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    Dictatorship In Iraq

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    During the Second World War, Germany was ruled and run by Adolf Hitler a fascist dictator. Hitler is one of, if not the most recognisable dictator of his time. However decades after the second world war dictatorial government has become more common and more of a concern to democratic governments. A dictatorship is a form of government when an individual (dictator) has all the power over the whole country. The dictator makes the law and decisions for the whole country without the citizen’s approval. The dictator usually uses military force in order to keep the citizens in their place and make them seem inferior to the dictator. Thousands of killings and executions happen on innocent people to intimidate the citizen’s and make the dictator seem more powerful. A good Government is basically a democratic government. The ideal democratic government should have free and fair elections, open participation and also accountable representatives. Out of all of those features, a dictatorship has none.…

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    perceptive; it depends on how one discerns the idea of it. Some may argue that perfection is nonexistent, all things will eventually fall short of its goals, and that nothing is without flaws. On the contrary, some may argue that perfection is a scarce form of existence that only few entities attain. In the case of Chile, perfection existed in one of the most unexpected forms; Augusto Pinochet’s dictatorship. A perfect dictatorship is a dictatorship that functions as one, but allows the…

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    A Totalitarian Dictatorship is when one person is in charge of every aspect of their nation’s citizens lives. There have been many Totalitarian Dictatorships throughout history. Some examples of Totalitarian Dictatorships might be Benito Mussolini fascist italy during world war two, Adolf Hitler’s nazi germany also during world war two or Joseph Stalin's communist soviet union from the 1920’s until he died which was 1953. To become dictators these men used Totalitarian strategies. One criteria…

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    The Hunger Games Panem’s government is under the control of a single person named President Snow. President Snow is a dictator, he misuses his personal power and does not have to convince anyone that his plans are rational. In a dictatorship, power is absolute and all decisions of the dictator are law, no matter what harm could be caused by them. Panem could be considered to be under an authoritarian dictatorship where the dictator demands obedience to his authority over any desire for…

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    Dictatorship is a form of government where only a political party or a person has power over the state or the country. Dictators use techniques such as propaganda to maintain and increase their power and to convince others to support them. Constitutional, communist, counter revolutionary, fascist, constitutional, communist religious dictatorships and family-based dictatorships were some types of dictatorships described during the two worldwars.There had been many countries under dictators during…

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    A dictatorship, as described by google, is "a country, government, or the form of government in which absolutepower is exercised by a dictator". In other words, a dictatorship is a militaristic government set up in which one person has total control over everyone by setting laws and regulations. This person holds the power and his or her laws are enforced by a heavily armed police force or military. These military enforcing groups usually keep peace and control over the people using intimidation…

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    Dictatorship In The 1980's

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    During the 1980’s there was a movement towards a democratic government from dictatorships. The leading four factors, that the author Padraic Kenney thought to be causing the change in the type of government from dictatorships to a democracy was: nonviolence, technological advancements, transnationality, and the emergence of human rights. Dictators weren’t as popular in countries under that type of government because the people of those countries wanted better human rights and that meant voting…

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    Totalitarian dictatorship is a form of government in which one person is in control of all political power over many features of life. The use of totalitarian dictatorship and traditional structured government uses hope to control and regulate the people of their society. The government uses certain tactics to create an anticipated result of power and control over the citizens. The movies The Island, The Hunger Games, The Lottery, and the short story The Lottery apply these factors to instill…

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    The holocaust was one of the worst genocides taken place in history. Eleven million innocents lives were taken by a mass murder, Adolf Hitler. He deliberately killed millions of people just because they were Jewish. With today’s society, it will be impossible for something like that to reoccur. Today’s massive access to the internet and social media will make it impossible to hide and not take action on what was occurring, we also no longer have a dictatorship like they had back in the day, and…

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    The Pursuit Of Wealth

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    the world can be attributed to people’s attachment to money, and the power it comes with. The unequal distribution of the world’s wealth and the drive to acquire all the world’s natural resources and money, plus the lust for power has led to a world of wars, paranoia, distrust and so forth. When we look at the things happening around the world today, we can see the effect of the relentless pursuit of wealth around the world. Corruption and embezzlement are the order of the day in most African…

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