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The Individual and Society: A Comparison of the Ideas of Burke, Mill and Marx

someone who believed in totalitarian government either. White (2002) remarks: "Whether in regard to the specific demands of the sa...

“Chimpanzee Politics”

the quest for power. For chimps that quest is most often loud and apparent. For humans it is often more subtle and calculated....

Future Trends in Technology

whether that change is in "information technology (IT), biotechnology, or such emerging fields as nanotechnology" (Karoly and Pani...

Detroit, Michigan

has a relevantly new, sharp mayor who has made a lot of progress since his stint in that role. While a struggling entity, Detroit ...

The Most Important Trait in a Leader

through a symbolic manner, as it involves language. He notes, "The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a g...

Pluralism as a Descriptor of Canadian Politics

sustainability" (Carter 129). He argues instead that comparisons between the two cultures "reduce civility to the point where sece...

Civilizations and Conflicts

traditional rivalries between nation states, and the decline of the nation state from the conflicting pulls of tribalism and globa...

The Humanities

is all very fine, but why bother to study him when we could be learning computers? Because studying the humanities gives us insigh...

Racism in Contemporary America

investigations that "successfully demonstrate the unfairness that only Affirmative Action can begin to redress" (Bradley 450). Spe...

Sexism in America Today

those of men. Moreover, the gender pay gap widens as educational attainment increases: women earn 81% of mens wages at compulsory ...

Tan, Orwell and Baldwin: Language

truths with incredible power. For example, Hitler used language in an incredibly powerful way, playing on the truths of the people...

Article Critiques

torture, obviously having taken place since 9/11 as it involves the United States and terrorists, is now undergoing a new perspect...

Representation and US Voting Rights

the Florida recount), the Court ruled that the "individual citizen . . . has no federal constitutional right to vote for electors ...

The Politics/Administration Dichotomy and the War in Iraq

problem arises when people try to reduce an "enormously complex situation" to a "specious mathematical neatness" (Vile, 2004). It ...

Politics, Organized Crime, and a Reciprocal Influence

"union members were denied the right to go to federal court to challenge elections won by violence and fraud; only the Secretary o...

A Biography of Carlota Lucia de Brito

of Joaquim Jose dos Santos Leal (Meznar). This comfortable position could well be seen as a position that involved some level of ...

1790 American Politics and the Factors That Shaped It

control. When they did so, however, they were left in a tenuous state. Although much of the old system of...

Second Reconstruction and Southern Politics According to Numan Bartley and Hugh Graham

in the South following World War II. This section of the book describes the "one party politics" of the region, a time when Repub...

Analyzing World Wars I and II

the first of the two great wars where Europe all but destroyed itself began in 1914. And in some sense one can begin to see the si...

Strom Thurmond

"to presidential maverick... His penchant for bucking established norms first surfaced when he decided to enter the political aren...

Latino Groups in the United States

disappearing, worsening their economic situation (Verdugo, 2006). However, their large numbers and increasing activism give them a...

Do interest groups enhance democratic government or undermine it?

of each system. The American colonies under British rule was an example of a unitary system of government where all political pow...

Ethiopia: History, Politics and Challenges

built monasteries and churches, and "the great churches carved into the rock in and around their capital at Adefa" (A general hist...

Compare and Contrast: The US and Great Britain

Britons quarrel about racism, the national health scheme, and Northern Ireland, among other matters (Roskin, 2000). Because this p...

Political Tactics In Organizations

of favors * Personal appeal: appeals to feelings of loyalty or friendship * Coalition: seeking the aid of others * Legitimating...

The Tempest/Appearance & Politics

better, he goes off on a tangent in which he imagines himself as the ruler of a utopian society on the island (II.1.148-156). Wh...

Yates/Politics of Management

by this organization. Yates begins his text with an introductory chapter that concentrates on the role that business leaders pla...

2 Feminist Books/Domesticity

womens movement, describing how, at first, the purpose of the womens movement was secure the right of women to speak in public. Th...

New York City Draft Riots of 1863

of the rioters, which was directed at African Americans, possessed the mob with such ferocity that they lost all sense of humanity...

The Duel Between Burr and Hamilton

Hamilton really had anything to do with the failure, it still created problems ("Alexander Hamilton"). It had been noted that "the...