Crusades are a series of European tourist trips to Palestine and adjacent territories. The attitude to this phenomenon is now ambiguous – from the pulsating anal pains of Muslims to the pink snot of remorse among tolerant Europeans, and all this is abundantly flavored with satisfying burdens among historians and masters. The essence of the myth about the holy wars, they say, was the unjustified aggression of knights against cultured

Introduction The novel The Princess of Mars is a fantastic novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs, the first in his Martian series. The genre of the novel in the English-language literature was defined as a planetary fantasy. It was based on the scientific hypothesis of the existence of an inhabited but dying world, created by the famous astronomer Percival Lowell. The cycle was popular, having influenced Ray Bradbury. Carl Sagan pointed

Pudd’nhead Wilson was written by Mark Twain and published in 1894, based on the story of a slave, Roxana and her son whom she exchanged with the son of her master. This novel was enjoyed too much during that time and became very popular. In this fiction, the author explains a life arose from an embryonic idea that was divided to give rise to the novel; thus, the novel shares

Introduction The institution of family can be attributed as universal due to its significance and ease. Each and every one of the world’s cultural groups organize themselves into basic familial units of families. From the African tribes to American cities, the family is the backbone of the social structure. The establishment of this basic structure is based on the performance of marriage, which can be defined as the arrangement of

Introduction Alcohol and drug abuse are one of the most common and prevailing problems amongst young adults because of several internal and external socioeconomic factors. In developed countries like the United States, observations have shown that the ratio of drug and alcohol abuse is almost similar in the lower and upper classes (Kendall 81). However, the causes and motivations behind drug and alcohol abuse are different in either of these