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    A: How did Locke influence the Founders and Framers? Explain your answer? / How did Locke change the Founders and Framers ideas? John Locke had lots of ideas that influenced the Founders and Framers greatly. The main way that the Founders used Locke’s wisdom and influence was to help them modify a republic form of government. Although, he did have other great achievements such as establishing America’s first principles, most notably the recognition of inalienable rights, and limited…

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    While unlike past genres, adolescent literature acts as an archetype for young adults to mold their own experiences and values during a time of developmental turmoil, therefore assisting young adults in the construction of a world autonomous from past generation’s definitions. Historically, children commenced reading rudimentary picture books, then hurriedly elevated to adult novels without an intermediate genre; as a result, adolescent literature has filled the void. While many novels once…

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    way of government was through and enlightened monarch, and was cohesive with Rousseau 's ideas in the Social Contract that stated that the people had the sovereignty. Another big proponent of absolute monarch was Thomas Hobbes with the infamous Leviathan where he argued that man is not fit to govern itself. Due to the failure of both a constitutional monarchy and a representative democracy, which resulted in disorder in France, the Committee of Public Safety began its control over France.…

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    Freedom as a concept implies absolute power over one’s self and property. Through the works of philosophers like Thomas Hobbes and Jean Jacques-Rousseau, we have seen different ways of interpreting the role of property and freedom not only in relation to one’s self, but also within a community, and a political society. Hobbes acknowledges the power dynamics in a society that alter the way in which we live and consequently rebel. He understands the mutual relationship of property and freedom as a…

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    Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Thomas Hobbes were 18th and 17th century thinkers with similar, yet opposed theories about human nature. While Rousseau lived in an era of relative peace, Hobbes wrote his masterwork Leviathan during the English Civil War, this would have a great influence on his writings. Hobbes’s theory is based upon the supposition that human nature is naturally aggressive and selfish; whereas Rousseau believes that men only become evil once they join society, which corrupts them.…

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    Final Recordings of the Pegasus Expedition ”Foreign object spotted 56 N, 167,56 W.” “What’s the depth reading, B?” “A dip in the natural 2,000 meter mark— about 230 meters deeper.” “Jones? The visual?” “Nothin’ like I’ve seen before, and I doubt it’s natural. Sleek, white, and some dim lights glowing in a pattern along the side and rim.” “Got that Bigelsteine?” “Ja.” “Awesome. B, what’s the heat scan read?” “No signs of life on the radar. However, the foreign vessel is recorded as over 80…

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    Supernatural is a popular T.V. show on CW about two brothers named Dean and Sam Winchester who go around hunting monsters. Being a popular T.V. show comes with many things such as fans shipping two characters together. Fans see two characters that aren’t specifically kissing as being a couple through even the smallest hints that the T.V. show provides. A T.V. show that is a great example of this is Supernatural since it proves that Dean and Castiel are in a relationship. Misha the actor who…

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    In many cultures in the world, people are determining social role based on gender disparities. In social construction, gender is used to differentiate roles, responsibilities, rights, abilities and limitations between men and women. Patriarchy system can be seen as a set of social rules or norms based on maleness, where man is placed as the head of family, property owner, protector, and decision maker. As Lauren Wilcox (2007) explains, “Gender symbolism describes the way in which…

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    (I) In Kant’s Perpetual Peace, how does the thesis of the First Definitive Article of the Second Section establish the condition of peace? Which of the articles of the First Section provide a necessary grounding for that thesis? (TWO PAGES PLUS) The thesis of the First Definitive Article of the Second Section is “The civil constitution of every state is to be republican” (Kant 6). “Republicanism is the political principle of the separation of one executive from the legislative power”…

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    class until the goals had been achieved, it was at this time that Stalin began to change the feeling toward the working class and everything changed. “Yet he stamped out any residual emanicpatory impulses, presiding over the consolidation of a leviathan state in which a ruling elite enjoyed power and privilege at the expense of the mass of the people, and in which forms of patriarchy and Russian chauvinism were…

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