the main ideals of Nazism‚ and what are the sources of this ideology? Why is it still important to study such political thought? Political ideologies are usually defined within a left-right political spectrum. Nazism falls outside this conventional spectrum and falls within syncretic politics. It is a negative form of syncretic politics‚ as it is located on the far right of the political spectrum. Nazism is a mixture of Völkisch ideals‚ Wagnerian Romanticism‚ Social Darwinism‚ Pan Germanism‚ and
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INTRODUCTION By the end of the 19th century Europe had colonized Africa. The Europeans had many reason for why they wanted to colonize Africa. They were generally all political and economic reasons. It was easy for Europeans to colonize and take over Africa because slave trade had made the Europeans believe that Africans were inferior to them. This was in fact the justification for the Europeans to have such an imperialistic way of thinking. Between the 1870s and 1900‚ Africa faced European
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Political Science101 Alex Lust Erin Deng 05/15/2011 Question 1 American citizens have less tax burdens than people in most West European countries. The United States government also spends less money on social programs than most West European countries. They are all democratic countries‚ they have some similar cultures‚ and they even at the same development degree. However‚ what makes the difference on levying taxes and spending money? It should be explained from economic‚ political and cultural
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the creation of social groups. Sociology includes the study of the behavioral patterns‚ interactions and relationships among the individuals of society. This field tries to examine the organizational structure of society and the influence it has on the social‚ political and religious ideas of the members. It encompasses the study of the organization of families and businesses. It attempts to analyze the creation and management of social groups as well as the factors‚ which lead to their breakdown
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Economics is the study of social behavior guiding in the allocation of scarce resources to meet the unlimited needs and desires of the individual members of a given society. Economics seeks to understand how those individuals interact within the social structure to address key questions about the production and exchange of goods and services. First‚ how are individual needs and desires communicated such that the correct mix of goods and services become available? Second‚ how does a society provide
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ECONOMICS CHAPTER 1- INTRODUCTION TO ECONOMICS ● Assumed 3 decision makers- consumers (households) – that sell land‚ labour‚ capital & entrepreneurship and firms- that pay rent‚ wages‚ interest and profits (rewards for above factors of production ) firms then use the factors to produce G/S in return for payment from consumer. Govt imposes taxes on individuals and (income tax) and firms (corporate tax) to provide infrastructure and other services to community ● Econon’s 2 basic assumptions
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COURSE: BACHELOR OF COMMERCE (BCOM) UNIT: INTRODUCTION TO MACRO-ECONOMICS QUESTION: MICRO-ECONOMICS AND MACRO-ECONOMICS INTRODUCTION Economics is the foundation of all commercial activity and comprises two areas: microeconomics and macroeconomics. Macroeconomics is concerned with the big picture‚ for example‚ the national economy and gross domestic product. By contrast‚ microeconomics is concerned with the small picture and focuses on theories of supply and demand. Microeconomics is
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Hong Kong’s Economic and Political Environment Hong Kong’s retrocession in the summer of 1997 was an event long prepared for‚ and built up to‚ in the minds of the territory’s citizens and residents. A significant number of the educated applied for overseas passports and left for more politically and economically stable environments in which to live and work; the "Brain Drain" was a significant problem for Hong Kong from 1984. Return to Chinese rule brought a promise from China that Hong Kong
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capitalist class. This is a crisis of a capitalist greed that is forever in search of possibilities to exploit and accumulate‚ through whatever means possible‚ be they be legal or not‚ be they moral or immoral. The centre of gravity of this all-round economic crisis has been the advanced capitalist countries of the North‚ but with even more devastating impacts for the countries of the South. World unemployment stands today at 210 million - the highest recorded level of unemployment in history; 64 million
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Introduction THE NATIONAL INCOME One of the basic questions facing economics centers on whether the total output of goods and services is growing from year to year or it remains static. This question is very important because countries are keenly interested in the performance of their economy. National income estimates enable countries to calculate the total production of goods and services in a year. The lecture also focuses on the measurement of national income and their problems‚ uses
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