Great Books of the Western World

From around 1600 to the middle of the 19th century, Japan and China chose isolation for themselves to avoid western cultures and their outside influences. As the world around them began to increase their powers and advance with new technologies, Japan and China realized the growing influences they’d once avoided was now upon them. They had to decide if these new western developments were a threat to their cultural identity and how they would be affected. In the beginning, the nations felt they…

Human Condition, by Rene Magritte. This is a surrealist painting, with major existential themes, and multiple levels of perspective. This artwork is almost a satire on what the ideally a great painting contains. Alberti touches on what a talented artist should depict in his representation of the world in his book, On Painting. According to Alberti, a good painting consists of geometry, correct anatomy, elegant surfaces, and a conformity in regard to size, dignity, pleasurable historia, seven…

Donegan Enterprises you can learn the Golden Empires Rise and fall. You grasp the empires history from Cities to technology advancements. The focus on this video is to analysis the film for its entertainment value, historic accuracy, and relevance to western civilization. The entertainment value is quite good to relevance to amusement to history. It provides a lot story telling of unique people and how the contributed to a change and shift in the empire to form the Golden Empire. It provides…

1. In the world of geopolitics, there are many variables to consider when looking at the ways in which geography impacts civilization and specifically how it influences international affairs and world peace. Factors include geographic features such as topography, sea access, climate, natural resource access, arable land, as well as cultural, political, militaristic and demographic conditions. In his book, Prisoners of Geography, Tim Marshall - an authority on foreign affairs and a former…

The War That Never Ended, Gregor Dallas takes a new approach to the view of World War II and the Cold War that followed, starting from the Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact of 1939 to the end of the 1950s. In these years, he describes the Soviet Union’s war against the Western World. Through this commonly pitched work states how the “war that never ended” was a battle between Stalin’s Soviet Union against a non-communist world. Dallas dictates that the…

forever, never managing to inspire soldiers again. After his death in 1928, many fundamentally patriotic works that encouraged the war effort after world war one were quickly discouraged. The perception of the great war did not last long after Haig’s death and combinations of literature works, e.g Journey’s end and novels such as All Quiet on the Western Front (although not intentionally being anti-war), sparked a sense of futility. This feeling was also, reinforced after the rise of Nazi…

Globalization has been one of the major central theme in world History. Though there isn’t a specific definition for globalization, many school of thoughts have different ways of explaining the considerable points of what it means to be globalized. However, in the third edition of his book “the world and a very small place in Africa”, Donald R Wright presents much broader scale leading to globalization of the world by reflecting on the past shaping the present, perhaps through intercultural…

job of illustrating a typical western movie but at the same time they added a few twist and turns of their own that makes it different from a western movie. Many western movies follow a similar path. There is always a bad guy that rides into town and tries to start trouble and usually the sheriff is the good guy that saves the day. Before the sheriff saves the day there is usually a big shoot out in which the bad guy is killed and then everything is resolved. A western movie usually takes place…

very influential Philosophers, Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle, became some of the most well known and foundational philosophers to the world of psychology, religion, and philosophy. Through many years of instruction and travels Socrates had developed theories that later influenced Plato’s dialogues and Aristotle’s books. This built the foundation for the Western Style of thinking and psychology. Thousands of psychologists are influenced through their teachers and theories that they develop are…

become an elementary teacher, but towards the end of world war one he was drafted into the army during the November of 1916 together with some of his class mates. After a period of training they sent him in western front were he and his friends took part trench warfare. After the war ended his experiences during the war, including the death of some of his friends inspired him to write the famous book “All Quiet on the Wester Front” in 1929. In the book he talks about all the horrific experiences…