By being an author, publisher, and lover of books, Friedrich Schumann influenced his child's younger years; Robert spent much of his time reading books such as the Greek classics, the imaginary Romantic tales of Byron and Sir Walkter Scott, as well as other Romantic literature and poetry. ... This affair went on for four years with many notes written to the other. ...
By being an author, publisher, and lover of books, Friedrich Schumann influenced his child's younger years; Robert spent much of his time reading books such as the Greek classics, the imaginary Romantic tales of Byron and Sir Walkter Scott, as well as other Romantic literature and poetry. ... This affair went on for four years with many notes written to the other. ...
He does this by extolling values classically defined as "Roman" and characters who exhibit them, and telling his story with a great emphasis on Republicanism. ... The recurring topic of Livy's second and third books is the Conflict of Orders. ... Overall, anything that is classically "Roman" is supported by Livy, and ideas that are countercultural are looked upon with unwelcome attention. ... Livy says that he wishes his readers to note how men lived, and how eventually the state was ruined when discipline broke down bit by bit (Preface), and this is a great example o...
He wrote several books which were published including a book on antisemitism. ... Also in his career he published other books that were highly derogatory works on women. ... After his travels Darwin returned to England where he began noting the ideals the changeability of species. ... Lombroso began studying the bodies of renowned criminals unlike the studies conducted by the criminologist who believed in the classical school. ... Lombroso did not disagree with the classical school that most crime could be explained through human nature. ...
Eco's Postscript is also a manifesto proclaiming the authority of serious historical fiction: the characters in a historical novel may not appear in encyclopedias, he notes, but everything they do could only occur in that time and place. Made-up events and characters tell us things "that history books have never told us so clearly," so as "to make history, what happened, more comprehensible"(p. 75). ... Their success seems to have surprised Eco, who puzzled for "two years" after the publication of his first novel, "trying to figure out why the book was being read by people who surely coul...
Alexander III of Macedon, better known as Alexander the Great, is often regarded as the greatest military commanders of all time. From an early, he was destined for greatness. At the age of 20, in 336, he inherited the powerful empire of Macedon from his father King Philip II, which by then controlled Greece and had already started to progress through Asia. In 334 he invaded Persia, and within a decade he had defeated the Persians, subdued Egypt, and pushed on to Iran, Afghanistan and even India. Alexander the Great conquered vast amounts of land, and controlled the largest empire the world ha...
One of Africa's leading critics and theorists of the mass media, Cehn Chimutengwende (1992) notes: 'The mass media have long been recognized in developing countries as essential auxiliary means of modern economic construction, social and cultural development. ...
Sumo Exposed: The Invention of Tradition in Japan's National Sport I: Introduction and Theoretical Remarks "Even today in Japan's highly industrialized and modern society, sumo is generally perceived as a quintessentially Japanese sport, in which history, tradition and even religion are interm...
