Comparative political scientists have always worked to develop methods to examine why countries develop and act in the way they do. These methods often times are similar to previous methods, but often times are different in their approach and reasoning. The trick is to develop a new and different approach to study. The grand theories of comparative politics are structural functionalism, modernization, dependency, and the NIC theory. These grand theories are causal arguments - they make specific arguments about what exactly is needed in order for a country to develop and progress. ...

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Sheridan's The School for Scandal and Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest are plays of society life set in the rarefied world of the upper classes. They are of the genre - Society Dramas and Comedy of Manners, and are frivolous light comedies facilitating freedom to comment on the m...

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Finally, the role of the emperor himself as the ultimate source of Japanese authority meant that any action on the part of government could be overruled by recourse to an imperial prerogative. ... This failure to effectively translate liberal ideals into social action, coupled with the readiness of progressive actors to compromise with reactionary and authoritarian elites22 meant that the bour...

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Plato views art as an ultimate threat to society not only because it attempts to shape a character and take away society's role, but also because he believes that artists have the ability to evoke emotions through art and eventually creates action. ... Between the wall and the fire is a group of actors holding stick puppets. ...

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