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- 7081: Democratic World Government - An Outline Structure
- ... form of a global parliament passing universal laws in order to create an identikit legal framework for all world citizens, suffer from three severe problems. Firstly, the near-impossibility of persuading all of the world's countries to hand over their sovereignty to a global government of this sort. Secondly, the risk - of which we are, and must always be, very aware - of permitting a future global dictatorship of a particularly ... Parliament would be a single elected chamber, possibly similar in format to the House of Commons in the UK but with places for up to 1000 elected representatives - Members of the World Parliament, or 'MWP's. The MWPs would be elected from national or supra-national constituencies, one per so many head of population (but probably with a minimum of at least one per nation, at least in the early decades ... would involve them adding their signature to a world treaty, which decision would need to be ratified by the population of the country in a referendum. Only upon so joining the 'club' would a country's people have the right to vote into the world government one or more MWPs, and in turn the world government would only have the right to instigate actions which related to countries within its ...
- 7082: Philip Larkin's "Sad Steps" and Sir Philip Sidney of Sonnet 31 from Astrophel and Stella: The Moon
- Philip Larkin's "Sad Steps" and Sir Philip Sidney of Sonnet 31 from Astrophel and Stella: The Moon An object can represent many different things to many different people. One object of interest is the moon. Philip Larkin ... moon, for the moon is omniscient. He further believes that the moon “can judge of love”, and can solve his love troubles, as a “ lozenge of love” (Sad Steps, line 11) would. Sir Philip Sidney's attitude toward the moon is quite serious, which is also the tone of the essay. He takes the moon very seriously, as if it were divine. He adds character to the moon, as if it were a person. He describes the moon's “love acquainted eyes” (line 5) and remarks how “wan a face” (line 2) it has. This imagery makes the moon more real and praiseworthy, for how can you admire a person without a face? ...
- 7083: Bill Clinton's Election Will Brighten America's Future
- Bill Clinton's Election Will Brighten America's Future In the recent election of Bill Clinton, the future of America is much brighter. I feel Clinton will do a much better job of solving the problems that have the most impact on the ... His vice-president, Al Gore, has even written a book on protecting the earth. While Republicans argue that legislative action will hurt business, it seems to me that they are not looking long-term. Isn't protecting the freedom of future generations more important than catering to the moneyed special interests of logging and automobiles? Another issue Clinton will have more success in solving is racial conflicts. As evidenced by ...
- 7084: Hamlets Procrastination And Co
- Hamlet s Procrastination and Cowardice In William Shakespeare s play Hamlet, Hamlet is a loyal prince who vows to avenge his father s murder. When Hamlet discovers the painful truth about his father s death, he is left with feelings of hatred and resentment in his heart towards the murderer, Claudius. Although Hamlet is a very noble ...
- 7085: Young Goodman Brown 3
- ... himself interfere with his relations with the community after he meets with the devil, and causes him to live the life of an exile in his own community. "Young Goodman Brown" begins when Faith, Brown's wife, asks him not to go on an "errand". Goodman Brown says to his "love and (my) Faith" that "this one night I must tarry away from thee." When he says his "love" and his ... Eve story is similar to Goodman Brown in that they are both seeking unfathomable amounts of knowledge. Once Adam and Eve ate from the Tree of Knowledge they were expelled from their paradise. The Devil's staff eventually leads Goodman Brown to the Devil's ceremony which destroys Goodman Brown's faith in his fellow man, therefore expelling him from his utopia. Goodman Brown almost immediately declares that he kept his meeting with the Devil and no longer wishes ...
- 7086: Dante’s Influence on Italian Culture
- Dante’s Influence on Italian Culture Dante Alighieri was a very well known and influential poet in early literature. “He was not only a poet, he was also a philosophical thinker, an active politician, and a religious ... Italian society and culture through his poetry and his prose (Dante Internet). His writings helped to unify the Italian language. His opinions on politics were new and many of his ideas are seen in today’s politics (Holmes 23). These are the three key areas in which Dante was so influential. Dante’s writings had a great impact on Italian literature, both in the nature of the topics and the style of the prose. His writings have been hailed “the pillars on which the European literary tradition ...
- 7087: Iago's Motivation
- Iago's Motivation Iago is a "moral pyromaniac." Harold C. Goddard writes that Iago consciously and unconsciously seeks to destroy the lives of others, especially others with high moral standards (Goddard 76). However, Iago is more than ... human pyres go up in flames. Iago undeniably has an unquenchable thirst for power and domination. Critics such as M. R. Ridley believe that the ability to hurt is the most convincing display of one's power (Ridley lxi). Iago has a deep, inbred desire to cause and view intolerable suffering. The power of Iago is exercised when he prepares and then implements an evil plan designed to inflict man with ... important target, Othello: Though in the trade of war I have slain men, \ Yet do I hold it very stuff o'th' conscience To do no contrived murder. I lack the iniquity. . .\ I had thought t'have yerked him under the ribs\ . . .\ . . .he prated\ And spoke such scurvy and provoking terms\ Against your Honor (I, ii 1-10). These sentences are obvious lies (to the reader), but they are crucial ...
- 7088: Comparison of John F Kennedy and Abraham Lincoln's Lives
- Comparison of John F Kennedy and Abraham Lincoln's Lives On April 15, 1865, a tragedy took place as Abraham Lincoln was shot to death by John Wilkes Booth. One hundred years later a similar tragedy took place on November 22, 1963, as John ... social and humanitarian service overseas (“John” 1). Kennedy was assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald in 1963 and was succeeded by Lyndon Johnson. Many historians have found several interesting similarities through research about two of America’s greatest presidents. Researchers and historians have compiled many interesting similarities on Kennedy and Lincoln. There are many numerical coincidences between both of the presidents and others affiliated with them. The names, Lincoln and Kennedy each contain seven letters (Heidrich 1). Lincoln and Kennedy’s Vice Presidents’ names, Andrew Jackson and Lyndon Johnson each have thirteen letters in their names (Heidrich 1). One coincidence both presidents have in common is with the number seven. Lincoln sat in box 7 ...
- 7089: Critiscisms Of My Antonia
- ... could get their pen on. This is seen from criticisms of Henry Adams to William Butler Yeats. These writers critique everything about the writer and his/her works. For instance many critics criticize Willa Cather's novel, My Antonia. Their criticisms lie on the basis that My Antonia is based on cyclical themes with no structure holding each of the My Antonia's books. In other words, as a collection of five different accounts remembered by the main character, Jim Burden, My Antonia is characterized by a loose plot structure yet the existence of common themes is expressed in a cyclical nature. According to James E. Miller, Jr.'s " 'My Antonia': A Frontier Drama of Time," Willa Cather's novel, My Antonia, is "defective in structure." (Bloom 51) Its structure is basically based on the narrators', which is Cather herself, point of view ...
- 7090: The Dead Sea Scrolls
- ... ability to analyze and render a scholarly evaluation with respect to the Sadducees of ancient Judaism and the origins of the Dead Sea sect and their writings. The Dead Sea Scrolls have been Dr. Schiffman's life's work. In particular, he has focused on the unique Halakhah peculiar to the Dead Sea sect. He began his study of the legal material with his doctoral dissertation in 1974, which dealt with "The Halakhah ... cover of his recent book, "Reclaiming the Dead Sea Scrolls".6 Clearly, Dr. Schiffman is extremely knowledgeable and qualified to render an evaluation regarding the Sadducean authorship of the Dead Sea Scrolls documents. Dr. Schiffman's position concerning the origins of the Dead Sea sect and the Scrolls is basically that: "The earliest members must have been Sadducees unwilling to accept the status quo establishment in the aftermath of the ...
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