Essays Tagged: "cultures"

ASIA CULTURE PROJECT: AESTHETICS

future of our world will also be influenced by continued art forms.Art is influenced by religions, cultures, moral values, traditions, and governmental hierarchies. Although there are hundreds of lan ... worldwide. Television is a way of presenting art forms such as opera, music, movies, philosophies, cultures, and the list can go on and on.. If we continue to share our visions, values, and learning' ...

(2 pages) 118 0 4.5 Feb/1997

Subjects: Art Essays

Cloning Today

leus of an immature egg with a nucleus from another cell. Most of the work with clones is done from cultures. An embryo has about thirty or forty usable cells but a culture features an almost endless ...

(4 pages) 190 0 3.8 Dec/1996

Subjects: Science Essays > Genetics & Genome Projects

Comparison of ancient Rome and Greece

ulture, as well as civilizations were developing, many things came to be known as options for later cultures. Civilizations had different ways of doing things and therefore each of their cultures diff ...

(1 pages) 143 0 2.7 Jan/1997

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Classical Studies

Buddha

ndergoing long,hard hours of meditation and contemplation. Buddha has changed thelifestyles of many cultures with new, never-before asked questionsthat were explained by his search for salvation. He b ... t his students knew that hislife was complete. He left behind his legacy to the world and shapedthe cultures of people for centuries to come.Buddha's ContributionsMuch of what the world believes today ...

(9 pages) 274 3 4.6 Dec/1996

Subjects: History Term Papers > Asian History

Egypt

EGYPTThe majority of people have various ways of viewing cultures. Becauseof close-mindedness and lack of cultural education, people have a difficulttime int ...

(2 pages) 179 3 4.4 Oct/1996

Subjects: Area & Country Studies Essays

The Tempest. An Imperialist Heaven or Hell?

when his society was branching out and making itself known throughout the world by colonizing other cultures. Great Britain was reaching for new heights of power. In the play Shakespeare questions the ...

(5 pages) 149 1 4.5 Apr/1994

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Shakespeare

The Trickster - Karl Jung archetype.

lls the collective unconsciousness. That thread of consciousness that connects all human beings and cultures around the world. Yet it is not visible to the naked eye, one must look for the signs of it ... the world. Yet it is not visible to the naked eye, one must look for the signs of it by researching cultures who are long gone and comparing them to each other and our own. Studying it reminds us that ...

(5 pages) 124 1 4.7 Dec/1996

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Classical Philosophy

Jedism. The religion of Star Wars.

es of religion.These theories are built on both the known history of religions in the world and the cultures inwhich they originated, as well as, appropriately enough, theoretical suggestions of how t ...

(6 pages) 109 0 4.5 Nov/1996

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Religion & Faith

Rites of Passage

ing on vision quests, by the plains Indians of North America, to circumcision by certain Australian cultures, rites of passage present a vast table of religious comparisons(Eliade, p. 287-88).This ess ...

(6 pages) 170 0 4.1 Mar/1997

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Religion & Faith

Christianity

sion into heaven. Thecommandment sparked the beginning of Christianity and throughout the years, itscultures, religions and beliefs poured out upon the continents, including the NewWorld. The intent o ...

(11 pages) 436 0 4.4 Jan/1997

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Religion & Faith > Christianity

The Death and Dying Practices of the Australian Aborigines

an Indians, the Aboriginal funeral practices and beliefs about death have much in common with other cultures. This paper will discuss the death and dying beliefs of the Aborigines that share a common ... y extends into the belief that the ego survives death and remains intact in the afterlife; (2) such cultures have lost the knowledge of burial practices that assist the spiritual energy of the decease ...

(14 pages) 241 0 5.0 Dec/1996

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Religion & Faith

The Forced Assimilation of Native Americans

eans colonization of the United States is the destruction of numerous Native American societies and cultures. With whites feeling that Native Americans were on "their" land, the United States tried to ... ples who have been destroyed by Western empiricism. Hopefully, by studying and learning about these cultures, they will live on.

(4 pages) 322 0 4.4 Dec/1996

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History

"A Town Like Alice" by Nevil Shute

A Town Like Alice - Discussion"Even though cultures differ, people are basically the same."This is a statement that depends a lot on what you m ... the west would never feel so bad about loosing his face as a man from Japan.The differences between cultures can be something that maybe some of the persons would like to change if they got the possib ... sn't really interesting to know if people would have turned out the same if they wasn't affected by cultures because I think it's a great thing that there is such things as different cultures and diff ...

(2 pages) 31 0 3.7 Jan/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

A business letter on expanding into foreign markets.

countries. We have looked at some of these issues. We see that we have to adapt to other countries cultures and traditions. Also we have to consider religous differences in ther countries. For exampl ...

(2 pages) 196 0 3.6 Mar/2002

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Markets & Exchanges

Perfect Day for Bananafish--this is an analysis of the short story "A Perfect Day for Bananafish" by J.D. Salinger

, or even ridiculous. If an extraterrestrial life form were to gaze upon out planet and observe our cultures, there?s no doubt that what they see would shock them. Earth is populated by all kinds of p ...

(4 pages) 99 1 4.8 Mar/2002

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

Readings of King Lear

retations of the themes and issues raised in the play, considering the vast diversity of people and cultures in our contemporary society. Various adaptations of the play on the big and the small scree ...

(4 pages) 107 0 4.7 Mar/2002

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Shakespeare

They Can't be the Same

cation, direct (traditional male) and indirect (traditional female), are consistent throughout most cultures. There are cases where the men communicate indirectly and the women directly but not where ...

(7 pages) 128 1 4.6 Nov/1996

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies

Paper on The History of the Stringed Instrument to 1800

structural and playing adaptability that lends itself well to the rendition of the music of diverse cultures.The way a stringed instrument works is a tightened material (silk gut, metal or nylon) when ...

(19 pages) 180 1 4.1 Mar/2002

Subjects: Art Essays > Music History & Studies

The Conquest of the Aztec and Incan Empires

was so easy were because these empires were isolated, they knew nothing of the new world and other cultures, they believed that the Europeans intentions were of no relevance to them and underestimate ... f the Europeans and their goals.The Incans were completely isolated, they had no contact with other cultures, and they instead believed that the arrival of the Europeans was part of an old Inca legend ...

(1 pages) 93 0 3.0 Apr/2002

Subjects: History Term Papers > Central & Southamerican History

Taxi Driver

ure which seems to appear over and over in the movie. It could be nature, women, other races, other cultures, homosexuals, criminals, rulers, Gods, monsters, etc. In the film, the protagonist becomes ...

(3 pages) 69 0 3.5 Jan/1994

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Film Review and Analysis