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04 Jun 2012
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Reduce school violence in Brazil

Case study - 5 pages - Political science

The recent violence shown by an individual in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil has prompted the National Security Council to propose to the President of the United States of America, Mr. Barack Obama, in stepping in and helping the Brazilian government and President Dilma Rousseff. The acts of violence...

04 Jun 2012
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Chile and Paraguay: Qualitative Research

Case study - 8 pages - Political science

In the first paper, quantitative research was presented for two Latin American countries: Chile and Paraguay. The paper discussed various elements of each country's economic, social, and political development over a span of twenty years: 1989 through 2009. This paper, however, will expand on the...

04 Jun 2012
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Political, social, and economic histories of Chile and Paraguay

Case study - 12 pages - Political science

Development in Latin America has been a slow and steady process for many decades. Furthermore, many of the countries in Latin America have failed to become close to matching the United States in terms of political, social, and economic development, although it is very difficult to match the...

04 Jun 2012
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The United Nations and Libya

Case study - 9 pages - Political science

Violence used against Libya's citizens created a monumental concern for the United Nations organization—the country waged war on its own people. By “repress[ing] peaceful demonstrators and rejecting unequivocally the incitement to hostility against the civilian population,” the...

04 Jun 2012
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Urban Education

Case study - 11 pages - Political science

The lack of quality education for urban students has been a persistent problem in the United States for many years and the problem does not appear to be depleting. Students raised in urban communities seem to have a disadvantage, as opposed to those raised in suburban areas, from the start. Many...

28 May 2012
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When Mao died his only legacy was the political and economic devastation of China. Arguments in favor and against this proposition.

Case study - 4 pages - Political science

Revolutionary communist, philosopher and theorist, Mao made a significant impact of what is today in the People's Republic of China. In order to understand the complexity of Mao's regime, it is necessary to look at the context and period of history in which Communist China emerged as a nation....

25 May 2012
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Was the Vietnam War, in Michael Lind's phrase, a "necessary war"?

Case study - 12 pages - Political science

The Vietnam War was the lengthiest and probably one of the most polemical military conflicts in the history of the U.S. To analyze in more detail the most important issues of this armed conflict, this essay will include four parts. The first part will highlight the main events of the conflict...

22 May 2012
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Tools of colonial empire in action: Zimbabwe

Case study - 2 pages - Political science

Zimbabwe, the former Rhodesia, was colonized by the British in 1880, with the arrival of Cecil Rhodes's British South African Company. Since then, the colonial British empire exercised its influence on the country and its population in a number of ways. British colonialism made a significant...

21 May 2012
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Critically evaluate one attempt to avoid the Gettier counter examples

Case study - 3 pages - Political science

In this essay I shall discuss one attempt to avoid the Gettier counterexamples proposed by Nicholas Everitt and Alec Fisher and demonstrate that their efforts are unsuccessful (as they themselves acknowledge). However I will argue that their endeavor is still more productive than that of Robert...

15 May 2012
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Describe the merger of narcotics trafficking and terrorism, called narco-terrorism

Essay - 3 pages - Political science

For decades, government authorities all over the world have implemented a number of programmes and initiatives to tackle a number of social problems, including organised crime. During recent years, a link between these two significant threats seems to have emerged, and a number of social and...

28 Mar 2012
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Book review: Integrating Islam, political and religious challenges in contemporary France, J. Laurence and J. Vaisse

Book review - 5 pages - Political science

The book is divided in three parts : the first one raises the question of how it is to be Muslim in France. The second part comes to the history of muslims citizens' integration. Finally, the third part focuses on political issues linked with Islam. The authors start by reminding that Islam...

21 Mar 2012
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National welfare-states and Europeanization

Essay - 4 pages - Political science

Nowadays every major industrialized state has established some form of welfare state, although the precise design differs considerably amongst countries. However, the basic idea common to all forms is that the state redistributes some of the resources of the market economy in order to achieve...

20 Mar 2012
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The origins of Hezbollah

Essay - 10 pages - Political science

In this essay I will be focusing on the formation of Hezbollah, and will begin this exploration starting in 1943 until 1982. I would like to answer the question: Was Hezbollah created for Iranian interests? Iran's contemporary involvement in Hezbollah is sometimes referred to as interchangeable...

20 Jan 2012
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The declining status of native women after European contact

Case study - 8 pages - Political science

Contact between Europeans and Indians brought together two disparate systems of gender divisions. Prior to European contact, Native American women enjoyed greater levels of power and autonomy than their white counterparts. As European influence and culture spread, it predicated a decline in...

28 Sep 2011
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Biological Warfare: The ethical questions behind bio-terrorism

Thesis - 6 pages - Political science

Last year's Swine Flu panic made our complacency to chemical and biological threats readily apparent and very much like during the Anthrax attacks of 2001, confusion and apprehension spread quicker than most could have ever imagined. Health authorities were caught by surprise and the general...

14 Sep 2011
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Government undermines the Movement and Targets of the Black Panther Party

Thesis - 5 pages - Political science

The 1960s was a very active decade for the Civil Rights Movement. The Movement lost activists such as Martin Luther King and Malcolm X and President Kennedy was assassinated. The sixties was also a time of protests and riots. The civil rights movement repeatedly appealed to the federal government...

14 Sep 2011
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"I Have A Dream" Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.: Famous Speech Analysis

Thesis - 2 pages - Political science

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr's speech was delivered on August 28, 1963 in Washington, DC in front of the Lincoln Memorial. This speech was designed to reach out to millions of people, whether listening in the audience or wherever they could see/hear him talking. He was speaking to educate...

26 Aug 2011
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Welfare Contractualism: Beneficial or detrimental?

Essay - 3 pages - Political science

In a society that faces 'problems of un-employment, sluggish growth, and population ageing,' the main question that governments asks is how can we go about getting people to work? Stuart White, the author of Social Rights and the Social Contract, shares some insight on this matter and...

26 Aug 2011
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Describing Pierre Elliot Trudeau

Essay - 5 pages - Political science

Joseph Philippe Pierre Ives Elliotte Trudeau, who prefers to be called Pierre Elliott Trudeau without the final e, in order to emphasize his bilingualism and biculturalism, was born in Montreal, Quebec on October 18, 1919. Trudeau was born into a poor family that lived on a small farm in...

22 Aug 2011
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The Treatment of Jews in Morocco

Thesis - 4 pages - Political science

Jewish history in Morocco dates back as far as 70 CE under the rule of the Roman Empire. Just prior to World War II, the Jewish population in Morocco hit its peak of 225,000 people. Today, the Jewish population of Morocco does not even number 5,500. It strikes me as very interesting that the...

12 Jul 2011
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Bacon's Rebellion: Background, Opposing Forces and Significance

Thesis - 3 pages - Political science

By the time Nathaniel Bacon arrived in Virginia from England, the economic and political situation in the colony was already far from satisfactory. Hence, a precondition for the rebellion existed long before Bacon's appearance on Virginia political scene. Several factors contributed to growing...

29 Jun 2011
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American political culture

Essay - 2 pages - Political science

If “by vast majorities Americans believe that every citizen should have an equal chance to influence government policy and to hold public office,” then the protests occurring in congressional town hall meetings across the country are perfectly acceptable, and indeed, are to be...

28 Jun 2011
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Marx and Morality

Essay - 3 pages - Political science

Marx has often been accused of overlooking human nature and morality in his theories. Many people seem to have this belief that Marx has no ethics, that he rejected morality, and envisioned communism as being beyond both ethics and morality. Within the 'Communist Manifesto' and 'Das...

28 Jun 2011
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'Train to Pakistan', 'Cracking India', and 'The Inheritance of Loss'

Essay - 5 pages - Political science

Throughout “Train to Pakistan”, “Cracking India”, and “The Inheritance of Loss”, there are two narratives: we are shown the character's personal narrative, and the narrative of the nation. In each of these novels, we are shown at least one, if not many, relationship...

27 Jun 2011
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The superiority of the ideology of an activist scope

Essay - 3 pages - Political science

A “strong” quality is necessary for a healthy, competent, and prosperous state. For a state to be strong, it must perform its delineated functions well and a substantial range of responsibilities, which equates to an ideology of a deliberately extensive scope. Political experts...

27 Jun 2011
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Communitarianism: An overview

Essay - 4 pages - Political science

To the disbelief of many Americans, capitalism is not, in fact, the only successful system of economics in our world today. Though capitalism has effectively overridden the majority of other forms of economics, there still remain a number of communities that function off of subsistence...

27 Jun 2011
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The role of American Government: Protecting Civil Liberties

Thesis - 4 pages - Political science

This paper explores the idea that the American government's most important role is to protect civil liberties. Civil liberties are enjoyed every day by many citizens and include such freedoms as the right to bear arms, freedom of religion, and protection from cruel and unusual punishment. This...

27 Jun 2011
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The Realm of East Asia: Changes and the Future

Essay - 7 pages - Political science

The realm of East Asia consists of Japan, China, Taiwan, North Korea, South Korea, and Mongolia. This realm, although it has been around for thousands of years, has gone through many drastic changes in modern times. Rich in raw materials, people, and cultures, the East Asian countries have had...

27 Jun 2011
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The Moral of the Story: The decision to drop the atomic bombs

Essay - 3 pages - Political science

One of the most controversial issues of World War II that is still debated today is whether or not America should have dropped the atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. There are many aspects of this situation that demand close scrutiny. Thousands of lives were affected...

27 Jun 2011
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'It all comes down to the oil crisis of 1973' - Is this an adequate explanation of the global recession of the later-1970s and 1980s?

Essay - 5 pages - Political science

The historian Eric Hobsbawm's assertion that ‘any historian who puts major change in the configuration of the world economy down to bad luck and avoidable accidents should think again' provides a useful theoretical objection to the contention that the economic crisis years of the late...