David Kute PS 111A Professor Sissa 02/15/06               Within the ancient Greek world, the democratic form of government was associated with a set of principles that served as its raison d’etre. These positive attributes included freedom, equality, diversity, and justice. The importance of these democratic values is highlighted by an exchange from Euripides’ Suppliant […]

Gilgamesh and Immortality History 104, Professor Englund, 11/20/05 This work is original and unpublished by David Kute   For the people living in Mesopotamia during the third millennium B.C., the supernatural was a common part of life. Sumerians and the later Semitic speaking peoples of the region had substantial contact with rituals and esoteric methods […]

Tito and Stalin An analysis into why the Soviet response to independence differed in Yugoslavia              David Kute Honors Research Paper History 127 C 06/11/04 Professor Knudsen        In 1956, the political situation in Hungary emerged as a threat to Soviet hegemony in East Europe. In the post-WWII […]

David Kute Professor Summerhill History 191 03/2006 By late 1789, with the storming of the Bastille, the French Revolution had become irrevocable (WD, pg. 204). A return to the days of the Ancien Regime was unlikely, and the Revolution’s impact on the rest of Europe was extensive. Contemporary observers, witnessing events as they unfolded and […]

David Kute History 124B, Professor Ford, Honors Contract 04/11/05 This work is original and unpublished by David Kute The demise of the July Monarchy had, according to contemporaries, been unexpected. Alexis De Tocqueville had written that “the Revolution of February was unforeseen by all ….”(AT, pg. 229) Another contemporary, Karl Marx, had remarked that “the […]

David Kute Honors 107 06/05/06   In the Philosophy of the Art of Painting, Leonardo Da Vinci argues that painting is the ultimate art. This is due to the fact that the “eye, which is called the window of the soul, is the principal means by which the central sense can most completely and abundantly […]

Tyranny and Resistance TheoryHistory 132, Professor Tutino, 03/01/05This work is original and unpublished by David Kute   In 1572, the marriage of Henri of Navarre and Marguerite Valois was to bring peace to France’s religious divide, and stability to the French kingdom. But as the wedding evolved from joyous festivities and fetes into carnage, murder […]

    David Kute Political Science 218 05/2006 Professor Sissa               In 1515, Desiderius Erasmus settled in Basel, Switzerland. This move was to have implications for the Dutch humanist’s career and works. During his stay in Basel, Erasmus gained a powerful new patron, Jean Le Sauvage. After the two […]