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    1. When a country is in stress, dictatorships tend to rise. When a country is in a crisis, it is more likely that dictatorship will be accepted. World War I and the events of the following years brought crisis in a variety of countries. This lead to the rise of Dictatorships. The two most brutal dictatorships after the First World War were Soviet Russia and Nazi Germany. Since Germany was in such chaos, they were willing to accept Nazi dictatorship. And the Great Depression also devastated their…

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    totalitarianism and dictatorship in her definition of dystopia. “Dystopian fiction looks at totalitarianism and dictatorship as its prototype, a society that puts its whole population continuously on trial, a society that finds its essence in concentration camp, this is, in disenfranchising and enslaving entire classes of its own citizens a society that, by glorifying and justifying violence by law, preys upon itself”(Gottlieb). Gottlieb compares dystopian literature to dictatorship. Carter…

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    In an article titled, “Democratic Dictatorship: The Transition towards Authoritarian rule in America, the author, Robert P. Abele, makes his argument through Franklin D. Roosevelt’s “Four freedoms”. The first freedom is freedom of speech and expression. One of the points that Abele makes is that “ Without privacy in sharing our thoughts with others, There is neither freedom of speech nor of association” (Abele, Robert P., Dr. "“Democratic Dictatorship”: The Transition towards Authoritarian Rule…

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    Writing I - Literacy Narrative Kyu Hyeon Kim Title : The Advocate of Dictatorship or: How I learned to Stop Worrying and Love My Nature I, hereby, declare that I am the strong advocate of dictatorship. The dictatorship justified from every moment of the revolutionary. The revolutionary ready to break every ground of everything to impact like a meteor. The meteor born from groundless, furious enough to penetrate without any hesitations. Therefore, I, as the dictator, formal and current…

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    One of the most well-known examples of a modern dictatorship is Kim Jong Un’s “leadership” over North Korea. So well known that Hollywood ended up making two satirical films about how poorly North Korea has been lead, one being the assassination of Kim Jong Un called “The Interview” and the other about assassinating his father, Kim Jong Il, called “Team America: World Police”. Kim Jong Un was born into power as an heir to Kim Jong Il and was given the position as supreme leader of the Democratic…

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    gradually driving itself away from aid from other countries. North Korea is a communist dictatorship. There is no true definition for a communist dictatorship government. However, the definition of communism involves advocating class war and leading to a society in which all property is publicly owned and each person works and is paid according to their abilities and needs. The definition of a dictatorship involves being governed by a single dictator. The various branches of government are…

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    The Mexican Revolution was brought on by tremendous disagreement among the Mexican people over the dictatorship of President Porfirio Díaz, who stayed in office for thirty one years. Under his rule, Mexico went through a period of modernization and economic expansion. But along with the good came a lot of bad. Most people lived in poverty .There was a policy of no reelection but he ignored that rule and kept running for president.…

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    Stikle lives in a world of dreadfulness powered by an evil dictatorship. Every last person, whether they are man, woman, or child, is forced to play and show a passion for football. If you choose to rebel against this rule, you are taken away to a Slocup, a place where torture is most brutal, and escaping is only a distant vision. Unfortunately for Stikle, he is not a football player. In fact, he is downright awful at football. He cannot throw nor catch a ball, and most importantly, he…

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    He considered himself a European Socialist and his novels reflect this matter speaking positively of democracy rather than dictatorship. George Orwell’s Animal Farm aims to convey his disdain for the political situations during the reign of the Soviet Union, and advises future societies against a totalistic political approach. Orwell used his novel Animal Farm to portray the horrors…

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    Dictatorships during World War II Dictatorship is a “form of government in which one person or a small group possesses absolute power without effective constitutional limitations” (Britannica 2013). World War II started in 1939 and ended in 1945. It was one of the bloodiest wars in history. During World War II Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, Hideki Tojo, and Joseph Stalin were all dictators. Adolf Hitler was the dictator of Germany from 1933 to 1945 and ruled by Nazism. General Hideki Tojo…

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