISHEND LINGUIST. I LEARNED LATIN, FRENCH, SPANISH, ITALIAN, AND GREEK. I STUDIED ASTRONOMY, NATURAL SCIENCE, AND MATH. I PLAYED MUSIC, ...

Roles and Choices of Women Throughout history, women have been forced into a subservient role, forced to abandon their own self-interest for the interest of men. Confined to the private sector of social life, women have had two choices, to follow the path of marriage or the path of serving their g...

Dido and AeneasThe Aeneid is considered as the single most important poem ever written and has continuously guided and inspired billions of readers. Its popularity today remains the same as it was back in the time when it was published. Virgil, a Latin poet, devoted the final 11 years of his life ...

Sir Thomas more was born February 7, 1478 in London, England. At a young age he began working as a Archbishop. People predicted that he would be a "marvelous man." More studied at Oxford, he studied Greek and Latin Literature while he was there. Most of More's first works were comedies ...

The painting \"Giovanni Arnolfini and His Bride\" by Jan van Eyck is a piece that has a great deal of symbolism. Painted in 1434, it was created with oil on wood and is only 2\'8\" by 1\'11\". The piece is a wedding portrait and displays Van Eyck\'s love of detail. Details such as hair had to be don...

Panofsky\'s purpose in writing this article was to identify a painting discovered in Brussels in 1815 (referred to as the \"London Portrait\") as the portrait of Giovanni Arnolfini and his wife Jeanne de Cename (1434). Panofsky uses historical documentation and iconography to prove his point. Becaus...

Human nature leads us to be curious. Due to this we have acquired a thirst for knowledge about many aspects of life - one of these is the past. The city of Rome was founded in 753 B.C. By 275 B.C., it controlled most of the Italian Peninsula. At its peak, in the A.D. 100's, the Roman Empire covered...

The ancient city of Pompeii is best known for being covered by an erupting volcano and being almost forgotten. From the time the city was rediscovered in the 1700s scientists and archeologists have managed to piece together evidence to show not just how people died but how they lived. We now know th...

Love and Loss; How Anne did bare Anne Bradstreet was born in 1612 in England. In 1630, she sailed to the New World with her father and rest of the family. Anne had been well tutored in literature and history. She also was well educated in many languages such as: Greek, Latin, French, Hebrew...

The 1960s were the age of "sex, drugs, and rock-n-roll." People had a new outlook to life. Women began wearing shorts, skirts, and clothing they normally did not wear. Almost anything was permissive. There was a full-scale sexual revolution. Decriminalization of homosexuality was prevalent and ...

Though subject of great debate and pain in modern days, the occurrence of rape in medieval society, though most specifically in many of Geoffrey Chaucer's works such as "The Wife of Bath's Tale," proves to hold very little interest in the minds of both historical inhabitants of the time as...

Gay Marriages - Why is Society Afraid? You meet someone special and start to form a connection. Soon the sharing of your hopes, joys, and fears begin. Soon after this friendship develops into love, and you realize that you want to spend the rest of your life with this person. They are not only y...

The values in Shakespeare's play The Taming of the Shrew are still evident in the teenflick 10 Things I Hate About You. There are three core values – the importance of marriage for love rather than convenience; the role of patriarchy in social structure; and the importance of money and so...

Cultural Norms In Relation To States' LawsAn interesting point to ponder is the extent to which cultural norms and laws play a part in the formation of states. Are states merely that-cultural norms and laws and the effects of these two concepts? To fully understand this issue we must look at a stud...

Women in ShakespeareOften in literature, parallels are used to accentuate certain things. William Shakespeare utilizes this tool in both The Taming of the Shrew and A Midsummer Night's Dream. In both of these comedic plays, there is a set of women who are at odds with each other. These relationsh...

Different cultures, different customs very different traditions. That's the way of weddings. Every religion, region and country has different wedding traditions. There are close similarities, yet they are still very different. I am most familiar with the traditional Catholic wedding but there ar...

Women in Shakespeare Often in literature, parallels are used to accentuate certain things. William Shakespeare utilizes this tool in both The Taming of the Shrew and A Midsummer Night's Dream. In both of these comedic plays, there is a set of women who are at odds with each other. These relationship...

General Prologue: IntroductionFragment I, lines 1-42SummaryWhan that Aprill with his shoures soote The droghte of March hath perced to the roote . . . (See Important Quotations Explained)The narrator opens the General Prologue with a description of the return of spring. He describes the April rains,...