Confiscation

Today, the “Liberal-capitalist” society dominates almost all of the major countries in the world. It is widely believed to be the best system to base government and economic infrastructure. However, over a hundred years ago, the father of communism, Karl Marx, and the romantic poets of the era, would completely disagree with that view. Marx believed in the total equality and a society ran exclusively by the government. The romantic poets believed that the only way for successful society is to…

Cannabis legalization was something of a myth 20 years ago, but as the world is adapting to and making cannabis legal is it not time for Canada to do so as well? According to the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act, a drug is considered to be a chemical substance that alters the structure or function of a living organism. In Canada it is an offence to posses one single cannabis cigarette(joint) and for a first-time summary conviction offence the punishment is a fine of up to $1000 and/or six…

The Armenian Genocide was an atrocity that took place during World War One. It features the Armenians as the victims and the Turks as the oppressors. Although the death toll is not official because of the conflicting results regarding it, there was somewhere in the neighborhood between one to one and a half million Armenians that were slaughtered, starved, or tortured to death between 1915 and 1923. However, some people in Turkey deny the killing of the Armenian people and even are so extreme…

tenants of communism that were necessary in order for a communist state to succeed. They are: A centralized banking system, government control of education, labor, transportation, communication, agriculture, industry, abolition of private property, confiscation of property rights, a large income tax on all citizens, no rights of private inheritance, and regional planning. These tenants needed to be followed in order for communism to…

This essay will discuss Voltaire’s main arguments against church authority and dogma. To do this, two of Voltaire’s significant philosophical texts including arguments against the church will be studied: Candide and Treatise on Tolerance. From this, it will be distinguished whether or not these arguments can be applied to our modern society. Voltaire was a French Enlightenment thinker who lived through the eighteenth century. The Enlightenment was a European movement of the late seventeenth…

(Jacoby, 124)” is a military figure that went to enforce Yellowstone’s flimsy authority in its law makers. Yellowstone further exercised its right over the rural folk by either “confinement to Fort Yellowstone’s guardhouse (Jacoby, 125)” or the “confiscation of all goods that lawbreakers had used in committing their crimes (Jacoby, 125)”. These were Yellowstone’s methods for attempting to utilize law to break the will of the rural folk buffalo hunters. In addition, game laws were against the…

Technology and its Effects The term technology originated from the Greek word ‘technologia’. Technology refers to the use of machines and various tools that make our daily work lives simpler, easier and more organized. The word also describes the different gadgets, and resources used by humans to help them control and adapt to their environment appropriately (Bridgman 5). In factories, technology planted in smart machines can store massive amount of data, and it boosts the production. Embedding…

Instigating authoritarian control over artistic expression allows communist dictatorships to maintain their stronghold over the minds of their people (Reid, 2015: pp. 370-371). Despite government control and censorship, intellectuals within communist nations such as China and Vietnam remain keen to publish social commentary in various literary forms. Frog (2009) is a historical fiction novel by nobel prize laureate Mo Yan illustrating the consequences of China’s widely criticised ‘one-child…

Many thoughts come to mind when the word police is said aloud. When asked, one person provided the words “protection, and law”, while another simply stated “pigs”. We’ve all formed opinions on the police whether it be positive or negative based off of what we see in the news, hear from others, and from our own personal experiences. The politically correct definition of police is “the civil force of a national or local government, responsible for the prevention and detection of crime and the…

The Illyrian population first developed into tribal societies that were characterized by a certain flexibility between the political and social makeup of the group. Illyrians also possessed the ability to create a livelihood from various economic and ecological conditions (Galaty, 2002:110; Stallo, 2007:25). Many of these tribes became dependent upon transhumant pastoralism, meaning they would graze their herds along coastal plains in the winter and move to the mountains for the summer (Galaty…