Harem

oriental movement showcased design, style and motifs. Although the orientalist description wasn't completely right, they took those images and descriptions while observing the culture even though they couldn’t have possibly known what goes in inside the harem. Yet they just wanted it to be colorful and exotic images of their trip to the orient world, so they can give the people who have not traveled to the east a picture of what they might see one day. Another artist who influenced the…

Darwin’s idea has been born as an answer to questions in biology. He as the father of evolution contributed the most to our modern science. Even in this present his theories such as natural selection is still used, like a simple mathematical equation. We all know that two plus two equal four, however, did we ever question why? Taking this in consideration, his natural selection theory was based on idea:” Survival of the Fittest”. In which strong will survive and the weak will perish. However,…

Man’s Immorality Explored Scott Mescudi, an actor said, “Some humans are really bad at being human.” Mark Twain, the father of American literature writes about his observations on human behavior in his essay, “The Lowest Animal.” Which consists of observations made after conducting experiments on animal’s behavior and comparing them to negative qualities humans exhibit in their behavior. Author and neuroendocrinologist (someone who studies hormones and behavior), Robert M. Sapolsky explains his…

wife and daughters” (Pollard, 49). Pollard goes on to state that the women of the Ottoman, in the eyes of travel writers, are viewed as the alter ego of the the victorian woman. She further describes the Ottoman women as “the vilified inmate of the harem who was, in their fantasies, cloistered, victimized, helpless—the mere object of lust, power, and limitless caprice, the Middle Eastern male was neither partner nor liberator. Rather, he was cruel and irrational, behaving despotically both in…

Christian building and garden interventions. The plateau where the Alhambra sits measures about 740 metres (2,430 feet) in length by 205 metres (670 feet) at its greatest width. The Royal complex is divided in three sections: Mexuar, Serallo, and the Harem. The Mexuar was used to conduct business and administrative functions. It’s simply decorated, dark wood and plaster walls. 3 The Serallo is instead much richer in his finishes, featuring colored interiors, dado panels and finely decorated…

Mark Twain is a very famous writer in American Literature, he has written some very influential pieces some of which include, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Life on the Mississippi River and The Prince and the Pauper. Twain’s actual name is, Samuel Langhorne Clemens, but he wrote as Mark Twain. Growing up near the Mississippi River had a lot of influence on Twain’s writings. Twain first writing career started at a local newspaper in California. At the age of…

Cervus canadensis Domain - Eukaryote Kingdom- Animalia Phylum - Chordata Class - Mammalia Order - Artiodactyla (“even” - “number of toes”) Family - Cervidae Genus - Cervus Species- canadensis Cervus canadensis (Elk) is one of the largest species within the Cervidae family (deer), and is also considered one of the largest land mammals in North America and Eastern Asia based upon mass and size. The word “Elk” comes from two languages: Old…

(1969). Jizyah and the State in India during the 17th Century. Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient,12(3), 322-340. doi:10.2307/3596130 Iyigun, M. (2013). Lessons from the Ottoman Harem on Culture, Religion, and Wars. Economic Development and Cultural Change,61(4), 693-730. doi:10.1086/670376 Krstić, T. (2009). Illuminated by the Light of Islam and the Glory of the Ottoman Sultanate: Self-Narratives of Conversion to Islam in the…

conquered their empire by 1533. Pizarro was later killed by a former rivals son in 1541. The conquistadors took many different roles, including religious leader, harem keeper, King or Queen, deserter and warrior. Most religious leaders were catholic.Catholic priests taught soldiers how to read,write and count and even wrote letters for them. A harem keeper is a man who kept many wives around as he would venture through the seas. Throughout the 15th century, Portuguese explorers sailed the coast…

polyandrous females, females that have multiple male partners, permit each individual male to receive a clutch of eggs from her output, forcing males to conversely share their reproductive output with the polyandrous female with the other members of the harem. In turn, males provide all the parental care for the clutch deposited onto the nest whether the clutch or individual offspring are “his.” This leaves all “good” thus reproductively successful descendants (Alcock 2010). A similar example…