Explain why Alexander III introduced reactionary policies after 1881. (12) The years leading up to 1881 were fraught with political opposition and threats of revolution. The autocracy was being threatened and publicly questioned by groups such as groups of student radicals like ‘the Organisation’. They used their highly intellectualised reasoning to try and mould the public opinion to accept rebellion. From 1860‚ students offered high level unrest and eventually die to the unrest‚ Russian educated
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Have you ever wondered what it would be like crossing the ocean in 1492 with Christopher Columbus‚ settling on a new continent‚ and having thanksgiving with the pilgrims? Maybe you have imagined yourself in the civil war fighting in the battle of Gettysburg or standing in a crowd in Washington D.C. watching Martin Luther King Jr. give his famous “I have a Dream” speech. Possibly you have an even bigger imagination and you have seen yourself flying through space‚ passing by the moon and by the other
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what they want because of the limitations‚ but it also meant that they did not have to worry of murder and theft as much as they used to. The arbitrary duties that people imposed upon themselves were beneficial for the humanity on the whole when all was said and done. People got out of the state of nature and started to cooperate with each other to conquer the nature. Even now‚ the social contract theory still remains salient. People in any society have been required to follow certain sets of rules
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Should Capital Punishment be Re-Introduced? The term ’capital punishment’ is derived from the Latin caput‚ meaning ’head’. It originally referred to death by decapitation‚ but now applies generally to state sanctioned executions. Capital punishment is a death sentence. Crimes that can result in a death penalty are known as capital crimes or capital offences. Capital punishment has‚ in the past‚ been practiced by most societies‚ as a punishment for criminals‚ and political or religious dissidents
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Sex education should be introduced at high school. DISCUSS Sex education is the imparting and acquiring of knowledge through teaching and learning of sexual activities and sexual behaviour. Sex education is now a growing phenomenon all over the world starting at adolescence. Therefore it is firmly believed that sex education should be introduced at high-schools because it informs individuals about the different types of Sexually Transmitted Diseases‚ enhances the knowledge of ethics and morals‚
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Should proportional representation be introduced in Westminster elections? The current system under the Westminster elections is first-past-the-post. This is a majoritarial system in that winner-takes-all. Those who are in favour of PR argue that the FPTP system is under-representative towards minor parties and votes are then typically ‘wasted’. However those who are in favour of the FPTP system point out that it leads to a strong government‚ a clear outcome and keeps extremist at bay. Proportional
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marketization of the education system. Other sociologist would disagree; they believe that trying to create less inequality was the main intention when It comes to the educational reform. When the New Labour came to power‚ it seemed that policies they were in favour of were more aimed towards trying to create less inequality of different schools. One policy The New Labour introduced was free places in nurseries‚ this would ensure children from all backgrounds started educational development early and started
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AP United States History 10 April 2014 Was Prohibition a Failure? Due to the progressive and forward-thinking society the 1920s had become‚ it was hard for Americans to set limits on what they and their American society could achieve. However‚ some barriers were impeding their attainment of a society free of the burdens it had just previously dealt with. During the 1920s‚ a progressive mindset dominated Congress and Americans. Prohibition of alcohol was one of the many ways progressives attempted
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Should capital punishment be re-introduced in the UK? Capital punishment is the legal authorisation of killing a criminal. The death penalty was abolished in 1965 ; the last British death penalty case was closed on August 13th. Serious offences that would consequent to capital punishment are: Murder ‚ drug trafficking ‚ drive-by’s ‚ murdering a police officer ‚treason‚ terrorism and espionage. Some examples of execution methods are: Lethal injection‚ the gas chamber ‚ electric chair ‚ hangings
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“Just war” theory was introduced by the Catholic church in the Medieval period. The just war theory was created to protect lives of innocent people and defend moral rights. The Just War theory has its own conditions for judging if it is just to go to war‚ and conditions for what strategies to use when fighting a just war. Just War Theory is the origin on which nations obtain to legally and morally justify going to war. A war has to be approved as a just war by a church official. A war that causes
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