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In Favor of Civil Disobedience

kill. They are trained to do this in order to eliminate their own risk of death. The use of deadly force is justified because offi...

Late 20th Century Postmodernism

postmodernist thought, at least in some of its variants, deliberately divorces and separates itself from political ideologies of a...

18th Century Muslim Reform Movements

Western conquest, similar movements were directed wholly or in part against Westerners. These include the Wahhabis and Faraizis of...

United Kingdom's Conservative Party

Duncan Smiths campaign promises included significant changes in welfare reform, and implied that Labour was no...

Alexander Hamilton v. Thomas Jefferson and Differing Future Visions

an agrarian society in America but Hamilton had high hopes for an American role in commerce and industry (Sarracino 226). Still, H...

Free Trade and Taxation

Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act was passed by the U.S. Congress and would bring the U.S. tariff to the highest protective level ever ("The...

Transgendered, Transsexual, and Homosexual Individuals and Religion

sex with a male, after the manner of sex with a woman, they have both committed an abomination, they shall surely be killed" (Quot...

Nikita Mikhalkov's 1993 Film Burnt by the Sun

risen from humble origins, to be transformed by Socialism into the man that Stalin should have been, but was not (Stone, 2002). He...

Freudian and Social Psychology

correct? If he is, then social psychology has little meaning. After all, everything would be tied to Freuds models that really do ...

Novel Essays by George Lukacs and Virginia Woolf

criticism points toward a different orientation, as she accuses previous writers of materialism, and explains this accusation by ...

Social Performance and the Rave Culture

acceptance the all-night gatherings generate. Its a state of peace and unity kids say they cant find in the real world," though mo...

Politics in Society and the Reaction of a Black Male College

may feel as if he wants governmental assistance. In any event, the "you" is unique. How might a student who fits this description ...

Beliefs and Tenets of Islam and Sufism

a more intimate and personal approach to God than was provided by Sunni formalism and detachment (Lippman, 1995). The Sufis found ...

Islamic Women

Like other writers, he sees the current position of women as reflecting the respect in which they were held in previous eras:...

Overview of Northern Ireland's Loyal Orange Order

The history of the Orange Order is most commonly is traced back in Irish history to 1795 and the Battle of the Diamond which was ...

Christian Views on the Islamic Prophet Muhammad

however, given the current state of world affairs it is imperative that we gain a better understanding of it. A number...

Yugoslavian Political Leader Edvard Kardelj

the CPYs Central Committee from 1937 until his death in 1979 (Edvard Kardelj, 2002). It was during his time in the Soviet Union th...

Similarities and Differences That Exist Among Global Religions

that their God will ultimately rule the world, that the Jews have established the doctrines of faith and hope as the "two most pro...

Issues in Sociology

a distinction in terms of money, but there is certainly a distinction when it comes to race and other class factors that are separ...

Rise and Fall of Argentina's Juan Peron

economic growth, but it came as a surprise that in truth Peron did not really establish the economic growth of the country that it...

911 from Democratic and Communist Ideological Perspectives

Karl Marx would ever approve of such a horrendous act, but one can take the ideology of communism and see how another might interp...

Intervention of Iran, Israel, Syria, Lebanon and Motivations

Lebanese sources, Qasirs report indicates how a concern over priorities lies at the crux of separation between Hizbollah and Al-Qa...

Contemporary Warfare and Changes in Ideology

The development in terms of warfare has changed the nature of warfare since World War II. One can see this in the types of wars th...

Sunnis, Shiites and Differences in Their Religious Beliefs

the Muslims(Guillaume, 1955). The Shiites seem to have begun as a family feud of sorts. When the prophet Mohammad (PBUH) died, th...

The Straight Path by John Esposito

West has had trouble reconciling Muhammad as a spiritual leader and also as a military conqueror. He explains this seeming dichoto...

Self Made Man Ideology

It was his lecture "Acres of Diamonds" that brought him to riches, though (Center for History and New Media, 2002). He was on a na...

Globalization and Islam

removing religion and irrationality from human history" (Inayatullah, 2002). The ideals of globalization are also predominantly ...

Comparing Western and Eastern Religions

ideas more thoroughly, it helps to look at the precepts of the various religions. First, buddhism is a rather well known ideology...

Critiquing Barnes' and Bloor's 'Strong Programme' of Scientific Sociological Knowledge

counter the views of those sociologists who believe that this is not the case, that pure knowledge stands independent from social ...

Post 911 and U.S. Islamic Communities

States. Abdulwahab Alkebsi, executive director of the Islamic Institute in Washington stated after the attacks that "this is the b...