smplanet.com/imperialism/letter.html) ? What did he recommend with regard to the U.S. military? He was a leading expansionist who believed that America’s survival depended on a strong Navy. He wrote that it was time for America to “turn their eyes outward‚ instead of inward only‚ to seek the welfare of the country.” 2. What is a shogunate? What is a daimyo? a daimyo is a samurai‚ and a shogunate is a Japanese government leader. 3. What cultural difference(s) hindered relations
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which ought to be a tragedy and naturally a fearful experience for most. Strikingly‚ Socrates is open to being executed‚ which begs the question of why? Socrates believes that the body and the soul are separate entities that are combined to create what we see on earth as life. According to him‚ there are two components that we face; visible and invisible. The body is “the visible kind” (79b) and the soul is “not visible” (79b). The purpose of the soul is to investigate. But involving our senses
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This meant that the work of the National Truth and Justice Commission could hardly yield any substantial result——no matter who was in charge of the Commission and what truth the Commission had documented‚ there would be considerable obstacles for the effective implementation of the report’s recommendations. Even though Aristide had initially
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Explain Aquinas’ Cosmological Argument Thomas Aquinas developed five ways to prove Gods existence. The first three are key to the Cosmological argument. These are from motion‚ causation‚ and contingency. He presented his work on these in the Summa Theologica‚ where he accepts that it may be impossible to prove the God of Classical theism caused the universe to exist‚ but believes that what God does proves Gods existence. The first way is from motion‚ Aquinas emphasises that motion means changes
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conjectures to explain what happened to their president. For others who are critical of the performance of the president‚ they said that the president deserved what he got on that day. There were even some talks about a conspiracy theory‚ wherein the attack on the president was orchestrated from inside. There was a thinking then that this was a planned move to swing public opinion polls in his favor. Although there were wild talks during the time‚ there’s no denying the fact that what happened to Andrew
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Why were the Bolsheviks convinced that imposing a state monopoly over the media in the short-term would inevitably lead to media freedom for everyone in the long-term? Introduction The Bolsheviks‚ originally also Bolshevists were a faction of the Marxist Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) which split apart from the Menshevik faction at the Second Party Congress in 1903. The Bolsheviks were the majority faction in a crucial vote‚ hence their name. They ultimately became the Communist
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With the aid of examples explain the terms: i) Externality ii) Public Good Externality Externalities‚ or transaction spillovers‚ arise when a third party who is not involved in the consumption of a product incur certain costs and benefits that are not compensated for by the generators of those externalities. They exist due to the price system’s (The Invisible Hand) inability to deal with products that have no market or price‚ such as clean air‚ peace‚ quiet‚ pollution and more
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Orwell wrote 1984 as a warning. Explain what he was warning people about. Consider the influence of the political climates in the world during the time he was writing. Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four is as much a reflection of the political climate in which he was writing as it is an exaggeration of it. From the beginning of the 1940s the worldwide political climate was shifting heavily in what appeared to be negative ways. From the outbreak of the Second World War on the 4th September 1939 (with
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Explain the Analogy of the Cave in Plato’s Republic. Plato uses the analogy of the cave to illustrate the varying degrees of human nature between enlightened and unenlightenment. The varying degrees in enlightenment refer to the varying degrees in which we understand reality. For Plato‚ the highest degree of knowledge‚ or enlightenment‚ is the perception of the “essential Form of Goodness” Plato splits the varying degrees between enlightenment and illustrate epistemology. The stage furthest
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1- Explain the types of nutrients. Discuss the positive and negative. There are 2 main types of nutrients : 1. Macronutrients 2. Micronutrients Macronutrients also have 3 types: 1. Carbohydrates 2. Protein 3. Fat Micronutrients have 2 types: 1. Vitamins 2. Minerals 3- water Carbohydrates: Carbohydrates are a main type of nutrients‚ and it’s a main source of energy for human. In our body we use it as glucose (blood sugar)‚and we can found it in fruits‚ vegetables‚ milk. There are 2 types simple
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