Hobbes's pragmatic view of government, which stressed the equality of individuals, opened the way to free criticism of government and the right to revolution, ideas that Hobbes himself opposed. ... Much of Locke's philosophy is reflected in the writings of the Anglo-American political philosopher and writer Thomas Paine, who argued that the authority of one generation should not be considered binding on its successors, that the state is perhaps necessary but still an evil, and that a belief in divine order was all the religion that need be demanded of free people. Thomas Jefferson al...

• Word Count: 788
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: Graduate

With that being said, I intend to devote the first two parts of my essay to applying a Marxist reading to this passage using the theories of Michele Foucault and of Louis Althusser; while in the last part, I will attempt to draw a parallel between the actual sociopolitical situation in the farm and that in the Soviet Union after the Bolshevik Revolution and under the rule of Joseph Stalin. ... In the same vein, in his essay "Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses," (Notes Towards an Investigation, 1972) the French philosopher Louis Althusser uses a Marxist perspective to study the relati...

• Word Count: 1473
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Graduate

This essay will use secondary resources to define, explain and critically evaluate the impact of globalization on McDonalds. As well as demonstrating the effects it has had on the fast food giant, this essay will examine some positive and negative aspects that globalization has had on the brand and the fast food industry, with some examples relevant to China. The essay will then examine and scrutinize some schools of thought concerning the consequences of globalization on the world's cultures, societies and economies to ultimately achieve an evaluation of the impact the process has had on...

• Word Count: 2073
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: Graduate

Many considered their fellow colonists as a worst alternative than the monarchy in England, as summed up by Father Mather Byles in Document D, in which he states his preference for a single tyrant, in King George, as opposed to a multitude of local, smaller tyrants, in the form of other colonists vying for power in a vacuum left if the colonists were free of the British. ...

• Word Count: 336
• Approx Pages: 1
• Grade Level: Graduate

The literary pioneers of this women's movement included: Abigail Adams who had a genius for letter writing, Mercy Otis Warren who was known as the most productive "woman of the American revolution", with works that viewed history and politics as a struggle between liberty and power, and Sarah Moore Grimke who drove one of the first feminist spikes in her essay Letters on the Equality of the Sexes and the Condition of Woman. ... In Woolf's essay, she states: "For we think back through our mothers if we are women". ... In order to accomplish this, she would need to break away from t...

• Word Count: 1471
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Graduate

As such this essay will discuss different subsets of legitimacy judging whether they are mutually exclusive or complementary whilst avoiding the conflation of 'more legitimacy' with 'better government'. ... Yet a key question to ask when discussing the title of this essay is in whose eyes is the ruling regime legitimate? ... Misinformation could even happen in a largely free democratic Western system if citizens are not informed fully about the policies they are voting for in electing a representative, or if policies are deliberately misconstrued by opponents to portray t...

• Word Count: 2466
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: Graduate

For that purpose, in this essay I will examine the fundamental and legal issues of why in Kazakhstan there is a low concernment of people in exercising their right to vote and participate in the all-nation referendum, guaranteed by the Constitution, and propose some possible solutions for this unavoidable problem. ... In this way, the West should give a card blanche to Kazakhstan in the constructing of democracy achievement model without pressing, but only with the condition of its compliance to the basic ingredients of a democracy such as free and fair elections, a transparent government, a ...

• Word Count: 1572
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Graduate

Her Chinese parents strongly promote family allegiance in endeavors rather than setting their children free like European and American families. ... She refuses to abide to her cultural standards, and breaks free from the "Chinese" traditions and portion of her Chinese American identity in order to successfully grasp the pursuit of the American Dream that her parents were never able to grasp. ...

• Word Count: 1094
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Graduate

In this paper, inclusion will represent all adults having the right to vote in free and fair elections. ... Therefore, this essay will only concentrate on horizontal accountability as we assume vertical accountability as a natural indicator of the scope of inclusion of a state. ... This section provides a short overview of the reasons for the case selection of this essay. ...

• Word Count: 2022
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: Graduate

Slaves were a free source of labor and allowed the white farmers to increase their agricultural production with very little corresponding increase in overhead costs. Freed from the burden of growing enough food to feed themselves, farmers began to focus on using their surplus land to grow crops meant solely for export (chiefly, rice and indigo). ...

• Word Count: 2312
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: Graduate

In this essay, I would like to compare these two countries on the basis of Dahl's concept of participation and contestation with reference to two other institutions-the executive branch and the electoral system of both countries, in order to discuss the practicality of his concept of polyarchy " in comparing political regimes. ... Dahl's purpose of Polyarchy is to determine conditions favor or impede a transformation into a political regime in which opponents of the government can openly and legally organize into political parties in order to oppose the government in free and fair el...

• Word Count: 2103
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: Graduate

While the fact that the Women of Algiers in Their Apartment are barefoot implies their imprisonment and their inability to leave their apartment in that condition, "Beautiful Dorothea" goes barefoot in the streets as a symbol of her freedom: "even though she's free, she still goes barefoot." ...

• Word Count: 2157
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: Graduate

She lives with a mother who is single is very poor and can't afford to by cool clothes, a mobile phone or an iPod like most of her classmates, she is also in receipt of free school meals. ... This essay will look at the ways in which social class can affect the child in terms of educational attainment and school experience. ...

• Word Count: 3489
• Approx Pages: 14
• Grade Level: Graduate