Bohemia

From the start, Ferdinand III of Bohemia "violated Protestant religious liberties" and when he succeeded the throne of Emperor Mathias in 1619, he fought those who were Protestant(441, Kishlansky). In the eyes of Ferdinand, religion in Europe should have been only Catholicism and the others…

Antonia and Jim become close friends throughout the story of “My Antonia.” Each learned from one another. However, Antonia benefited more from the relationship with Jim. Antonia was new to pioneer life in Nebraska. Antonia was a foreigner, who had to adapt to her new surroundings. Jim helped show her how to adjust to life in America. At first, Antonia did not want to learn English because she was working hard to help support her family. When Jim would teach Antonia English, she would often…

An instant separation from their families, customs, institutions, and practices led Africans to form a new culture in the New World. Slavery in North America commenced in the beginning of the seventeenth century when the first African Slaves were brought to America in bondage to Jamestown Colony in Virginia (History). They were forced into slavery on a new continent that was foreign to them, throughout their abrupt change from Western and Central Africa to North America they were unable to fully…

What is the Mind-Body Problem? How did Princess Elisabeth of Bohemia characterize this problem for Descartes’ Meditations? How did Descartes respond to her questions? How does he explain the relationship between the mind and the body? What views do we see from Malbranche, Spinoza and Leibniz? The Mind-Body Problem is that the mind and body are not the same and they are two different substances. It is like the mind and body’s involvement exists in separate mental and physical realms.…

ordinary concepts and experiences. This distant message makes the song alive till know. This message applies to all generations and all centuries. For example, many artists get influenced by the distant message of the song like, Raheem DeVaughn and Bohemia Afterdark. DeVaughn talked about what is going on in the world and he developed his songs to be with influential messages like Marvin Gaye’s songs. Both of them produced a meaningful music and they intentionally educate their listener in their…

1634. The entrance of the French in 1634-1643 began with the Peace of Prague in 1635. The French declared war on Spain and soon took control of Alsace and Rhineland and northern Germany was conquered once again by the Swedes who brought the war to Bohemia. In 1648 the Peace of Westphalia was developed which brought some comfort to the civilians, that finally after all the years an end to the war was in sight. The Thirty Years war changed the face of European policy, declined Spain as a power in…

Indeed, two primary objections have been raised in response to the theory of classical dualism. Foremost among them is the question of causation. Originally, this question was fielded by Princess Elisabeth of Bohemia. The argument is as follows; if the mind is intangible and not related to any part of the body, then an activity in the mind could not cause changes in the body. For example, a person could not have the idea to do something such as write a letter…

Many concepts first emerged during the centuries of the Renaissance, as well as events and people. During the Renaissance period, many different cultures would modify their religious beliefs; for example, “.. the Chinese reconsider the age-old teachings of Confucius, the Muslims enter into wider activities than those known to the Koran, and the peoples of India attempt to found a society in which historic Hindu practices no longer form the dominant pattern” (Palmer Colton Kramer 47). This…

Intro Fictional crime has been around ever since crime was out on the streets. Detectives try help the police solve cases from murder to robbers to thieves, but each case as important as the one before. Some detectives just glide by the police not doing anything, but some stand out. Of all detectives, fictional and real, the most famous of all by far is Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s, Sherlock Holmes. Who created Sherlock? This famous fictional detective started to spread in 1887, when the first…

There are a lot of causes of the First World War, but the two main causes that led to it are nationalism and industrialization. Nationalism is a feeling that people have of being loyal to and proud of their country often with the belief that it is better and more important than other countries. With that being said people acquire their identity from their nation and therefore owe their nation their loyalty. It can include religion, language, political authority and as well as traditions and…