Hellenistic civilization

The idea that history is a competition between culture with a dominant winner is true and has been proven for centuries no matter which way it is looked at, but cultural synthesis is inevitable to come in any situation. Saying one side is less prevalent than the other is contradicting because there will always be a natural obligation among humans that is centered around the need for being the best. Seeing that this is true, history is a product of cultural synthesis despite the competition found…

We all tend to be happy in our lives. Some people compare happiness with factors like money, social status etc. while some mean satisfaction by happiness. I personally feel that it is our desires that control our happiness and these desires if controlled can lead to positive feelings like satisfaction. It has been rightly said, “Satisfaction is the death of desire.” Out of the four accounts that we covered, I would select the views of the Epicurean and the Stoic accounts for the description of…

characteristic from the classical times, like we can see in the grave stele of Hegeso. Meanwhile in the Hellenistic period, the most common way to represent the people is without interaction between them, just looking at the front . In this case this might have been represented like this because they wanted to remark the relationship they had between husband and wife. Its size is also curious, as the Hellenistic tombs, are usually smaller than the Classical ones. This started to become smaller…

(www.SparkNotes.com).” As a result, it seemed that no matter how educated the Natives became, they were still seen as being a lesser people to the whites. From racism, the idea of civilization vs. uncivilized life came about. Conrad used the “light and dark” difference regarding this. The light represented civilization –the civilized or “good”…

Within civilizations there are many similarities and differences. Case in point, geography, social structure, political and governmental systems, economy, technology and culture. For example, Shang and Zhou China, and the Nile River valley. These two civilizations are filled with these types of differences. The geography of China varies differently of that of Egypt. Which in turn, led these independent civilizations to take different paths in culture and other aspects. China, for instance, has…

the trees and suspend the roots in the water. The famous Hanging Gardens of Babylon are thought to have used no soil, only channels of water to support the plants. The Floating Gardens of China were similar to the Floating Gardens of the Aztecs. Civilizations through time have contributed to our modern understanding of Hydroponics. In World War II, the United…

The two main antagonists, Ralph and Jack, are very valuable and conflicting in the story and have broad types of specific individuals that they represent in their society when they are stranded on an island, but go through the difference of life that they experience like never before. The boys are excited about how they begin a new era in their lives, but when they realize that there were no adults on the island, they figure out and keep order about what the environment contained as an island…

In William Golding’s Lord of The Flies, Golding introduces a story about boys who have crash landed in a plane on an unknown island before World War II. This story explains how children, who are civilized, turn into savages through isolation. Golding also wrote an article, “Why Boys Become Vicious,” which is about a cruel kidnapping. He explains what had happened to cause the kidnapping and his own thoughts about it. He also explains how there are certain “conditions” that cause people to…

of many years, all the way to when they were created, by the first civilizations, around 3000 to 5000 years ago. These ancient civilizations contributed greatly to what culture, and religion, all across the world, is today. There were four dominant ancient civilizations, of the past, Egypt, Mesopotamia, China, and India. As they evolved these civilizations shared many similarities, culturally and religiously. Two civilizations that are often compared to each other are India and China. They…

tempests, disease, exile, and death” (Conrad pg.7) around every corner and from where no one has returned. Humans need other humans to keep them accountable. Without accountability a person loses all restraints, is driven by his natural desires, and civilization is ultimately lost. Although the job of the Europeans who go to Africa to collect ivory is to humanize the natives, the natives prove to be more civilized than the Europeans themselves. Without social restraints, there is nothing to stop…