Progressivism expanded all throughout American cities which ended in political mechanisms full of monopolies and corrupted leaders. ... The Progressive Movement was most successful in changing political views but wasn't as greatly successful in the social and economic extent even though they improved the average lifestyle. The principles of the Progressive Movement which improved the life of an average American, were to limit the power of big businesses, protect labor and by reforming the banking system. ... The success of the Progressive movement through federal legislation and greater...

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Other historians have stated that the fact that Rustin was gay at a time that homosexuality was frowned upon had cost him in the long run to prove to others that he was indeed a leader who should have played a bigger role in the civil rights movement. As a gay man, Rustin was the target of American leaders such as Strom Thurmond, who had his entire arrest file put into the Congressional Record, despite the fact that his attempt to blackmail Rustin had backfired significantly. At the same time, he was also a target within the African-American movement with leaders of the time such as Adam Clayt...

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(About MLK Nonviolent Social Change, 2014 The King Centre) King's method of non-violence epitomized the most important aspects of the civil rights campaign, bringing about massive international cover to the movement and establishing his place as an emblematic and influential leader. ... It was in this environment that Martin Luther King was enabled to become one of the most powerful and influential leaders for nonviolent social change in the civil rights movement. ... Whilst other leaders at the time, including Malcolm X, chose to implement extreme measures to advocate for freedom, such...

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Fascism as a political totalitarian movement of the right was born in Italy in 1919 with the name Fasci Italiani di Combattimento, meaning Italian Fasces of Fighting and by 1923 the Fascist movement came to power after the so-called 'March to Rome'1 and very soon after, under the dictatorial government of Benito Mussolini took complete control of society.2 In these years, the passion for nationalism on which the Fascist ideology was based found breeding sites everywhere in the world where the wounds of the Great War were still open. ... By 1926 Mussolini passed a law that declared h...

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" This in a parallel movement, a growing number of labor rights organizations have begun to deploy human rights discourse and methods" This position holds that the recognition of the ability of workers to organize and receive full legal protections is a fundamental human right. ... As he asseses, the lack of right-to-work laws, the presence of anti-scab laws, and the high saturation of unions weakens the impact of the labour movement in Canada (Savage 17). While Savage acknowledges that the connection to human and labour rights has yielded substantial victories for the labour movemen...

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The cultural and social vortex created by the founders of Passion Christian Conferences precipitates an insincere form of worship and a false religious movement. ... This relaxation of conservative religious constraints in the counterculture movement empowered the founders of movements like Passion to recreate a new form of worship in their own light. ... Passion leaders utilize social media, television, and the Internet, as a mechanism to engage the cultural and social themes of the young generation. ... Oppenheimer states that in order for a movement or religion to be sustainable in a new cu...

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In October 1972, at the seventh Heads of Government Conference, the Caribbean leaders decided to transform CARIFTA to become CARICOM. ... The associate institutions functions within their own rules and have their own agreements though they were established to carry out some of the objectives of the integration movement. ... Crisis faced were the products of a number of factors: international economic factors, the emergence of a plurality of social and economic systems, suspicion among leaders of the member states and the general feeling that the hope and promises of the Treat of Chaguaramas we...

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Although continuously denied by the creator, Leni Riefenstahl- Triumph of the Will is a subtle Nazi propagandist film based on the developed ideology that "Hitler has come from the sky to kindle ancient Nuremberg with primal Teutonic fire, to liberate the energy and spirit of the German people through a dynamic new movement with roots deep in their racial consciousness" (Propaganda As Vision: Triumph of the Will, 2003). ... The documentary "Pyongyang Diaries" (1998) directed by Australian Solrun Hoaas documents the aftermath of the death of the North Korean 'Great Leader', Kim II Su...

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Unification was impossible to establish as long as an Austrian controlled Bund existed, this was very unlikely to change as the members of the Bund were not prepared or supportive at all of trading autonomy for unification; they wanted to retain their armies, tax raising rights and power of a leadership role which carries connotations with higher authority and most significantly, respect, they did not want to lose this status, thus ensuring that unification was not going to succeed, it ensured that movement was: "too embryonic to succeed". ... Austria and Prussia were rivals as they bot...

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In France, Locke's philosophy was taken over by the leaders of the French Enlightenment, notably by the author and philosopher Voltaire. ... Rousseau objected to the network of voluntary, private groups that many liberals considered essential to the movement. ...

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In this conflict, the rebels had disparate and often competing objectives, such as the restoration of regional leaders and vengeance against the British, while the British themselves, with a force of predominantly Indian troops, sought to punish the rebels and reassert their control over India. ... Even within Delhi, city administrators and leaders were preoccupied with managing the competing interests of soldiers, criminals, civilians, businessmen and officials within their own city. ... First, the British were able to retake control of the north, despite a month-long delay in movement and th...

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Archie Brown notes that "Gorbachev has the political will to make significant innovations in both Soviet domestic and foreign policy"1, and German biographer Christian Shmidt-Hauer states that "the new leader is ambitious for power- not power for its own sake, but power to improve his own society"2.3 Anyhow, his personal attractive qualities and his remarkable profile of a Young Communist League member and a Law graduate from the Moscow State University, presented him as the most suitable Party Leader the USSR needs in order to optimize the unstable economic situation he i...

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Both of the texts highlight the abuse of power by political leaders, as well as power of media images to control public opinion and also emphasizes that the prevailing representation of people and politics at a given time is a function of power instead of truth. ... The tracking shots of camera follows the movement and activity of this group, editing and use of jump cut shots show unexpected but deliberate rapid transitions from one shot to another. ... In conclusion, the topic of prevailing representation of people and politics at a given time is a function of power rather than truth has hig...

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The apartheid governments influence on the African leaders of the various Bantustans to create customary laws and norms that would essentially lock in their migrant workers to returning the Bantustans by forfeiting the communal land occupied by migrant workers should they not return to their homelands .Since many migrants had families living in these lands they where unknowingly forced to go back to the Bantustans in order to preserve their claim of land occupation therefore creating a cycle of temporary migrancy and Bantustan living (Wolpe,1972,436). ... These forms of control where ever...

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Such tendentious revisionism may provide a useful corrective to older enthusiastic assessments, but it fails to capture a larger historical tragedy: Jacksonian Democracy was an authentic democratic movement, dedicated to powerful, at times radical, egalitarian ideals "but mainly for white men. Socially and intellectually, the Jacksonian movement represented not the insurgency of a specific class or region but a diverse, sometimes testy national coalition. ... Around these policies, Jacksonian leaders built a democratic ideology aimed primarily at voters who felt injured by or cut off f...

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The next two decades in some sense were represented by single man dominance in Cambodian politics with king Sihanouk, dictating everything and labeling his movement as, "Buddhist Socialism," (CIA Fact book). ... The Khmer rouge movement led by Pol Pot, also known as, "Brother Number One," (Cambodia Tribunal Monitor) accounted for an estimated 1.5-3 million deaths and was aimed at erasing all Cambodian history, prior to their rise to power. This meant that under the Khmer Rouge movement, the first year of the revolution equally meant the first year of Cambodia's new h...

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Spirituality, although it has always been surrounded by mysticism and uncertainty, has been an integral part of the human psyche since the emergence of the modern man (Buckman 31). There is evidence that even Homo sapiens from the Paleolithic era (ca. 120,000 BC - 8,000BC) believed in a spiritual wo...

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It is not necessary that the increasing persistence of surplus capacities only stimulates the anticipated oil supply (and therefore adversely affects a rising movement in price), but also may lead to lower oil costs by enhancing the overall supply (Bagheri, 2011). ...

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Beatson, Chairman and CEO of SupplyLinks said, -The formation of this network is a significant move in transportation industry and for SupplyLinks and it great to have so many leaders on board and look forward to long term alliances with them."" ... For the businesses and organizations today IT is the main business process re-engineering movement that brings the innovation. ...

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At the time this Report is being released, the world economy continues to emerge slowly from the most serious economic crisis of the post–World War II period-one that has deeply transformed the global economy and highlighted the increasingly important role that emerging markets and developing econ...

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For example, Napoleon appointed family members and close friends as leaders of countries within his Empire. ... Within Poland, Napoleon was seen as the leader who could bring independence to Poland which was decreasing in power. ...

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This violence took place in particular between the opponents of the Treaty who could not accept the partition of the island, and the submission of the north to the British crown, and the partisans of the Treaty of 1922 who resigned themselves, along with the leader Collins, to the partial independence of their homeland. This violence had led the leaders of the Irish State to set up special courts to try acts of terrorism and in particular to try the members of the Irish Republican Army. ...

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The use of mercenaries has been historically a constant phenomenon till almost the end of the XX century, when their activities were criminalized by the international community. Parallel to that phenomenon European States, during their colonial expansion over all continents, authorized two other forms of similar violence by non state actors: the corsairs and the colonial merchant companies, such as the East India Company or the Hudson Bay Company. At the threshold of the XXI century we are witnessing a similar phenomenon. Although mercenaries have not completely disappeared "private milit...

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