Essays on Anti-Government

Pennsylvania is one of the states in the United States of America. Its location is in the north-eastern region of the U.S. It borders Maryland, Delaware, West Virginia, Ohio and Ontario as well as New Jersey and New York. It is 33rd largest state in land area, but the 6th most populous and the 9th in population density in the U.S. Harrisburg is its capital. The state is largely a Democratic Party region. It is a crucial state in the US politics. It is a swing state. It has only supported a losing candidate in the US presidential elections ...

_____________ University Kosovo is a landlocked territory located in the South Eastern part of Europe known as the Balkans. On average, Kosovo gets hot summer and cold winters ranging from +30 C to -10 C (Independent Commission for Mines and Minerals, 2005). According to a 2013 World Bank report, the population of Kosovo is 1.8 million people. The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) World Factbook lists the primary crops in Kosovo as being “wheat, corn, berries, potatoes, peppers, and fruit” (2005). Additionally, Kosovo produces dairy, livestock, and fish. The Kosovar industries listed in the CIA World Factbook are “mineral mining, ...

The Syrian Crisis is an armed dispute that is currently happening between pro-government and anti-government factions in Syria. It started on March 2011 following the emergence of protests across North Africa and the Middle East. As the crisis unfolded, a lack of strategic organization and leadership in the anti-government forces has led to in-fighting among various factions of the group. This paper seeks to summarize the ongoing Syria uprising. Syria has not had a democratic form of government for a long time. For instance, it was under emergency rule for about 48 years until 2011. During this time, public gatherings for ...

Introduction

The USA patriot act came into law in 2001 and was created as a result of the September 11 terrorists attacks. The Patriot act empowers security agencies such as the Federal Bureau of Investigation to use appropriate tools to track and prevent terrorists from committing terrorist activities (Torr, 2006). The law empowers investigators to search personal information of U.S citizens or detain foreigners who are considered a threat to national security. Some critics of the law argue that, the law infringes on people’s privacy or individual civil liberties but, the law ensures that the security of U.S citizens and their ...

Shigeji Tsuboi was a prominent Japanese poet of the new age of Japanese literature. He was born on October 10, 1897 and died in September 4, 1975 at the age of 77 years. Tsuboi was born on the island of Shodoshima. He went to the Waseda University in Tokyo, but he never completed his studies. Initially, Tsuboi started out as a modernist and anarchist. As the wave of Marxism grew stronger in Japan, It away Tsuboi, and he broke up with the anarchists. The breaking away from the anarchist movement resulted in a broken arm.

Tsuboi started operating with the proletarian association; ...

Introduction

In the last seven years the number of Americans who believe that the federal government poses immediate threats to peoples rights and freedom has increased by 16%. According to Gallup polls, the percentage of American who in 2005 believed that the federal government interferes with citizens’ rights and freedom was 30%, but this has since risen to 46%. Only 51% of the Americans believe that the federal governments do not pose threat to their rights and freedom. In fact 66% of republicans, 49% of independents, and 21% of the democrats think that federal government is posing immediate threat to ...

John Lennon

John Lennon is one of few contemporary artists who only turned to consistent political activism only in the early 1970s after the break-up of The Beatles (Fisher & Flota 125). The enduring legacy of his work included the song “God”, wherein Lennon wrote the lyrics “the dream is over”, which meant that the dream of the gurus, the hippies, members of The Beatles band, or any other supposed savior had ended. The meaning of the term “dream” in the song refers to the belief in the value of countercultural protest for its own sake (Fisher & Flota 125). Lennon addressed political ...

Impact of social media upon politics has facilitated propagation of free speech in society. Owing to this influence, several nations have witnessed closure of tyrannical dictatorship. The Arab Spring is one such example that exhibits the influence of social media in instigating mass protests. Widely tagged as the Facebook or Twitter revolution, scholars have analyzed over 3 million tweets, YouTube videos and more than thousands of blog posts, and revealed that the social media played a pivotal role in the Arab Spring. The week before Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak resigned, daily tweets surmounted from 2,300 a day to 230,000 ...

Management

Goss (2005), in Building a Contingency Menu: Using Capabilities-Based Planning for Homeland Defense and Homeland Security, says that Homeland Defense and Security planners need to develop a contingency plan to neutralize potential terrorist threats. Because of their shrewd and adaptive strategies, the Department of Homeland Defense and Security agency has come up with the concepts of ‘lines of operation’ ‘capabilities’ as the dynamics to define and explain potential and likely interactions. Moving from the more rational idea of, ‘who is the threat?’ to ‘what could the threat do?’ has given Homeland Defense and Security planners a broader spectrum of possibilities to explore ...

Introduction

The Philippines is a small country located in Asia’s South East Asian region. To its north lies Taiwan, China, and Korea; to the east lies the Pacific Ocean, to the west, Vietnam and its nearby countries; and to the south lies Malaysia and its nearby countries. The Philippines has a rich and long international history that dates back to the three hundred years of Spanish Occupation, which actually lead to a series of violent wars of revolution, in the 17th century. The objective of this paper is to present a comprehensive discussion of this country, focusing on political system and structural issues ...

How do you perceive the problem of domestic terrorism in the United States? Do you think militias pose a growing threat? What solutions can you suggest? Domestic terrorism in United States is the unlawful use of force or violence by an individual or a group of people based completely and entirely within United States without any foreign involvement. There are certain specific social and political issues that have lead to domestic terrorism in this country. United States is a country where you would find people belonging to different cultures, different religions, different racial groups and they all have different political ...