In my opinion, Hardball is a book that breaks down the way government works from a Republicans perspective. ... The book is broken into for main parts which include Alliances, Enemies, Deals, and Reputation. ... In the second part of the book, Chris Matthews described the enemies that are created throughout politics. ... Moreover, Hardball has the third part of the book to describe the "Deals" made in politics. ... I think this book should be read by mature high school and all college students. ...

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The book is actually an in-depth recording of a philosophy contest between Plato's teacher Socrates and several other great philosophers. ... Socrates" first major argument is with Thrasymachus in Book I. ... In Book IV, Adeimantus proposes a question to Socrates, asking what Socrates would do if someone blamed him for the economic condition of the man. ... (Book VII, section 524). ... What the State does not have is a tyrant, which Socrates goes into great detail about in Book IX. ...

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At several points, the Politics looks back to the conception of the highest human good worked out in the Nicomachean Ethics, and the concluding chapter of the Nicomachean Ethics (X.9) looks forward to the Politics, culminating in a list of questions about political systems which corresponds reasonably well to the questions he addresses in the Politics, as the following chart indicates: Outline of the Politics Questions in Nicomachean Ethics X.9.1181b17-24 Book I: types of communities: the city, the household; household management Book II: critical survey of proposed and actual constitutio...

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The first, most obvious purpose of The Prince is stated by the author himself, addressing Lorenzo de' Medici: If you will read [this book] over and study it carefully, you will recognize in it my most earnest desire that you may achieve that summit of grandeur to which your happy destiny and your other capacities predestine you. ... It could easily be said that with this book the author may have trying to ingratiate himself to all the local nobility; on the other hand, knowing what follows might also suggest that Machiavelli was really attempting to play off the nobility's fears ...

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Leviathan is no doubt Hobbes's most significant book. The title of the book comes from the Bible. ... This idea can be seen on the title page of the book on which there is a king whose body is made up of people. ... He was in favor of absolutism and his ideas may seem strange to most of the people who live in democratic states; yet before criticizing him, the factors, including the English civil war, which shaped his views should be considered, especially, his book Leviathan, which is a successful study about politics and still respected today, was influenced by the civil war. Despite his...

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In Plato's "The Republic", Book I the fundamental question hey focus on is, "What is Justice?" ... Personally, I agree with Thrasymachus, a character in Book I of "The Republic", in saying "I declare that justice is nothing else than that, which is advantageous to the stronger." ... In Book I, Socrates argues with Simondes before turning his efforts to Polemarchus. Throughout this book, Plato describes how Socrates disputes everyone's idea provong more and more what justice truly is. ... However, at the end of Book I of Plato's dialogues, Socrates realizes that he has still n...

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Machiavelli's book, "The Prince" was written in the sixteenth century. By then he had already achieved power over the state though his position as a diplomat of Florence, so he was quite knowledgeable in politics, though it was after the Medici family removed him from office that he wrote the book. ... Machiavelli had only written this book to impress the Medici family enough that they would restore his former political position, though as it turned out, it became a politician's sidekick in the rough political, and corporate, world of today. ... Luckily for Ma...

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In his book emerges the need of bringing back equality and justice in the society, and to achieve this goal the author gives a specific project in order to establish a fairer state. One of the main point in this book, which is really modern and to some extent anticipates the Marxist doctrine, is that Rousseau thinks that is not human beings to be corrupted but the society itself which consequently affects the human behavior (Held:2006, 44). ... While for liberalists the state has the only purpose of ensuring the fundamental rights, that cannot be restricted or denied, for Rousseau as his book ...

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In his book "Politics," Aristotle begins his work by outlining his ideas concerning human nature and the formation of what he calls political associations. ... This natural association of a family unity provides Aristotle support in his claim that, "the state is the creation of nature, and man is by nature a political animal" (Politics Book I.ii.). ... He describes speech as, "a characteristic of man that he alone has any sense of good and evil, of just and unjust, and the like, and the association of living beings who have this sense makes a family and a state" (Politics B...

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In the book, The Paradox of American Power, Joseph Nye, discusses American power and influence from a global level of analysis. ... One could write a book solely on the phenomenon of soft power. ... No essay in political science, at least in P.S. 390, would be complete without making reference to Derek Bok and his book, The Trouble With Government. ...

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Machiavelli stresses this later on the book when discussing the benefits of building fortresses, he states, "the best fortress a ruler can have is not to be hated by the people" . ... At times Machiavelli's prince will seem to be harsh, cruel, hypocritical or deceitful but this is not a book about how to govern ones social life, it is a book, as Machiavelli puts it in the second chapter, about "governing principalities and how they can be maintained" . ...

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This paper will explore the guidelines and strategies that Niccolo Machiavelli advocates for in the proper and effective way of ruling a government as a prince. In this paper Machiavelli's tactics will be analyzed and compared to modern day governments. This paper will seek to show how his tactics a...

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Bernard Bailyn composed the book The Origins of American Politics in the form of three essays, which were delivered, in their original form in November of 1965 as the Charles K. ... There were 144 articles published between November 1720 and December 1723 and they were all compiled into a four-volume book called Cato's Letters. ...

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In his book Wealth of Nations, Smith states that the government has three functions and none initiated any kind of government-regulated market or economy. ... In Polanyi's book, The Great Transformation, he states, "While laissez-faire economy was the product of deliberate state action, subsequent restrictions on laissez-faire started in a spontaneous way. ...

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Bibliography Term Papers, Essays, Book Reports DataBase Custom Term Papers Free Term Papers Free Research Papers Free Essays Free Book Reports Links Search for Essays at 1MillionPapers.com Spring Break Vacations Term Paper Sites Search 20,000 papers @ Research Assistance Search 50,000 Papers@ MegaEssays.comTop 100 Term Paper Sites Top 25 Essay Sites Top 50 Essay Sites Machiavelli through the form of a prince representing power and authority applies the literary device of imagery. ...

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According to Cicero in the book "De Officiis", people should evade the appetite for glory, since it eradicates the liberty of spirit; the desire for glory makes people to be arrogant, deceptive and takes away the greatness of soul and nothing is more appropriate for a ruler who is appointed to achieve good purposes than greatness of soul (Aquinas Kingship extract 8). ... Therefore, through his book "the prince", he suggests rulers to act honourably, yet if the circumstances warrants, the rulers should be willing to be non virtuous and capable to do evil. ...

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he Open Society The concept of an open society is a term first employed by Sir Karl Popper in his 1950 book the Open Society and Its Enemies. The term essentially means a society in which the state has as little control as is possible for the state to function in a coherent and decent fashion. A...

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How does Rousseau conceive the relationship between democracy and freedom? What are the main merits of and problems with his approach? Although the Social Contract promises freedom to the members of the state this freedom does not automatically include democracy. Democracy is suggested as a possi...

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Every time when I discuss politics I can not help but to think back on two people that so long ago have reasoned and imagine political theories that are still in use today. Plato and Aristotle are considered to be "Founding Fathers" of modern political theories. I armed myself with Hacker Andrew's ...

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When you start mixing politics and philosophy, you get a strange mixture of theories that work in theory itself but have never been tested in practice. Most philosophers try to talk about the politics, but for me the only ones interesting are those that talked about it a long time ago and who actual...

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The Enlightenment was an intellectual movement occurring in Europe throughout the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. This period placed an emphasis on reason, analysis, and individualism in place of the traditional authorities like the Church that had played a major role in people's lives si...

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There are three questions that must be answered when talking about the tyrant that is described in Plato's "Republic-. First you must explain the character present in the tyrant. Second you must describe the kind of life that a tyrant can be expected to live. The third and final question is why i...

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Hate Crime Laws: Abolish Them In the 1980's the governments of the United States created a new sort of crime; hate crime. The FBI defines hate crime as: "a criminal offense committed against a person, property or society which is motivated, in whole or in part, by the offender's bias against...

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The Hunger Games: Catching Fire is the second movie of The Hunger Games series. The background of the story is dystopian future, where a totalitarian country named Panem was created from post-revolution of North America1. Early in the history, there are 13 districts, but District 13 led a rebellion against the Capitol (Panem Government) and lost. It led to the destruction of District 13, and punishment to all of its allies2. The punishment comes in a form of oppression and limitation. ...

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Though this was more of a plot to try to gain the favor of Lorenzo, he does note in his book that in order to gain the favor of a prince, you must present him with a gift; which was the purpose of his essay. ...

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