Essays on Dictators

Introduction

No country is expected to exist without the help of another country. Hence, countries usually exchange foreign aids in order to help each other meet their respective challenges. At present, developing countries rely greatly on foreign aids provided by richer countries. One of such developing countries is China. Due to the dynamics of war and politics in China for the past few decades, particularly during and immediately after the Second World War and the Cold War, it is an interesting subject for understanding the distribution of foreign aid during times of war and peace. After, analyzing the distribution of ...

US Foreign Policy and Latin America During the Cold War

The Alliance for progress was a multi billion dollar aid program that was devised by the Kennedy administration to foster economic relations with Latin America and also thwart the growth of communism in the region in the aftermath of the cold war. The Alliance for Progress was a result of the cold war between the USSR and the US, the Cuban revolution and the US fear that communism could take root in a region that was poor, unstable and economically underdeveloped. Latin America was largely colonized by the Europeans and the relation between the US and the continent was ...

Since 1945 the United States has been involved in more overseas conflicts then anytime since the first settlers arrived in the 1600’s. This paper will look at how and why the United States went from staying out of world affairs to being in the middle of all the major conflicts of the twentieth and twenty- first centuries. Since the Revolutionary War, America had elected to remain isolated from overseas conflicts. This was mostly because Americans wanted to see themselves as better than the Europeans (Independence Hall Association in Philadelphia). There was also the issue of choosing sides in ...

The science-fiction authors are interested in writing about the robots which develop the ability to behave or think like the human being. Isaac Asimov and Brian Aldiss are two of these authors. These authors exaggerate the influence of the robotic contribution to the human life. Even, they try to develop the idea of replacing humans with the robots as relatives more than being a part of productions humans need. I will compare and contrast the two authors’ stories in this paper. The main subject I will discuss is the idea of robots can play an essential role in human ...

Human Geographical Factors and Social Systems

Human Geography is defined as the activities of human beings and its impact on the society and the earth in general. Human geography is a key indicator and pointer that can and has been used to explain trends in societies and communities. According to Jared Diamond, societies and how they rise and collapse can be linked to a number of human geographic factors which influences the way societies are ran and can be analyzed. This is mainly due to the fact that society is based on livelihood and a reliance on the environment. Thus, human geography identifies these collective ...

Question I

Gandhi, John Locke, and Karl Marx were all political philosophers, and their roles and opinions have forever influenced the world politics.

John Locke ideas and thoughts have been used a lot to shape the politics of various governments like the United States and the United Kingdom. In most occasions in his writing, Locke has avoided justifying the use of violence as a political tool; there are several incident as where he has indicated thy importance to war. War in the viewpoint of Locke is a state of destruction and enmity which has been caused by pre-meditated attempts by one ...

Abstract

This paper describes in detail the explanation about mass murders, the definition of mass murders and the reasons why mass murders are committed. The paper also discusses why people are prone to mass murders and what major causes that trigger mass killing. It describes in detail the relationship between ethnic, religious, social and political reasons that relate with mass murders and why people are forced into killing others. There are also references in the paper taken from mass murders of the past, exemplifying the major mass murderers penned down in history, and it also mentions the recent trends in ...

The costly and bloody World War I left nations around the world in 1930 including those in Asia and Europe beginning to worry about their true positions on the world map. The systems that had been set were inefficient; the League of the world and World courts could not ease tensions and wars among nations. The global economy was yet to stabilize and nations were deep into debts. In Asia, particularly, the Japanese started to invade territories of the neighboring China violating international relations and understanding (Stewart 2). This triggered new fears on the increasing military actions to aggravate ...

The African continent has become a place where advanced nations have resorted to for scramble for its natural wealth. Africa is is rich in in minerals and natural resources attractive to outside forces. The fact that many African continents are still recovering from slavery makes it even more vulnerable to outside forces who come to invest in the countries to get a share of the resources. Africa has been riddled by dictators and western powers have taken advantage of this fact reducing the continent to a beggarly state. With the high rate on malnutrition, disease and death there has been increase in ...

Business Ethics and Corporate Governance

Business Ethics and Corporate Governance

The Board of Directors of the company is one of the two organs of the company that is charged with running of the affairs of the company. The other organ is the General Meeting. This paper will constrict its discussion to the roles played by the Board members. Towards the end of the discussion, the paper will advance the argument that the roles played by the board members of the company are likely have changed dramatically due to the enactment of the Public Company Accounting Reform and Investor Protection Act of 2002. The paper ...

The sky was melting, as the fire grew warmer;

I saw them dancing - with wooden shields and no armor -

In the place that I’d thought was another corner

Of the Third World peace and dictators’ safe harbor. Their numbers were humble, as they asked for assistance In spreading the word of a rising resistance. The two decade world of cold-warless existence, Reacted with merely staying at distance. The third-party threats to the tyrants were glowing With fanciful phrases of deepest concerns; Whilst priests kept on chanting and widows were mourning, The quick was saving the flesh from the thorn. Their knees did not tremble, as they got ...

Members of missionary orders spearheaded the churches’ evangelization of Native Americans in the 16th century. Who were these missionaries? Whose side were they on European or the American original peoples and why? Elaborate and provide examples. In the 16th century, there were a number of missionaries who spearheaded the churches’ evangelization of Native Americans. The time of the age of exploration, the Europeans realized that there are many people with different cultures especially in America. This is what caused missionaries to be sent in order to spread Christianity. Most the missionaries were sent by some of the countries that ...

Totalitarian regimes appeared on European scene immediately after World War I, and indeed all of them had common characteristics despite the ideological separation. In order to understand the origins of totalitarian governments, it is important to trace back to prerequisites that led to the appearance of this phenomenon. Before the 19th century European states were monarchies, which were ruled by “divine” kings. These monarchies then were overthrown by a growing revolutionary trend, starting from French Revolution. Newly formed “democratic” governments pursued and were guided by nationalistic ideals. The Imperialistic ambitions of Britain, Spain and France affected newly unified Italy and ...

Introduction

Rome formed a model government that was imitated by several states at the time. Similarly, Aristotle praised the Carthaginian government as one of the best governments of antiquity. This paper compares the two forms of governments and determines that there were significant differences.

The executive

The Roman government was a republic headed by the consul. Two consuls held the highest position in the republic and acted as rulers. The senate was composed of patricians and was responsible for electing the two consuls. The lower class of plebeians had the power to elect their representatives called tribunes. The tribunes had the power to veto ...

Middle East has been on the boil in the recent past due to the rise of ISIS brand of Islamic fundamentalism and the demand for democracy and human rights by people in many Arab countries. The role of America in shaping the Middle East policy has been profound since the decline of UK as the world’s superpower. Being one of the major suppliers of oil and gas to America, Middle East is a place of strategic importance for USA and other western countries. American indirectly controls the Middle East politics by maintaining close ties with the local regimes and ...

Censorship would be defined as the accepted means of controlling information that would have otherwise been circulated to the general public. It was practiced under the explanation that there were fundamental institutions that needed filtered information. Protection of information that were deemed to be unfit for consumption by all and sundry were always filtered under the pretense of morality. It was achieved by examining information either in newspapers, audio systems, audio visual machines, films and even movies. Those ideas found in media to be offensive were either altered of deleted altogether so that the ugly parts did not reach ...

Forewords

South Korea is an East Asian nation located in the southern part of the Korea Peninsula. Prior to 1948, the South and North Korea were one nation under different occupying forces. The forces of the United States occupied the south while the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) occupied the north. However, in 1948 after the World War II, the nation of South Korea was established, and the two parts were partitioned. This partition caused unbalanced economic units. This was because North Korea controlled majority of the natural resources and heavy industries which were created during the time in ...

In the digital disconnect, McChesney describes the digital age in the contemporary society in two in the perception of the two kinds of people. He terms those who calls for digital technologies to advance global democracy and nurture innovations worldwide as celebrants. Contrary to the celebrants are the skeptics who worry about the changes that are brought about by the technology. The skeptic’s argument is that the technology is recreating to think in a particular way hindering their creativity or lowering the level of their intelligence. According to him, the two outlooks are flawed since they both do not ...

Religion of Rome is represented by several forms and has evolved through several stages. Initially, the Romans were pagans worshiped mainly Greek and to a lesser extent the Etruscan gods. Later mythological period was replaced by the pagan cults. Finally, the end of the evolution of religious beliefs in the ancient Rome was marked by the arise of Christianity, mainly by political reasons. This religion, in the IV century, after the division of the Roman Empire into the Eastern and the Western, has taken concrete shape of Catholicism with its unique philosophy and religious views. Ancient religious ideas of ...

Sophocles’ plays and Elie Wiesel's holocaust are two works that are closely correlated. Sophocles is one of the ancient Greek tragedians whose play has endured the aspect of time. Born in around 496 BC, and a luminary force in Classical Athenian culture, his plays have ostensibly attracted lots of attention since most of them portrayed the real things that were actually going on in the society during those times. The themes that Sophocles wrote about are still relevant even in the contemporary world. Elie Wiesel, born in 1928, was a human activist who tried so much to reconcile his personal humiliation ...

Part 1. What is the something else that DeSoto argues is necessary for a capitalist economy to produce wealth? Choose and explain one example or counter example used by DeSoto to make his case. Capitalism refers to an economic system that is based on the functionality of free market; open competition; profit maximization motive and the means of production are owned and produced by the private sector or by cooperatives that limit the government or state control of resources. In this social system, the capitalist class own most of the properties and are paid to produce the goods and ...

Theorists have put down arguments on the evolution of Europe. The discourse has often been that absent leaders that characterized the European political landscape, Europe would not have prospered as it has. In addition, it has been argued that communism and fascism indeed played a pivotal role towards the evolution of the modern states in Europe. It is imperative to appreciate that modern Europe remains purely capitalist with a few nations keen to introduce welfare systems intended to contain the harsh vagaries of capitalism. However, it is should be noted that the current practice is far from what Europe could have ...

Today, Social media marketing is taking the front seat as far as the practice of marketing is concerned. Social media marketing is taken as the process of gaining web traffic and attention by means of social sites. Social media marketing campaigns concentrate on creating content that will draw the attention of readers who in turn share the information with friends and acquaintances (Zarrella). The corporate message stretches from a user to another and appear more convincing coming from a trusted acquaintance as opposed to when it comes directly from the company. This form of advertising is referred to as word of ...

- ABSTRACT. According to Deborah Pegues, confrontation is a normal aspect of life and cannot be avoided, even though many Christians certainly prefer to do so. They believe in unity and harmony, turning the other cheek and following Paul’s admonition “as much as depends on you, live peaceably with all men.” Yet all people experience problems and conflicts in life, especially those who have been treated unjustly or believe they have been. Pegues is quick to emphasize that confrontation should never be confused with revenge or retaliation, which are evils and forbidden to Christians. Even David refused to ...

In Charlie Chaplin’s 1940 comedy The Great Dictator, Chaplin’s first silent film, the renowned comedian and silent-film joymaker takes one of his biggest risks – making a film about Adolf Hitler, who at the time of the film’s release was one of the most hated and tyrannical figures alive. More than just the typical slapstick comedy, The Great Dictator sees Chaplin taking many different chances – unlike his previous film, Modern Times, this film would fully embrace the sound era, with nearly the entire film being filled with dialogue and fully-verbose characters. Even riskier than that, however, is the ...

In the field of political science, there are many forms of governments formed with specific characteristics differentiating each type from the other. The most common types are democratic governments, anarchy governments and the dictatorial governments. Of all these governments, there is a uniform characteristic that the mode of governance is what dictates the traits of the leader (James, 2010).

Thesis statement

Having scantly looked at the common forms of governance, I would like to deal more closely with dictatorship. This is due to the increasing number of dictators in the world. Also, provided is a summarized analytical outline of the metamorphosis of dictatorship ...

Q.1 The Arab springs uprising has toppled the governments of long serving dictators in the world. The uprising started in Tunisia, Egypt, and Libya, the three nations of which are located in Africa that saw dictators such as Ben Ali and Muammar Gaddafi overthrown by the people through protests and war. The Syrian government is facing the same problem where people are trying to remove the government of Bashar Al-Assad from power (Gelvin 16). The Syrian crisis has lasted from 2011 to date without any amicable solution being arrived at between the government and the warring sides. The modern ...

In the past, war rules were followed. However, many soldiers in the current period ignore these rules. Governments have been seen to ignore the actions of these soldiers. According to the United Nations, governments should punish any soldier who is found to break war laws. This can serve as a good example to other soldiers to ensure that these laws are followed. The issue of whether war laws should be obeyed or not is controversial in that some people do not support it. There are various reasons that make people to oppose obedience to war laws. People belief that ...

In recent news, the Middle East has been reported to have been under conflict as many protests and violence had been recorded against the leaders of their governments. Many of the protests concentrated on pushing for political, social, and economic reform while others wished for their governments to be changed entirely to introduce democracy and an open government. It is notable that the trend of protest and calls for reform had emerged after the successful revolution in Egypt wherein the Egyptian public protested against the continuous ruling of 29 year reigning President Hosni Mubarak. Arguably seen as the beginning ...

Introduction

Fashion is an integral part of the social life of an average youth in the world today. Perhaps the most mysterious thing about fashion is the fact that various designers come up with extremely similar design at a time (Wolfendale & Kennett 2011). It may not be easy to understand what inspires the fact that the designers, who are in most cases worlds apart get to know what time to design which style. However, somehow, they all move in response to the market forces. Fashion, which has been described variously as a trendy distinction as far as clothing is concerned, is a complicated ...

The United States of America is a huge superpower that has a wide variety of interests around the world and has intervened in many countries since World War II. It claims to represent freedom, human rights and democracy but in reality its main concerns are political, economic and military power. When it invades countries or overthrows governments in Africa, the Middle East, Asia and Latin America, its main goal is to control the labor, raw materials and natural resources of those areas. Of course, it also has a very powerful media and propaganda machine that diverts people’s attention, deceives and misleads ...

The United States of America is a huge superpower that has a wide variety of interests around the world and has intervened in many countries since World War II. It claims to represent freedom, human rights and democracy but in reality its main concerns are political, economic and military power. When it invades countries or overthrows governments in Africa, the Middle East, Asia and Latin America, its main goal is to control the labor, raw materials and natural resources of those areas. Of course, it also has a very powerful media and propaganda machine that diverts people’s attention, deceives and misleads ...

As a supporter of the 1959 Cuban Revolution, my most important concern is to build and more egalitarian and socially just society, with education, land, healthcare and work for all, and a regard the United States as the greatest threat by far to our revolutionary republic. I am all too well aware that Cuba was treated as a colony or a banana republic after the war of 1898, just as Jose Marti always warned. North American corporations controlled most of the economy and continued our dependency on sugar exports that we inherited from the colonial period, while gangsters and Mafia types were in ...

Dictatorship is when the government takes control of the entire country including the citizens’ lifestyles, rights and freedoms. This implies that in a totalitarian government like the one established by Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini and Joseph Stalin, political opponents were not allowed to influence any activities in their own countries. This paper is therefore intended to bring out the similarities and differences of the above three dictators in terms of their ideology, usage of propaganda and methods that they used to improve their countries’ economies (Weber, 107). Though they were dictators the three had got the same aim of making ...

Summary of Acemoglu’s video

In this video, economist Daron Acemoglu explains why nations fail economically. He singles out “extractive” political institutions as the biggest impediment to a nation’s economic prosperity. Acemoglu defines “extractive” political institutions as those that place power in the hands of a few individuals. This scenario features unfair regulations and high market-entry barriers. These factors conjure to enrich a clique in the society, while inhibiting economic progress for the majority of the people (Acemoglu). He contrasts this with governments that have expanded democratic space by protecting property rights. Nations with such political institutions encourage entrepreneurship from their citizenry as well as attract ...

Fritz Haber, born in 1868, was a world-renowned German chemist whose multifaceted works in the field of chemistry earned him a Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1918. His most notable work involves the chemical process of synthesizing ammonia, which is used as one of the core ingredients in fertilizers and explosives (Stoltzenberg 84). The entire food industry is arguably dependent on his ingenious method, as most of the food is produced using fertilizers and other elemental components produced using his premier method. Perhaps the most unsettling role he played as one of the world’s most notable genius chemists was in ...

Terrorism is an abstract noun. Having a war on terrorism is by its own definition illogical and irrational. This is when dealing with the semantics of the word. The word terrorism has shifted in meaning many times over the century. It has come to mean many things to many people. While social sciences studies the varieties, methods, causes and history of terrorism. Philosophy deals with two fundamental interrelated questions. What is terrorism and can terrorism be ethically justified. Since 9/11 there has not been a single individual who has not been affected in one way or another by this phenomenon. This ...

Robyn Wright has been considered by some as one of the best journalists covering the Arab world; the opinion is based on her several decades of writing about the region. Kakutani (2011) claims Wright has an intimate knowledge of the region and has the experience to write knowledgably on the subject (para. 5). Wright has traveled throughout the regions of the world where the Islam religion is the most popularly worshipped religion. From 1973 until now she has traveled to most of the fifty seven nations to report on explosive events which she describes as “wars, military coups, revolutions, ...

Introduction

World War II was the most destructive period in our history, with Adolf Hitler and Germany at the center of it. It was fought with “unparalleled ferocity using weapons of previously unseen destructiveness in unsurpassed numbers” (Marshall Cavendish Corporation 12), and finally culminated in the atomic bomb being used. The fighting lasted longer than it did in World War I and had a truly global scope, with the fighting involving millions of troops. This war resulted in the deaths of about 56 million people from 1939 to 1945, with 60% of them being civilians (Marshall Cavendish Corporation 12). Although ...

In his book-length essay The Rebel famous French author and philosopher Albert Camus mainly deals with one of the most characteristic and disturbing incongruities of the 20th century which, as we are all well aware of, became even more distinct in the period after Camus’s death; namely, the strange combination of the civil rights movements rising across the world and, simultaneously, the emergence of a great number of totalitarian regimes performing unspeakable atrocities in the name of humanism, greater good, better future for the entire mankind and so on. According to him, it doesn’t mean that the ...

Arguably, most of the factors affecting human beings are controlled by politics. In the 21st century, politics and politicians are perceived to be a widespread force in the contemporary society. Certainly, those individuals who are in charge of the government are the successful candidates of politics. Therefore, they should not rather run the state on their own, but act on behalf of the public. Government of a nation is tremendously valuable to be left under few people in society. Nations should always embrace democracy; this is because it makes all people be obligated to participate in the public domain, as well ...

Introduction – wealth as a tool to create prosperity

Wealth is something which we perhaps take for granted but it does not come completely without effort and there is a lot of hard work involved in achieveing a wealthy status. Occasionally luck is also involved but all the great millionaires and shrewd businessman have worked hard to achieve their status. In his excellent thesis ‘The Gospel of Wealth’, philanthropist and steel amgnate Andrew Carnegie argues that it is crucial for those to have money to distribute it equally amongst those who do not have it as only through an equitable balance can wealth be made to work well and justly.

The creation of wealth

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The movement of existentialism and the revival of religion were carried out following the collapse of civil values in the twentieth century in several ways. Different philosophers came up with different views towards extentialism. The aspect of extentialism became associated with the cultural movement. Formerly, people used to perceive extentialism as a term used to describe existence. However, following the postwar era, there was extensive dissemination of the philosophical and literary postwar output. This lead to exchange of ideas among the philosophers and the academic elites. As a result, there was development of new theories that could justify the aspect of ...

Introduction

The US government foreign policy is the policy for which the United States interacts with foreign nations and sets standards for interaction for its organizations, corporations and individual citizens. Government foreign policies are under the office of foreign secretary who also acts as the secretary of state. The secretary is charged with sate-state diplomacy and development of strategies to safeguard the US policies abroad.

The United States of America foreign policy is claimed to aim at creating a more secure, democratic, and prosperous world for the benefit of the American people and the international community (Michael, & Stokes 106). The ...

Abstract International Criminal Court commonly referred as the ICC is a permanent tribunal that prosecutes people for crimes against humanity, war crimes and the crimes of aggression (although though currently it does not have powers to prosecute or exercise any jurisdiction over crimes of aggression.) Since 1945, the courts creation has been constituted by the most significant international law reform. The International Criminal Court was found by the Rome Statute and it is therefore mandated to prosecute crimes that were committed after that date. This paper observes and explains and critiques the benefits of the International Criminal Court. ...