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The tradition of beginning an engagement with a diamond ring is largely an American custom that has resulted in the United States becoming one of the largest shareholders of the global diamond jewelry market (Global Diamond Jewelry). The custom dates back to first half of the 1900s when diamonds were introduced as a symbol of undying love due to their lasting value. Although diamond wedding rings serve as an investment and symbol of eternal love, some luxury rings, such as Tiffany and Company,…

Greek philosophy is widely considered as the beginning of organized Western thought. Mathematics, science (including biology, cosmology, and physics), political theory, psychology and more were all developed in the Greek era. Ancient Greece’s influence on philosophy is so abundant that the works of Plato are often considered the footnotes of western philosophy. In making such a bold conviction it is only to say that Ancient Greece marked the starting point for Western philosophy. In this paper I…

Dante Rossetti’s, Jenny: A Cautionary Tale of Sexual Knowledge and its Destruction of Women “The whole education of women ought to be relative to men. To please them, to be useful to them, to make themselves loved and honored by them” - John-Jacques Rousseau England in the 19th century was wrought with the battle for women’s rights, specifically the education of women. In his poem, Jenny, Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s narrator makes various references to books – those on his shelf, and how…

By nature, every single person ever created was born with different views and ideas. There may be groups of people that agree on certain subjects and ideas, but not everyone is the same. From what someone automatically thinks of when they see a painting to how they interpret a work of poetry. The words, thoughts, and images that come to one's mind differ from the many other people in the world. ☆In the painting, Circe Pouring Poison Into a Vase and Awaiting the Arrival of Ulysses, Sir Edward…

The True Power Of Women In Mrs. Warren’s Profession by George Bernard Shaw, the characters presented in the play each depict a Victorian stereotype relative to their gender role during this time period. During the Victorian era, males were privileged and could do whatever they pleased in order to live the life they dreamed of. “The man’s power is active, progressive, and defensive. He is eminently the doer, the creator, the discoverer, the defender. His intellect if for speculation and…

Some firmly believe that God created both the heavens and the earth. In this essay, however, I am going to divulge the thoughts and reasons behind some of the Pre-Socratic views of the Cosmos and the building blocks of the “stuff” we find on earth. There are some very differing views of how the world became what it is today. Many of the Pre-Socratic philosophers would also agree. Thales might tell you the world began from water. Anaximander might say the boundless,…

explain pre-Columbian societies. Furthermore, 1491 is a journalistic representation of Mesoamerica and the Aztecs, Inka, Maya, and other Inuit communities of the Americas. Mann’s re-evaluation on the teaching of history is embodied through an overenthusiastic and exaggeration of the complete story. Through this, the reader can gather, from the three-parts, that there is a specific weight on the cultural side of this general history. Much of Mann’s…

“Win the Fiery Antidote”: a Feminist Approach to Christina Rossetti’s Goblin Market In a time when women did not have major roles in literature or their daily lives, Christina Rossetti’s powerful poem Goblin Market is published to empower women of the Victorian Era. This poem is about two sisters, Lizzie and Laura, who live alone in the middle of the woods. They go into the woods every day to get water from the river, where they encounter goblin men selling fruits. After Laura tries…

“The rich people not only had all the money, they had all the chance to get more; they had all the know-ledge and the power, and so the poor man was down, and he had to stay down.” One of the main characteristics of the jungle is that the powerful (the rich) is powerful thanks to the weak (the poor); the law of the jungle, the law of the strongest. Upton Sinclair calls “The Jungle” the socio-economic reality that the city of Chicago is going through at the beginning of the 20th century. In the…

Jeffrey Northcutt Mrs. Barbara Loomis AP United States History 19 October, 2015 The Jungle In The Jungle, written by Upton Sinclair in 1906, Jurgis Rudkis and his wife, Ona Lukozaite, immigrate to a small town in Chicago named Packingtown in hopes of successfully pursuing the American Dream. It soon becomes relevant that one of the major themes in the story is the qualities of evil in capitalism, an economic or political system in which a country’s trade and industry are controlled by private…