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“The force that unites the elements to become all things is Love, also called Aphrodite; Love brings together dissimilar elements into a unity, to become a composite thing. Love is the same force that human beings find at work in themselves whenever they feel joy, love and peace. Strife, on the other hand, is the … Read more
The Suez Canal crisis was an event that permanently changed the landscape of the middle east and was the cause of a shift in political power during the cold war and the subsequent decades. The Suez Canal, located in Egypt, was a major shipping route for many major countries including Britain, France, Egypt, and the … Read more
The tower that has been leaning for hundreds of years is actually falling. Have you ever wondered why as we keep adding blocks to the tower of toy blocks it gets harder to keep it from falling? As we all know, all objects have mass and center of gravity. The center of gravity is a … Read more
A standout amongst the most surely understood type of tamed rabbits is the Netherland Dwarf rabbit. As its name proposes, it started from Netherlands and is littler contrasted with most rabbit breeds. It has an immature appearance in light of its adjusted face. It weighs just around 500 grams to 1.13 kilograms. It isn’t typically … Read more
The Eiffel Tower is located in Paris, France. It’s not a wonder. The construction for making the tower started on January 28, 1887. Paris hosted an Exposition Universelle (World’s Fair) to mark the 100-year anniversary of the French Revolution and the birth of democracy. More than 100 artists submitted competing plans for a monument to … Read more
“Education is the sharing of Skill, knowledge, Attitude, and information from teachers to students”. The significance of Education in Islam: Are those Equal, those who know and those who do not know? (Al-Zumr 09). According to the saying of Last Prophet (P.B.U.H) for the sake of knowledge you can travel to the longest distance like … Read more
During the early 1990’s, Spain was in prime time from its rapid economic growth. To which it became the 5th largest economy in the European Union. Spain’s economic growth encouraged a boom un property marketing. So, in 2006, Spain started to build 800,000 new homes. It is important to take note that this was more … Read more
Greece is more than what it seems. Have you ever thought that just maybe, even if it’s for a second that you could got to Greece. Thinking about it why wouldn’t you want to go there. Atlas once that sec on is over you think of places that might be great as well, but hold … Read more
Princess Diana was born on July 1, 1961. Princess Diana became Lady Diana Spencer after her father inherited the title of Earl Spencer in 1975. She married the heir to the British throne, Prince Charles, on July 29, 1981. Diana was a caring person. She’d do anything to help people. Her hard work pays off, … Read more
U.S. History Honors Break-Up Letter Dear King George III, We colonists are sick of the fact that so many Acts are being forced upon us including the Molasses Act, the Proclamation of 1763, the Sugar Act, the Stamp Act, the Quartering Act, the Townshend Act, the Tea Act, and the Intolerable Acts. It is unfair … Read more
Cincinnatus: The Hero of Rome After his appointed year in office, Cincinnatus retired to his farm. Rome continued to fight both internally and externally. Military disaster followed when a Roman invasion force against the Aequians, led by the Consul Mincius, were trapped in the Alban Hills. In such a time of emergency, a Dictator with … Read more
Paris is the capital city of France. With over 12 million inhabitants, it holds around 19% of France’s total population. Paris is most popularly known as the center of fashion. The city is also popular for its fine cuisine, art, and architecture. There is a popular saying in France ‘Quand Paris eternue, la France seen … Read more
June 26, 1963, post WWII, a time were the United States and the Soviet Union were the world’s superpowers. The two powers fought a war of different government and economic ideologies known as the Cold War. During the time of the speech, Germany was a nation split into Democratic West Germany and Communist East Germany, … Read more
The Italian civilization hosted different arts for ages , it was the home for discoveries and sciences and most importantly for buildings. Through the previous centuries architecture was developed and many styles were created. Taking into consideration the renaissance period and the baroque one. Renaissance is an intellectual movement and an artistic development that occurred … Read more
Paella? yeah I’m trying to be more easily understandable in my writing than having that bla bla in foreword which I’ve been doing all this time, and now I’m trying to avoid it which is not easy, so the goal is to achieve rather brief gastronomical history yet full of reading point. So what is … Read more
In the years which led to the revolution in November 1917, the First World War had left Russia in a disastrous state, where there was much discontent among the peasants and the industrial working class, as they suffered from low wages, poor housing and many accidents. In February of 1917, after the collapse of the … Read more
There are many things that Ancient Greece gave to us, one of those things just happens to be our court system. That’s right the Jury and trial system we got from those weird naked people…aawwkkwwarrd. Anyways, here are some things about the one in ancient Greece. Size Matters By modern standards, ancient Athenian juries were … Read more
What was the status of women in Anglo-Saxon England? In 1985, in Butler’s Field, Lechlow, a grave of an Anglo-Saxon woman buried over fifteen hundred years ago was discovered. The extraordinary richness of her grave goods, its abundance of amber beads and gilt bronze brooches making it one of the most opulent burial sites in … Read more
Robert Walser’s “Berlin Stories” is a collection of vignettes that track his observation during his jaunts through the city. Walter Benjamin’s “Berlin Childhood Around 1900” is an attempt by Benjamin to recollect his urban childhood as an adult in exile. They both write about Berlin at the turn of the century but are able to … Read more
Tension and mistrust arising from the war between New France and 13 English colonies led to the expulsion of the Acadians. The British thought the Acadians were a threat to appropriation of the land. The Expulsion (1755–1764) occurred during the French and Indian War (the North American theatre of the Seven Years’ War) and was … Read more
In ancient Rome, the domus was the type of house occupied by the upper classes and some wealthy freedmen during the Republican and Imperial eras. It could be found in almost all the major cities throughout the Roman territories. The upper classes of Roman society constructed their residences with extravagant marble decorations, inlaid marble paneling, … Read more
On the afternoon of Sunday the 30th of January 1972 soldiers from the British Parachute Regiment, one of the fearsome UK militia units fighting the battle in the north of Ireland, attacked a civil rights march in the town of Derry, killing or fatally wounding fourteen civilians and injuring two dozen more in an event … Read more
The Medici and the Renaissance John Fowls wrote that, “In essence the Renaissance was simply the green end of one of civilization’s hardest winters” (1969). He could not have been more correct. The world before the Renaissance was bleak; a place filled with war, plagues, and poverty. The Renaissance brought (among other concepts) beauty, art, … Read more
Nationalism in Italy Nationalism is described as “loyalty and devotion to a nation” (Merriam-Webster). In places like the United States, the sense of pride in the American people is apparent. However, countries in Europe did not start showing a sense of pride until 1800’s like with the unification of German and Italian states. Camillo di … Read more
There are many things that Ancient Greece gave to us, one of those things just happens to be our court system. That’s right the Jury and trial system we got from those weird naked people…aawwkkwwarrd. Anyways, here are some things about the one in ancient Greece. Size Matters By modern standards, ancient Athenian juries were … Read more
Jonathan Swift and Oliver Goldsmith both censured how British social orders functioned and how they treat poor people. Quick, be that as it may, condemned the absence of empathy with unforgiving, gnawing parody. For instance, the storyteller of “A Modest Proposal” recommends that the starving Irish stuff and pitch their year-old children to well-off English … Read more
The Ancient Agora of Athens If you look outside your door maybe you would notice the houses around, the perhaps natural landscape of the field across the way, maybe it’s even your neighbors walking their dogs down the street. But I implore you to try to look out and picture what it would’ve been like … Read more
Introduction Imprisonment and its effectiveness has been under great debate in the recent years. Prisons were relied upon as a means of social control and this has further increased in the 20 years in the United Kingdom and especially in the United states. We rely on imprisonment by remaining blind to the falseness of our … Read more
In ancient Rome, the domus was the type of house occupied by the upper classes and some wealthy freedmen during the Republican and Imperial eras. It could be found in almost all the major cities throughout the Roman territories. The upper classes of Roman society constructed their residences with extravagant marble decorations, inlaid marble paneling, … Read more
Rome was able to control a vast empire due to their military success. According to Bee Breeders, an Architecture competition organisers, Roman architecture was at its peak during the Pax Romana period, a period in which the Roman Empire didn’t expand and wasn’t invaded, and which lasted over 200 years. One of the Roman inventions … Read more
The United States is very different from Norway when it comes to the structure of its health care system. Norway’s health care structure went through a radical change in 2002 when a hospital reform occurred that had the government take over the responsibility of running the entire hospital system throughout the country. As a result, … Read more
American colonies need labor forces to sustain and maintain their economic growth. As a tenant farmer in England, in the early-mid 1700s, I labor from early morning to night working the fields. Life is difficult; a challenge for the poor. At times I feel there is no hope, just a mere existence farming another’s land. … Read more
Jonathan Swift and Oliver Goldsmith both censured how British social orders functioned and how they treat poor people. Quick, be that as it may, condemned the absence of empathy with unforgiving, gnawing parody. For instance, the storyteller of “A Modest Proposal” recommends that the starving Irish stuff and pitch their year-old children to well-off English … Read more
The history of Italy can be characterized as two periods of unity separated by a millennia and a half of division. In the sixth to third centuries BCE the Italian city of Rome conquered Peninsular Italy; over the next few centuries this empire spread to dominate the Mediterranean and Western Europe. This Roman Empire would … Read more
Mussolini’s Rise to Power After serving in the Italian army during WW1, Mussolini returned home, looking for a way to unify the Italian people. In 1918, he began to deliver emotional speeches, calling for a dictator to head the country. He argued that only a strong leader could unite the people to overcome Italy’s postwar … Read more
“The Laramie Project” Review “The Laramie Project” tells the story of a group of young people creating a play about the events that happened in the town of Laramie, Wyoming. The group conducted interviews about the murder of Matthew Shepard, a gay student that had accusedly hit on two straight teenagers at a bar. These … Read more
Walls in people’s heads are sometimes more constricting than those of concrete and steel.’ A quote by Willy Brandt, the mayor of West Berlin. The Berlin Wall would create not only a border between East and West Berlin but also emphasize the understanding between the Allies that the Soviets would assert dominance over its eastern … Read more
‘Henry VIII broke from Rome because he wanted to increase his own power.’ Explain why you agree or disagree with this view. It could be interpreted that Henry VIII broke from Rome because he wanted to increase his own personal power, however there are two main contradicting views. Firstly that Henry realised the wealth of … Read more
Over the years, there has been several debates and discussions on the legalization of cannabis in the UK. Cannabis legalization has been a subjective issue in many countries. Different countries differ on the various use necessitating its legalism; this raises a serious question about the legality of cannabis. My project centers on the legality of … Read more
Why Philosophy? Philosophy can be confusing to almost all who studies it, mainly because for many of the questions, there are no definite answers, just more questions. Philosophy is studied simply to not only to attain knowledge, but to create speculation of all that we currently think mankind understands. Unlike finding answers such as in … Read more
Feudalism was established in Europe by the 800s CE but appeared later in the 1100s in japan. European feudalism ended by the growth of a stronger political states in the 16th century, but Japanese feudalism held on until the meji restoration of 1868. Feudal Japanese and European societies were built on a system of heredity … Read more
Rome vs. Carthage: The Bitterly Fought Punic Wars The Punic Wars were the consequences of the expansion of Roman rule southward; bitter rivals with competing interests, Rome and Carthage pitted their military powers against each other. The strength of the Romans (which was their army) matched wits and strategies against the strength of the Carthaginians … Read more
The term, “Elizabethan Era” refers to the English history of Queen Elizabeth I’s reign (1558–1603). Historians often depict it as the golden age in English history and it’s been widely romanticized in books, movies, plays, and TV series. The Elizabethan age is considered to be a time of English renaissance that inspired national pride through … Read more
The ‘Crime and Punishment’ is a novel written in the mid-1860s by a well known author named Fyodor Dostoevskys in Siberia. This novel has six parts with an epilogue, it has a serious, dramatic tone and Dostoevskys made use of a dual character-personality. This book presents a student with the shallow-type of beliefs on philosophy … Read more
The Horse Dealer’s Daughter is a short story written by D.H. Lawrence. In this story he presents the situation of a girl who is struggling with her inner-self. Mabel Pervin, the main character of this story lives with her three brothers. She lost her mother in the age of fourteen. Later her family was under … Read more
The doctrine, originally coined by Samuel T. Coleridge in his 1817 publication of Biographia listeria, ‘suspension of disbelief’ is built, principally, on the idea that, in order to fully immerse in the fictional world, it is paramount that we force ourselves to believe in premises not ordinarily accepted in the ‘real world.’ In engaging, impermanently, … Read more
“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” Nelson Mandela. Education has always been a crucial part in forming a countries identity. Many believe that an education is a privilege. Some believe that an education is a right or even an obligation. But the only obligation we might have … Read more
Emilio Pucci born 20th November 1914, he was a Florentine Italian designer and a famous politician. Early life Pucci was one of Florence’s oldest noble families, and he would live and work in the family house, because his house was in the heart of Florence and this was ideal location for professional life of his … Read more
According to the picture shown, Europe is in green and dark grey. The European Union is in green colour and location of the United Kingdom is in dark green colour. The four countries of the United Kingdom are England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. United Kingdom’s Flag United Kingdom is a member of the European … Read more
With over 39,000 American mass layoff events during the Great Recession, December 2007-June 2009, corporate downsizing seems like an integral practice of modern organizational life (Bureau of Labor Statistics). Downsizing refers to the deliberate reduction of workforce size to improve organizational performance (Nair, 2008). Companies turn to downsizing, or layoffs, in hopes to reduce labor … Read more
