By the end of World War II, the nations of Western Europe all faced the burdens of the post-war economies. If not totally destroyed, a nation was in chaos and needed dramatic reconstruction. This is where democratic societies stepped in; the recreation of sturdy government was crucial to the revival...

Uniting the People and Government By the end of World War II, the nations of Western Europe all faced the burdens of the post-war economies. If not destroyed, a nation was in chaos and needed dramatic reconstruction. This is where democratic societies stepped in; recreation of sturdy government w...

Apparent Connections Amidst Science, Politics, and Religion Within today's society science is an entity almost entirely separate from religion and politics, yet history paints a different picture. During 17th and 18th century Europe, the spread of ideas and the inspiration to perform sci...

One of the most devastating and frightening time-periods of our history was during the Second World War, when between five and six million Jewish civilians were killed throughout Europe in a mass genocide. A large portion of the Jews were killed by the Nazis under Hitler's regime. However, thousand...

Information Technology Capabilities Of the United Kingdom Overview The United Kingdom is located north of France and east of Ireland and is made up of England, Whales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland. It has an overall population of about 60 million people. The UK is at the forefront of...

"My notion of democracy is that under it the weakest should have the same opportunity as the strongest."- Mahatma Gandhi. In this paper, I will show the differences between two types of liberal thought, Neoliberalism and Ordoliberalism, that have attempted to achieve Gandhi's notion....

The Enlightenment was a time of greatness and advances in European History, but it can also be argued as a time of turmoil and destruction. During this time in European history, many great philosophers, or thinkers, thought of new ideas and methods of governing and social interactions to increase th...

GeographyThe official country name in conventional long form is the Kingdom of Norway. Norge is the local short form. The capital of Norway is Oslo. Norway is situated far to the north in the western corner of Europe bordering the North Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean. Norway shares borders wit...

The legislation of morality has become a big dilemma. Where does the government pass the fine line between the legislation on conformity ideals of human conduct to taking away our rights as human beings? Many say that the government has passed those fine lines years ago. The idea of men being allowe...

The statement citing the essential cause of the French Revolution was the power clash between the powerful, rising bourgeoisie and a well-established aristocracy defending it's privileges. The causes of the French Revolution, being provoked by this collision of powers, were the financial debt ...

Introduction Since the dawn of our existence, when we had the freedom to pretty much do anything our inventive minds could conjure up, there arrived a changing point when our ideas went too far or too extreme. There were actions that people of the past and present societies couldn't accept be...

John Locke's thesis was "that the right to govern derived from the consent of the governed and was a form of contract" (Perry pg.439). This basically meant that when people gave power to the government, they expected the government to rule justly, protect their assets and protect th...

Adam Smith: An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations Adam Smith is broken up into five different books with separate chapters. We will mainly focus on book IV and I. Book I is mainly concerned with how wealth is distributed as wages, profits and rent. The main argument in ...

Currency, the Beginning, the Present , and the Future "Money - in the traditional sense no longer exists. It died two decades ago when Richard Nixon forever abolished the gold standard. Since then, money as we once knew it has been replaced by an unstable new global medium of e...

¡§Negative Impacts On Technologies¡ Advanced technologies are potential threats to devastate the living environment. Although technologies has helped human beings to adapt an easier way of life, however, in the long term it might not be as beneficial ...

The Russian Avant-Garde began in Russia in about 1915. It was the year that Malevich revealed his Suprematist compositions that reduced painting to total abstraction and rid the pictures of any reference to the visual world. He is credited with being the first artist to do this; that is, forsake the...

Persuasive speech The First Amendment I. "Hey, hey LBJ, how many kids did you kill today?" II. This is an example of what American citizens said when exercising their right of free speech during the era of the Vietnam War. III. The issue I've decided to speak about is the importance...

"Have a bias toward action- let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away" (Indira Gandhi). Many people are against the thought of cloning humans without any knowledge of the cloning process. The positives of cloning g...

Throughout the history of the Western world various ideologies have proven so influential as to give rise to assorted "isms" that change society. Namely, the rise and support of socialism has been a major component to the make up of Western history in the 19th and 20th centuries. An inve...

The Legalization of Marijuana The legalization of marijuana has been one of the most discussed topics by politicians recently. Ever since 1937, when marijuana was criminalized, there have been many people who have become successful members of society and still smoked marijuana. These people ris...

The Han Dynasty was a one of the most influential Chinese civilizations. This dynasty was from 202 B.C.E. – 220 C.E. It began when Liu Bang took over rule from the Qin Dynasty. Another important leader of the Han was Wu Ti. The Han had some of the same laws and regulations as the Qin, ...

Q/ How important was Louis XVI in the collapse of the Ancien Regime? King Louis xvi was an important factor in the collapse of the ancien regime in France during the year of 1789. Although the king not fully responsible he still played a small role in the ancien regime's collapse, this is at...

Within culture throughout time, individuals have been different from one another, and in several ways. Appearance, actions, and even thought are some of these differentiating characteristics. One's thoughts do not necessarily have to conform to another's. Yet when given power, an individua...

"We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness -- That to secure these Rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just ...

I. The problem, according to the article, is the high unemployment rate in the nation; this is caused primarily by lack of consumer spending after the September 11 attacks. There are two ways to go about solving the problem: the "Reagan Supply-Side approach" and the "Keynesian Demand...