Counterweight

In Immanuel Kant’s book, Grounding, and John Stuart Mill’s book, Utilitarianism, both philosophers have expressed their opinion regarding moral philosophy, and, more specifically, the importance and problems associated with moral philosophy. Kant believes that everyone has the innate ability to reason morally, but are driven away from moral reasoning by our desire for happiness. In contrast, Mill believes that people do not have the innate ability to reason morally, and therefore arises an issue…

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is often thought of an institution with formal rules and procedures that guide its lending decisions based on severity of the economic problems facing borrowing countries. However, in his paper, “The Scope of IMF Conditionality”, Stone argued that the IMF is also a political organization with countries like the US intervening in lending decisions through informal processes to further their geopolitical and financial interests. To Stone, the continuous US…

“The federal government is the balance of the federal system means using counterweights” Pierre Trudeau. For this essay I agree that the federal political system effectively governs all Canadians. The Magna carta was a charter made by the King John for a solution towards his political crisis. The Charter made the King equal to his people and let commoners from outside form a government which became a federal political system. It was held accountable for voicing citizens. The three points that I…

The two most famous City-States of Ancient Greece, Sparta and Athens, have more differences than similarities with each other. These differences were more evident in the educational and political systems. While both cities used popular vote to elect at least part of its representatives, some organizational differences can be easily identified. Basically, the overall priority of these two City-States were different; Sparta was focused in producing warriors, while Athens was a cultural and…

"He is the fiercest of warriors and the most ambitious of builders. Yet until Enkidu, his near equal, arrives to serve as a counterweight to Gilgamesh’s restless energies, he exhausts his subjects with ceaseless battle, forced labor, and arbitrary exercises of power." (Sparknotes) Because he was king, he thought he had all the power in Mesopotamia at the end of his fingertips. The…

This weapon is the most powerful catapult and was designed for maximum force. It was used to hurl stones to demolish cities and castles. This catapult is believed to have been invented in China in 300 BC. The Trebuchet is a counterweight siege engine. It had a long wood arm that could have been up to 60 feet. There was a short arm that was attached to a counterbalance which was a heavy weight, usually earth, sand or stone. There was a sling and a rope attached at the end of the…

In 1994, the administrators of the Milwaukee Art Museum set out to create a " majestic new entrance, a point of orientation for visitors and a redefinition of the Museum's identity through the creation of a powerful image." Up to that time, there were two buildings that made up the Milwaukee Art Museum, one, the main building that had been designed by Eeron Saarinen in 1957 in homage to the victims of the war, also another addition that was projected by the architect David Kahler in 1975 by…

two-thirds god and one-third mortal King of Uruk, Gilgamesh, Gilgamesh’s friend and companion, Enkidu, is also central throughout the course of the epic. In the beginning of the epic, the goddess Aruru fashions Enkidu from clay, so as to create a counterweight against Gilgamesh’s rapaciousness and brutish strength. While Enkidu does initially serve almost as a foil of sorts to Gilgamesh, they seemingly inevitably become fast friends and the closest of companions soon after actually meeting one…

Lenin’s aspiration of communism was based on his desire to give Russia’s highly centralized political structure an opportunity to implement its program of equality and industrialization (Chapter 28, in Patterns of World History, Vol. 2, p. 874)”. “For him, the party was not the mass movement envisioned by Marx but rather the discipline, armed vanguard that ruled monopoly power and instilled the ideology of communism in gradual expanding working class (Chapter 28, in Patterns of World History,…

The Head-Hunters Network challenges all Werwulf-Nation claims over No Man’s Land. Assembled in battle formation are hundreds of thousands of mercenaries and werwulfs. Their hatred divided by a great canyon southward of the Wastelands. Hunters are credited for the genocide of numerous clans and tribes. Warriors deploy guerilla warfare tactics, including: sabotage, ambuscade, and incursion. Arron the Great presides over eighty-one tribes of the network. They are known for raiding villages and…