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    began the discussion by questioning the importance of time and place in the work. The majority agreed that it was very important as the revolution in Iran shaped the novel. Sterling noted the uniqueness of the situation of changing from a modern, western society to religious fundamentalist society. Contrary

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    The Byzantine Empire How did it all even begin? Most people know how the Middle Ages began, with the fall of the Western Roman Empire, but why did it even fall and if only the Western Roman Empire fell, what happened to the Eastern Roman Empire? How did the Western Roman Empire even form in the first place? Well, it all starts with, of course, the famous Roman Empire. During this period of the great Roman Empire, the empire was under the rule of the emperor Trajan, and as soon as he died, much of

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    the Egyptian culture was made up of many gods. This belief is the base to the Egyptian culture and life. In the Egyptian polytheistic culture the gods took on form and characteristics of objects found in nature. The Egyptian god Ra is considered the father of gods and was the most important and worshiped god. When the Egyptians think of the figure that Ra looks like

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    All civilizations were influenced by their geographical locations. Geography dictates the type of crops that can be grown to the way people travel for trade. As civilizations expanded, cultural characteristics like philosophy, innovative technology, and new forms of government also spread across the lands. Often, expansion was brutal and cost thousands of lives, either in war or from back breaking labor. The Greek and Chinese civilizations in particular were manipulated in completely different

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    death of his older brother. (“John Dewey,” n.d., para. 1) Dewey’s mother was the daughter of a wealthy farmer and she was a devout Calvinist. Dewey’s father was a business owner. He owned his own grocery business. While John was a child, his father left his grocery business to become a Union Army soldier in the Civil War. John Dewey’s father was known to share his passion for British literature with his children. After the war, Archibald Dewey became the proprietor of a successful tobacco

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    about action it-self. Non-consequentialist are not concern about outcomes or consequences, they are more focus on human action. For example , the standards of morality in this theory is to follow the set rules define or design by supernatural powers (God, Goddess) without having the concern about the outcomes. Than the action is right and the doer is good people. There are two theories in no-consequentialist category, Act non-consequentialist and Rule non-consequentialist. Act non-consequentialist:

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    was a famous and influential French film critic and film theorist. He was a person who founds or establishes of film magazine Cahiers du cinéma in 1951, along with Jacques Doniol-Valcroze and Joseph-Marie Lo Duca. He was influenced by personalism, art as a production of the eternal. He started to write about film in 1943 and was died in 1958 at age 40 because of leukemia. Bazin's call for objective reality, deep focus, and lack of montage relate to his opinion that the interpretation of a picture

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    "The dowry, previously regarded as a bride-price paid to the father, became a nuptial gift retained by the wife as part of her personal property" (Fanar). This quote sums up the transition of women from being property to an individual person. Women used to be sold and purchased, but Islam raised the status of the women within a society that never thought much of the female. In the past, certain societies believed marriage was nothing more than a status symbol. Women were thought of producing children

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    Joseph Yamaguchi Ancient Comedies 11/18/17 The Moon-viewing Blind Man, Easter and Western Thought Are humans' animalistic savages or have we evolved long enough to have shed our animalistic nature? Has society created separation between individuals so great that we have resorted to our animalistic nature of fending for ourselves or has it always been there? Questions that make us rethink our stance on who we really are. In philosophy, the animalist doctrine states that humans are animals

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    Kevin Puca Professor Cheryl Knowles-Harrigan Art Appreciation FORMAL ANALYSIS of Crucifixion of St. Peter by Michelangelo Buonarroti Part VI - The Art Object’s Historical Data of its Culture and Time Period I. Overview of politics, economics, religion and ideology in Italy at the time Botticelli was working: Introduction: After the end to the rough and challenging middle ages came a new era of literature art and culture. this period was known as the Renaissance. The Renaissance started in the

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