Persuasive Speech In 1999‚ Australia voted in a referendum that would have made our country a republic. The proposal was defeated‚ as the way the republic was to be run was unclear‚ as well as a large campaign by then Prime Minister John Howard and other significant monarchist groups. Australia should become a republic‚ and elect our own head of state to replace the Queen and the Governor General. Why should we do this? Because the values of the monarchy‚ and of hereditary power‚ clash completely
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The relevance of The Republic to our modern society In Plato’s The Republic‚ Plato illustrates what his ideal city would look like. He describes the educational systems‚ ideal legislators and the purposes of democracy. The republic influenced many people to understand the purpose for democracy‚ and it led to new philosophical schools of thought. Although this work was written hundreds of years ago‚ it still affects our modern world today. One of the most important things that Plato stresses is
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taken over the philosophical dialogue. Two leading men in this arena of political thought are Niccolo Machiavelli (author of the practical and quasi-immoral treatise‚ The Prince) and Plato (author of the philosophical and Utopian-like dialogue‚ The Republic.) While both men transformed the nature of political philosophy‚ most readers consider their respective quests for an ideal leader to resurrect the glory and stability of a better state‚ to be different. Such dissimilarities are apparent in everyday
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Gustav Stresemann and Charles Dawes In 1923‚ the Weimar Republic was on the verge of collapse‚ but‚ surprisingly‚ the crisis was the start of a period of stability and success. The period 1923-1929 was a time when the economy boomed and cultural life flourished in Germany. This dramatic turnabout happened because Germany was saved by two people - Gustav Stresemann and Charles Dawes. Gustav Stresemann had been a nationalist‚ but he realised that something needed to be done to save Germany. The
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countries‚ which means that they had different cultures and were different in a lot of ways. The Americans planned their revolution for many years and continued with economic‚ and military help from the French. Once the revolution was over‚ they were a republic and signed the treaty in Paris. When the French return to France they realize that they don’t have the freedom America does and they helped them fight for it. So‚ the French started planning their own revolution. The American Revolution was about
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I will begin by describing the “noble lie” written in Book 3 of Plato’s Republic‚ not specifically the myth of the metals‚ but a more general idea. I will argue this lie is justifiable‚ even in modern‚ more liberal contexts than Ancient Greece. Once the noble lie is correctly defined‚ it is clear how one could use it in building the “Just City.” In establishing the lie it is important to differentiate the terms “myth” and “falsehood” with fiction. We must look at the noble lie as a lie not intended
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Successive waves of Arawak migrants‚ moving northward from the Orinoco delta in South America‚ settled the islands of the Caribbean. Around AD 600‚ the Taíno Indians‚ an Arawak culture‚ arrived on the island‚ displacing the previous inhabitants. They were organized into cacicazgos (chiefdoms)‚ each led by a cacique (chief). The final Arawak migrants‚ the Caribs‚ began moving up the Lesser Antilles in the 12th century‚ and were raiding Taíno villages on the island’s eastern coast by the late sixteenth
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‘The Weimer republic successfully recovered from its early problems in the years 1924-28.’ Do you agree? Explain your answer. (16 marks) The Dawes plan is a good example of a success from the Weimar Government. This is because it introduced a new currency for Germany that was actually worth something. America agreed to loan out 800 million marks to invest into the industries‚ eventually that money would return to the economy. The young plan was also another success from the Weimar Government as
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and militarized process. Although the Dutch endured contestation from the incumbent peoples of Java‚ their use of violence and military discipline ultimately allowed them to succeed in transforming the East Indies from a subsistence economy into a colony of exportation where they controlled trade. Using its privileges granted by the Netherlands‚ the VOC successfully colonized Java. This involved murder‚ forced labor‚ and deforestation (76‚ Hall). The Dutch not only drove out the English--who had
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between Royal Dutch and Shell Transport and Trading. Multinational companies have to “engage in business practices to avoid negative consequences to their stakeholders” (Cullen‚ & Parboteeah‚ 2011‚ pg. 127). Multinational companies have to retain basic rights such as: pursuing fair profits and indicating duties provide equal wages for the employees. Prescriptive ethics is to direct multinational managers what they should and should not do. However‚ Chapter 1 in the text “Royal Dutch Shell in Nigeria:
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