Political socialization

In 2012, the New York Times published an article reporting extensively on the rampant corruption in the business practices of Wal-Mart’s Mexican branch, Wal-Mart de Mexico. The article reported that the company paid more than $24 million in order to obtain things such as building permits and beneficial environmental impact reports as a way of facilitating unprecedented large growth (Barstow 2012). Due to these practices, Wal-Mart has come under scrutiny of the United States’ Foreign Corrupt…

Prenatal Genetic Testing: A Technology of Normalization Prenatal genetic testing is a technology made available to more accurately determine whether or not a child could have a birth ‘defect’. The most common birth defects tested for are Down syndrome, Trisomy 18, or an open neural tube defect (Government of Canada, 2013). This paper asserts first that prenatal genetic testing is a technology of normalization, which labels disability as abnormal and a feared outcome, and second that…

When a government overwhelms its people, it is a citizen’s responsibility to be conscience of corruption and refusing unjust laws. In the articles “Civil Disobedience” by Henry David Thoreau and “Letters from Birmingham Jail” by Martin Luther King Jr., a person must acknowledge if a poor government has created unfair laws and call their people to take a stand against it. King tries to define what a just law is and has a similar position with Thoreau. He believed that America was being unfair for…

theorist may not have agreed with Jefferson on that contention. The Progressive movement was a concern with reform. Which reforms? Short answer all of them; Progressive’s championed women’s suffrage, racial equality, worker rights, corporate greed, and political corruption. Progressives call for active governmental intervention to establish laws, ordinances and policies as corrective measures. The role and scope of government have expanded over the years. In 1982 the Justice Department failed to…

willing to be amoral. Glerberzon states, “a Prince must do whatever he has do [good or evil] to retain power, while always maintaining “the appearance of virtue” . Machiavelli theory argues that a ruler must do whatever it takes to gain and hold political power, but in the eyes of his subjects have the appearance of being morally…

Is sovereignty necessarily absolute? Sovereignty is a term used to describe the uncontrolled power through which an independent state is governed (Krasner, 2001). Sovereignty also calls for the supreme political will and authority that a state has in its administration and the control of the constitution (Krasner, 2001). In other words, Sovereignty provides the states with the power to do just about anything that pleases the states without being accountable to different nations. For…

“There are hundreds of millions of gun owners in this country, and not one of them will have an accident today. The only misuse of guns comes in environments where there are drugs, alcohol, bad parents, and undisciplined children. Period” (Ted Nugent). This quote reflects on the recent mass shootings where firearms were unfortunately placed in the wrong hands. As of December 6, 2015, 355 mass shootings have occurred in the United States. Following every shooting is the devastation and surprise…

“Such a principle, stripped of all disguise, is surely the mere primitive doctrine that might is right,..” These are the words of King George the sixth, in his speech to the British Empire, September 3rd 1939, on the philosophy of Naiz Germany. The opposing views of the Third Reich and the rest of the free world brings about several questions, namely; what is the moral authority of a government, where does it come from, and how should it carry out its authority? A government must have some kind…

ought to be moderate and appropriate for his people. Thus, Lao Tzu thinks that the ruler should be tolerant and flexible. However, Machiavelli insists that human nature is selfish and superficial. He analyzes how a great prince should be in political vision, but…

• Rectangular painting, divided into top third roof and lower thirds is ground, the floor board. • Scene is set in daytime, in a building with brown pillars that has sheep with the wools being shaved. • The colours of the floor board and the sheep are consistently pale browns with their skin and shaved wool cream in colour; the rooftop of the building is dark, predominantly browns, with black lines between it for the right side of the roof top, and dark grey rectangular on the left side. • The…