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    Kachchh in an area of 45,652 square kilometers is urban. Bhuj city is the divadandi (light house) of Kachchh, a gateway to the urban past and present of Kachchh. The princely past of Kachchh and its physical isolation has created a symphony of arts and crafts traditions. Some of these are living design and crafts traditions especially in the Kachchhi vernacular architecture; in everyday object designing; and famously

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    18). A true prince in Machiavelli’s eyes is someone that the nobles, people, army, and neighboring states will be dependent on. To Machiavelli humans are by nature power hungry and greedy and that as long as there is dependence on the prince whether it is due to heredity, fear, or a variety of other factors, he will remain in power. Socrates would view

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    performing artist playing sultan peruses the daily paper about the issue of political in Singapore as in 1993; an alteration to the Constitution empowered a sure government official to be delegated a Federal Minister without his vacating his seat as a State Assemblymen. Not exactly a year a Politian which his name was not expressed in the play surrendered his Ministerial position and left the Allies. Also he soon joined the Opposing Party. Accordingly the Opposing Party won the races. (pg 35) This demonstrate

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    Independence Movement during the mid-1770s is considered as the first assertion of right of self-determination. Thomas Jefferson further promoted the notion that the will of the people was supreme, especially through the authorship of the United States Declaration of Independence, which inspired Europeans throughout the 19th century. The French Revolution was another consequence of the growing realization within the people about their rights. The Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 again testified to

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    What is a nation-state? A nation-state is defined as a type of political organization in which a group of relatively homogenous people live in one area under one government, and its development actually traces back to the Middle Ages. Medieval Europe was unified by the Roman Catholic Church, a powerful, but corrupt, institution. This corruption, coupled with the Renaissance spirit, led to increasing dissatisfaction with the Church and sparked the beginnings of the Protestant Reformation. These revolutionary

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    two different countries- India and Pakistan along religious lines (Hinduism and Islam). (Kux, 87) These two new dominions had around 650 states run by princes. Theoretically these states had the option of choosing either of the countries or remain independent. By remaining independent they would have let monarchy leap over democracy. These ‘independent’ states were advised by the British Government to get associated with either of the two dominions keeping in view the geographical and other relevant

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    interests of the state (Ivan the Terrible). Ivan was, however, a complicated man who was full of contradictions. He was a very intelligent and effective ruler; however, he was almost certainly insane. In addition to all of the positive changes that were made under his rule, he also tortured and killed thousands of people, many of who were innocent citizens (Ivan the Terrible). The conflict that I have found is that on one hand he was a very good asset to the wellbeing of the state, but on the other

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    Machiavelli's Advice to Republics In secular democracies, power is necessarily derived from the will of the governed. That power is then entrusted to a leader, who Machiavelli would understand to be a "prince". Inherently, his book, The Prince, has been close at hand for most politicians for centuries, as it provides general, historically proven advice for principalities and republics on how to govern and maintain relations with their most important resource and the very core of their power

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    Prior to coming to American Samoa, Mead had no knowledge of the Samoan language, and began studying less than a week after her initial arrival in Tutuila (Orans 1996). Mead reports her fluency of the Samoan language after the first months, and her ability to speak with a variety of Samoans in their own language. However, Freeman would later question Mead’s claim of the language in Margaret Mead and Samoa, by stating that the period Mead gave to obtaining a fluent command of the Samoan language “was

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    Government Regulation Throughout history there have been many different opinions about government regulation. Some believe the government regulates business too much others feel that the government does not do enough. I believe the government is regulating business far too much and furthermore putting businesses out of business and causing many workers to lose jobs. In this paper I will point out the common problems dealing with government regulation. I will also focus on three major aspects

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