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Informative Exercise: Sample Outline Format Topic: Ancient artifacts that disregard the current view of time General Purpose: To inform Specific Purpose: To inform about different artifacts Central Idea Statement/Thesis: Ancient technology, figurines, and imbedded materials can make us rethink our perception of the human time line and discover more about long gone civilizations. Introduction I. We know how our timeline as humans go, cavemen, farmers, castles, military industrial complex and…

My dad is doing everything to make life simple for us. Five years prior, I was contemplating in a therapeutic school in Baghdad, and my dad was filling in as a representative at the University of Technology. I was setting off to my college with my companion; he was living close to my home and going to my home by his auto to go to the college. My companion's family left their…

the first accurate depiction of a human face ever discovered by archaeologists: the Warka Head or, alternatively, the Mask of Warka. A lot of mystery surrounds this particular head. It stands approximately eight inches tall and was discovered in Baghdad, in a…

Throughout this section, I articulate over Iraq’s sectarian division and its detrimental consequences, which have put Iraq into a schism nation. As well, I narrate few historical affairs that coincided during distinct eras of the Iraqi anecdote. The project sheds its light over the following period: the Ottoman era and the five components of identity in the traditional Iraqi society; during the British mandate era; in the decades of the monarch state since (1946-1958); and the era of the…

BOOKS: Gnuse, Robert Karl. No Other Gods: Emergent Monotheism in Israel. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press Ltd, 1997. Robert Gnuse has been a professor of the humanities in the religious studies department at Loyola University since 1980. In his book, No Other Gods, Gnuse provides a scholarly and thorough look into the emergence of ancient Hebrew monotheism. He synthesizes the former historical model – the idea that monotheism developed suddenly because of Israel’s dramatic conquest – with…

A great book to read, However a hard book to find the great details that argue that race and ethnicity are socially constructed. Newly wed couple, travel from Baghdad to the village of El Nahra. On the way to El Nahra, She meets an elderly woman who help her in getting an abaya. While being there, they begin to discuss about El Nahra. “You won’t be able to stand it. No cinema, no paved streets-and the food! No…

The Mongols: Conquest & Genghis Khan The Mongols, a civilization from the 12th Century - just another name from the crumpled wad of paper called history - But yet, The Mongols were basically the United States in the present day. The world’s largest superpower. But yet, they lived on such a simple lifestyle. This set them apart from other civilizations. So, how did they become the biggest? As to every militarial empire in history, The Mongols had some history behind them, and a timeline of how…

Howard Zinn was one of the most well known American historians in recent history. His A People’s History of the United States is a best-seller that routinely sells more than one hundred thousand copies every year, despite being published 35 years ago. Zinn was born in 1922, the son of two Jewish factory workers. He was introduced to literature at an early age, and studied creative writing in a special program at his high school. Zinn joined the US Army Air Force during World War II and became a…

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Complexities in Islamic Iconoclasm Defined as the rejection and destruction of figural images, iconoclasm in the Islamic world has been seen as the “long, culturally determined, and unchanging tradition of violent…acts". It may be carried out in the context of Islam or against the icons of another faith, as evinced by the destruction of Christian and pagan idols. However, G.R.D. King and Finbarr Barry Flood argue in their articles that Islamic iconoclasm in the past and present must be…