organisation that successfully claims a monopoly of the legitimate use of force in a given territory. The word legitimate also appears in the question for this essay‚ so legitimacy appears to be the key word‚ and its definition is‚ “able to be defended with logic or justification” (Oxford dictionaries online). In a democracy the Government is voted in by the people‚ and it could be argued this process makes it legitimate. But not all states in the world are democratic‚ so can they be seen to be a legitimate
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Benn Michaels approvable critical claim against the principal of theory is highlighted in their assertion critiquing the theories of John R. Searle in regards to his thinking that intention is a theoretical issue‚ "Not only in serious literal speech but in all speech what is intended and what is meant are identical. In separating the two Searle imagines the possibility of expression without intention and so‚ like Hirsch‚ misses the point of his own claim that when it comes to language "there is no
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Stanford bell hooks experienced things that only an education can provide‚ from different social status to keeping ties with her community and her heritage even though she went far in her studies. Education changed bell hooks life in many ways from the experiences at Stanford having her values collide with others values‚ being introduced to the intellectual circles and having others try to press upon her their beliefs . By going to Stanford to continue her education‚ bell hooks experienced a
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The Loving Story The journey that Richard and Mildred Loving took is important for history and for the future of civil rights in the United States. I recently watched the documentary The Loving Story and enjoyed the footage‚ pictures‚ and interviews of everyone involved in the Loving v. Virginia case. The documentary addressed the issue of interracial marriage in Virginia in 1967. The married partners‚ Richard and Mildred‚ were woken up in the middle of the night and were criminally charged for
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away their freedom of speech rights‚ cyber bullying and hate speech‚ in fact‚ should be prohibited when the protection and the lives of people are at risk. Many people argue that limiting any sort of speech is interfering from a right they have‚ known as the First Amendment. Restricting hate speech and bullying quiets ones voice‚ making it contravene the right to freedom of speech if only that one voice is being heard. People do not want to have any restrictions from any type of speech
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The Art of Loving “The art of loving”‚ written by an American psychologist Erich Fromm in 1957‚ mainly discusses about three aspects: the reasons of love being an art‚ the theory of love‚ and the practice of love. He thoughtfully explains that an art of loving requires many effort and knowledge‚ comprehensively analyzes the theory of love‚ and specifically introduces the ways of practice the art of loving. Even if the work is done for about fifty years ago‚ there still have many remarkable
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In June of 1958‚ Mildred Jeter and Richard Loving married in the District of Columbia. They were residents of Virginia but due to Virginia’s laws they weren’t able to marry within their state. The state of Virginia prevented marriages based on racial classification. After the couple married they returned to their home state in Caroline County where they were then charged for violating Virginia’s ban on interracial marriages. The Loving’s went to court and was sentenced to a year in jail. However
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“Consumer society gives people choice.” Discuss this claim. UK society in the past has been described as an industrial society with social classes being defined around a person’s employment status. Consequently‚ only those who were very wealthy and had surplus income were considered consumers. However‚ with developments in technologies‚ an increased amount of workers in “white collar” jobs and shifts in living costs‚ the term “consumer society” is one which suggests our contemporary life styles are represented
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Critically examine the claim by states to be the legitimate governing authority in a territory. This essay will first define ’the State ’‚ and then look at evidence to examine the above claim. The state is a set of institutions that possess the authority to make the rules and laws that govern the people within a defined territory. Max Weber‚ cited in “Exploring Social Lives”‚ defined the state as claiming “a monopoly on the legitimate use of physical force within a given territory”‚ (Bromley
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Upon reading Erich Fromm’s The Art of Loving‚ I gained a better understanding of what love really is. Fromm’s book puts love into perspective. He begins with several facts with regards to the attitude in which people treat love. They are the problems of how to be loved‚ the object to love as well as the confusion between the initial experience of falling in love and the permanent state of being in love‚ which had a great impact on me‚ as far as thinking about what love is. Strangers meet‚ they
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