1.5 Rational Radicalism..............Why Do People Become Terrorists? Most studies of the causes of Islamism offer a grievance based explanation implicitly rooted in functionalist social psychology accounts of mass behaviour‚ which view collective action as derived from exogenous structural strains that create individual frustration and motivation for deviant social behaviour. Structural strains such as modernization‚ industrialization‚ economic crisis cause psychological discomfort which in turn
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To what extent should people embrace nationalism and how acceptable should it be until it becomes destructive? These two questions may have come in many minds of philosophers including the great Albert Einstein who once quoted‚ “Nationalism is an infantile disease‚ it is the measles of mankind.” He strongly believed that nationalism should not be embraced for it is infamous for the destruction it has caused on the society and is responsible for the childish idiosyncrasy embedded in the human
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is represented not by the achievements of its rulers‚ artists‚ or scientists‚ but by the general welfare of its people The statement linking the prosperity of a nation to the general welfare of its people plays with human experience dating back to the prehistoric times. Since the first traces of human life were discovered in the districts of Mohenjo-Daro and Harappa‚ the human society has come a long way. In ancient and medieval days‚ the nature of human societies was primarily hegemonic. Thus the
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Stranger Things My dad and I are huge TV fans. We love watching them together and discussing them. We share some similar tastes and some different tastes in TV shows. The biggest thing we disagree on is the supernatural. I think that shows can be made better with things that may not be real. My dad does not like anything supernatural. All though we both agree that TV shows should have great actors along with great characters ‚ a good soundtrack‚ a great plot‚ and outstanding sets and costumes.
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1. Why can’t any legal system be truly “neutral?” according to the author. The legal system can’t be truly neutral because of the hierarchical status of some people 2. How was the justice system used to control southern blacks after slavery? Don’t know 3. Did society recognize a major difference between poor people and criminals? Society favors those who own property and those in right positions‚ the lash of the criminal justice system fall on the poor people. The author states that respectable
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Federal Mandates Through out the 1930’s‚ Federalism began to grow along with an increased power towards federal grants and mandates due to the effects of the Depression. During the New Deal the Supreme Court ruled that national spending was not limited to just specific grants any more. The national government now had the power to grant‚ fund‚ and mandate money to any state under what conditions they choose. Currently Congress can imply considerable control over the states by placing federal money
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The theistic argument that I think is most plausible is the Cosmological Argument. I think this because to me this is the only argument that is plausible because things do not exist without a cause. For example‚ people and animals do not exist without reproduction. People must have a first cause to be created and exist. “The cosmological argument for God’s existence goes like this: The world could not exist on its own so there must have been a first cause that brought it into being. This first
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1. Why did people push west? There are many reasons the pushed people to head west. The fist reason was that the land was rare in the east‚ especially in New England were it became overpopulated. Land was productive and expensive in the Mid-Atlantic States. Also‚ farmers in the south held the best lands. In addition‚ the need to move west was the highest in the slave states because small farmers could not stand against slave labor. Finally‚ the land in the west was rich and abundant‚ accessible and
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‘Otzi the ice man’ made news worldwide when he was found on a mountain between Austria and Italy. He was known for his corpse being in the best preserved state and because he had almost 60 tattoos. Most believed that his tattoos were made/applied (mostly behind his knees) for therapeutic reasons. Tattoo comes from the Tahitian word tatau which is the definition to mark. It is believed that tattoos have been around longer than ‘Otzi the ice man’. It has been said that tattoos have been practiced
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Have you ever wonder why people decide to migrate to the United States of America? Do you know why the people from all over the world choose to come to the USA? Do you know the reasons for why they leave? Human migration‚ as we all know‚ is the movement by people from one place to another with the intention of settling‚ permanently or temporarily in a new location. The process of migration can be a difficult situation to overcome in these people’s lives. But sometimes‚ these people have to leave their
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