It separates actors and audience, victims and voyeurs, but then reunites them for its own political benefits and aims (Apter1996, 5). ... What is ironic is that even though the words "politics" and "violence" seems logical when banded, actually they are so contrary to each other when separately analyzed. ... So it is really hard to separate violence completely from institutional politics. ... He said that the integrity of their quarrels were one of the major institutions that has been unchanged by anything which altered the world (Finn,1991,47) However, in recent years, the IRA ( Irish Re...

• Word Count: 2324
• Approx Pages: 9
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In order to understand why these founding fathers would go to such lengths to separate themselves from Britain, after all they were committing treason by creating this Declaration, we have to go back in time to the French and Indian War, most commonly known in Europe as the Seven Years War, (1754-1763) and the aftermath. ... "When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature'...

• Word Count: 1859
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The American Revolution should be seen as radical because it transformed a monarchial society into a republic and allowed colonists to separate away from the loyalists making America an independent country who could govern themselves. ... Nash, he said colonists "looked toward a redistribution of political, social, and religious power; the discarding of old institutions and the creation of new ones; the overthrowing of ingrained patterns of conservative, elitist thought; the leveling of society so that top and bottom were not widely separated" and more. ... There was no longer hop...

• Word Count: 1829
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Throughout time, people have fought for their rights, independence, liberty, freedom, and happiness. From nations, to organizations fighting, the pursuit has always been unstoppable and desperate. The ideas are so strong that effort is pulled forth so greatly to a point when no one fighting can be...

• Word Count: 2440
• Approx Pages: 10
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• Grade Level: High School

The 1760's saw the settlers of the British colonies grow in population, wealth and they were starting to separate themselves, per se, from the British Motherland. ... The seemingly inevitable conflict between the British and the French resultant of the competition for the dominance of North America was ended upon the agreement of peace following the culmination of the Seven Years" War with the Treaty of Paris, signed in 1763. ...

• Word Count: 1773
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Finally after years of brutal fighting and massive destruction the revolutionary war was over with a peace treaty in the fall of 1782. ... Franklin argued that the Albany Plan would unite all of the colonies instead of having them separate and this would have helped all of the colonies to have a similar local government and provide uniform answers to common issues and problems. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

"And here we have the plain difference between the state of nature and the state of war, which however some men have confounded, are as far distant as a state of peace, goodwill, mutual assistance, and preservation; and a state of enmity, malice, violence, and mutual destruction are one from another."" ... So one can understand how each philosopher's distinct idea of man's place in the state of nature leads him to his separate conception of the proper role of sovereignty in society. ...

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The 1760's saw the settlers of the British colonies grow in population, wealth and they were starting to separate themselves, per se, from the British Motherland. ... The seemingly inevitable conflict between the British and the French resultant of the competition for the dominance of North America was ended upon the agreement of peace following the culmination of the Seven Years" War with the Treaty of Paris, signed in 1763. ...

• Word Count: 1734
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Liberty is a word that produces a strong feeling of hope and touches the inner soul of man. Throughout the course of time, individuals and nations oppressed by the tyrannical government have cried out of for liberty and have sought for the comfort of living a free life. Revolution and wars have of...

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