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    United States of America and the USSR after the second world war as they both fought to maintain their spheres of influence and promote their political ideologies. While it would be easy to simply categorise the different ways the two superpowers were in competition with each other, in this essay I will prove that the Cold War was simply a war of ideologies. Both countries believed themselves champions of justice and freedom. The United States saw these as values as synonymous with democracy and free

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    Those that would not be considered novices in the world of politics or government could argue that corruption is antidemocratic albeit corruption is not a political ideology per say it does share one or two fundamental characteristics with a ideology that is trans-disposed to democracy and that is the accumulation or adsorption of power and wealth by any means that does not incite arrest or incarceration from committing these acts, and secondly the acts committed for, or by means of corruption is

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    Abramovitz (2003) states, “To a large extent, the history of social services and social welfare policy consists of the evolving recognition of social needs and the organization of society to meet them” (p. 130). The United States has the highest rates of poverty in the Western world; surprisingly the United States is the richest nation in the world. In 1964, Lyndon B. Johnson introduced the War on Poverty. His approach was to expand the government’s role in the citizen’s education and health care

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    Communism is a social, economic, and political ideology. Under a true communist system, all people are to be equal politically, economically, and socially. The people are supposed to own everything communally; from businesses, to food, and beyond. No social classes are to exist under a true communist system, as all people receive the same quality and quantity of possessions as everyone else. (Ohiohistorycentral) Democracy is a government by the people; a form of government in which the supreme power

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    Different things such as my parents definitely have an influence my political ideology. They raised me in a certain way a taught me different things that might’ve been different than what other parents taught their children. Also, the news media shapes my political ideology because they put out different opinions on news stories and try to get us to think about what we believe. The news stories about what the government

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    There is an idea amongst international relation theorist that Liberalism has won the race to become the world-wide leading political ideology, thus with it has brought about the idea of ‘western liberalism. “In the contemporary world the combination of the triumph of liberalism and globalisation has meant that cultural exchanges are occurring at extremely rapid rates and at very deep levels.”(Smith, El-Anis, Farrands 182). There was a clear split in Europe post-Cold-War, Western Europe was modernised

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    Does ideology matter in politics anymore? Political ideology has been an intrinsic part of world history for over two hundred years (Heywood 1998). The modern world was moulded by ideology resulting in political, economic and social upheavals. It has been argued in the 20th century that the importance of ideology in the political world has been declining and the question set requires an analysis of the arguments put forward by those who believe that ideology influence has come to an end. This

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    conjunction with the primary leadership of the Ba’ath party, the Syrian Social Nationalist Party (SSNP) was another political institution that relied heavily on Marxist ideology imported through the French mandate into the Syrian elite classes. The arrival of the SSNP during the early 1930s provided a backdrop the Marxist influence of Ba’ath party officials that had transposed Marxist ideology into the nationalist movement. The founder of the SSNP, Atun Sa’adeh, was a leading figure in the nationalist

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    also negative, which explains why it could be seen as reflecting reality. If TV news ‘reflects’ reality, it is problematic because it does not in fact reflect it, but gives the illusion it does. I will, in this essay, explain how through realism, ideology and narration, TV news expresses ideas of truthiness, falsiness, making its own reality. I first started the essay by looking at a TV news station that would apply to this

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    Ninth Symphony As Ideological Or Political. If there is one piece of music that has been discussed and used more than any other is Beethoven’s ninth Symphony. From political meetings to sport matches, Beethoven’s piece has been used for all kinds of purposes and by a wide variety of people, and it always seems to be supporting whatever ideas whoever uses it has. In this essay I intend to deepen into the various ideological and political environments in which the piece

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