Institutional Aggression The term refers to collective violence E.g. violence within institutions such as prisons‚ students‚ police and army They are danger for both inmates and workers Benjamin Mogmat a member of ‘the number’ in a South African prison was sentenced to nine years. Now in prison he claims to have killed more inmates than he can remember. All to impress a gang. Initiation rituals One way institutions show aggression towards each other is through violent initiation rituals
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The Second World War changed the history of the world forever. Super powers emerged and other countries crumbled. Economies changed and new ways of life were becoming present. The United States emerged from the war as a world leader in government‚ economy and industry. Most credit is deservingly given to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt for the success and victory for the United States in the war. But in April of 1945‚ Roosevelt’s term came to an end with his unexpected death‚ and the weight
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Option 1 Evaluate the claim that migration creates global connections. In this assignment‚ the strengths and weaknesses of the claim that migration creates global connections‚ will be discussed. This will be done by discovering what counts as migration and how it is valued‚ how global connections can be both positive and negative‚ about the concepts of ’diaspora’ and ’translocalism’ and how important they are when considering both migration and global connections. To enable the discussion of the
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The Global Effect of World War 1 European Civilization: The First World War has change the aspect of European civilization. The government was transformed to fight a total war. The war changed the European union socially‚ politically‚ economically‚ and intellectually. European countries channeled all of their resources into total war‚ which resulted in enormous social change. World war one had devastating effects on Europe. The Great War demolished the Austria-Hungary Empire and the Russian
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China was at war during 1911-1949. In 1911 it was the start of the Communist Revolution‚ and then the Chinese with the Americans had to fight off Japan which continued into World War II. Finally‚ after the Japanese had surrendered the Civil War began in China. The Civil War was one of the most violent acts in Chinese history‚ it lasted for four long years between 1945-1949. The outcome of the Civil War would change China forever. After World War II and the surrender of Japan‚ another long and
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After Persian wars‚ Athens and Sparta emerged as Greek strong societies growing their powers and living together peacefully with a truce in place. They had a treaty in place for 30 years. During peace time Athens became a naval power and Sparta developed military land power. Eventually‚ the Peloponnesian War (431- 404 BCE) broke out in ancient Greece between Athens and Sparta city-states. It was between Athens and their allies (the Delian League) and Spartan and their allies (the Peloponnesian
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In July 1940‚ Stafford Cripps the British Ambassador in the Soviet Union‚ stressed to Stalin that Germany was a threat to Moscow and thus asked him to consider a military alliance with Britain. However‚ Stalin denied. He insisted that the non-aggression pact still held high importance to the interests of both Germany and the USSR. After this meeting‚ Stalin told Molotov to send the minutes of the discussions that took place to Berlin. This was an attempt to reassure Hitler of Stalin’s continuous
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didn’t want to continue the war they wanted to go ahead and end it once and for all. They built up eight legions‚ which would be twice the army of Hannibal. Hannibal waited for them to make their move in Apulia‚ and in 216 BC they both moved and met near the small town of Cannae. Hannibal won that battle leaving Rome in shame and again we are painted the same picture of strong armies not willing to give in. Hannibal put up a fight and was winning over cities by cities in Italy‚ Rome of course was not
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World War II was the deadliest and most widespread war in human history. It lasted for six years from 1939-1945 and resulted in more than 60 million deaths. This war was fought between two sides known as the Allies and the Axis Powers. The Allies made up of several countries including the United States‚ France‚ and the United Kingdom and the Axis Powers which was made up by Germany‚ Italy‚ and Japan. Before World War II‚ the life of most people living in the United States was extremely difficult
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I agree that Germany must bear responsibility for starting the First WW‚ to a large extent. There are three reasons why I say this. First‚ in the early 1870s‚ the German Chancellor Bismarck was the first to start the alliance system which was one cause of the First World War. Other nations only followed him. Second‚ the extreme nationalism (Pan-Germanism) in Germany made her desire to unite with the Germans in Austria-Hungary to become a great German state. With her support‚ Austria-Hungary
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