Machiavelli: The Prince Niccolo Machiavelli was born into a time of political upheaval in Italy. ... The Prince is the text from which my source is taken. ... Using this insight, Machiavelli in The Prince describes how one would be best to go about achieving and maintaining power. ... The source within the textbook is a very famous excerpt taken from the 17th chapter of The Prince. ... He has a clear dislike of mercenaries in both the source excerpt and in The Prince. ...

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That action can be whatever the prince determines is necessary to achieve the ends sought. ... As Machiavelli states: "It must be understood that a prince cannot observe all those things which are consider good in men, being often obliged, in order to maintain the state, to act against charity, against humanity, and against religion . . .it is necessary for a prince wishing to hold his own to know how to do wrong." ... He believes that these injure a whole community, while the executions ordered by a prince fall only upon a few individuals. ... As a corollary to this Machiavelli addresses whe...

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Prince Hall, an ex-slave, became a mason while fighting in the American Revolution alongside white soldiers who were freemasons. ... Prince Hall gave African American's hope and a space to lead in a time where they had no other opportunities to lead. ... Many years after Hall's death, the Prince Hall Masons continued to meet and promote lives of virtue, equality and democracy. ... By sticking to the traditions and guidelines executed by Prince Hall himself, the Prince Hall Masons have managed to stay strong and become truer than ever before. ... The Prince Hall Masons influenced othe...

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Machiavelli believes that a Prince's main duty is the preservation of his country and the protection of his subjects. "A prince, therefore should have no care or thought but for war, and the regulations and training it requires, and should apply himself exclusively to this as his peculiar province; for war is the sole art looked for in one who rules" . ...

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As the son of Emperor Taisho and Crown Prince, Hirohito found comforts in the studies of science, mathematics, ethics, geography, and literature often studying in his native Japanese as well as Chinese. It was during his studies that Crown Prince Hirohito first began questioning the validity of an emperor's divinity. ... Controversy is inherent with any leader but the controversy surrounding Crown Prince Hirohito began as soon as it was evident he was to rule Japan. As the issue of a bride arose, rivaling officials concerned with Hirohito's choice of a bride in Princess Nagako of...

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On television reruns, the divided rulers of Paul Scott's Jewel in the Crown sip their tea in scented hill stations and swap idle gossip in the palaces of local princes. ... As assets and responsibilities mounted, the merchants, who had come out as supplicants bearing gifts to local princes for an inside track on trade, gradually became soldiers, and then became local rulers themselves. ... The India that these British traders came to do business in was a thoroughly bewildering place, a vast expanse of land filled with millions of peasants ruled by a small number of princes--mostly Musl...

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In the first half of the 16th century, Western Europe experienced a wide range of social, artistic and geographically political changes that created conflict within the Holy Roman Empire. This conflict is called the Protestant Reformation, a religious and political movement that gave birth to Prote...

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Laertes on the surface is protecting his sister from a romantic relationship with a brooding prince, however some modern audiences have interpreted this dialogue as Laertes not wanting his sister Ophelia to fall into the arms of Hamlet so he can have her to himself. ... This is furthered by his father's active role in preventing Ophelia from reciprocating with Hamlet, it is clear that they do not want Ophelia to be with the vengeful prince due to his state of mind and actions. ...

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In a lengthy history of German princes being dissatisfied with the strength and/or administration of the Pope, Barbarossa did what came natural to a unified central power: he sought to expand land control as well as personal authority. ... Since power is a limited possession, the Church's gain meant the decrease of the secular political powers, such as the German princes and the French and English Nobles. Having united his Germanic lands as a strong leader, giving the German princes tremendous liberties within their own lands in exchange for their full support in his military endeavor...

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Thesis: Under the reign of Francois Duvalier, Haiti became synonymous with underdevelopment, corruption, and the mystery of voodoo. I. Haitian Religions A. Catholicism B. Voodoo C. No conclusive break with past ...

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., unworthy princes. ... The regime, the social mores obtaining, allowed the artisans to go directly to the prince, without fear, and complain to him. The slaves were commanded by one of their own, the infantry general, who was a pseudo- prince in that he might rule over a fief inhabited by freemen. ... As gérs , belonging to the same level as the prince, the latter found nothing dishonorable or debasing in pillaging their goods, however small they might be. ...

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On the other hand, we have Buddhism that was founded in the fourth or fifth century B.C. in northern India by a man known traditionally as Siddhartha (meaning "he who has reached the goal-) Gautama, the son of a warrior prince. ...

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Tsar Alexander I, an intelligent, handsome, benevolent and aspiring leader, ascended to the Russian throne in 1801 to become one of Russia's greatest reformers and military leaders. The Tsar who defeated the French Empire was profoundly influenced by their domestic and foreign affairs, leading his vision of Russia to enhance and protect the revolutionary ideals of the Enlightenment and the French Revolution. Initially open-minded to these western philosophies Alexander was inspired by his role models to spread these ideas, therefore becoming a "European" rather than just a Russi...

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Prince (1996) claims that CGI makes it possible to share the same frame between filmed objects and 3D object, when in reality this can never be happened. ... For those reasons, a new notion of realism was born by Prince (1996) called "Perceptual realism" where the audience perceives the images as realistic but in fact referentially fictional. This is because computer-generated images follow the rules of real world in terms of light, reflection, color, gravity, that correspond with the audience's own understanding in daily life under overt and covert forms (Prince 1996) (Mak 2003...

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1. What factors discouraged an early unification of Italy and how were these overcome? Before the year of 1848, the Italian faced a lot of difficulties to urge the unification movement. Until, 1848, the situation had been changed and directly contributed to the unification movement. After 1815 Italy was once again a mere geographical expression. ...

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau constructed The Social Contract to solve the question of freedom, specifically, the preservation and survival of what he terms as civil freedom, and his solution to this problem, in its most general sense, is the construction of the civil state. Through the grouping of citizens, each willing to surrender himself to the entire community, one is able to set limitations on their own behavior, live with others as a whole, and, in doing so, think rationally and act morally. More importantly, by agreeing to the social contract, the people simultaneously give up their physical f...

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau constructed The Social Contract to solve the question of freedom, specifically, the preservation and survival of what he terms as civil freedom, and his solution to this problem, in its most general sense, is the construction of the civil state. Through the grouping of citizens, each willing to surrender himself to the entire community, one is able to set limitations on their own behavior, live with others as a whole, and, in doing so, think rationally and act morally. More importantly, by agreeing to the social contract, the people simultaneously give up their physical f...

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One day as I was driving to my sister's house in Ravenswood, I saw an elderly man standing at the end of the off-ramp. The gentleman was holding a sign that read: "Homeless will work for food. God Bless."" As I rolled to a stop, I rolled down my window and offered him my last five dollars. To my amazement the gentleman declined my charity. ...

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History 185 Test #2 04-01-03 The seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the era that paved the way for the creation of our modern day governments and societies, was an era of political and social revolutions. In response to the new thinking that was sparked by the Enlightenment, Romanticism, the Industrial Revolution and other changes in society, bloody and peaceful revolutions took place all over Europe. England actually had two separate revolutions to deal with during this time of unrest. The French endured a long and bloody series of one single revolution also, and the world woul...

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I doubt not but this will seem a very strange doctrine to some men; but before they condemn it, I desire them to resolve me by what right any prince or state can put to death or punish an alien for any crime he commits in their country? ...

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Of the many religions that originated in the Indian peninsula, Buddhism is the one that, during the last decade, has known the biggest enthusiasm and the greatest increase in interest in the West (Baumann & Prebish, p. 85). In fact, this increase in interest is reflected by the numerous stories rela...

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(Huffington) During this event, the crown prince, Sayyid Hasan ar-Rida al-Mahdi as-Sanussi, Idris' nephew, who during King Idris trip was appointed as regent, was captured by Gaddafi's men and placed under house arrest. ...

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What are the key qualities and characteristics that make up a woman? There are many ideas and opinions that people believe women should and should not be, according to 17th-19th century ideas. All of these notions have brought on many debates and arguments for hundreds of years on what exactly is a...

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The Meech Lake Accord was a set of constitutional reforms designed to induce Quebec to accept the Canada Act (Monahan 1991). This particular Act made Canada a fully sovereign state. The Accord's five basic points, proposed by Quebec Premier Robert Bourassa, included a guarantee of Quebec's special status as a distinct society and a commitment to Canada's linguistic duality (Harris 1991). This paper discusses firstly the political implications that occurred in Canada, which lead to the formation of the Meech Lake Accord; secondly what was the Accord; and finally an examination o...

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When Niccolo Machiavelli examines justice, he makes a clear and conscientious choice to disregard many of the teachings passed down from ancient times. The models of justice, as they existed in Ancient Greece in the days of Socrates, evade Machiavelli's writings in a very methodical way. While Machi...

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