Government of Illinois

Loggerhead Turtles In this image, there is a beach and there is a large caution sign for people to know that this area is restricted. Some letters are in bold and in all caps, while other writing underneath this is in a smaller font and all lower case. Underneath the smaller font it says,” Protected by Federal and State Laws.” With it being protected by the Federal and State Laws, there must be a fine if someone does bother these turtles. It seems like it is near some housing areas. On this…

perspective about government and how much power it should hold. While some people believe in the saying “power to the people” and that government should play little to no role in the lives of society other’s believe all the power should be given to one specific person like a dictator. With these different beliefs, there is also those people who stand in the middle agreeing that the government should play big roles in society but the people should have just as much say as the government. After…

social destiny”. The motto of the BNW, “Community. Identity. Stability” is in alignment with communist beliefs and therefore draws links to a society devoid of free thought, dissuading individuality and giving rise to an almost fascist style of government. Through the removal of the concept of a ‘mother’ and ‘father’, labelling it “gross viviparous reproduction”, Huxley succeeds in removing intimate emotional attachment from those that live within the BNW. This lack of emotion is in…

The book 1984 is a story where the society is based on a controlling power “Big Brother”. A society is possible to strive on a monarchy or oligarchy, because it has happened before. Some examples that have happened recently is the presidential election, many believe that 1984 resembles what will happen if President Trump continues to be in office. CNN made an article named “We’re Living In 1984 Today”, they talk about the telescreens and facebook similarities. Surveillance and privacy are the…

There are many disputes debating on whether the Patriot Act should be legal or not. The Patriot Act’s purpose is to “[make] it easier for the government to obtain the orders and allowed for greater coordination among intelligence agencies and law enforcement”(Philadelphia, par 14). But at what point is obtaining information from the American citizens too far? The issue for this debate is does the Patriot Act violate the people's rights. This debate has been going on since 2001 as some view the…

way that this totalitarian government ensures that it will never be overthrown by rebels. The other main way the government controls the flow of information among the citizens is by rewriting history to suit the present. An example of this would be if one day the government announced a 20% increase in rations and the next day 15%, they would claim that the original number had always been 15%. By rewriting history, the citizens are never able to see fault in their government and thus have no…

Merton’s Theory of Anomie In the 1960’s, Robert Merton introduced his Theory of Anomie pertaining to the United States of America. I have elected to apply Merton’s Theory of Anomie to German society and American society, comparatively. Robert Merton strived to describe how deviance is depicted in society and how the people either adapt to the means and goals or become deviant to accumulate success. Merton classifies those modes of adaptation as conformists, innovators, ritualists and rebels.…

Athens was a true democracy because the citizens have the liberty to vote on just about everything, excluding the magistrates, which were elected by a lottery. Some may argue that it wasn’t a true democracy because women, children, and metics weren’t allowed to vote, thus making Athens an oligarchy, which was proven in Wealthy Hellas by Josiah Ober, but this argument is invalid, only because at the time women were considered to be lower than men, children did not know better, and metics most…

The primary source by William McKinley, The Acquisition of the Philippines, were written instructions. The twenty fifth president of the United States wrote these instructions on August 12, 1898, with a purpose. McKinley’s words were meant to reach the American peace negotiators that were to be convening in Paris with Spanish commissioners. Hence, his basic purpose behind this text was to create lasting peace between the nations involved. However, this reasoning only skims the surface of…

growing awareness of animal welfare has permeated throughout public opinion, which is slowly shifting to respect the inherent rights of animals. As a result, there is a greater call for commercial industries and government practises to change in accordance. Not only are state and territory governments responsible for reforming the conduct of these industries through addressing the nature of welfare laws and their upholding, but they are also often faced with the issues surrounding the population…