Great Books of the Western World

a lot. In 2008 there was an economic downfall called the Great Recession which started in 2008 and still has effects as of today in not just America but the world. The Great Recession had an all time low in job loss and debt of all-time since the Great Depression which is the worst economic disaster ever in the whole world. In a novel called “Of Mice and Men” by John Steinbeck, which took place in Western California in the 1930s in the Great Depression, the main characters are Lennie and George…

time for philosophical change, which brought a whole new era of thinking to not just Europe, but also the New World. This new era of philosophy influenced the colonists to break off from Great Britain to create a new nation founded upon the ideas of Enlightenment thinkers. Some of the main causes of the American Revolution were the Enlightenment ideas that spread from Europe to the New World and changed the way the colonists looked at government. Two of the most important philosophers of the…

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The practice of tattooing the human body has become an increasingly prevalent and significant practice in American society in recent decades. Tattoos are increasingly common and socially accepted. Persons from all walks of life are increasingly likely to get a tattoo, along with people from all age groups, races, and genders. This social phenomenon represents a dramatic change in the social and cultural mores of American society. Until approximately thirty years ago, tattoos were not…

he set up an electric light company. In 1879 Edison came up with a bulb that used platinum filling in the center. In 1880 Edison decided to use carbonized bamboo as a replacement filament to the platinum. From 1881 to 1882 he traveled around the world making light exhibitions. Through all this publicity it did not take long for competitors to emerge. Nikola Tesla was one of Edison major competitors, the difference in the two was that Edison used DC current and Teslas used AC current.…

By the nineteenth century western countries that embraced the Industrial Revolution held all the social and political power in society that was founded in the ideology of capitalism and a global market for trade. This was created by the technology that came out of the Industrial Revolution that made significant advancements in production, warfare and agriculture. With these advancements, countries that embraced the Industrial Revolution, such as the United States, Russia, and some European…

Introduction: Houshang Golshiri and his masterwork Prince Ehtejab Similar to other branches of art, literature has been under the domination of male-centered ideology. Great masterpieces have been most of the times known to be written by men. Even those who have written stories about women conflict are depicted women from a male gaze, either a main male character or the writer himself. The famous modern Persian writer Houshang Golshiri, who had written many fictions about women struggle, is not…

further away from it all, and face nature at its finest. He traveled exceptionally light. He didn?t take much, a parka, a small rifle, some boots, a few clothes, a ten pound bag of rice, books, and little else. ?The heaviest item in McCandless?s half-full backpack was his library: nine or ten paperbound books. Among the authors were Thoreau, Tolstoy, Gogol, Crichton, Pirsig, L?Amour, and a plant journal? (Krakauer 162). Chris wanted to live on as little as possible. Some people say he had…

hostilities, tension, and competition that defined the relationship between Western powers and the Soviet Union. With a particular interest in the relations between the American government and that of the Soviets, the war presented a single cause of conflict that saw both nations view the other as a possible threat in the post-Second World War period. Notably, the countries did not prepare for the Cold War as they did for the Great War in which existing alliances created active defense systems,…

juveniles of Greek mythology depiction of romantic relationships. Hade kidnapping Persephone and forcing her to become the queen of the underworld causes many teenagers to feel sorry for her fate. Persephone desire visits so she puts pearl all over the world which allow demigods to escape the underworld after they visit her, in the Lightning Thief Percy, Annabeth and Percy’s mother uses the pearls to escape the underworld after rescuing Percy’s mother from Hades. Teenagers relate to Persephone’s…