Legitimacy

Relationship Between Police Brutality and Race Police officers are the only individuals who are authorized to use force when performing their duties of ensuring a safe environment for community members, as long as that force is both necessary and reasonable. However, when a police officer purposely takes advantage of his or her discretion is when policing strategies and tactics began to be questioned. The phrase “police brutality” quickly became popular during the twentieth and twenty-first…

are brushed aside as “crazy talk,” or belittled as an entity that will merely go away as time passes. Occasionally, these fringe groups attempt to insert themselves into the mainstream and regularly resort to deceptive measures to increase their legitimacy. The book, Denying History: Who Says the Holocaust Never Happened and Why Do They Say It?, written by Michael Shermer and Alex Grobman, discusses and analyzes the Holocaust Denial movement that is present around the world and has attempted to…

allies, members of a dominant social group who seek to eliminate oppressions that they receive privileges from. Ayvazian believes the consistency and genuine intention make allies’ actions effective, as it has a stronger resonance with their fellow dominant members. This will also lessen violence, one pillar of oppression, by reducing the inequality gap, in addition to twisted ideologies. And as people become allies, they inspire others to become allies continuing the cycle against…

How one defines their own reality speaks loudly of a person’s character. People are always attempting to decipher the riddle of “illusion vs. reality”, but have never come to a consensus on the issue. These opposing ideas stem from the way we distinguish what is real and what is not, which all relies on our own self-perception. In William Shakespeare’s classic tragedy Hamlet, the characters struggle with recognizing the deception that has managed to intertwine itself into their lives. The…

The Abrahamic religions— Christianity, Judaism and Islam— have been at odds for most of their existence: from the Crusades, to the Holocaust, to the recent Iraq War. That’s why it was rather surprising to see the respect given to Christianity and Judaism in the Qur’an. When most people look at the Middle East today, it seems like a conflict that’s intertwined with religious tension: the Christian-based Western coalition allied with the Jewish Israeli state facing off against Islamic states and…

have been labeled as those who modify the way that their followers think about themselves such that feelings of commitment and participation are enhanced (Shamiret al., 1993). There has been about argument in the literature about the discriminant legitimacy of numerous of the transformational leadership extents, but a model with eight dimensions is commonly used (Judge and Piccolo, 2004) Multiple systems have been used to certify the eight-factor approach to transformational leadership,…

After the bubonic plague main Islamic dynasties were The Ottoman Empire, The Safavid Empire, and The Mughal Empire. Each empire share the core Islamic beliefs but they differ in their unique political features. The Ottomans adopted Sunni view of Islam, while inclusive the traditional ways of Byzantine Empire and trying new ways of integrating diverse people. The Safavids are the supporters of Shiite vision of Islam and Mughals ruled over the wealth but severed realm that is today’s India,…

The subject of the welfare state remains a thorny issue. Many countries have been experiencing a welfare crisis for some years. The welfare systems have become too expensive for the state. The demand for welfare cannot be satisfied through state-financed policies. Demand is exceeding supply. Secondly, despite the welfare programs provided by government, it do no longer give proper solutions to the problems in the society, drug abusers are not cured, elderly people are still isolated, children…

Some religious scholars have argued that covering is mandatory for all believing Muslim women. Feminist scholars oppose the covering. The hijab is a contested issue among religious scholars. Ordinary Muslim Americans, too, disagree on this issue. Some encourage it and others sarcastically label it the "Sixth Pillar of Islam. These are just the first stirrings of a new era in the story of Islam in the West. Historically, religions undergo enormous transformations as one strain of belief and…

focused on how it relates to Mussolini, Hitler, and Khomeini. A totalitarian regime, compared to an authoritarian, has one leader or board that leads the country while an authoritarian regime is comparable besides the intensity of the oversite. The legitimacy for both regimes originates from the executive authority. On the other hand, the variances between the two are that totalitarianism uses charisma to create a civil regime and on the other hand, authoritarian regimes generate fear into…