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    concerned with the concepts and arguments involves in political opinion. It is ethics applied to a group of people, discusses about societies set up.In political philosophy it is important to know what ought to be a person’s relationship in a society. This seeks application of ethical concepts to social sphere. It is a standard which help to analyze and judge existing institutions and relationships. According to Bernard Williams “political philosophy is not just applied moral philosophy, which is what

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    was modern time music. If you listen to his music most people would describe it as contemporary. Modernism is a calm, soothing type of music. It underlies the period of change and development. The modern time period was within 1890-1975 (style era). Some writers don’t think of musical modernism as an historical period developing from about 1890 to 1930. Other writers say that modernism is not attached to any historical period. They think of it as an attitude of the composer. In the modern time

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    invention. Which will bring the world to a higher level of civilization. As what it has said that all the invention have on the world. Their job is to helping us as a human get things done faster and to better life. In fact that those invention create some problems too, such technology as [Phone, computer, TV, etc] is start to taking over the life of people in the real world. It has make people miss in the unreal world, but should that technology is key that built up the modern life, such invention as the

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    Absurdity In Eugene Ionesco

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    situation of man in his life. His work expressed alienation of modern man and failure of communication and also loss of meaning. His plays like bold Soprano, The lesson, Rhinoceros they also depict man’s lack of communication with himself and with others in the society. Bold Soprano, the chairs are fully in non sequiturs, dialogues and the language of characters are without thinking. His plays also show the tragedy of modern man in this world and his loss of meaningful words is very much there and all

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    History is a collection of stories, and stories can often differ from the facts. This is because the past can often be distorted and only show certain aspects deemed important. Historian Peter Laslett is frustrated by this and describes in his paper “The World We Have Lost” how the pre-industrial society has been forgotten. Society has mostly been patriarchal in human history. Each household contained roughly 10-20 people, ran by a male master, housing his wife, children, apprentices, and servants

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    in Austria in 1889. Benito Mussolini was born in Dovia di Predappio, Forli. This is just one difference between Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini, but I’m going to give you more differences. According to World History: The Modern Era, it states that, “ Mein Kampf reflected Hitler’s obsessions extreme nationalism, racism, and Anti Semitism” (pg.552). That is Hitler’s political ideology. According to World History: The Modern Era, it states that, “Mussolini’s ideology is fascism” (pg.539). As you know

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    The Greek influence in the modern world is still significant today. In a matter of words Hellenism brought us intelligence. The cultural significance of Hellenism in this modern world brought us libraries, museums, art, architecture, language, warfare tactics and weapons, philosophers and philosophies, and democratic societies. Hellenism in the modern world means to adopt Greek culture even in non-Greek regions. Hellenism has brought to the modern world many different things that may have been once

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    Amateur City

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    Amateur City, a city filled with confusion and intolerable human behavior. In this detective fiction novel, Katherine Forrest demonstrates the social, sexual and power dynamic of each character which all leads to the curious homicide of Fergus Parker. In Forrest’s Amateur City there are multiple analysis regarding the characters of the “Modern Office” also including the detective Kate Delafield. Amateur City portrays a huge hierarchy of the predominant human society in which the class of race, ethnicity

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    Synthesis Essay Hypothesis become theories and theories become laws. Brave New World and 1984 were both predictions made in the 1900s about what the future of the world would be like. Both of these books were written during the time when communism rose, and they show a world where it would have been like if communism was never struck down. Certainly, one novel makes a better prediction of the future than the other, and this case it will be 1984. 1984 is a better prediction because certain aspects are

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    Europe’s economy and power were growing substantially and the use of gun powder had a significant part in its growth during the Early Modern Period. “Gunpowder somehow remained a monopoly of the Chinese until the 13th century, when the science was passed along the ancient silk trade route to Europe and the Islamic world” (How Gun Powder Changed the World). Gun powder cannons were used because of their significant blow to a target; the French and English used cannons against each other during the

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