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            Dictatorship is an act of forcing your will against the will of others and this can either be official or unofficial.  In other cases, there might pressure from the military without there having direct involvement but most forms of dictatorships result after the ruling government is overthrown.  Whether directly or not, Muammar Al Gaddafi…

For Aldridge’s sources, he used a lot of primary sources. He used the Pennsylvania Packet, which was very often when writing this book. In the Notes section of the book, (MR 325) he listed this document many times. It explains that this packet is where Paine declared financial arguments and published political arguments in the…

In the novel I am Malala: The Girl Who Stood up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban, Malala Yousafzai tells the story of how the Taliban slowly began to take over her small valley, Swat, in Pakistan. The story begins with Malala recalling where she was and what was happening before she was…

Malala explains how much so many people has helped her learn and been so inspiring. She refused to sit and watch education be stripped from women and is going to fight what she believes in. In Yousafzai’s speech she used patho, for example when she said, ¨When I was in Swat, which was a place…

The 1980 election between Ronald Reagan and incumbent Jimmy Carter was a rare election in American politics. It is not often that the candidate challenging an incumbent wins. In this case, the incumbent was seen as incompetent and the challenger was so well liked by the people. In this election, the incumbent from the Democratic…

In this essay I am going to be discussing the history of civil rights in Texas towards Latinos. I will be discussing the ethical and cultural perspectives that influenced the treatment of latinos, if things are better or worse now, and if any changes should be made to make things better for them. The fight…

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is known to be a well-educated and determined man. The Civil Rights movement has called on people like Dr. King to raise awareness of injustice and mistreatment of black people. Many of his speeches or writings were sure to be powerful and articulate. ‘Letter From Birmingham Jail’ written by Dr….

A series of programs focused on relief, recovery, and reform, Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal is arguably the most radical set of policies set forth by any American president. The New Deal completely shattered every expectation of what a government is supposed to do for its people, and it forever changed how the country views leadership…

“A Christian is a perfectly free lord of all, subject to one.” These words, written in 1520 by the theologian Martin Luther, would later reverberate in the ears of the desperate German peasants. What happens when people start to break away from the entity that bound civilizations for thousands of years? How does one go…

The book ‘On Liberty’ was “published in 1859 and was known as John Stuart Mill’s finest and most controversial book” (Austin, 2000). In his classic work Mill (1859) sets out to “investigate the nature and limits of the power which can be legitimately exercised by society over the individual”. In ‘On Libery’, it was emphasized…