Dictatorship

royalty, brutal political fights, assassinations, and dictatorships, wars that added neighboring territories and new population, but also brought economic devastation and poverty. After the defeat of Germany and the end of World War II, Greece joined NATO in 1952. Then, they experienced a hostile civil war between communist and anticommunist forces. In 1967, a group of military officers took power, establishing a military dictatorship. This dictatorship suspended many political freedoms and…

Several of Madonna’s hits from 1980’s such as “Material Girl” and “Like a Prayer” have attracted prominence across the globe throughout recent decades and are some of the many features of American pop-culture and music. However, while many people can sing these songs word for word, few actually know much about the singer-songwriter’s personal life including the fact that she adopted two of her children from Malawi. On a global perspective, these adoptions can be viewed in a positive light…

In Animal Farm, as in the Russian Revolution, an idealistic, classless society is transformed into a barbarous, bloody dictatorship through negligence, apathy, lack of education, and trust on the behalf of the citizenship. In Animal Farm, Orwell uses the animals to show how the Bolshevik leaders were able to seize power so effortlessly. Mollie, representing the self-centered…

In his story, “Harrison Bergeron,” Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., mirrors major governmental ideas displayed during the Cold War. The three major ideas that are most evident are oppressive dictatorship, suppression of personal opinion, abilities, and beliefs, and the governmental system of communism. The government in the story “Harrison Bergeron,” was run by Diana Moon Glampers, known as the Handicapper General. She was very iron-fisted, in a sense that she had the authority, and if one disobeyed her,…

Piggy and the conch share the same fate because they bring justice and unity on the island. When Piggy tried to use the conch to speak to the savages, he questioned, “Which is better, law and rescue, or hunting and breaking things up?”(180). Piggy and the conch symbolize law and order, for they both establish a democratic civilization on the island. They share the same destiny because Piggy still values, and is trying to use the conch as a way to create harmony and regulation. Piggy tries to…

The United States Constitution was created for various amount of reasons. It is what makes up most of the US history and government. One of the reasons for the constitution was to bring together the 13 colonies after becoming free from the British. They have used the Articles of Confederation as a fix but then realized that it was not a permanent solution and was not a prospering system for all the states they set out to make a better and stronger central…

positives of the Shogun government, in peace, learning, and freedom. However, this same government is often called a dictatorship . A dictatorship, understood as one ruler over a country, usually contains negative connotations due to dictatorships occurring by force, and then that one person contains so much power, they can make laws without restraint . This fear of a dictatorship is part of what pushed the reconquering from Edo to Meiji. The other part is that the Shoguns, from ruling for so…

Napoleon came to power after driving the former leader, Snowball, off Animal Farm. The novel Animal Farm by George Orwell, farm animals get rid of their farmer, Jones, and become their own government. However, the animals end up living in a communist dictatorship. As many book reviews have pointed out, this story has parallels with the rise of the communist Soviet Union. While the literal story in Animal Farm is that farm animals overthrew Jones to rule themselves, the underlying story is that…

Money, equals “any article or substance” which can be used as a “medium of exchange, measure of wealth, or means of payment” . The distribution of goods and services can be accomplished in many ways. Distribution is often determined by the ideology and rules that governs each society. For capitalist and socialist societies, the basis for how the medium is exchanged differs greatly and has been a constant source of debate from the origination of these concepts. The United States is a bastion of…

. It was to be said that each person would be issued an identity card stating what member of what tribe they are a part of. The ethnicity of an individual person was based off of the ethnicity of what their father was (Magnarella 26). This process of giving out identification cards was seen as extremely negative in the eyes of the citizens of Rwanda. A couple decades later in 1959, the pro-Hutu party launched a revolt that resulted in the bloody ethnic clashes (Magnarella 26). The results of the…