… and authority. During its peak, it was a status that commanded the utmost of respect, and entailed many characteristics that the average man did not have. Froissart wrote about many of the attributes of a king while he prepared for battle, fought…

… women in the Middle East are still being discriminated against. Islamic views in the Middle East are the fundamental cause of the repression of women there, and remain the major obstacle to the evolution of their position. Women in this region of…

… his famous autobiography, written in 1789, Olaudah Equiano (c. 1745-1797) was born in what is now Nigeria. Kidnapped and sold into slavery in childhood, he was taken as a slave into the New World. As a slave to a captain in the Royal Navy, and later…

… philosophers with different views on reality. Rene Descartes, a renound philosopher of his time, was born near Tours on March 31, 1596, and died at Stockholm on February 11, 1650.Descartes made many contributions to philosophy, although there are…

… and Baruch Spinoza were rationalist philosophers, seeing universe through mathematics: everything is ordered and can be demonstrated in geometrical manner. Even though Spinoza was heavily influenced by Descartes, they did not share the same view…

… people of African Decent began the reclaiming of their heritage that had been lost. There were two primary idiologies that address the pilte of black folks. One was that of Marcus Garvey the other was that of WEB DuBios. These two philosophies…

… Poe deserves more credit than any other writer for the transformation of the short story from anecdote to art. He virtually created the detective story and perfected the psychological thriller. He also produced some of the most influential literary…

… word polygamy their minds turn to images of "old-fashioned", "sexist", "fringe", "Mormon", and "illegal." "Polygamy", as referred to on this site, is meant in its most popular use, where one husband has more than one wife at the same time. Technically…

… and for good reason. He was a strong leader and a wise president. If it weren’t for Washington, the United States would never have succeeded. George Washington’s administration was the most effective in dealing with the country’s problems. Washington’s…

… 19, 1925, in Omaha, Nebraska to his parents Earl and Louise Little. Louise and Earl met in Montreal. They soon later fell in love and got married. Earl was a Baptist minister and organizer for Marcus Garvey, who wanted that all African-Americans…