of students. It’s a tradition that we have all grown up with and know all too well. “I pledge allegiance...” those few words have been a topic of discussion ever since they were first said in October of 1892. Today many still believe in the pledge and the message that comes with it while others do not‚ it is an oath that has been and still is very controversial. Many people still believe in the power of the pledge. Believing we should encourage schools to have its students recite the pledge of allegiance
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After the French revolution and Napoleonic wars‚ the conservatives were inclined to restore monarchies. By restoring old boundaries‚ the balance of power was ensured. This was so that no one country will become a hegemon like what France did before. They also did not want another revolution to occur. The Congress of Vienna was set up to discuss issues of restoring old boundaries and mediate issues that may potentially bring disharmony or even war. The spirit of nationalism was soaring in different
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set of ideas that provides the basis for organised political action whether this is intended to preserve‚ modify or overthrow the existing system of power.’ According to Freeden (2003) we are all ideologists in the sense that we prescribe to certain political views in our environment. He goes on to say that ideologies are competing interpretations of making sense of the worlds we live in. Ideologies look at what society should be like and why the society is the way it is. Leach (2002) states that
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After Reconstruction the states that resided in the north were primarily Liberal Republican. This was due from Lincoln’s association with the Republican Party‚ and the role he had on equal treatment for blacks during the Civil War (Boles pg. 570). Also‚ the term liberal is associated with the progressive party‚ which means looking forward. In contrast‚ the south was primarily Conservative Democratic‚ with the term conservative associated with being stuck in old ways of doing things. This implies
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less inequality and greater economic stability with more abundant political and civil liberty for the groups campaigning for these goals." Dworkin states that such a definition is inadequate and goes on to elaborate on liberalism in more depth. The liberal‚ in economic policies‚ demands that the inequalities of wealth be reduced through social programs such as "welfare and other redistribution financed by a progressive tax." Liberals also take a Keynesian policy toward the governments stabilizing intervention
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Have you ever felt like you have been overloaded with giant piles of work? You probably have and this shows you can understand the amount of stress children get when they get piles of unwanted homework from teachers. Homework is not suitable for kids because it is time consuming‚ limits their social life‚ and causes stress. The first reason why homework should not be aloud for kids in school is it is time consuming. When something is time consuming this give kids a worse night’s sleep only to wake
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In this essay I will argue that liberal neutrality is necessary to maintain optimal utility in a multicultural society. Benjamin L. Berger argues that liberal neutrality and legal tolerance cater to the dominant culture‚ I agree with this‚ however I will argue that the dominant culture should be prioritized in order to achieve the maximal amount of happiness for the aggregate of society. Berger states in his piece The Cultural Limits of Legal Tolerance that multicultural societies exhibit tolerance
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They have to stop wanting to put child soldiers in jail because they are just trying to help in the war. The issue is that they sometimes don’t even want to fight but they forces them to do it and is not really their fault because some of them don’t even want to do it. I agree that they have to have amnesty because they are just trying to help in the war and is something dangerous if you think of it closely because they can get kill in the war so here are my three reasons of why they
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“The defining political fact of our time is the division of America (Greenberg).” This is how George Stephanopoulos‚ a television journalist and former political adviser‚ summarizes the reality of American politics. One reason for this is America’s two-party system. These parties are the Democrats and the Republicans. Some people believe they are good‚ but others see them as destructive and useless. Political parties are bad for the United States because they are limited and cause national division
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who have disarmed subjects who benefited their enemies‚ who divided their conquered territories‚ or who built or destroyed fortresses. Princes have never disarmed their subjects‚ they have always armed them and when he arms them‚ they are to become faithful to the prince. When a prince gets a new state‚ he must disarm its inhabitants and arm those who helped him acquire the state. Those princes who wish to acquire fame‚ fortune will put enemies and wars in their path so that they may have the opportunity
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