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…as Western thinkers read the Bible through our United States, individual promoting lenses we tend to view the culture of the ancient Near East as barbaric and dehumanizing for some classes, especially women. We feel they are treated as inferior and we cannot…

…The History of Music Music goes back to the beginning of time. There is evidence that dates back to 500B.C. The ancient Greeks and Romans both used music for high class entertainment. Noble would have slaves play music for them while they dined…

…the sum of pleasure are thereby constituted right, and, conversely, what increases pain is wrong. Ethical Hedonism is usually associated with the Ancient Greek philosopher Epicurus who taught people that our goal in life should be to minimize pain and maximize…

…and suffering to his brother and the family. This endless cycle of tragedy in Greek society was not the only way of life, but it is an important aspect of their ancient culture. What appeared on the stage accurately illustrated certain parts of everyday life, while…

…the ancient monuments. "The number of cars in Greater Athens has almost doubled between 1981 and 1990." (WEB, 1) The government is continuing to help decrease the lead and carbon monoxide levels in the air. Athens has initiated a permanent ban…

…We need salt for a lot of foods. Also, salt has a good taste, and melts snow. Salt was very helpful in ancient days, to preserve foods. Salt was traded across many seas, the Mediterranean, Adriatic, and more. Salt served…

…remembering both the ancient agricultural booths and those of the Exodus. The harvest festival of thanksgiving, Succot, begins five days after Yom Kippur, and lasts for eight days. The first two days are the most holy, during which most Jews do not work…

…and parallels other ancient Near East law codes. The Holiness Code found in Leviticus 17-26 states what is holy, for example, "the phrase: "I, Yahweh, your God, am holy"(19:2; 20:26) is the self-predication almost "tautological," for holiness here has a theistic…

…a rainforest of ancient trees and other evergreen species. This combination of ice and temperate rainforest is a unique feature of New Zealand's glacier country, and is an ecosystem found nowhere else in the world. Running through Franz Josef is the Alpine Fault…

…into the mighty river, painted with a flute and some clarinets and leading to violins. The journey takes us through a day in the forest where we see hunting, peasants dancing at a wedding, nymphs in the moonlight, the St. John’s Rapids, the Ancient Castle and back…