Polis

Over the course of this semester in Poli 130A /Amer 130A class, the main focus of the class is the American political system. During class, the students learn about government institutions in regards to the ideals of the founding fathers and the workings of contemporary national politics. In doing so, the students also examine critiques of various institutional arrangements. However, now that the semester is coming to an end, the students are required to think critically about government and how…

Siwei Xie A91088106 Poli 113A Prof. Magagna Midterm Six Core Confucian Concepts In the East Asian conception of politics, the very essential idea is that the government should be established to serve the people, not just by people. To be more specific, leaders of the people should be in the same role of the leaders of a single family. In other words, just as a family leader always leads his family generously and kindly, the leader of the people is ought to be in the same way to rule the society.…

During the first century, the monotheistic religion of Christianity began. The teachings, based on the Resurrection of Jesus Christ, spread throughout the empire, touching the outskirts of Palestine. Jesus preached in Israel during the time of Augustus, urging a purification of the Jewish religion that would free Israel and establish the kingdom of God on earth. He urged a moral code based on love, charity, and humility, and he asked the faithful to follow his lessons, abandoning worldly concern…

Separate is Not Equal Tefari Bailey Student #: 5698006 POLI 1P91 TA: Cor Due Date: Monday November 16th Dr. Matthew Hennigar Introduction Segregation of education, for whites and coloured students has a mental effect on colored children. This stress becomes…

the rest of Hellas. During one of many Persian invasions, Thebes allied itself against Athens and lost alongside Persia. Though the story of Antigone was known in Hellas, Sophocles used it as a piece of propaganda, setting the story of a monarchic polis against the democratic city-state of Athens, demonstrating not only the might of a democratic government, but the failures of Thebes. Moving to the nineteenth century, the play becomes more academic to some. In Victorian America, Antigone is…

Section 1: Identification and Evaluation of Sources This investigation will be done in order to find what the similarities and differences between the role of women of Athens and Sparta were, using the research question: How did the roles of women of Sparta and Athens compare and contrast to each other? The amount of action women can take in a society reflects the culture’s values and beliefs. Therefore, researching to answer this question will lead to a deeper understanding of the Greek’s…

cultures purely by coincidence. Additionally, it is not beyond the realm of reason that Herodotus and other Greeks, especially those in Athens, viewed themselves as superior to other cultures around them. In fact, the very development of the Greek Polis was intertwined with the development of a Greek identity that in and of itself, separated the Greeks from those around them. One interpretation of this difference between Herodotus’s application of fate can then be logically tied back to this…

The purpose of this essay is to critically discuss the concept of civil disobedience with the usage of several examples such as civil rights movement, and Pussy Riot act to support and substantiate the discussion. First, the concept will be defined, highlighting the contested nature and perception of it in the academia, as well as functions and critique of it. Second, the debates around the concept will be discussed. Afterwards, the questions of a moral right to civilly disobey the law will be…

Cormac McCarthy’s The Road presents the author’s depiction of what he deems a potential picture of post apocalyptic America, a society unregulated by governmental laws. The hypothetical situation presented, one dominated by murder and cannibalism, indicates McCarthy’s potential view that, without the constraints of society, we would descend into egocentric savagery, suggesting that we need guidance and government in order to maintain peace. For me, this idea that without regulation we would all…

Slavery is a system that has been around before written records existed. But this system has not been uniform in defining what a slave is nor if a slave has any privileges. Epitomising this is the Mesoamerican examples of the Aztecs and the Maya. While the Mayans’ slaves were hereditary, the Aztecs’ were personal, so slaves’ children were free. Moreover slaves could own other slaves in this society, very rare in slavery throughout the world. Consequently it is perhaps naïve to define slavery as…