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    the Pol Pot's Regime. And how she managed to survive through, losing her family and slowey reunited with her family. This book helps us see how one child's life has changed, and how society has been destroyed and the bonds between humans has changed. Ngor, Haing, Roger Warner, and Haing Ngor. Survival in the Killing Fields. New York: Carroll & Graf, 2003. Print. This book shows the view…

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    Atwood. We see how Offred describes her breakfast with great detail due to her boredom in her bedroom followed by the birth ceremony of Ofwarren’s child. This occurs after she recounts her memory of being pregnant and being with her husband before the Regime. Atwood manages to make two specific themes prominent in this extract of women's bodies being used as political instruments and religion showing effect of oppression. She makes these thematic ideas apparent to the readers by making…

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    other, but the kings always kept their promises. The Shah kept none ” (27). With this in mind, the Shah’s actions fueled the Islamic revolution and consequently, exile. From a historical aspect, the Shah acted as an authoritarian under his political regime. In politics, authoritarianism occurs when a society’s government has a strong central power with limited freedoms among individuals. Approaching Persepolis, illustrations hitherto represents aspects of authoritarianism, such as restrictions…

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    Qutb

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    his ideology can be summed up as being a conflict between hakimiyya (wisdom) and jahhiliyya (ignorance) in which much of the Muslim World is in the latter at the expense of the former, in his formulation, jahhiliyya is the state in which the ruling regime does much to contravene the sharia and reduce the space for the possibility of preaching, as a result the state loses its legitimacy and must be overthrown. However, the state still has powerful links in society making them hard to dislodge, so…

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    Tiananmen Square

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    represent the political ideologies of the respective regimes, as well as act as the symbolic centers of political power in their countries. This part will illustrate how the institution of each government and the political culture of each country are indicated by the formal and spatial language of the two sites. First, to understand the development of these spaces, one must understand the American and Chinese political regimes. In politics, a régime is the form of government or the set of…

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    The Iran-Iraq War

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    Iraq’s decision to invade Iran was reflective of President Saddam Hussein’s desire to seize the Shatt al-Arab waterways and the oil producing province of Khuzestan and topple the Khomeini regime pursuant to his fears of Iranian hegemony and his aspirations of asserting Iraq as the pre-eminent Arab state. Within this framework, blame for the conflict rests with the Ba’athist ruled Republic of Iraq. Prior the war, Iraq enjoyed a meteoric…

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    The fundamentalist men were influenced by the government to fight other victims, making them pawns of the Republic. Through the use of clothing, Satrapi is able to portray violence between divided citizens depicting the manipulative tactics of the regime, showing how both sides are…

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    SCHOOLS AND DEBATES A women’s role in Nazi Germany was to provide more children to fill the Lebensraum. Some historians argue whether they resisted the Nazi regime or if they conformed to their policies. Matthew Stibbe, an entrepreneur and author; says the historical writings are just as controversial as the German resistance. Stibbe even quotes Ian Kershaw on supporting the history of resistance was a main role in Germany’s self-image. This in other words brought out the political…

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    best defining principle of a city is happiness. Aristotle says that the best regime will produce the most happiness in people. According to this, Bath North Carolina must be the best regime because it definitely produces the most happiness in people. Aristotle does warn that everybody in the best regime is not necessarily guaranteed happiness, but they are much more likely to have it in the best regime, than in the worst regime. The most important thing I learned from Aristotle is that…

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    society through the elevation of national health and educational standards,” which led to the implementation of more drastic eugenic techniques in Brazil (Williams 53). Furthermore, when Capanema was replaced Campos as minister “the [first Vargas] regime fully integrated cultural programming into the lexicon and practice of federal power, making Brazilian culture a charge of the state” (Williams 14) as the entity in control of deciding over brasilidade - an intangible but highly coveted sense of…

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