This essay will argue that the French Revolution is the "dawn of the modern era" and that it inaugurated a new, modern period in Western history in France, Europe and other Westernized countries worldwide. ... Bastille set the example in political protest from France and other countries to follow. ... This set the example and had profound impact on other countries. ... This set an example for other countries to follow, with serfdom and slavery gradually abolished elsewhere. ... The major social revolutions of the twentieth century in Russia, China and Cuba were inspired by the French ex...

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In an essay called Democracy and Oligarchy, Aristotle uses question answer rhetorical mode of writing to provoke thought. Throughout the essay, Aristotle layers in questions towards the readers and once the question is asked, it is followed up with an answer. ... While reading Aristotle's essay, it was easy for me to understand and keep up the context because instead of inferring an answer I was given one. ... An example of this is combining the two thoughts; one is deciding whether to elect or appoint a judge, and the other is whether or not one needs to own property to be a candidat...

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The first important task, before continuing this essay, is to define justice. ... At the end of his essay, Thoreau describes a utopian State, in which people are able to live independently of the government. ... Thoreau in his essay Civil Disobedience also accuses the government of being unjust. ... As one reads Thoreau's essay, one has a better understanding of how immutable the tension between politics and justice is. For example, Thoreau writes "Law never made men a whit more just; and, by means of their respect for it, even the well-disposed are daily made the agents of injustice." ...

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In contrast, both Rousseau's and Jefferson's essays "The Origin of Civil Society" and "The Declaration of Independence" are supportive of a republic. ... In his essay "The Qualities of the Prince", Machiavelli plainly says, "love is held by a chain of obligation which, since men are sorry lot, is broken on every occasion in which their own self interest concerned; but fear is held together by dread of punishment which will never abandon you" (Machiavelli 44). ... Osama Bin Laden is an example of a leader who is able to manipulate his people to perform terrorist attacks. ... Rousseau ...

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Are our civil liberties routinely violated? Do civil liberties exist the way they used to? Are they restricted to suit the governments needs? In this essay, I hope to address and answer these questions. Hopefully, I can help people see how civil liberties are shrinking every day. Civil liberties...

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That is why in this essay I will defend and explain why an elite capitalistic society is the ideal society to live in. ... For example, when people buy a certain item over something else. ... If this concept could be grasped then the world could be a better place, which brings us to the elite capitalism that this essay is defending. ... For example, if the intelligent and successful keep improving and moving to the top of society, and the unintelligent and unsuccessful are weaned out, then society as a whole grows. ... For example, Thoreau believes that people cannot be free unless they are ...

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Examples of state powers are the reserved (i.e. education) and concurrent (i.e. tax, building highways) powers. ... An example of an up-to-date federal principle is the way we ratify an amendment. ... This essay is basically a follow up and elaboration to Federalist 47 where it was only a rough draft that needed revising. ... "It is agreed on all sides, that the powers properly belonging to one of the department's ought not to be directly and completely administered by either of the other department's,"" was the basic argument of essay 48 by Madison. ...

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This essay will attempt to answer these questions by looking at the respective movements trying to attain democratic rule, and on the opposite side, the forces of authority that were used to contain them, as well as considering the political institutions and people of Japan itself. ... The first focus of this essay will be on the official side to Japanese democracy – the elected legislature. ... One example of their power is that the Prime Minister of the House of Representatives was essentially picked by the Genro, and they made sure that the will of nonparty elites was not trodden on by t...

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• Grade Level: Graduate

American Document Based Essay #1 Descendants of the Democratic Republican Party, during the 1820's and 1830's Jacksonian democrats had almost complete control over the federal government and were able to freely express their views. ... Universal white male suffrage, raze of the National Bank, upholding the Constitution, and political reforms, are examples of the incontrovertible nature of Jacksonian Democrats. ...

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Lord of the flies Essay A society without authority, and discipline is a society destined for turmoil. ... There have been cases in the real world where people like Jack have been in power, and manipulated people into doing things that they did not believe in, for example Hitler. ...

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In this essay we will discuss the pros and cons of this act, what affect music has on the subject, and show the affects that it has on our country and ourselves. ... An example of this is voting the United States. ... For example, Emenim "When a dude's gettin bullied and shoots up his school and they blame it on Marilyn (on Marilyn).. and the heroin Where were the parents at? ... Another example of the music industry having an affect on freedom of speech is Rock the Vote. ...

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In this essay there are two main things that I need to address. ... For example the Delegate Model consists of the representative acting almost purely on instruction from the public themselves. ... For example in a first past the post situation with two main parties, one could gain 49% of the vote with the other having 51% of the votes. ... For example, if people do not wish to elect any of the candidates on offer to them, they may not vote at all. ... For example, it can occur that the government looks out for its own needs at some times rather than those of its constituents. ...

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All three styles are each as impressive as they are unique, and you will be given a brief taste of them all in the following essay. ... A prime example of a baroque era building is Bucharest's illustrious Casino Victoria. ... The street that I lived on, for example, Eroii Ave., had rows of villas, built in the 1800's on one side of street to a certain extent (the residence I lived in was one of those), across the street there was a newly build medical college, which is a series of large pink buildings encompassed by a ornate black iron fence. ...

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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? ... Should citizens be influenced unduly by a regime which represses dissenting speech and thought (as with the North Korean example), then although the processes of aggregate democracy may be respected, the outcome would not be democratically legitimate....

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The "Lord of the Flies" can be viewed as a great representation of how "civilized" or "uncivilized" our world really is today. Various types of symbols are used throughout the entire movie to portray how that conception of our nation has come to be. Of the different types of symbolic aspects in ...

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Regime Change This essay will study the success rate of the establishment of a stable democracy in post-communist states. ... This essay will compare and contrast two post-communist countries, focusing on Poland, who has had a fairly successful' transition to democracy, and Romania, who shows clear signs of a complicated and uncertain transition towards democracy. ... Poland is an example of a country that has had a very smooth transition from communism to democracy. ...

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In the Essay Concerning Human Understanding, John Locke speculated about how politics must confront the issue "of freedom the will of the individual"(Locke, 43) and how their freedom must be subject to "constant, certain, and known principals"(Locke, 44), so that when conflicts of justifying rights emerge the government will have a guide by which to reference their decision against. ... First to be discussed are rights that protect individual's religion and ethnicity as examples to how the majority has discriminated against the individual. Rights that promote the rule of law, such as the ...

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The over-empowerment of this position can be seen in several examples, which I will describe in the following essay, along with examinations of the institutions that are responsible for this concentration of authority within the federal government. ... An example often brought up is the privatization of many Crowne corporations, which resulted in the removal of some of the juiciest political plums available. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate