Essays Tagged: "Sultan"

Aha! Gestalt psychology and insigth learning. Wolfgang Kohler's studies

organization and insight in learning.His groundbreaking experiment involved one of his chimpanzees, Sultan. Sultan had learned to use a stick to rake in bananas outside of his cage. This time Kohler p ... ide of his cage. This time Kohler placed the banana outside of the reach of just one stick and gave Sultan two sticks that could be fitted together to make a single pole that was long enough to reach ...

(2 pages) 104 0 3.8 Dec/1996

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology > Psychological Theories & Authors

Analytical paper on "The Rubiyat of Omar Khayyam"

'Wine' really temptation and hedonism? Or an escape of sorts? In the forty-fifth stanza, an ominous Sultan addresses 'the realm of Death' and prepares his tent 'for another Guest.' In the fifty-eighth ... e a finite vessel; people who have divorced Reason fill it with a substance dispensed by Angels and Sultans that, once consumed, offers no other benefit and ends your life. By using basic and easily d ...

(6 pages) 48 0 3.0 Feb/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Women and their position within religion before 1700

around them.Constance of "The Man of Law's Tale" is a prime example of a religious pawn. The syrian sultan, who wanted Constance's hand in marriage, became baptized Christian. He had to do this becaus ... tical and religious reasons. Her father was ecstatic to gain a portion of stock in Syrian land. The sultan's mother however, saw the religious folly that was to take place. She planned to pretend to b ...

(6 pages) 123 0 4.7 Feb/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers > European History

Compare the Crusader success in the campaign of 1115 AD to Saladin's success in 1182 AD.

23)). In early 1111 the Moslems began the launching of annual, yet seasonal, attacks, as the Suljuk Sultan of Baghdad seemed determined to expel the Christian invaders from the east.Fortunately for th ...

(4 pages) 51 0 4.6 Feb/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers > European History

Dick Whittington and his cat by Mark Clements

Derby playhouse and ran from 26/11/02 to 18/01/03.Cast (In alphabetical order.)Alderman Fitzwarren/Sultan Of MoroccoJohn BranwellDick WhittingtonAlison CarterKing RatPhilip CoxSilly BillyPete Dunwell ...

(7 pages) 51 0 4.7 Mar/2003

Subjects: Art Essays > Performing Arts

Ibn battuta was a traveler from North Africa, who traveled more than anybody of his time, even Marco Polo.

ller before him: from Mali to China, fromRussia to Zanzibar, with his years as legal adviser to the Sultan of Delhi the crowningachievement of his career. His account of his journeys was written in ol ... sweet and harmful to white men when they eatit." (p40).In India, he befriended the ruler of Delhi, Sultan Mohammed, and as a result became theqadi (judge) of that city (p53). This is a post which he ...

(3 pages) 88 0 5.0 Mar/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers > World History

Mosquitoes.

IntroductionMosquitoes: the carrier of disease, the sultan of annoyance, the clever anti-coagulants its whiner makes so the blood you have will flow fre ...

(11 pages) 86 0 4.0 May/2003

Subjects: Science Essays > Biology

The Great Pryamids, how and when they were built.

imestone and capped. Covering an area of 22 acres the white limestone casing was removed by an Arab sultan in 1356 in order to build fortresses in Cairo. According to its knowledge the Great Pyramid i ...

(7 pages) 55 0 5.0 Nov/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers > Middle Eastern History > Ancient Egypt

Slaves in the Ottoman Empire.

of the population in Istanbul were slaves, but there were not as many in the more remote areas. The sultan owned all property and had enormous power, and that was partly because he had so many slaves. ... s a system by which young Christians were recruited for the army or the imperial civil service. The sultan had agents that searched for promising Christian children who they then converted to Islam an ...

(4 pages) 46 0 3.0 Dec/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers > Middle Eastern History

The Crimean War. This is a look at the events which lead up to the Crimean War

r holy monuments, with the Orthodox, or the Russians. Louis Napoleon decided that he must go to the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, and persuade him to look to the Catholic's side. Nicholas was angered ... persuade him to look to the Catholic's side. Nicholas was angered by this, and forcefully asked the Sultan to give him the sole right of protection over the Christian peoples in the Ottoman Empire. Of ...

(2 pages) 42 1 3.7 Feb/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers > European History

Turkey:a nation, it's not for dinner

. As the Empire crumbled, Turkey rose up in a War of Liberation against the invading powers and the Sultan's government. It was successful and resulted in the Lausanne Peace Treaty of July 24th 1923. ...

(5 pages) 53 1 3.8 Mar/2004

Subjects: Area & Country Studies Essays

State&business relations in Turkey

ocracy. One's position in the imperial hierarchy was the primary determinant of income. Because the sultan confiscated his functionaries' wealth when they died, status could be passed on only by means ...

(8 pages) 96 0 4.8 May/2004

Subjects: Area & Country Studies Essays

The life of Sultan Abdulhamid II.

Sultan Abdulhamid II was born in Istanbul on the 21st of September, 1842. His father is Sultan Abdul ... ng his father's reign. He was very well educated and learnt to play piano besides his other courses.Sultan Abdulhamid II lived a free life before he had married. After his marriage, he spent his all s ... that money to the poor. He was a really gracious man, he even forgave many people intended to him. Sultan Abdul Hamid II had established universities, an Academy of Fine Arts, Schools of Finance and ...

(2 pages) 19 0 3.0 May/2005

Subjects: History Term Papers > European History

Constitutional Revolutions of Iran and Turkey in the 19th Century.

th much to gain from a revolution. The Tanzimat ideology, although absent from the mentality of the Sultan, was inscribed in the political, social, and cultural aspect of Ottoman Empire, resulting in ...

(6 pages) 63 1 4.7 Dec/2005

Subjects: History Term Papers > Middle Eastern History

The Ottomans and the Mughals Empire

gnificent, the Ottoman Empire reached its zenith. Beginning in 1520 when Prince Suleyman became the sultan and running for 46 years until his death in 1566, there was a true Ottoman Renaissance underw ... ather, creating a multi-national, multilingual empire. Building on the conquests of his father, the Sultan Suleyman established a great city of Istanbul, a remarkably efficient military machine, a hug ...

(5 pages) 53 0 0.0 Feb/2006

Subjects: History Term Papers > World History

Morocco

Colonization historyIsmail, the sultan of Morocco around 1700 died in 1727, and when he died he left 500 sons behind. This led to bi ... ol over about a third of Morocco's territory.There was an agreement between France and the Moroccan sultan Muhanmmed V. France was going to run the foreign politics and the armed forces, the Moroccan ... and the armed forces, the Moroccan defences. This was going to take place in co-operation with the sultan, at least, that was what they said. France was also going to take part in the domestic politi ...

(3 pages) 19 0 0.0 Aug/2006

Subjects: Area & Country Studies Essays

The 3rd Crusade

t to reconquer the Holy Land from Saladin, after being in Christian hands for 88 years. The Saracen sultan, or leader of that time, was Saladin; through his dazzling military genius and after defeatin ...

(2 pages) 8 0 0.0 Feb/2007

Subjects: History Term Papers > European History

The Arabian Nights' Entertainments

ror. For example, in "The Story of the Humpback," four cowardly characters-a tailor, a physician, a sultan's steward, and a broker-are on trial for the death of a hunchback. In the first part of the t ... the doctor fears that he will be accused of murder and sneaks the corpse into the house of a local sultan. The sultan's steward also mistakenly "kills" the man and is also afraid of punishment; the s ...

(7 pages) 32 0 3.0 Sep/2009

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

The Suez Canal is one of the most important marine advancements of the whole world. It is located in Egypt connecting the Mediterranean to the Red Sea. It was one of the most ambitious projects due to the fact that there had never

an independent nation and took control over Sudan. This event made the British mad in a way at the sultan Faud, Egyptian sultan at the time. About 15 years after, the sultan dies giving power to his ... in Egypt against the British. This made the Egyptian government to adopt a Martial Law system. The sultan, which was Faud's son, ejected his prime minister, because he wasn't able of maintain and res ...

(7 pages) 1 0 0.0 May/2012

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History