facilitates dictatorship” To what extent does your comparative study of the intertextual perspectives of Metropolis and Nineteen Eighty-Four reflect this statement? The extent of which technology facilitates a totalitarian regime is elucidated by the comparative study of the composers’ intertextual perspectives. Despite living in different time periods‚ both George Orwell’s 1984 and Fritz Lang’s Metropolis convey their perspectives of technology as beings factors that bolster a dictatorship. ******
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Viva La vida is a song about dictatorship and losing power. The theme of the song is that power corrupts people. Viva La Vida translates to live the life in english. The song is about going from riches to rags and making mistakes. The song says in stanza 1‚ “I used to rule the world. Seas would rise when I gave the word. Now in the morning I sleep alone. Sweep the streets I used to own.” (1) The meaning of these lyrics is that he used to be a monarch‚ and seas of people would go to battle when
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The end of the Cold War and the demise of the Soviet communist empire have shown the dominance of liberal democracy and capitalism over all other possible alternatives. The emerging ``New World Order`` has been characterized by the collapse of communism and the global demand for democracy. Fukuyama even went as far as declaring the ``end of history``: `what we may be witnessing is not the end of the Cold War‚ or the passing of a particular period of postwar history‚ but the end of history as such:
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Social relationships were important components of the French absolute monarchy. Historians agree that to achieve supreme control and national unity‚ Kings relied heavily on military strength. There is little question that absolutist France came to posses the largest standing army Europe had ever seen. Armies made France a powerful state‚ and the King a powerful ruler. However kings also controlled through non military means‚ establishing bureaucratic and legal systems and developing an absolutist
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Programme of the European Commission "Too many people expect wonders from democracy‚ when the most wonderful thing of all is just having it." Walter Winchell BASIC PRINCIPLES OF ACTIVE DEMOCRACY What Is Democracy? [pic] Democracy comes from the Greek word‚ "demos‚" meaning people. In democracies‚ it is the people who hold sovereign power over legislator and government. Democracy is a form of government in which power is held by people under a free electoral system
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NIGERIA’S ’DEMOCRACY DIVIDENDS’ The nation’s literary clan went agog recently when it generously expended kilometers of expensive newsprint and megawatts of electronic media energy on what looked like a stock-taking ritual in commemoration of the second year of the Obasanjo regime. One by one‚ all the learned commentators who mounted the podium had something to say about the status of the regime’s half time scorecard. And depending on the analyst’s loyalty‚ it was possible to make a general classification
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The collapse of the Weimar democracy in 1933 could not be attributed to one event‚ but more referred to in a monocausal manner. A multiplicity of factors were involved to upset the republics equilibrium and made it vulnerable to sudden shock. The complexity of contributing factors to the democratic collapse can be partially blamed on the shaky foundations and inherent flaws within the constitution‚ making the republic susceptible to future problems and the Nazi take over. The economic situation which
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The answer I have to offer here is two fold: First‚ Americans today are easily and frequently offended. and Second‚ America today is not a democracy‚ it is a demagogy. Demagogy simply means: “Ruled by a demagogue or demagogues” where a demagogue is defined as: “a political agitator who appeals with crude oratory to the prejudice and passions of the mob.”; and America‚ with its three hundred million strong; media addicted population‚ comes fully equipped with its own massive‚ prejudiced and passionate
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To get a better understanding of the 64 coup‚ we must first know what the military dictatorship in Brazil (1964-1985) was. It all begins when President Joao Goulart is removed from his post. The main objective of this regime was to prohibit communism and corruption in the country‚ because the military regime itself was a provisional character. And to end this communist threat in Brazil‚ they had to censor the press and also created Institutional Acts that would change the country. So whoever was
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Democracy is a system of governance‚ its origins dates back to Greece and ancient Athens between 421 and 322 B.C. Most Western countries changed their system of governance to a representative democracy in the 19th century‚ mostly influenced by liberalism. Democracy‚ in Greek‚ means “Power to the People”. In this system people vote for their president‚ choose from different parties. In an authoritarian state‚ all powers are in the hand of one person‚ whereas in a democratic state‚ different
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