While Mayor Michael Bloomberg's soda that put limits on big, sugary drinks has been caught up in controversy in New York City, another ban on drink in Chicago is now controversially underway. Different from NY soda ban that gained public attention due to hardcore actions of Mayor Bloomberg despite strong backlash from diverse business organization and interest groups, Chicago's energy drink ban is rather at stalemate. In this paper, I will build up the story of an energy drink ban in the city of Chicago and analyze how this political issue has aroused and why it is currently being en...

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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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Politics, art, and utopia in French anarchism and Italian futurism 1890-1920 In Paroles d'un revolte, Peter Kropotkin outlined a new vision for the arts as part of his anarchist philosophy, asserting that "the arts have a mission to accomplish for the achievement of the future society... Depict for us in your vivid style or in your fervent paintings the titanic struggle of the people against their oppressors; inflame young hearts with the beautiful breath of revolution which inspired our anarchism"1. This sentiment marks the beginning of a struggle commenced by the anarchists and brou...

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