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    Bolivian Republic of Venezuela is a country in South America. It was one of the countries that emerged from collapse of Gran Colombia in 1830 (Source B). Hugo Chavez is the president since 1999. He was democratically elected president in 1998, after the approval of the new constitution in 1999, which is the highest law of the land. Venezuela is subdivided into 23 states, a Capital District correspondent in the city of Caracas, and the Federal Dependencies. The country is also divided into ten administrative

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    Hugo Chavez: Love Him or Loathe Him? Essay

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    Hugo Chavez: Love Him or Loathe Him? Last week an incendiary press release exploded into the global headlines. A man by the name of Hugo Chavez ventured the claim that he had become an important target of assassination. Even more alarming, he proceeded to identify his assassin. It was none other than George W. Bush. "We have enough evidence," said Chavez, "that if anything happens to me, the person responsible will be the President of the United States" (“Defying U.S., Venezuela’s Chavez

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    On the Virtues of Private Property in Locke and Rousseau John Locke and Jean Jacques Rousseau, following their predecessor Thomas Hobbes, both attempt to explain the development and dissolution of society and government. They begin, as Hobbes did, by defining the “state of nature”—a time before man found rational thought. In the Second Treatise[1] and the Discourse on Inequality[2], Locke and Rousseau, respectively, put forward very interesting and different accounts of the state

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    East Cooper Community Outreach The project I have chosen for my leadership project is the East Cooper Community Outreach program. This program is a non-profit organization that was founded in 1989 to assist victims after Hurricane Hugo. East Cooper Community Outreach, also known as ECCO, offers assistance to the many people in Mount Pleasant living at the poverty level, also known as the “working poor.” ECCO is vital to the community and we will learn about this organization’s origin and the significant

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    I decided to explore different career options with Wells Fargo other than management roles. The move to Colorado needed to happen by the end of April and because of the time constraints transferring into a management role was an unrealistic goal. I started networking and followed the capstone project guidelines. In the class lecture for week 8 the University Of Buffalo School Of Management provides suggestions for questions to ask during an exploratory interview, “Setting up appointments with all

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    Thomas Hobbes, John Locke and Jean-Jacques Rousseau all claim an integral space in the realm of political philosophy. Through their respective dissertations, each author analyzed man in his natural state and derived a form of civil society from that conclusion. While each author observes man in his own way and thus come to his own forms of subsequent government, equality seems to be a defining feature in all of their theories. All authors engage this notion heavily within their texts and use this

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    Les Misérables was written by Victor Hugo, who was born on February 26, 1802 and died May 22, 1885. He is a French poet, novelist, and dramatist, and most important French Romantic writers. His parents separated, due to different political views and Hugo’s father traveling from base to base. Victor Hugo adopted his mother’s royalist political views as a child. Although he graduated from a law faculty at Paris as a poor student, he knew he wanted to pursue a career in writing. In 1822, he married

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    Fidel Castro had a clear vision. He dreamed to see Latin America united as one force like Simon Bolivar, the independence hero, had originally conceived it. Compared to other countries in the region, his homeland Cuba had arrived late to the emancipation party; and still in 1926, when he was born, the libertarian ideals were palpable in the streets of Havana. At the beginning of the 20th century, Cuba passed from being under the control of one world power, the Spanish monarchy, to another, the United

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    With Optimus Prime gone, the war between humans and the Transformers has gone to hell. The battle has had the line blurred, as to whether Autobots are here to help the humans, or if they are also toxic for the future of our planet. The fate of the rest of the world could be determined by secrets lied by Transformers throughout the history of our world. Will these secrets save all of planet earth, or are the humans forced to accept the fate of the Decepticons turning earth into a new cybertron.  

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    John Locke was one of the first philosophers out of many who protested about government not giving the people the freedom that they deserve. As we know Locke and Hobbes are great thinkers, however they had divergent belief in the way they see the human. Throughout Locke’s life, he had various sublime ideas which tells that the power of monarchy (Kings) and monarchs should be limited and they should respect the rights of their citizens. Locke’s implicitly refuted the idea that Kings rule people according

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