What is History? Carl Becker, a historian, says history may be defined as the study of development on human societies in time and in space. This definition is true. Historians don't just study dates, presidents, and wars. They also aren't just interested in famous people either. H...

Aldous Huxley's "Brave New World" In the 1930's Aldous Huxley wrote his novel "Brave New World". It was in this time, when the world made the first steps towards huge scientific and technological advances. These advances were not only seen as evidence for progress, ...

The study of history deals with human action. This means any actions performed by individuals and groups of individuals. The way that people live and the way that they react to any conditions play in effect. Human judgement, what guided them to their goal, what these men do in order to have ends ...

"In a great many civilizations, at least until present era, marriages were arranged in the interests of kinship networks, not at the whim of lovers"(Adrian Brune) Procreation, the goal nature wants to achieve with this union, is the basic factor and the only reason, which has tran...

Two World Wars were recorded in the history of mankind and certainly not a pleasant piece of record. Millions of people had died serving their countries to fight for the so-called justice against enemies of their own. Death is probably a very distant issue for most of us, but certainly not to soldie...

The majority of the focus through history has been on the humanistic form, and the concentration of this paper will be on that. Art was the first written language and to study the history of art is to study the history of civilizations and humankind. The Paleolithic cave paintings in France, when vi...

\"Clean your room, do your homework, got to college and get a good education...\" These are rules, rather orders that people are given the choice to obey or suffer the consequences. Despite people not knowing the consequences, many will choose to obey the order without hesitation. However, the quest...

Most of people don't realize and think the meaning of existence because it is pretty hard to find out what they are. But I want to seek what I am and figure out the meaning of living with reasons at this time. The first reason I live is because God created me and my parents gave me a birth. ...

A Man's World How many times have you turned on the television and heard about a violent episode involving a young man? This seems to be the trend these days. Why is this? There are many different factors that could be the cause of these incidents. Is it race, poverty, neighborhood, famil...

John Berger's writing "Ways of Seeing" is a look into the world of art. Throughout his composition, he gives his opinions on various topics about art. Jane Tompkins essay "Indians: Textualism, Morality, and the Problem of History" is a look into the world of history. Within her essay, Tompkins dis...

True Lies Some argue that movies such as, "Saving Private Ryan", and "Schindler's List" that are loosely based on historical fact provide an inaccurate account of history. Others say they provide people of the present with a look into the past. Whether or not the histo...

Religion has been a very important part of cultures here on Earth. Since the formation of human civilizations religion has affected world events. While most civilizations have different religions, many of them have several things in common. Many of the religions have some of the basic beliefs whil...

World of the DivineAngel books, angel jewelry, angel newsletters, and even specialized angel stores. How do we perceive angels? As a statistical indication of increasing interest, a 1992 Gallup Youth poll (Jordan 2) found that 76% of American teenagers believed in angels, up from 64% in 1978. Clea...

Before examining the issue of ethics and morality, we must ask ourselves the question: what is it that grants such heat to the matter of right and wrong, good and evil? Why is it that mankind on the whole feels a need to be accountable for its actions? When considering the fluctuating moods of ma...

Sir Thomas More was a humanist who wrote the book Utopia. Utopia was a book written that had a revolutionary idea, a perfect society. Utopia has been significant throughout history, because it depicts a perfect society without human greed and corruption. Yet, the main reason for it's controv...

The Age of Spiritual Machines presents a history of computers, lookingat how past trends in computing have led to today's personal machines.Author Ray Kurzweil then goes beyond history to look towards the future.Most audiences are familiar with the notion that computers will one daythink faste...

A question asked throughout human history is: "Is humanity inherently good or evil?" This question is a theme in the story "Young Goodman Brown," and the movie "Contact." Both the story and the movie had themes of good and evil. In the story "Young Goodman Brown,&q...

Typically, in the past and even in the present day, people have either have an anthropocentric view, humankind as the center of existence, or ecocentric, concerned with all living organisms and their environment. Sessions wrote (2001, p.158) , In 1972, the environmental textbook writer G. Tyler Mi...

Definition Essay The origin of the word myth seems to be a myth in itself. Myths have generally originated from a Greek history that used an oral tradition to explain events that occurred before the written word. Often supernatural beings or fictitious characters were used to expla...

Diversity in society essential for our World: In human life diversity have always existed. Difference among people, race, culture and society is essential on the survival of our world. It's true how the world will be if every individual are similar? How the world will survive with only one ...

\"Language is the blood of the soul...\" (Oliver Wendell Holmes). The blood flows through internal and external thought, giving the world insight into the human mind. Language can be found in many forms, including speech, expression, literature, and vocabulary. This art of language shapes the world ...

"The controllers in BNW consider intelligence the most desirable quality in a human being."In the novel, "Brave New World", intelligence is not considered as anything special. In fact, having intelligence is considered appalling in a way. Intelligence in the dystopia is basically limited to the thin...

Many things change with the passing of time, but not the philosophy or principles of life. Even though the surroundings and the situations transform as the time progresses, people always stay human beings. The idea of people's mind unchanging is demonstrated especially well, through the philoso...

Recently, we have all seen the controversy over whether or not we should attempt to clone. If you haven\'t heard: A group of scientists in Scotland announced the birth of a sheep cloned from embryonic cells, presaging Dolly. Dolly\'s was the birth heard round the world. The first mammal ever cloned...

The four great revolutions in thought and religion that occurred in the first millennium BCE shaped the subsequent history of the world as the cultural descendents of India, China, the Middle East, and Greece attempted to define the meaning of life and understand humankind's relationship with the co...