Redistribution

Are taxes that fund public education just? The United Nations’ Declaration of Human Rights declares that education is a fundamental human right and everyone should have access to free, compulsory elementary education (United Nations). On one hand, taxes that fund public education seem just because they aim to provide a better educational system for the community. However, these taxes also seem unjust because taxation itself is a violation of the right to self-ownership. Emmanuel Levinas argues…

“The California Ideology” is clearly critical of free market capitalism and has an underlying leftist values. Barbrook and Cameron even advocate for, “a major redistribution of wealth” (12) in the United States. This excerpt from the Mute magazine website clearly shows that the magazine shares similar values, “we need to critically engage with the ways in which new media also reproduce and extend capitalist social…

United States. The Canadian people have four major core values, including fairness, parity, inclusiveness, and gregarious equity. It is evident by the country’s approach to governance, including public health care, higher taxation to promote the redistribution of wealth, the abolition of capital penalization and the suppression of far-right…

This article discussed the Chav as a new underclass, their social exclusion, their consumption and their presence in the media. The two main points were, Chav culture beside the etymology of the use of ‘Chav’, instead of underclass, in the popular English lexicon which explains the marginality reconfiguration after the substitution. Moreover, the discussion covered Chav stereotype either socially or in the Media. Afterwards, the critical commentary will assess this essay with reference to other…

I’ve a confession: "shopping lists don’t excite me.” I’m a very bizarre individual; yup it’s ironic that I’m here professing my opinion at all. But, admittedly I do exist, and when it comes to lists I remember what I require. I’m a consumer-watch nightmare. I shop like a SAS recruit and rarely go off piste when it comes to purchasing items I hadn’t memorised. I don’t spare a moment to think of foreign farmers well-being or believe that buying a ‘FT’ labelled coffee would mean a Latin American…

Every big organization has a little beginning. Some of them started as a family business with 1 or 2 people driving the business, some started with staff strength of 8 and after 1 or 2 decades turned to market leader having over 8,000 staffs in their payroll. Most of the owners of these companies have a long term view (Corporate Strategy) or picture of what they want their business to attain in many years to come and at one point or the other over the years have taken informed decisions to…

The Catalan independence movement is a political movement that emerged from Catalan nationalism that is mainly dedicated to the support of the independence of Catalonia from Spain and France. This feeling is brought by the dictatorial times of Franco who attempted to suppress the Catalan identity. To give a more geographical sense of Catalonia, it is a roughly triangular region in Spain's far northeast corner, which is separated by the Pyrenean mountains from southern France to which they share…

Causal Argument Racial discrimination is still quite prevalent in present America. African-Americans make up 14% of drug users in America, but comprise of 37% of people arrested for drug-related offenses. Legally, African-American men are three times more likely to be searched at a traffic stop and six times more likely to go to jail than white men. The jail sentences for African-Americans are often longer than whites for similar crimes. Additionally, the concern of police brutality…

The American Civil War was earthshaking event for the United States, one that come to shape the country for decades and centuries. In the years following the bloody crucible, America would struggle to redefine itself as a nation, and seek to reconcile its values with its policies while simultaneously allowing itself to heal in the wake of so much fear and hatred. Both goals brought their own set of challenges, all of which were only strengthened by the sudden, tragic assassination of Abraham…

as niche- innovators within small networks so as to bring about novelties on the basis of every-day life. “The existing system gives power to the government and increases inequality. The longer the time of no-change, the more power they have. Redistribution of power can be succeeded through 3 stages: 1)Spotting the challenges and principles. 2) Coming up with resources in order to confront these limits, and 3) Design and implement strategies. Through ‘new Democracy’ we want to create learning…