INTRODUCTION In any field and discipline progression is important for its development whether it is art or it is a scientific field. Cartography is one field that could be treated as a science as well as an art. Its progress started with art but gradually it developed into a science…

Social Conservatism in Charles Dickens’ Hard Times and T.S. Ashton’s The Industrial Revolution T.S. Ashton’s The Industrial Revolution and Charles Dickens’ Hard Times both address a number of issues relating to industrialization in Great Britain in the early nineteenth century. However, a direct comparison of the two texts is complicated…

The Sociology of Medicine: An Interaction Between Self and Society The sociology of medicine studies the health and medical system in terms of its social interactions within itself, and with society at large. This approach is interesting because it expands the discussion of the medical system far beyond most people’s narrow conception of hospitals, doctors…

Childhood sports are important in the psychological and physiological well being of child who then later goes on to turn into a healthy individual. The child’s level of participation, how he or she performs and whether the child enjoys sports is greatly influenced by an adult’s attitudes towards the physical…

To us, justice is a function of morality, whether human or divine. To the ancient Greeks, however, justice was a measurement of the status quo, a function of the way people are supposed to behave at their station in life. The Homeric idea of justice is very different from our…

The present paper will address the degree to which the following statement may be considered to be accurate. Great Expectations concerns itself with anticipation and realization, and the impossibility of aligning the ideal and the actual. The central question, then, is this: does this statement address the pivotal questions of…

In Fifth Business, Robertson Davies explores fate in a small town, drawing out its strands from the simple act of throwing a snowball. We see how the littlest act in human life can lead to an entire saga. More than anything else, we see the importance of being honest to…

Volker Schlondorff is the director of this excellent movie. He does a commendable job in portraying the story that was so superbly told in Margaret Atwood's novel of the same name. In many respects, it is the exact story of the plot, and in many ways it is simply the…

The novel Moby Dick is indeed, as the above quotation suggests, ‘inconclusive’ in the sense that it seems to be both about a sort of indefiniteness, and indefinite itself in its conclusions or ‘message’. Melville’s masterpiece leaves us with no readily discerned moral, no easily grasped quarry, no matter how…

Abstract: This essay discusses Stratford on Avon, which is the birth place of England's greatest writer — William Shakespeare. While the history of the city is crucial to the understanding of Shakespeare, as well as of England, Stratford on Avon remains to this day a major tourist attraction. The cultural…

Shakespeare was a genius, to be sure. There is even a strong argument to be made that he was the genius of English literature or English theatre. He was not particularly strong on coming up with original plots: he preferred instead to borrow them from Holinshed, ancient mythology, or recent…

The Meaning – or Meaninglessnes of Style – In Youth Subcultures  Summary This essay investigates the concept and meaning – or meaninglessness – of style in youth subcultures. It does so in the context of the sociology of youth, particularly with reference to themes such as control, resistance and identity. The study builds on Dick Hebdige’s…

Examining the Popularity of Cultural Theory: An Examination of the Literature Introduction The study of cultural theory, or the investigation and the application of techniques designed to analyze various aspects in society, is a fairly recent addition to modern anthropology. The introduction of the cultural theory allowed anthropologists, sociologists, and…

Contrary to what one might be inclined to think about modern (contemporary) China (which now includes Hong Kong) , concubines still exist and are in fact, a part of the sociocultural fabric. Concubines and secondary wives have existed in China and other places over the past two thousand years. Often,…

Gender and Modernization: Two Women's Struggle for Justice and Survival in the Face of Global Dependency Structures Perhaps the most fascinating feature of both the novel, Nectar in a Sieve, and the oral history, Don't be Afraid Gringo, is how very similar the two stories are; although they are separated…

Deviant Physics in Mythological Spaces and Other Important Points in Canto IV of Dante's Purgatorio Dante' Purgatorio is not the most-studied of his works; by far the more famous is the Inferno, as well as more culturally salient. From the Commedia as a whole are derived many of the connotations…

COMBINING PHILOSOPHY AND SCIENCE In his book, Living Time and the Integration of the Life, Maurice Nicoll describes some of Aristotle’s main ideas regarding the concept of motion: “That the existence of all things can be understood as movement from potential to actual existence; that the movement of all things…