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    Nation-State and Transnational Entities

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    Introduction There is a distinct difference between a nation, state, and nation-state. Modern Nation-State developed over the 20th century to compensate for the inadequacy portrayed by pluralistic empires and extreme nationalism. It is as a result of states seeking to expand their fixed territory that various wars emerged. Countries in Europe after experiencing the full effect of such wars opted to integrate thus forming the EU which is a transnational entity. In order to enjoy the full benefits

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    they also changed how people lived. The 19th-century weapon helped win wars, and early modern technology played a significant role in it. The primary goal of the weapon modernization was to improve the effectiveness of the weapons used during wars. Ancient weapons enquired a lot of procedure that needed to be incorporated before they could be used and major challenges were experienced during that period. For instance, the soldiers used to carry muskets that held one bullet at a time. “The muskets had

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    The perfect Utopian society is when everyone is equal. But is everyone truly equal? In the book Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury, shows how quickly a society can go from Utopia to Dystopia. The novel states how families are truly disconnected and how the society shows and hides their feelings. Is our society like this? First of all in the book Fahrenheit 451, families aren’t always there for each other and seem to be disconnected. For example, “Go home and think of your first husband divorced and

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    philosophical, social, and economic debates. Amongst his famous theories is his ideas on the morality of Capitalism as well as Socialism. However, a theory of his that reigns supreme in many different aspects of modern day society as well as the past is his theory of alienation. Marx’s feels that modern means of production under certain conditions could cause the collapse of the worker. They would ultimately loose control of their life as a result of losing control of their work. The four major works analyzed

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    violent behavior or attitudes toward another, is spreading throughout the globe like a disease, corrupting our modern society. The drastic increase in violent and aggressive behavior in modern society can be attributed directly to the prevalence of drug and alcohol abuse, easy availability of deadly weapons and the limitless exposure to mass media that celebrates these behaviors. Within modern society, one of the primary causes of violence and aggression is the proliferate abuse

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    liberal society, yet a relist one at the same time. There are aspects of both theories mixed throughout modern international relations. On one hand, many world leaders strive to live in a liberal world, because it is more cooperative and secure for all involved. The realist theory is much more realistic and able to fit society’s needs better. Since there are aspects of both liberalism and realism in modern international relations, not one theory outweighs the other. This makes society a mixture of the two

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    Essay On Hispanic Culture

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    Introduction The hispanic culture has many diverse, interesting, and unique views when it comes to the topic of death, dying, ghosts, and funeral arrangements. Because hispanic culture has many influences from not only modern day religious beliefs like the dominant religion of Roman Catholicism but also from ancient religions and culture such as the Maya and Aztec there is often times a mixed view on death. Similarly, because of the diversity in the history of hispanic culture there are many different

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    Comparing two works of art For my final project, I will compare two pieces of art and show the comparisons and differences that they have in the Greek ancient period and the modern period of the same theme “the representation of the Trojan war”. The visual work art is a bilingual art because it was made with the participation of two artists, Andokides (Red figure) and the Lysippides (Black figure) and it is titled “Achilles and Ajax Playing a Dice a Game”. It was painted in 525–520 B.C in Greece

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    Modern English Language

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    nineteenth century thirty million people immigrated to the United States of America (History: Late Modern English [c.1800 - Present]). These included Italians, Austro-Hungarians, Russians, Germans, Norwegians, Swedes, and more. Many times these immigrants would form their own communities in which they would have a “distinctive English with a strong … accent and an idiosyncratic syntax” (History: Late Modern English [c.1800 - Present]). During this time, the British Empire spanned nearly twenty-five percent

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    Leadership is a process where a person influences others to achieve their goals. To understand this in a better and more practical way our class was given a very interesting and challenging task. We all were divided into groups and given secret paper identifying our role during the task, these paper were to be kept as secret and our role in the task was to not to be revealed to other team members. Then there was a catch, there were few spies in every team and we had to nominate the one we consider

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