After scrutinizing the 2000 Presidential Election of Al Gore vs. George W. Bush in the movie Recount focusing on the issues of votes in the state of Florida‚ I believe that the election was not legitimate. While trying to find evidence to support them in court‚ Al Gore’s team found that there was a “voter purge list” (1) where the Governor of Florida told Secretary of State for Florida Katherine Harris that if there are people with similar names to felons to put them on that list that does not allow
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In a fit of patriotic zeal‚ American folk musician Woody Guthrie famously scrawled the words “this machine kills fascists” onto his acoustic guitar. It marked the beginning of an era where American rock & roll music would infiltrate politics and alter political realities both at home and abroad. Guthrie’s “machine” was a synecdoche for music‚ specifically‚ music’s ability to topple authoritarianism and rattle the political landscape. The epitaph foretold that sometimes a guitar‚ more than even armaments
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said that he must have been ‘seduced by his vanity’ to have agreed with such an arrangement. England was the country of liberalism‚ so it was nothing new that in 1817 in the Black Dwarf you could read complains of the legitimacy‚ which went awry for the public opinion. (tzn ta legitimacy nie była po myśli) First of all‚ the most reasons for complaining had the France. The Bourbon monarch was restore‚ Napoleon was unduly punished and exiled‚ and also they blamed the Vienna Settlement for the next revolutions
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Referendums should be used more widely in the UK‚ Discuss. A referendum is a general vote by the electorate on a single political question‚ which has been referred to them for a direct decision. In the UK since 1975 there have been seven major referendums. The last being the Scottish independence that was only a few weeks ago on the 18th September. The result was a ‘NO’ to independence winning by 55% to 45%‚ with a turnout of 84.6%. To see if referendums should be used more widely in the UK the
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not see it as something that should rightly apply to them. Whites’ concerns about enslavement by Britain escalated dramatically between 1765 and 1776‚ as the mother country resorted to increasingly desperate measures to control the colonies. Legitimacy of white colonial view: The opposite meanings of liberty and slavery were utterly clear to white Americans‚ but they did not use the term “slavery” in a very precise way‚ and they stopped short of applying similar logic to the half million black
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utThis article was downloaded by: [University College Dublin] On: 14 March 2013‚ At: 08:49 Publisher: Routledge Informa Ltd Registered in England and Wales Registered Number: 1072954 Registered office: Mortimer House‚ 37-41 Mortimer Street‚ London W1T 3JH‚ UK Democratization Publication details‚ including instructions for authors and subscription information: http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/fdem20 Authoritarian persistence‚ democratization theory and the Middle East: An overview and
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Africa‚ such as Somalia‚ Rwanda‚ Congo (DRC) and other places are suffering more appalling genocide. Strong selective intervention of the subject by the Western world undermines its moral legitimacy of humanitarian intervention and exacerbates some Third World countries’s questions and anxiety. Double standards in the choice of humanitarian intervention subjects erodes the fragile consensus of the international community and enable the practitioners
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This is also the epideictic discourse. Through the epideictic discourse‚ he attempted to enhance the legitimacy of the following governmental policy against the Soviet Union and to increase the interest of the audience because the epideictic discourse can improve the quality of the speech. In the middle of the speech‚ Kennedy (1962) announced the seven steps
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of this right. There is no mention of the granddaughters of Phillip IV who would also possess a claim should Salic law have not been implemented‚ suggesting the Lancasters either ignored their claims or viewed Isabella’s claim as being of greater legitimacy. Further emphasis on the claim is apparent in the multi colouring between blue and red in the genealogical tree following the appearance of Edward II on the Roll. This provides further evidence that the Lancasters believed that they did indeed
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This section presents the main conclusions and analyzes of the cases studied in the research. The subtopics are organized according to the categories presented in the methodology and present the main observed convergences. 4.1 Innovation Function’s General Purposes Essentially‚ company’s innovation does not happen inside IF proper domains‚ neither is IF the company’s place where "innovators" meet. In all the cases observed‚ the total innovation effort in a given organization is always greater than
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