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    Aiming to achieve political correctness within my own writing presents challenges, especially in online classrooms without the benefit of relational capital. In other words, writing papers for a faceless audience demands appropriate vocabulary to satisfy the rhetorical context of a written assignment without sacrificing my authentic ideas, expression, and intentions. Considering how a reader may perceive and interact with my content remains as top priority during the all three rounds of editing.

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    Camus’s Political Writing/Career Through his political writing, Camus expresses a variety of philosophical ideologies that are in many ways similar to those expressed in “The Stranger.” In the writing, Camus explores various ideas that are reflective of how society appears to him. * 1943 Joined a French resistance called the “Combat” who opposed the Nazis. Had an underground newspaper; Camus became the editor, under the name “Beauchard,” criticized French collaboration with the Nazis ”Now

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    Hobbes writings of political and moral philosophy remain some of the most influential and important reference points in contemporary affairs. One drive in human nature, fear, is a central theme in his works regarding political thought. His thesis works with ideas that order consists of existing harmoniously through avoidance of both danger and the manipulating fear of civil conflict, which can be achieved through our entire faith in single, unaccountable sovereignty of a person or group. Firstly

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    Hobbes writings of political and moral philosophy remain some of the most influential and important reference points in contemporary affairs. One drive in human nature, fear, is a central theme in his works regarding political thought. His thesis works with ideas that order consists of existing harmoniously through avoidance of both danger and the manipulating fear of civil conflict, which can be achieved through our entire faith in single, unaccountable sovereignty of a person or group. Firstly

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    Posterity". It's blatantly obvious that the history of America, up until Alexis de Tocqueville wrote Democracy in America, had any of those attributes been granted wholly. Liberty is relatable to the State of Nature, John Locke describes in his Political Writings. Liberty is a state of entire freedom - in thought, practice, mores, etc. Tocqueville argues that Liberty is a boundary, an imaginative idea, and almost an unreachable goal in the Democratic state of America. Tocqueville

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    roots in violent historical times which are seen reflected in their respective theories about the use of violence in politics. The legitimate use of violence is a topic addressed by both theorists in their respective works, as read in Selected Political Writings and The Leviathan. Who has the monopoly over the use of violence, what its terms of use are, and what the consequences of its use are, are distinct from the works of both Machiavelli and Hobbes. Hobbes’ believed that the world, as well as humanity

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    in an attempt to gain a political position in the new government that was being established in Italy by the Medici family. Although his book did not get him in to a governmental position like he was hoping for, the book he wrote would become very influential to many others. The One thing that does set his book apart from other philosophers is that he wrote the book not on how things should be, but how things need to be in order for one to keep power and order. The writing of The Prince however, did

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    In the book The Basic Political Writings written by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Rousseau in the beginning of the book states a very important question that he hopes to answer in parts throughout the book, the question being: What is the origin of inequality among men, and is it authorized by the natural law? Rousseau takes a different approach than all the other philosophers on trying to figure out the origin of man and their so-called inequality. Rousseau’s point of view on the state of nature differs

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    The political writings of Thomas Hobbes, John Locke and Jean-Jacques Rousseau focus a great deal of their work discussing various views of the state of nature, and the human nature for the establishment of political authority. These three theorists have many differing opinions of the purpose and reality of the state of nature, the purpose of government and the impact of founders and how men secure their rights. In the Leviathan, Hobbes believes that the state of nature is a constant state of war

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    Damn Political Correctness! Hail Deplorables! Okay, it took me long enough but I have been officially enlightened and have opened my mind and heart to what is going on, clearing up all fear and confusion...read carefully, so you can understand too, okay here goes: ....This eight year maddess had to be "Trumped" - that damn stimulus plan including but not limited to millions of dollars for Federal Public Lands (National Parks, BLM, National Forest Service, National Wildlife)....how dare he put people

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