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    Bryce Hurless Mrs. Sauter World History – Block G 15 December 2014 Topic #1 – Hobbes vs. Locke vs. Marx “Government’s first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives,” said Ronald Reagan. Some political philosophies like John Locke would agree to this statement, while other, like Thomas Hobbes would not, and some will both agree and disagree, like Karl Marx. You will come to learn why the “social contract” of John Locke is the best through the review of all three philosophers main ideas

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    Plessey vs Ferguson- Decision by the US Supreme Court that confirmed the principle of “separate but equal” and minority segregation. Brown vs Board of Education-This case took on segregation within school systems, or the separation of white and black students within public schools. Up until this case, many stats had laws establishing

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    United States Government vs. United Kingdom Government People often vision the royal family, when thinking about the United Kingdom and think about how the King holds the power as the Head of State. United States government seems completely due the President being in charge instead of a King, no one stops to think about the similarities the both governments share. The United States and United Kingdom Government share similar aspects of their structure of government, power the heads of government

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    No one wants to be called an underdog. The emotional and feelings that comes when you keeo on trying. Being challenged as an underdog amongst peers, family members, even strangers, can have a long lasting effect for someone social being. Being casted as someone who can not measure up to any particular goal or ambitions, usually that person enters a stage of melancholy and loneliness. SHORTEN IT!!! Ever been dubbed the underdog? A society of called the United States of America was claimed to be

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    Contexts of Metropolis and 1984 Metropolis Russian revolution, November 1917 Socialists led by Lenin and Trotsky overthrow imperial order and execute Tsar and his family in July 1918 Revolutionary socialism seen as alternate political system to capitalism Huge amount of mutinies and strikes especially from the army who were weakened from war with Germany and did not feel like they had the capacity to shut down the outbreak Socialists had support from lower classes and political left with the Provisional

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    made it possible for a grotesque mediocrity to play a hero’s part.” The purpose of this text is to analyse the social and political circumstance of the time through the viewpoint of Marx’s materialistic conception of history. · “The bourgeois monarchy of Louis Philippe can be followed only by a bourgeois

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    - 10 Most Today, 2015) With their close proximation to each other, it is not surprising that they share close similarities but remain uniquely different. For example, in the case of government, both countries are similar because they are both democracies. The difference is the US is a

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    Before the age of reason, the world existed of a monarchy. People had lived under the rule of Kings. Kings had the power to choose what was right and what was not. The belief that kings were chosen by God to rule. However, during 1649, a civil war broke out in England between Parliament and King Charles 1. The power of the absolute rule of kings was weakened, Enlightenment philosophers, in writings, argued different form of democracy which changed thoughts of who should govern them and that changed

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    similarities and differences in their system of government. Similarities were seen in the structure of Athens and Sparta’s government. Both governments ensured that every person was within the law. Both discouraged the autocratic kind of rule, Athens used democracy, used the aristocrats and generals as part of their government, also Sparta countered the idea of autocracy by putting two kings in place, and an overseeing body of five Ephors who kept the other under check, so that no one to gain absolute power

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    13 October 2015 Sparta vs. Athens Although Sparta and Athens were close on the map, they were far apart in many aspects of their civilizations. While having some similarities, the military powerhouse and the intellectual center of Greece had major differences in governments, societies, and cultural developments. The Spartan government was considered an oligarchy (“oligos” translates to “few” and “archia” translates to “rule”), whereas the Athenian government was a democracy (“demos” translates to

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