Essays on Dictatorship

The effects of the Italian renaissance on Europe can be subcategorized into three broad classifications as cultural, political, and economic influences. On the economic perspective, the Italian renaissance influenced the banking practices since the explosion of banking in Florence at the commencement of the 12th century, which dominantly extended into the next 200 years of its eruption. In the ‘catasto’ of 1427, the Florentines introduced the forerunner of the modern tax system (Klaus, 1997). Additionally, the renaissance Italy was an urban capitalist society where wealth determined social status. Most of the European cities modeled their economies based on 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 ...

In 1892, Francisco Franco was born in El Ferrol Spain. After serving in different positions in the government, he rose to power and became a dictator in Spain from 1939 to 1975 (De Madariaga 17). In his manipulation to form the second Republic, Franco took advantage of the situation of realism in the build up towards the World War II. In many ways, Franco’s rise to power was slow and planned culminating in the aftermath of the 1931 municipal elections. During the years towards the World War II, the political struggle between nations presented a perfect chance to ...

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, ...

History

Napoleon was a betrayer of the revolution who was overcame by personal ambition that he forgot the main principle of the revolution which was liberty and equality. The French revolution began in 1789 when the peasants felt irritated and betrayed and decided to take action against the oppressive government. After ten years of war, Napoleon Bonaparte began his liberation for France however, his liberation turned to be a dictatorial government which he aimed to rule over Europe. The French revolution was meant to bring equality to the people. However its turn to dictatorship by one general napoleon Bonaparte was ...

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 ...

- Acknowledgements This paper acknowledges the efforts made by all the participants who took part in the research, compiling and eventual write-up of the final draft. My research assistant, the instructor and all other classmates had a role to play in this report. Without them, it would not have been finalized in time. - Introduction This paper will discuss three types of democracies in relation to their applicability to a low income country. A low income country is characterized by poor economic development, infringement of workers’ rights and extreme levels of poverty. The first democracy that the paper will ...

The Dictator, directed by Larry Charles, is British film released in the year 2012, and stars Sacha Baron Cohen, as General Aladeen. Sacha Cohen also doubles up as a co-writer of the movie script. Generally, the movie focuses on Admiral General Aladeen - the President of the Northeastern Africa Republic of Wadiya. As the title of the movie suggests, the president is a despot ruling the country with an iron fist. Away from the movie plot, one of the most notable things in the movie is the choice of music; approximately thirteen different songs are played in the film. ...

I Political allegory and satire in Orwell’s books “Animal Farm” and “1984”II Plot of the books III Animal Farm as a fairy tale; IV A reassessment of Animal farm and 1984; V Scholars’ arguments on symbolism and understanding of totalitarian state in the 21st centuryVI. Conclusion Often fiction books become a source for historical and political debates. Usually it is because of the allegories used by the writers to point to the real prototypes of their plots. The question drawn for a discussion in this essay is about the relevance of Orwell’s allegories on the Soviet ...

Introduction

Leadership is a core element to the development of a nation or an organization. It entails the principles that are necessary for the wellbeing of a society. There are various forms of leadership in organizations as well as nations. Among them is aristocratic form of leadership. It is a form of leadership where an individual controls all the decisions with minimal input from the members of the group. Autocratic leaders make choices on the basis of the personal opinions and judgments. Autocratic leaders are irrelevant when their excessive use of power over the group members would mean the failure ...

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 ...

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Introduction Arrow's theorem (also known as "Arrow's paradox") is a theorem about the impossibility of a " collective choice ". Formulated by the American economist Kenneth Arrow in 1951. The meaning of this theorem is that in the ordinal approach, there is no method of combining individual preferences for three or more alternatives that would satisfy some quite fair conditions and would always give a logically consistent result. Ordinal approach is based on the fact that the preferences of the individual with respect to the choice of the proposed alternatives can not be ...

Mexico has an elongated history of revolutions and one of them was the Mexican revolution that was started against the ongoing dictator rule of the in the year 1910. The people of Mexico were very fed up with the rule of President Porfino Diaz and Francisco I. Madero was the man who spearheaded this revolution against the dictator president. Francisco was also jailed by the president Diaz but it did not affect his struggle against the dictator president. The movement got the support from almost all the sections of the society and turned into one of the most memorable ...

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 ...

Nineteen Eighty-Four is a dystopian novel written by George Orwell in 1928 and printed in 1949. The story takes place in Oceania and the main character is Winston. The book presents the negative side of the Utopian society which was controlled and ruled by rigid totalitarianism. This book seemingly gives the reader an idea of what will be happening in the years to come as the world will be under a totalitarian form of government. The book carries a warning to the world on totalitarianism. George Orwell creates a government in his novel ruled by one dictator, Big Brother. ...

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 ...

History

Introduction Adolf Hitler 1889-1945 was the leader of the Nazi party in Germany and the world’s famous dictator of all times. Born of Alois Hitler and Klara on April the 20th 1889 in Braunau am Inn in Austria, he was known by the name Idi in his childhood and youthful days. Hitler was lazy and performed poorly in school. At the age of six, he had started creating tense and strict atmosphere at home. When his father died when he, Hitler, was 13 years, he dropped out of school at age 15. Left with his mother, she could ...

Hitler was smart, charismatic and evil. Those are deadly virtues for a man seeking a position for dictator. He used these skills to his advantage. He not only was smart, but he had the ability to create art. His paintings were rejected, and this ranged him. He did not like being rejected. Hitler showed all the signs of the classic narracistic traits behavior. He could pretend to care for others but in reality he did not give a care for them. The faking empathy and loving he showed inspired his loyalty Nazis to follow him to the end of ...

In today’s world, the Internet pervades every aspect of life, from smartphones to streaming video. Every single human need for information or entertainment can be accessed with the push of a button, which creates a culture of immediacy that some people believe threatens societal development. However, it can be said that the Internet provides a bastion of information and communication that is unprecedented at any other point in history. This is found most clearly in the advent of social networking sites, such as Facebook and Twitter - these are hubs of information and modes of communication between millions ...

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, ...

Totalitarianism and dictatorship has been a large part of the Middle East for a long time; due to lack of organization by the people who wish for greater freedom in their own country, it was nearly impossible to foment a successful revolution that would facilitate change. However, in the case of Egypt in 2011, an increase in resolve, as well as greater connectivity due to the Internet and social media, allowed the Egyptian people to rise up against their president and demand he be removed from power. The Arab Spring, and the Egyptian Revolution in particular, was the product ...

Introduction:

Politics and leadership have always been important parts of the world’s historical makeup and these will definitely never go away. Obviously one has to keep in mind that times change and the sort of leadership that was right and correct for the 19th century is probably anathema today. In his seminal book, Carnes Lord attempts to examine various world leaders who have made a name for themselves, be it as autocrats, as visionaries or as plain and simple democratic leaders. He also inserts an interesting but heavy dose on the politics of the renowned Florentine, Machiavelli whose ‘ ...

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After the military junta lost power in the late 1980’s, Argentina went through a burgeoning period where it expanded its economy in the middle of the 1990’s and attracted several investors who poured money into the country at highly favourable interest rates which were clearly unsustainable in the long run. This eventually led to a collapse of the banking system and there eventually was a huge run on the banks which resulted in several thousands of investors losing their money and ending up with nothing. Politically the country was also affected as the instability created by the ...

Abstract

Elements of manipulation are strategic/sophisticated voting, and agenda setting. Strategic voting results into the Gibbard-Satterthwaite theorem (Gibbard) which is about a specific kind of decision mechanism for social choice functions--a function that specifies for each combination for possible preference orderings. The theorem states that “for any non- dictatorial and non-imposed social choice function, there is vulnerability to manipulation.” This means that expressing one’s true preferences is not a dominant strategy always; rather, there are preference profiles where at least one of the individuals has an incentive not to express his/her ‘true’ preferences. Also, ...

Introduction

Haiti is a western hemisphere country in the Caribbean, which is located on the western side of the Hispaniola Island. The republic of Haiti gained its independence from the French in 1804. However with all the natural resources endowment and a huge labor base, Haiti is the poorest country in the region with the most unstable government. On 12th January 2010, Haiti was hit by a massive earthquake of a magnitude of 7.0. The earthquake’s death toll was more than 250,000. Most of the residential and commercial buildings were damaged severely or destroyed. The infrastructure was crippled, ...

Introduction - The figure of Fidel Castro

Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz is the revolutionary political figure, bringing Cuba to the long-lasting period of communism. The controversy of this figure on the global political arena is as obvious as the role and status of the island over the last thirty years. Born in 1926, the child was only officially recognized by the father by the age of 15. As a result, Fidel´s name was changed from Ruz to Castro. Castro spent his life on the island of Cuba, it is remarkable, though, and that Fidel grew up in wealthy family and was educated in a private ...

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 ...

Organized crime is fully represented by the protection rackets. War making and state making uses protection rackets as a typical example of organized crime. Organized crime is influenced by the expanding impact or role played by the powerful countries in the supplying of military organizations and arms to the third world countries. The government offers both internal and external protection to its citizens and charges a price for the service hence qualifying it as racketeering. The power holders extract resources that are relevant in the process of war making and state making from the population to which he or ...

Democracy is a type of governance that originated in ancient Athens in the sixth century. This word has a number of definitions one of them being a government in which all of the people in that society enjoy an equal amount of power politically. This government in modern society is exercised through the right citizens have to vote for their leader of choice. This, however, does not necessarily mean that there was no form of democracy anywhere else in the world apart from ancient Greece. In fact, research has proven that there existed democratic governance in one form or ...

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 ...

For a long time, it has been debated whether Islam and democracy can be workable in a region like the Middle East where politics of extremism is dominant. Many scholars think that reconciling Islam and democracy is not impossible; in fact, Islamic values seem to coincide with democracy. It is with the interpretation of Islamists that makes reconciling democracy and Islam difficult. The problem of reconciliation lies in the political and social structure of the Middle East. It is not in Islam itself as a religion.

Undemocratic Middle East

There are several reasons why many scholars claim that democracy in the Middle ...

Introduction

Leadership attributes refer to innate qualities of a leader that he brings into an organization as a leader. Leadership skills, on the other hand, are the competencies that are required in order to achieve quality performance. Attributes include social responsibility, perseverance, judgment, sensitivity, stress tolerance, self-motivation, ability to motivate others, integrity, self-confidence, maturity, and decisive.

Social responsibility is one of the attributes whereby the leader appreciates his role with respect. Perseverance is the ability to stick to responsibility despites its difficulties, without giving up. Judgment is where a leader makes decisions, based on available information. In this case, he ...

Anastasio Garcia Samoza clinched the Nicaragua presidency in the year 1936. This happened after winning the hotly contested elections under the Liberal Party which was conducted after the resignation of president Sacasa earlier in the same year (Diederich, B., 2004). Hence, he established a Somoza dynasty that consecutively ruled for 43 years. Meaning, when Anastasio was assassinated in 1956, he was succeeded by his son, Luis who passed the throne to his brother, Anastasio upon his death in 1967. ...

Slobodan Milošević has been a president of Serbia for seven years, and during this time Serbia started a war with Bosnia and Croatia, and, as a result, was internationally isolated. Finally, in 2000, when the unemployment rate reached 50%, the opposition took active actions to overthrow the regime of Slobodan Milošević (“Serbians Overthrow Milosevic”). The overthrow of Slobodan Milošević is known as a Bulldozer Revolution, and hundreds of thousands of Serbians participated in it. The main parties of the Revolution were the Democratic Opposition of Serbia that included members of 18 Serbian democratic parties and a ...

Barth, Emmy. An Embassy Besieged: The Story of the Christian Community in Nazi Germany. Eugene, Or: Cascade Books, 2010. Print. This book elaborates the efforts of Adolf Hitler and its political system while trying to eliminate Christianity in Germany. The book uses relevant sources of information making it reliable for the study of the history of Germany in relation to the dictatorship of Hitler against Christianity. This is of the essence in ensuring that the historians have relevant facts pertaining to the acts of dictatorship perpetrated by Hitler. The author of this book is an experienced lecturer of political ...

Introduction

The Internet is known for its vast access to information. However, not all kinds of information are suitable for viewing and reading by all kinds of audiences. Content containing such information tend to offend the beliefs and disturb the impressions of users. Thus, it has become a practice by website owners and web administrators alike to conceal specific kinds of information, explained or unexplained, in a move currently known as censorship. Censorship, however, is not a viable means of preventing websites from offending and disturbing users, as such could result to the misrepresentation of information that can be deceiving ...

A person’s political philosophy pertains to their ideologies regarding politics as a science; meaning of justice; execution of liberties; ownership of property in the society, articulation of human rights; application of the law along with measures of enforcement. In some cultures political philosophy even has a strong impact on a person’s political science interpretations. As such, the exploration of my political philosophy will be addressed accordingly as it relates to the aforementioned subject areas or branch of disciplines. At first a world view of these interwoven political dichotomies will be presented followed by my personal interpretations of ...

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 ...

Introduction

Libya is considered one of the most underperforming among the Arab nations with a significant reservoir of oil. Prior to 2011, the country was ruled by a dictator, and this led to scant attention being paid to the country’s infrastructure. The country also faced significant economic sanctions from 1991 till 2006, for supporting terrorism. Though things began to improve after 2006, the situation in the country remained poor with the result that the aviation sector failed to develop, in spite of the size of the country. Even private airlines had been started in the country but the uprising ...

The three major types or forms of government include the:

Monarchial type of government; Monarchical governments consist of the rule by a king or queen. In other monarchies, the king is the emperor. Here, the governed are under the laws of the royal families, and there is some dictatorship in some cases. There are little chances given to the commoners to give their views on laws of the land by those in power.

Democratic form of government

In this form, there is a feeling that everyone takes part in the process of moving the government forward. People have a certain freedom, and it is simply a government of the people by the people.

Aristocratic or dictatorship form of government

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States governments are through legislations, responsible for various individuals’ rights and freedoms. Over the years, individual liberty has been a topic of discussion among many state governments around the globe. Individual liberty is described as the freedom of citizens of a particular state to conduct various activities without interference from the government. The state government, usually, has less or no power over the individuals’ conduct and behavior. Individuals under democratic governments, usually, have and enjoy varied social, political, and economic liberties in their undertakings. By contrast, some state governments have a complete control over individual liberties. The concept of ...

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Arabic Spring with Special Focus on Egypt Arab Spring started in December 2010 and engulfed the entire Arab peninsula in very short span of time. It overthrew the long established monarchies and dictatorship through public protests and demonstrations ably helped by the social media. The main actors in the Arab spring have been the Arab youth and social media and both in coordination fought against the corruption and poverty prevailing in Arab society (Lauri 2). Among many other Arab countries, Egypt has been one country where protestors achieved their goal of overthrowing Hosni Mubarak in a record short time ...

The Cold War, started in the year 1947 up until 1991. It is very well documented in books, documentaries, movies and in many other forms. It was sustained military and political tension between the United States and the Soviet Union. It began after the two countries formed an alliance that eventually defeated the Nazi Germany in the Second World War. They were the only two major superpowers, with great political and economic differences. George Orwell an English writer, was the person responsible for coining the name ‘Cold War’. Cold War was basically a situation where by the two countries, ...

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 ...

The American war on Iraq has been one of the most controversial topics. It has been difficult to lay decisions based on this war in a blatant manner. While there are people vouching for the war, another group seems to think that the war is unfounded. This has led to upheavals by civic groups against this war. Consequently, President Bush of the United States of America has always been forced to explain his stand regarding the war. Whether or not the reasons given for this war are satisfactory remains an individual decision. Decisions always have consequences, and this statement ...

In The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (2010), Naomi Klein found numerous examples of how the United States imposed a system of free trade, free markets and laissez faire capitalism on the rest of the world over the past forty years, through manufacturing crises to impose ‘shock treatments’ and structural adjustments on Asia, Africa, the Middle East, Latin America and Eastern Europe, or simply taking proper advantage of a crisis that was already underway. She calls the many “orchestrated raids on the public sphere in the wake of catastrophic events, combined with the treatment of disasters as ...

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Qstn 1: What Political factors explain Indonesia’s poor economic performance? What economic factors? Are these two related? Indonesia which is the fourth largest country in the world is arguably among the worst economies of the century. President Suharto’s three decade dictatorial regime could be held responsible for the struggling current economic status of the country. Despite his exit from power in 1997, the country has not been able to recover from the mess left by the past dictator. The countries currency has lost more than 70% of its value (Wahyuni & Ng 2012). In addition, most financial institutions ...

In every nation, democracy is one of the fundamental concepts that determine the operation and development of a country. As a matter of fact, democracy in the Middle East has been one of the contentious issues. The unfortunate facts in the Arab Spring states are that the region is characterized with virtually no experience with liberal democracy. The Middle East is associated with many negative governmental and organizational issues, that has seen them has been one of the most unstable countries in the world. The region is totally mired with sectarianism, tribalism, Islamic law, brutally imposed, secularism, monarchies, as ...

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, ...

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, ...

According to social theorist Karl Marx, revolution is "an unstoppable historical force growing out of class inequalities that are rooted in the ownership of the means of production" (Handelman, p. 221). In essence, the bourgeoisie, who are the ruling elite, controls through various means all the power and resources that are available to the detriment of the working class. This leaves the 'proletariat' unable to rise above their station or gain any agency in the government or nation to which they are dedicating their hard work and resources. Marx, in The German Ideology predicted that, in any such system ...

Belovezhskaya pushcha national park, Belarus

Critical analysis About Belarus Belarus is a European country located in the east side of Europe and shares its borders with Russia, Ukraine, Poland, Lithuania and Latvia. It is a landlocked country with a total land area of 207, 600 square kilometers. Minsk is its capital city but it has other major cities across its land area. The country’s major economic activities are in the agricultural and manufacturing sectors. 40% of the country’s land area is forested thus having a cool and favorable agricultural climate. Belarus took shape in the early 1940s after joining the Soviet Union. ...

Introduction

The transition of Rome to an empire was characterised by many battles and constant struggles. The civilization was majorly established around the dictatorship forms of governance as well as the big defensive holdings around the Mediterranean and European territories. The imperial Roman Republic was marred by civil wars which had weakened the governance system prior to the transition to a roman empire. Thucydides writes on the historical accounts of an Athenian general regarding the war that had been experienced about 2000 years ago and dwells on the aspects of human nature. As the foregoing shows, both the Rome’s ...

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, & ...

The movie, Valkyrie is one of the thriller movies that have attracted a wide perspective of audience. It has also attracted a wide perspective of criticism from various parts of the globe. This has been mainly as a result of the fact that its main plot portrays several incidences that occurred during Nazism in Germany, specifically during the reign of Hitler. One of the aspects of the movie that portrays Nazism in Germany is the use of Nazi sign or arm band among many military personnel and other elite group affiliated with Adolf Hitler. The Nazi sign or an ...

In the 18 - 19th centuries, slavery was a common practice, exercised by the world’s powers (Girard 36). Haiti represented a significant slave source for France, which colonized the island and imposed its rule by force as early as 1625, up until 1804, when Haiti gained its independence after a severe bloodshed revolution (Reinhardt 251). After defeating the French colonizers in what is called the most successful slave revolt of all times, Haiti was drastically blocked and boycotted from an economic perspective, having no other option than to make a settlement with France in 1825 (Schuller 149; Farmer ...

War in Iraq, is one of the controversial events in history of American wars. It takes two to tango, and this is the case of the war in Iraq. For a war to start there should be some driving forces or effects. The justification for the Iraq invasion remains quite unclear despite the prior consequences that came with the war. The invasion was suggested to have begun following the 9/11 attack of World Trade Center and Pentagon in 2001. Americans attacked Iraq in 2003 and toppled Saddam’s dictatorship, and seven years later the war came to end (Mahnken ...

Abstract

This research is about the reasons why there is continued survival of the North Korean Country despite the harsh domestic and International conditions that have affected it over the years. The paper highlights the various problems that the country has gone through over the years especially as a communist country. The paper then focuses on the different survival strategies that the country has relied on in an attempt to survive. First, the paper looks at the conventional military brinkmanship strategy. The paper then focuses on the use of diplomacy as used by North Korea as a survival strategy. Here ...

Introduction

“Animal Farm” was written by George Orwell. It is a satire and political literature. The original title of the novel is “Animal Farm: A Fairy Story” that proves it as a fable written with a purpose. However, the author did a wonderful attempt to present the political crisis and tyrannical government through a story of animals in a farm. It is a dystopian and allegorical novel. Orwell’s intention is to reflect Russian Revolution and reign of Stalin in Soviet Union. The novel is about the life of animals in a farm. They wanted to rebel and save themselves ...

Film Essay Assignment: “Four Days in September”

The film “Four Days in September” is a movie based on the book of Rio de Janiero journalist, Fernando Gabeira, “O Que E Isso, Companheiro?” It is about a group of young middle-class Brazilian revolutionaries who wanted to overthrow the brutal military dictatorship of Brazil in 1969. Gabeira joins this young terrorist group, known as the MR8. Their initial move is the robbery of a bank. Although the heist was a success, one of their members, Cesar was captured. Since they did not gain much media mileage from the robbery, the group decides to kidnap the United States Ambassador ...