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    While Julius was a complicated man, he was a favorite to many in Rome, this made it difficult for people to truly decide whether or not his actions were the cause. (Bedoyere, 260) Because of Julius Caesar’s conflict with Pompey, his emergence into dictatorship, and his assassination, I believe Julius was responsible for the destruction of the Roman Republic. When Julius was a child, he was born into a patrician Roman family. (99, Brice) The Roman Republic was already heading towards chaos,…

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    1984 is a fictional novel written by one George Orwell. According to BBC history, “Orwell was born Eric Arthur Blair on 25 June 1903 in eastern India, the son of a British colonial civil servant. He was educated in England and, after he left Eton, joined the Indian Imperial Police in Burma, then a British colony. He resigned in 1927 and decided to become a writer.” Nineteen eighty-four centers around a man named Winston Smith, a Party member, who works for the government in the book erasing and…

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    crucifixion for their crimes. Many factors had contributed to the demise of the Romans. Factors included overspending in military, government corruption, slave labor, political instability. They all relate to Jack’s way of running his government. His dictatorship had focused on military and quite obviously his government was insecure. If it wasn’t for Ralph his focus on military would’ve resulted in no shelters being built and all the time would be used for hunting and entertainment. We can…

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    student with an understanding of fairness and development, on a personal level. This novel does just that by showing us a true fact of fairness. The Prisoners of War that wouldn’t be let off the train was a historic event. This is showing a complete dictatorship. The Soviets would not let them off the train no matter what, and they couldn’t argue. This links directly to the fairness part. Fairness is showed poorly in this story clearly and truly, these are true facts. This is why Graffiti Knight…

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    their society as the most democratic, individualistic, enterprising, and prosperous society on earth. France on the other hand, they overthrew their government and killed King Louis XVI along with his wife Marie Antoinette but they resulted in dictatorship that lasted decades. The French resulted with the Reign of Terror. Also they resulted in the crowning of Napoleon Bonaparte as emperor of…

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    From surviving and superseding Hitler Europe to racing against the technological advances of the USA, the Soviet Union constantly maintained its position as a great power in the world throughout the twentieth century. Under Stalin’s dictatorship, nationalistic propaganda and anti-capitalist sentiments inundated the people, spurring the country into the cold war. As World War II ended and the new cold war began, Stalin’s tightening grip on the government was felt across the Soviet nation as labor…

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    the first logical fallacies I found present in my “Week 4 Short Essay” is known as unwarranted generalization. When arguing for a philosopher king in our now modern world I asserted, “Many other forms of leadership such as a democracy or military dictatorship do just the opposite. They allow chaos, corruption, and manipulation of power to occur. This consequently affects its society as a whole. For this reason, having a philosopher king would best serve our society”. 2) Unwarranted…

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    an act of dictatorship, they only used the lower class energy to make an opinion that benefited the wealthy elite. In Zinn’s article he states the “mobilization of lower class energy by upper class politicians,[was] for their own purposes.”(Zinn) They abused the trust the lower class was giving to them, and used it for their own benefit leaving the original opinion of the lower class to be unattended. Zinn also states that Tyranny is Tyranny no matter where the location of the dictatorship is,…

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    been in the office for two terms by that moment (Putin-Medvedev alternation) However, it would be a huge overstatement to say that Russia is a democracy1. It implies that using the same methods and models that are used for the democracies or pure dictatorships to study Russian politics might be inappropriate. Understanding the origins and properties of the democratic (or quasi-democratic) institutions in such countries could help to better distinguish between different regimes and to develop new…

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    totalitarianism. How does the totalitarian regiment was originated? Totalitarian was originated in the 20 centuries with the appearance of Italian fascism implemented by Benito Mussolini, an Italian dictator that came to power in 1922 and put a dictatorship with…

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