Estates of the realm

While Jews certainly did prosper in medieval western Christendom - in Spain, England, France and the Holy Roman Empire - it is arguable whether this occurred during times of true Christian persecution, for this phrase implies a coherent, general and importantly, state-backed, form of oppression, which did not exist until late in the period. Indeed, even though anti-semitism did exist, the two distinct phases of Jewish prosperity during the Middle Ages were marked rather with tolerance and…

To the colonizer, the effort of transforming a country until it no longer seems unfamiliar can be recognized as noble, the lesser culture has been converted into a mirror image of their own great civilization. To the culture being dominated this mirror is most similar to one you would find at a carnival; they look into it and see a twisted, hardly recognizable version of what they once were. The colonization of a country by a greater power impacts the internal culture of the country not only…

While activities of national borders can be passed off as necessary for the security of the country, the realm of social borders is much more volatile and has no realistic excuse for when or why it is used. Immigrants may seem like the type of issue only related with physical borders, however they are also just as embedded with social borders as well. It…

Mongolia over 1,000 years ago. Only reasonable clarification to this would be they descended from Genghis Khan or his brothers. Szczepanski, Kallie. "Genghis Khan Rose From Slavery to Rule the World." ThoughtCo. N.p., n.d. Web. 18 Apr. 2017. Real Estate Despite all the hardships Khan endured, he still managed to create the largest empire in the world. At the peak of the Mongol empire under Genghis Khan, it ranged a whopping eleven million miles. Khan ruled over most parts of Asia and some of…

A fine art, as suggested by the name is the purest form of art. It’s an expression of oneself presented in term of aesthetics and design principles. It can refer to anything made by someone considered an artist, yet the definition of an artist has evolved over time and varies based on context. In Ancient Greece, the term for art was "techne," though that word did not peg art in the modern sense and was instead applied to human activities, especially handicrafts and technical work. The most…

We can also find places in the Bible were they had times of entertainment. In Mark 6:21, we find Herod celebrating his birthday. “And when a convenient day was come, that Herod on his birthday made a supper to his lords, high captains, and chief estates of Galilee.” We also see that there were times of Marriage celebrations. Jesus was part of one of these when he made the water into wine. This is just a few…

However, her language bears traces of an internalization of the oppressive social structure and an anxiety of authorship1 that prevents her from successfully establishing herself as autonomous. In this essay, I will attempt to demonstrate how Margaret Cavendish, through her poetry and prose, endeavors to achieve self-sovereignty through singularity but fails due to fear of social alienation from not just the patriarchal hegemony but also from the women of her era that perpetuated it. In The…

Skepticism of Shakespeare's Authorship of His Plays Over the years, countless people have expressed doubt as to William Shakespeare being the true author of all of his works. These doubts are as old as his plays. Henry James, an American author, once said, "I am haunted by the conviction that the divine William is the biggest and the most successful fraud ever practiced on a patient world.” Alternately, an author by the name of Calvin Hoffman was certain that Shakespeare was very likely "the…

Academics find it difficult to analyze corporate crime because large scale survey data is not available so researchers have to rely on non-objective crime statistics collected by ‘impartial’ government agencies such as StatsCan or the Home Office which usually yield tiny samples (Snider, 2005; pg 186). Corporations do not want sociologist investigating their business practises, unlike traditional offenders they have the ability to resist such incursions. On the other hand, the justice…

Chapter 2 A Brief Background of Dvo??k Anton?n Dvo??k (1841?1904) was one of the most versatile and prolific composers of the nineteenth century, reaching into almost all genres of music from piano miniatures to comprehensively conceived vocal-orchestra compositions. His output encompasses nine symphonies and fifty-five other orchestral pieces, eleven opera, eleven works for chorus and orchestra, nine small choral works, thirty-five sets of songs and duets, fifty-five chamber works for various…