YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :A Consideration of Athenian Democracy
Essays 61 - 90
citizens." The term "direct representation" is somewhat of an oxymoron as many have come to look at democracy as either a direct d...
fault was seen to be a personal failing, rather than a condemnation of the US system of government. When terrorists attacke...
seeking it have been unable to achieve it on their own. This is high praise and noble purpose for a structure that Madison called...
stable world, one with less aggression between countries and the more democracies there are in the world, the more peaceful the wo...
electoral college. The merit of the system can be questioned in todays environment of instant communications, but it was quite ef...
of unrest and another war. There is also concern regarding Catheledge, which may also lead to more war. The main area at this time...
Rather Dionysus, Falstaff is his "Silenus, the fat, old drunken companion...(who) lends humor to Dionysian celebration" (367). Acc...
dilemma for his children, Orestes and Electra, who have to choose between not avenging their father and murdering their mother (18...
form constitutional governments that, in turn, formed nations. This great upheaval brought about large economic entities based in ...
as a perfectly legal act, but because the State was made up of "neighobours," who in private conversations with him said they supp...
The student may want to state that the roots of democratic socialism and communism were foreshadowed as early as 1789 when France ...
can choose not to marry, by and large, that is an unpopular choice. While the term spinster is no longer bandied about, certainly ...
by, at least, a millennium. For them, they are merely being "realistic" and that such realism can serve as a basis for a social or...
motives of ambition -- it has no name in common use that I know of; let us call it timarchy or timocracy -- and then go on to ol...
inasmuch as social interaction implies interacting with other persons; thus, the meaning of that interaction is always to be a joi...
world. Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle alike all mused on the principles of democratic rule. Even Machiavelli, the Sixteenth Cent...
In five pages this paper examines how democracy is metaphorically depicted in the actions of Achilles and Agamemnon in 'The Iliad'...
In six pages this paper examines how Machiavelli and contemporary writers would regard the Athenian Doctrine or Thesis. Four sour...
In a paper consisting of six pages Athenian society at its peak of popularity and achievementsare considered and include a discuss...
In five pages this paper examines how Oedipus exemplifies the Athenian male ideal. There are no other sources cited....
In twenty four pages several questions pertaining to world history are answered and include Catal Huyuk and Jericho Neolithic citi...
In three pages this research paper contends that the playwright conceived of Medea as a character that would inspire sympathy in a...
In seven pages this report discusses the relationship between democracy and judicial review in a consideration of the administrati...
In four pages this paper examines the identity, character, and theory rooted in U.S. Democracy with references also made to the Am...
In five pages this paper explores an Athenian juror's perspective of Socrates with 'Spirulinus' presenting his trial observations ...
In a paper consisting of eight pages writings such as Politics by Aristotle are used to examine the Athenian Constitution and its ...
This paper consists of four pages and evaluates the guilty verdict Socrates received in terms of whether or not it represented the...
This 5 page paper is written as if it were a speech given by Thucydides to teh Athenian Asembly suggesting the action that should ...
This ten page paper explores the criticism Greek writers and philosophers such as Euripedes, Socrates, and Aeschylus had for the A...
In twenty pages this paper examines Thomas Jefferson's approach to democracy in a discussion of the intent and purpose of the Bill...