Many of the points that Hayes makes about Hobbes' work seem to make more sense if the end goal of Leviathan was to show us how we can construct a peaceful commonwealth in which we escape the dangers in the state of nature. ... The bourgeois theories that act as a basis for many aspects of Hobbes' Leviathan can be seen through Hayes' eyes as a prescription for a way that we can use moderation to make the bourgeois society work, or as a way that we can escape the state of nature and limit those who seek to gain power at the expense of others....

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Saloons offered a form of escape in the form fun, drinking, and entertainment for these immigrants who were often struggling to find work, poorly paid, and living in cramped quarters. ... For just the cost of a cheap seat ticket (usually nickel-dime), patrons had the opportunity to escape their ordinary mundane lives to experience and marvel at performances entirely new due to the weekly changing program. ...

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Abstract External debt today poses one of the biggest barriers to development for many of the worlds less developed countries (LDC's). Excessive external debt is often responsible for the stagnation of economic growth given that the uncertainty it creates discourages the private sector from investing in the economy for fear about the stability of the government, and it also discourages public investment and reforms given that policy makers are aware that any benefits would be likely to be transferred abroad in the form of debt servicing. I will in this paper, present some arguments for...

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The "Lost Generation," who are the equivalent of the "Bright Young Things," are portrayed as being almost entirely composed of alcoholics - for them drinking is a way of escaping reality and endure lives lacking both affection and purpose. ...

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The contemporary globalization of trade has transformed state autonomy and induced shifts in state policy. ( Held & David, 2003:188) Interconnected economic networks means greater risk, whenever a financial crisis happens no country can escape. ...

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Bicycles Thieves (1948) represents one of the most important films of Italian neorealism. Through a simple story (a man with his son searches his stolen bicycle, extremely important for his survival) the film became a parable about the difficulties and the problems which afflicted Italy during the p...

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And in pursuit of the first law of nature, the second law is made which is to give up his right of nature to a greater power and form a covenant with every man so as he does not do onto any man what he would not wish done to him in an attempt to escape the condition of war. ...

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Assignment Critically evaluate the usefulness of contemporary criminological theory for an understanding of crimes of violence. Response This paper will look at some crimes of violence, and it will evaluate how contemporary criminological theory is useful or how in some cases it is not useful towa...

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Both Eugene Delacroix's painting Women of Algiers in Their Apartment of 1834 and Charles Baudelaire's prose poem, "Beautiful Dorothea" can be understood in terms of Baudelaire's comment in the Salon of 1859 that "a fine painting should be produced like a world . . . each layer heightening the reality of the dream bringing it nearer to perfection." Each artist creates his work as both a dream and a reality by a layering of contrasts, most generally that of reality and dreamscape, but also interior and exterior, viewer and viewed, individual and environment, light and dark, con...

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