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Hobbes
<view this essay>.... of some Power, to cause them to be observed, are contrary to our natural passions, that carry us to Partiality, Pride, Revenge, and the like. And Covenants, without the Sword, are but Words, and of no strength to secure a man at all." (, pg.117) The laws that are enacted are contrary to our self-interest, so without the terror of some ever-present power to instill fear in all man, we would abstain from no measure in order to preserve our own well being. In a state of war man is in "a Continual fear and danger of a violent death; and the life of man (is) solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short." (. Pg. 107)
The only way to prevent entering a state of war .....
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Tupac Shakur
<view this essay>.... Amaru Shakur was born on June 16, 1971 in New York. Afeni Shakur, a Black Panther member since 1968, gave birth to him in the Women’s House of Detentions in Grenwich Village. She was charged with conspiracy to bomb several New York public locations and had just had her bail revoked. In Incan dialect, his name Tupac Amaru means "shining serpent" and Shakur is Arabic for "thankful to God." For most of his childhood his crack-addicted mother shuffled Tupac between the ghettos of Harlem and the Bronx. Young Tupac began his performance career with the 127th Street Ensemble and then enrolled Baltimore School for the Arts where he was edu .....
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Benito Mussolini
<view this essay>.... the Allies. This
got him expelled from the socialist party. He soon founded his own paper, Il
popolo d'italia, which became the backbone of his Fascist movement. He then
served in the Army until he was wounded in 1917.
In 1919 Mussolini and some other war veterans founded a nationalistic
revolutionary group called the Fasci di Combattimento. His movement turned into
powerful radicalism, obtaining support from landowners in the Po valley,
industrialists, and many army officers. Fascist blackshirt squads carried on
civil war with Socialists, Communists, Catholics, and Liberals.
In October 1922 Mussolini secured permission from King Victor Emmanuel
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John Dryden
<view this essay>.... Stanzas. After the Restoration Dryden became a Royalist and celebrated the return of kin Charles II. During the celebration he wrote two more famous poems, Astraea Redux and Panegyric on the Coronation. The rest of his life was then devoted to being loyal to Charles and his successor, James II. In 1663 he became happily married to Lady Elizabeth Howard, a sister of his patron. Until then he had no real source of income. He began writing plays as a source of income. His first attempt failed, but his second attempt The Rival Ladies, a tragic comedy, was a success. During the next 20 years he became an important and well-known dramatist in England. Some .....
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Argentine Marxist Revolutionary And Guerrilla Leader Che Guevara
<view this essay>.... crises in Argentina which culminated in the 'Left Fascist' dictatorship of Juan Peron, to whom the Guevara de la Sernas were opposed. These events and influences inculcated in the young Guevara a contempt for the pantomime of parliamentary democracy, and a hatred of military politicians and the army, the capitalist oligarchy, and above all the US dollar/imperialism. Yet although his parents, notably his mother, were anti-Peronist activists, he took no part in revolutionary student movements and showed little interest in politics at Buenos Aires University (1947) where he studied medicine, first with a view to understanding his own disease, later becoming .....
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Constitutionalism: The Tyranny
<view this essay>.... systems. To him, European governments were still constricted by aristocratic privilege, the people had no hand in the formation of their government, let alone, there every day lives. He held up the American system as a successful model of what aristocratic European systems would inevitably become, systems of democracy and social equality. Although he held the American democratic system in high regards, he did have his concerns about the systems shortcomings. Tocqueville feared that the virtues he honored, such as creativity, freedom, civic participation, and taste, would be endangered by "the tyranny of the majority." In the United States the majority rules, .....
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Fidel Castro
<view this essay>.... had rebel forces to help him. These forces were known as the Twenty Sixth of July Movement. Fidel became very popular among the people of Cuba. Since
he became popular he gained power and control of Batista on January 1 of the year 1959.
Many things in Cuba changed because of . Because of his new power he felt that if he didn't like another political figure he would and could have them executed. He started collectivizing agriculture. He also nationalized the industry. In Cuba their was a one party socialist state. Because of this one party socialist state many middle class citizens, along with the upper-class citizens too, would be exiled. Fidel often .....
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Muhammad
<view this essay>.... later Islamic history because
of her marriage to Muhammad's cousin Ali.
About 610, Muhammad, while in a cave on Mount Hira outside Mecca, had a
vision in which he was called on to preach the message entrusted to him by God.
Further revelations came to him intermittently over the remaining years of his
life, and these revelations constitute the text of the Koran. At first in
private and then publicly, Muhammad began to proclaim his message: that there is
but one God and that Muhammad is his messenger sent to warn people of the
Judgment Day and to remind them of God's goodness.
The Meccans responded with hostility to Muhammad's monotheism and
iconoclasm. A .....
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