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  • Political Theories

    Political Theories

    There have been many political philosophies that have been created, implemented, and analyzed over the course of human history. These philosophies have dealt with the question of how, and under what circumstances and for what purposes, individuals should give over control of their personal freedoms and resources in order to achieve the good life. Out of the many political philosophies, classical liberalism or constitutional democracy, authoritarianism, and communist or fascist totalitarianism, have had and continue

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    Submitted: December 20, 2009 By: Jon
  • Relationship of Obedience to Authority

    Relationship of Obedience to Authority

    Milgram show in his experiments that an authority figure is very powerful and when they give instruction their students will listen. At first they listen because they are asked for small things they continue because they feel obligated to do so. The responsibility for their action is also taken by the authority so they feel less guilty. They also do not want to offend the authority so they continue and ignore their morals. When they

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    Submitted: December 20, 2009 By: Janna
  • How Did the Politics in the Age of Jackson Become More Democratic? Discuss the Political Careers of John Quincy Adams, Andrew Jackson, and Martin Van Buren to Demonstrate the New Political Winds That Were Blowing Across the Nation.

    How Did the Politics in the Age of Jackson Become More Democratic? Discuss the Political Careers of John Quincy Adams, Andrew Jackson, and Martin Van Buren to Demonstrate the New Political Winds That Were Blowing Across the Nation.

    During the Age of Jackson, politics became much more democratic. The first president during this period was actually John Quincy Adams. In the election of 1824, Jackson actually held the most popular votes, but failed to have a majority because 4 candidates had run for office. Due to a corrupt bargain, the House of Representatives chose John Quincy Adams as president. The controversy of this election would lead to new, more democratic, policies. Firstly, around

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    Submitted: December 21, 2009 By: Jessica
  • Political Thinkers - Marx, Tocqueville, Burke, Plato

    Political Thinkers - Marx, Tocqueville, Burke, Plato

    Madison and Plato are two men from two different parts of historical era. Within the rotation of time, views are often conflict against one another due to needs and necessity of time. Plato was a man or thinker of pure logic than passion. In his view, he argued on how society will be ruled through a systemic process where passion will play with less importance for the benefit of the ruled. He emphasized that in

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    Submitted: December 22, 2009 By: Venidikt
  • Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Author and His Times

    Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Author and His Times

    NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE: THE AUTHOR AND HIS TIMES It was a brash, bustling, energetic country in which Hawthorne grew up and carved out his writing career. The covered wagons were rolling West, with signs that bravely declared "California or bust!" The first passenger railroad opened, and the trains went huffing and puffing along at the (then) incredible speed of 20 miles an hour. Jackson was elected president, throwing the conservative statesmen out of office and ushering

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    Submitted: December 23, 2009 By: Bred
  • Power and Politics in the Workplace

    Power and Politics in the Workplace

    Power and Politics in the Workplace In general, politics refers to the social and structural arrangements and priorities of public and civic life. It therefore encapsulates a whole range of issues relating to structures, policies, and values, in the spoken and unspoken form of communication. Politics of any organization form the norms and the expected behavior of any group or organization. There are many forms of power in the work place, legitimate, reward, and expert

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    Submitted: December 23, 2009 By: Stenly
  • World Politics

    World Politics

    World Politics Dr. Farlow 11/13/03 May 1st, President Bush flew into the airbase in Dallas with good news for the military and all American people. Behind his enthusiastic speech read a sign, “mission accomplished.” May 5th, President Bush announced and posted on the internet that “Combat Operations in Iraq Have Ended,” and although sometime between then and today he changed that message to “Major Combat Operations in Iraq Have Ended,” isn’t this still a victory?

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    Submitted: December 24, 2009 By: Bred
  • Political Campaign Finance Reform

    Political Campaign Finance Reform

    With the upcoming presidential election, it has been interesting to learn about things as they are actually happening in our country today. Among the many issues that surround the race to the office, financing the presidential election seems to be a major topic that is always in the public eye. There are many different views on how the election should be financed but it is hard to tell how far government funding and donations can

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    Essay Length: 504 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: December 24, 2009 By: David
  • Cavour's Main Means of Politics Greatly Influenced His Aims and Actions That Led to the Unification of Italy

    Cavour's Main Means of Politics Greatly Influenced His Aims and Actions That Led to the Unification of Italy

    Count Camillo Benso di Cavour (1810-1861) was the second son of an aristocratic Piedmontese family. Being the second son of a nobleman, Cavour was supposed to be in the army, even though he was more interested in politics rather than the military. In July 1824 he was named a page to Charles Albert, the king of Piedmont who first opened war of independence against Austria. Cavour later resigned from the army at the end of

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    Submitted: December 24, 2009 By: Wendy
  • The Author to Her Book

    The Author to Her Book

    The Author to Her Book In “The Author to Her Book,” Anne Bradstreet explains how she felt when her poems were published without her knowledge and consent. She explains these feelings of resentment, humiliation, pride, affection, and commitment with the use of many poetic devices. She frequently experiences an internal struggle. Bradstreet uses extended metaphor throughout the poem to express her unhappiness with the publishing of her poems. The use of this metaphor helps us

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    Submitted: December 25, 2009 By: Mike
  • Political System

    Political System

    POLITICAL SYSTEM Since the establishment of the federation in 1971, the seven emirates that comprise the United Arab Emirates (UAE) have forged a distinct national identity through consolidation of their federal status and enjoy an enviable degree of political stability. The UAE's political system, a unique combination of the traditional and the modern, has underpinned this political success, enabling the country to develop a modern administrative structure while, at the same time, ensuring that the

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    Submitted: December 25, 2009 By: Edward
  • Political Influences

    Political Influences

    Throughout my life, I have been socialized to politics in a number of ways. First, the 1996 election comes to mind as the first political event I experienced. Second, the people that I am around on a day to day basis, mostly my parents, have had an affect on my socialization to politics. Third, some of the groups that I am part of have influenced how my ideas and opinions involving politics have developed. Other

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    Submitted: December 26, 2009 By: Wendy
  • Power and Politics

    Power and Politics

    Power and Politics Introduction Power is important within organizations because power is the way in which management influences individuals to make things happen. When power and influence combine most of the time, “politics” becomes involved in some manner which may pose some problems. Organizational politics is best described as management influenced by self-interest through the use of means not necessarily authorized by the organization. Organizational politics have been viewed as an organizations enhancement tool to

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    Submitted: December 26, 2009 By: Mike
  • Bertolt Brecht Uses Epic Theatre as a Way of Presenting His Political Views and Agitating for Change

    Bertolt Brecht Uses Epic Theatre as a Way of Presenting His Political Views and Agitating for Change

    Bertolt Brecht uses epic theatre as a way of presenting his political views and agitating for change. One of the major reasons that Bertolt Brecht is so well known is the fact that he uses his plays as a means of presenting his political views, and uses epic theatre to agitate change. In “Foreign Literature- Part 2” Illiford (1987), Brecht is described as a: “son of his time. He lived and fought in a definite

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    Submitted: December 27, 2009 By: Andrew
  • The Political Approach the Prince

    The Political Approach the Prince

    In Machiavelli’s famous work “The Prince”, Machiavelli argues that a true “prince” must do anything and everything in his power to succeed. Although Machiavelli felt that virtue was an important characteristic to leadership, he reinforced thoroughly throughout his work that a prince must, during challenging times, choose any course of action that will ensure ultimate success. In chapter 18 page 70, Machiavelli states a man “needs to have a spirit disposed to change as the

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    Submitted: December 27, 2009 By: Jack
  • From 1750-1850 Revolutions Wracked Many Countries. How Did Imperial Wars Among Competing European Powers Provoke Revolutions Around the Globe? in What Ways Were the Revolutions, Expanded Literacy and New Political Ideas Linked?

    From 1750-1850 Revolutions Wracked Many Countries. How Did Imperial Wars Among Competing European Powers Provoke Revolutions Around the Globe? in What Ways Were the Revolutions, Expanded Literacy and New Political Ideas Linked?

    I think that through all of the revolutions it was something like a chain reaction. One country had problems and the people decided to take action and do something about it. They revolted and made things better or worse for themselves. Through this other countries heard about it or saw it first hand, giving them the same ideas to so the same when it times became hard. I think when wars between competing European countries

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    Submitted: December 28, 2009 By: Top
  • Political Apathy Amongst Youth

    Political Apathy Amongst Youth

    Young people today are constantly being branded politically apathetic. Sydney Morning Herald writer, Ben Heraghty stated that Ў§Young people nowadays are simply not interested in politics.ЎЁ (Green Left Weekly, March 27, 2002.) Is this assumption true? Are young people disinterested in our political system? Or are they simply confused? I believe that young people are passionate about many issues. But politicians wonЎ¦t listen to them. With so little emphasis placed on issues concerning the youth,

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    Submitted: December 28, 2009 By: Mike
  • Early Political Parties

    Early Political Parties

    In the developing years of the United States government, political parties were formed due to the opposing views on how to interpret the Constitution. It is well known that the Jeffersonian Republicans wanted the Constitution to be interpreted strict contrasting the views of the Federalists who felt the Constitution should be interpreted loosely. There were times, however, the views political leaders took on the matter were compromised for the betterment of the country. Jefferson’s Republicanism

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    Submitted: December 28, 2009 By: Top
  • Do Artifacts Have Politics

    Do Artifacts Have Politics

    “Do artifacts have politics?” Discuss Langdon Winner’s question and give some examples. Iva N. Ivanova ivai@ifi.uio.no First semester at UiO Word count: 2103 Introduction The objective of this paper is to discuss Langdon Winners theory on the politics of technology. In his book “The Whale and the Reactor” Langdon Winner asks the question “Do artifacts have politics?”. That question has provoked many to look for different dimensions of technology. Winner argues that technologies hold

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    Submitted: December 29, 2009 By: Top
  • Aspects of Political Thought

    Aspects of Political Thought

    Critical Thinking Joseph Wood Aspects of Rousseau’s Political Thought Kateb begins this article with the statement that there is common agreement that the center of Rousseau’s political thought is the idea of the general will. Almost everyone also acknowledges that they are somewhat confused as to the meaning of this general will, and that some of the confusion can be blamed on Rousseau’s himself. This confusion is apparently eliminated, according to the author, once we

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    Submitted: December 30, 2009 By: Fonta
  • The Political Career of Richard Nixon

    The Political Career of Richard Nixon

    Richard Nixon served as the 37th president of the United States. He is well known for the infamous Watergate scandal and was remembered by the American people as the first president to resign from office. However, he is also undoubtedly one of the most influential political figures when it comes to guiding the nation through one of its toughest time periods in history, as well as breaking the ice on foreign diplomacy with socialist countries

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    Submitted: December 30, 2009 By: Janna
  • Political History

    Political History

    During the late seventeen hundreds and early eighteen hundreds, the world political system made a shift . Large monarchies began to crumble and sovereign nation-states began to be formed. Previous this period of time, the land was said to be property of a king, and the people had little or no political power. The ruling monarch made most if not all of the political decisions, as was his right by inheritance. As time passed and

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    Submitted: December 30, 2009 By: Victor
  • Author Andersen

    Author Andersen

    Introduction In today’s business world, corporations could be audited due to not following ethical and legal standards. The purpose of this paper is to discuss the legal, ethical, and social responsibility of Arthur Andersen. This paper will also analyze three factors that influence Arthur Andersen’s strategic, tactical, operational, and contingency planning. The term ethics must first be defined to understand a few of the issues involving Arthur Andersen. According to Wikipedia, the term Ethics is

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    Submitted: December 31, 2009 By: Steve
  • The President Was Hunted Politically

    The President Was Hunted Politically

    The President Was Hunted Politically The Hunting of the President presented an argument by Harry Thomason and Nickolas Perry that from 1990 to 2000 a group of people were committed to destroying the reputation of William (Bill) Jefferson Clinton. Through elaborate testimonials, the claim is that this group of well-funded individuals as well as media attempted to gain from Clinton's alleged misfortunes. The film begins with a narration that took place approximately ten days before

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    Submitted: December 31, 2009 By: Steve
  • Not All Law Is Politics in Robes

    Not All Law Is Politics in Robes

    On October 31, 2005, President Bush nominated Samuel Alito to the position of Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court, to replace retiring Justice Sandra Day O’Connor. They have the hearings to give the public a clearer understanding of what sides of issues the upcoming judge my face in his term of being a justice in the Supreme Court. However, Alito would not tell Senators how he would resolve contentious issues that may come

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    Submitted: December 31, 2009 By: David

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