Brave New World: A prophecy examined Monday‚ November 24‚ 2014 9:07 AM Depicts a world where the state organized to insure happiness‚ community and stability. Citizens are condition to maintain the status quo Huxley suggests in BNW revisited (essay) that we are drifting towards that at present. Welfare-tyranny BNW‚ people 600 years in the future direct all their energy toward avoiding physical and mental discomfort. The state provides constant diversion in the form of elaborate games‚ erotic "feelie"
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In Search of Political and Social Order A. Confucius (551-479 B.C.E.) and His School 1. Confucius a. Educator and political authority b. Sayings were compiled in the Analects by his disciples 2. Confucian Ideas a. Basically honesty and ethical in character b. Thoroughly practical: how to restore political and social order c. Concentrated on formation of Junzi "superior individuals" d. Edited and assembled the Zhou classics for his disciples to study 3. Key Confucian Values a. Ren: A sense
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LEAGUE OF NATIONS [FAILURES]- While the League of Nations could celebrate its successes‚ the League had every reason to examine its failures and where it went wrong. These failures‚ especially in the 1930’s‚ cruelly exposed the weaknesses of the League of Nations and played a part in the outbreak of World War Two in 1939. During the 1920’s the failures of the League of Nations were essentially small-scale and did not threaten world peace. However they did set a marker – that the League of Nations
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Prohibitionists were so convinced that banning alcohol would automatically change the behavior of Americans and little thought actually was put in the enforcement of the newly endorsed Eighteenth Amendment. The Volstead Act was formed to back up the newly established Eighteenth Amendment when the Prohibition Bureau was founded. Congress only set aside two million dollars for the new Prohibition Bureau. The Prohibition Bureau was the federal law enforcement agency that enforced the new Prohibition
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Video- Notes Chapter 27: WWII “Speaking Intelligently About The Outline” Blue = “Terms to Know” 1. The Legacy of WWI‚ “The Diplomacy of The New Era” a. Henry Cabot Lodge was very suspicious of the treaty of Versailles‚ especially Article 10 (which stated that the US was required to respect the territory of other states) he viewed the league as limiting the power of the government‚ and believed that we should be the “master of our own fate.” b. The failure to ratify the Treaty
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On December 7‚ 1941‚ hundreds of Japanese fighter planes attacked the American naval base at Pearl Harbor near Honolulu‚ Hawaii. it lasted just two hours. The Japanese managed to destroy nearly 20 naval vessels‚ including eight battleships‚ and more than 300 airplanes. More than 2‚000 Americans soldiers and sailors died in the attack‚ and another 1‚000 were wounded. The day after the assault‚ President Franklin D. Roosevelt asked Congress to declare war on Japan; Congress approved his declaration
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lifetime however he did owe his rise to power in political skills to his military abilities. In 1938 he traveled to Europe in order to observe the military and he studied nations such as Germany‚ Italy‚ Spain‚ and France. He obtained knowledge from Benito Mussolini which he later implemented into his own country. After the war‚ Peron returned back to Argentina in the year 1941‚ and used his knowledge to become colonial as well as joined the United Officers Group. The United Officers Group was a secret
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On September 30‚ 1938‚ Adolf Hitler‚ Benito Mussolini‚ French Premier Edouard Daladier‚ and British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain signed the Munich Agreement‚ which sealed the fate of Czechoslovakia‚ and handed it over to Germany in the name of peace. At the time of the meeting‚ Chamberlain declared that peace had been reached with Germany. His actions were popular in Britain because the British people thought war with Germany had been avoided. However‚ Chamberlain seem to have underestimated
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Is terrorism a legitimate way to overthrow an oppressive government? Is it the only way? Were the fatalities likely caused by V’s explosions worth the ultimate result? Muammar Gaddafi‚ Hosni Mubarak‚ Augusto Pinochet‚ Francisco Franco‚ and Benito Mussolini‚ where all dictators that over controlled and completely abused over the people of the countries in which they ruled‚ by oppressing slaughtering and torturing the ones that where against their beliefs. All of them actually ended the same‚ killed
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blamed for the cause of second world war because of aggressive acts‚ ideas of creation‚ and multiple occurrences of invasion. Initially‚ dictators are to blame for world war 2 is the things they "created". For example‚ in Italy a man named Benito Mussolini organized a new group called the fascist. This group was a bunch of men who wore black shirts who were also armed with guns and clubs. They would also often hurt people who would oppose them.
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