spawned some of the most extremist ideologies to ever guide major world powers. On the left‚ the Soviet Union gripped eastern Europe with its militant enforcement of communism. On the right‚ Nazi Germany sought to assert its rule of racial hierarchy across the continent. The struggle for these states to achieve their respective ideals of utopia manifested in death tolls that reached millions. While many contemporary scholars point to the differences in ideology and stated goals of these two states
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My New Political Ideology A population’s views on political issues may change as different circumstances occur each day. The environment around us has a powerful influence on the decisions that we produce and the views that we as American citizens choose to hold. After a semester in political science class my views and my political ideology have altered. Today I will explain how political science class has influenced my political ideology. When this class initially began I was sure‚ without
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Ideologies are what make us fundamentally human; they influence what we believe in and dictate our actions. The existence of ideologies extends outside of reality‚ as seen through comic book heroes such as Superman and Batman. Compared to the older ages of comics‚ their ideologies lie upon responsibility rather than Ideological State Apparatuses (ISAs)‚ like religion and family‚ or Repressive State Apparatuses (RSAs)‚ like the government and the police. In the years following Watchmen’s publication
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Fascism shared many similarities with each other. Driven by their ideologies Stalin‚ under Socialism‚ and Mussolini‚ under Fascism‚ used these ideas to advocate and carry out their own policies. However‚ it is important to realise that many areas of their policies did veer away from the direction of their original ideologies. This shows that‚ although Stalin’s and Mussolini’s policies were decided largely by their respective ideologies‚ they were in many situations neglected by the leaders for personal
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The republican ideology is a facet of the social fabric of the colonial citizens of America that may‚ arguably‚ have had the greatest affect on the struggle for independence and the formation of a constitutional form of government in the United States. The birth of the republican ideology‚ while impossible to place an exact date on‚ or even month‚ can be traced back more than a decade before the Revolutionary War. It can also be argued that this social machine began to function as a result
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Ideology In Desperate Housewives Every day‚ the public is unknowingly exposed to countless ideological messages. They come from all around‚ but the media remains ideology’s primary agent. In places such as magazines‚ commercials‚ billboards‚ movies and television shows‚ one can find evidence of ideological messages. According to theologist Louis Althusser‚ ideology places individuals into a certain position in society by a process called interpellation‚ where a specific subject (or group of people)
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two theses on ideology: "Ideology represents the imaginary relationship of individuals to their real conditions of existence" and "Ideology has a material existence". The first thesis tenders the familiar Marxist contention that ideologies have the function of masking the exploitative arrangements on which class societies are based. The second thesis posits that ideology does not exist in the form of "ideas" or conscious "representations" in the "minds" of individuals. Rather‚ ideology consists of
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Ideology is best defined as a system of ideas and beliefs that affect a person‚ group‚ or culture’s way of thinking. Ancient Greece was filled with different ideologies throughout the years; almost every polis with a different and unique set of values. Sparta had its strict militarism and aristocracy‚ suppressing people’s free thought. Athens had a mostly open‚ democratic‚ system‚ allowing more room for individual interpretations. And the empire of Alexander the Great that‚ despite having an absolute
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Paper: Political Ideology Upon entering my first semester at Southern Nazarene University I could not have told you my political ideology. I knew what my opinions‚ observations‚ expectations‚ and ideals were‚ but did not know the proper ideology that would define them. Through several courses that I have taken‚ I have become more informed as to the role that I would like to see the government take throughout society as a whole and in the economy. Upon reading the section of ideology in American
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Legally blonde and the ideologies involved. Legally blonde is a film about Elle Woods a blonde sorority queen who is dumped by her boyfriend‚ she decides to follow him to law school to get him back and‚ once there‚ learns she has more legal savvy than she ever imagined and is thrown into solving a case in which she will make lots of friends and maybe even some enemies. The first thing I notice is that a common ideology used throughout the film is stereotypical ideology the main way this is used
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