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In our society today certain groups of people hold power over others. Some times this can be a good thing and sometimes it can be a bad thing. The good ways are that powerful people like in the government keep the peace and maintain order by controlling

Power in politics is a person who has the ability to influence a person in terms of their behaviour; however they possess no right to - unlike authority. There are many ways in which a person can influence another’s behaviour; one such example is through coercion. Coercion refers to the use of violence or threats in order to influence someone. [Jones and Norton, 2011]

Since 1789, increasing discontent for food shortage and dire living conditions in France triggered massive protests against the Old Regime. By overthrowing Louis XVI and absolute monarchy, French citizens began to march toward democracy. However, the desire for participating in political decisions became so radical that fueled by internal and external conflicts, people shifted away from the principles they drew up. To restore stability and enforce laws, the government turned more centralized. Unlike what the revolution intended initially, its ending with Napoleon’s dictatorship totally resembled what it was like before. Such turmoil throughout the revolution merely undermined democracy despite its original aim to increase the public voice in politics.

Q1. Provide a detailed description of THREE significant events in the life of the personality you have studied. (10 marks)

As individuals gain power, their higher authority often strives for an easily controlled and often manipulated

A revolution occurs when the basic needs of the people are not being met and it is caused by political conflict, economic hardships, and social endeavors. The Arab Spring, a democratic uprising, arose across the Arab world starting in 2010. The contemporary event of the Arab Spring and the historic French Revolution in the late 1700s share similarities. The Arab Spring started out in late 2010 in Tunisia when a street vendor named Mohamed Bouazizi committed suicide because of treatment from local officials. This catastrophe lit a fuse across the Arab nation.1 The French revolution broke out in 1789 when the corrupt King Louis XVI needed money and the financial crisis drove him to convene the estates general to create a new tax. These two revolutions

AIPA 2: UNDERSTANDING ACTORS, INTERESTS & POWER Institutions  Basic level – states exist to provide (1) defence and (2) social order  this requires the presence of a functioning economy.  State not only produces, consumes and redistributes; it’s also the main source and enforcer of “rules of games”.  “Rules of games” are institutions  institutional quality is related to economic performance.  Evidence: No country has gotten rich with bad institutions. Politics  Politics is the process of creating new institutions. Existing institutions create a constraint on this process.  Political processes can be analysed in terms of Actors involved in the processes, their interests and their relative power (AIP).  Actors: Political,

On December 17, 2010, a young Tunisian street vendor protesting an abusive police official set off a wave of democratic uprisings throughout the Arab world. In contrast with externally imposed regime changes in Afghanistan and Iraq, the long-suffering Arab peoples took it on themselves to drive their former rulers from power and called for a new basis of governance in a region long dominated by dictators. While the outcomes of these political transitions are still very much in question, they highlighted the importance of popular revolt in bringing about democratic change.

In order to protect their rights and the goals of the revolution, and never back to the dark ages. So the core demand of the French revolution, which created in the 18 century, it still use until now. If we compare the core demands of the Arab spring in its infancy, " Bread, freedom, and Social justice " we can't see a different between the French core demand and the Egyptians core demands during both revolution, and the actions its more closed it this situation, because the main struggle faced the peoples from the two different counters, it's the bad economy cause. Which lead the people to look out of their bread and start thinking more social, mean they prefer to think more about the community interest more than the individual interest. The loyal system in France before the revolution it's no different than Mubarak regime, because of the similarity of tools of repression, and these tools the main roles of the people actions to refused all these tools, and starts their struggle. This example confirmation the the similarities between the revolutionaries people and the oppressores systems during the history, which mean the core demands of the french revolution still remains to these

Usually throughout the world, tensions can take years to produce any serious actions, but this was not the case following the Arab Spring. In Egypt, this boiling tension only increased during 2012 with a parliamentary election around the corner; Mohamed Morsi of the Freedom and Justice Party of Egypt won presidency that summer, but just one year later was violently removed via a military coup endorsed by Nour (as known as the Party of Light) and led to the deaths of many of the FJP’s supporters and the imprisonment of many of its members (Kurzman and Kürkoğlu 103). And even after coup, many revolutionary Islamic groups have derided Islamic political parties for following and being a part of democratic processes due to the lack of jihad, even going so far as to attack and kill Islamic leaders who are supportive of democracy (103-104). This violent behaviour speaks ill of what could happen under a heavily conservative Islamic government, especially considering how damaging autocracies and non-liberal democracies can be even outside of major areas such as human rights, women’s rights, minority rights, religious rights, and the many manner of freedoms liberal democracies

What these people hold is power, plain and simple. Perhaps their power comes in the form of real tangible power when we speak of the politicians. Or maybe, it simply stems, more passively, from the power to influence the masses through digital avenues via twitter or Facebook accounts. In some cases it may come in a complicate mix of the two, but, regardless of their specific capabilities, make no mistake, these people exist separate from us, above us. In a sort of ironic twist the average person has unwittingly gone and turned their own life into some pathetic sort of

“Who lost Tunisia?” This question may well haunt future European leaders. As Hervé Morin, a former French defense minister, recently warned, Europe — and France in particular — cannot afford to wait until the black flag of the Islamic State is hoisted above the presidential palace in Tunis.

This revolution can be deemed a failure on multiple streams of thought ranging from economic to political. To structurally analyze the extent of this man made failure lets logically sort out the key events of the uprising. It all commemorated with a jury of self obsessed egotistic individuals who ruled. In January 2012 Ben Ali the political ruler of Tunisia gave in to the public’s demands and fled the country. This key event sparked hope in the minds of people with the message that toppling the Arab regime is not an impossible task. And this is where most of the problems began.

This week’s readings investigate the rise of Islamic opposition and civic society groups in Egypt, Turkey, and Algeria. In an overarching perspective, the readings contend that the failure of the post-colonial states in providing the public goods and services they were responsible for, as well as their use of Islamist groups in order to crush the leftist opposition, provided political structures of opportunity that the Islamic groups were able to exploit. In addition, the state hostility to civic society Islamic opposition groups, gave rise to militant Islamic groups in some cases. The following paragraphs will provide evidence from the texts to support the above assertions.

Question 4.) Although literary critics have tended to praise the unique and litereray characterization many authors have employed the sterotype characters successfully. Select a novel or play and analyze how a conventional or stereotype character function to achieve the authors purposes.