...Hong Kong Liberal Party Party Manifesto 1. Our vision and mission Freedom is of paramount importance to our citizens, our communities and to Hong Kong. We, the Liberal Party, strongly believe that freedom is the core value that we should safeguard and preserve to make Hong Kong a more prosperous and thriving international metropolitan. Without freedom, Hong Kong would not be the freest economy in the global arena for many years. Without freedom, Hong Kong citizens and other mass media would not have a channel to convey their ideas and opinions openly. Without freedom, there would not be Liberal Party. Pursuit of freedom has never been an easy task, therefore since our establishment, we have been endeavored to pursue freedom wholeheartedly. We believe that only by preserving this value ceaselessly can Hong Kong maintain her prosperity and stability. Pursuit of freedom is by no means our exclusive mission. In order to make Hong Kong a better place to live in, we also place great emphasis in upholding some irreplaceable values such as equality in opportunity, cultural diversity, justice, love and care. The Liberal Party is committed to attain all these goals by an unshakable spirit, which is to serve the Hong Kong citizens at all cost. The Liberal Party will inherit the proud history and continue to serve Hong Kong with our sincere attitude. We will actively listen to different opinions and voices, and grasp every opportunity to improve ourselves to a higher level...
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...When it comes to constructing public opinion I side with the affirmative that mainstream media does have a liberal, leftist bias. This media which includes major traditional mainstream news networks and newspapers have had a long standing liberal bias. In the video that was viewed in class, which was made in 2001 the author Justin Lewis was even claiming that the media had been very heavy left bias in the years past. It has only continued to increase for the liberal bias throughout the years. This can be seen by not only the coverage, but also by the past publicly expressed of political opinions of most major reporters, anchors, producers, etc. The dictionary defines a liberal as a political or social philosophy advocating the freedom of the individual, parliamentary systems of government, nonviolent modification of political, social, or economic institutions to assure unrestricted development in all spheres of human endeavor, and governmental guarantees of individual rights and civil liberties. It also defines a leftist as an outlook or specific position that accepts or supports social equality, often in opposition to social hierarchy and social inequality. It usually involves a concern for those in society who are disadvantaged relative to others and an assumption that there are unjustified inequalities, which right-wing politics views as natural or traditional that needs to be reduced or abolished. In this paper I will affirm the argument that is made by Mr. Lewis in favor...
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...'PETERSON DESIR PROF: SMITH-PETER CLASS: HST- 275 Catherine the Great was and remains one of the most important figures in Russian history. During her thirty-four-year reign Russia has greatly prospered not only materially , but more importantly intellectually, which played a vital role in the modernization or the westernization of Russia a couple centuries later. Evidently, analyzing her long reign through the prism of what is considered as democracy today, one could depict its very faults and blemishes. However, we should view her reign as it was then , but not as it should have been nowadays. Whether somebody coined it as an enlightened absolutism, the real truth remained : Catherine the Great has brought Enlightenment to Russia, the European Enlightenment. What was it, Enlightenment?- It was a philosophical movement that greatly fostered rational thinking, the use of science over traditions and superstitions, and also promoted freedom ,security and equality before law for all people. Catherine was thrilled by such great ideas. She devoted herself to reading and established a great line of correspondence with the true leaders of the movement such as Voltaire, Diderot, Bossuet,etc..In her letters, she overtly expressed her intention of becoming an adept of the movement. She started in creating schools and reforming the educational system. She Turned to Voltaire for advice. As an Enlightenment's follower, she was deeply interested...
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...Books are symbolic of learning, and the educated. For years now, having a home library was the luxury few could afford. The lucky few who had one were immeasurably proud of it, and rightly so. Today, not only are books beginning to lose the value that they once had in the eyes of Man, their place in society has been increasingly challenged by the newborns of the digital age. New trends such as the increasing pace of life, the accelerating rate at which new information is being pedalled forth, and the ubiquity of the effects of capitalism have driven people to become more efficient. The by-product of such phenomena is that Man is taken as its slave, and only the interests of the market are considered, instead of the individual. Unfortunately, this has dealt a severe blow to the significance of the book in modern society. All indicators seem to point out that the book is unworthy of its more efficient counterparts like the personal computer or tablet. Yet, the book holds a special place in our hearts: its final trump card. We should not be too quick to oust the book out of our lives even with the proliferation of suitable alternatives, for there is still indeed worth of the hard copy even in the frenzy of modern society. Evolution seems to have taken mankind back to square one, where the modern man (like his ancestors thousands of years ago) worries about his next meal, appointment or payment. "Next" seems like the buzzword of modern society, with people constantly looking for...
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...From the inauguration of state organised welfare the concepts of ‘need’ and inequality have been at the centre of discussions and debates on social policy. Since the 19th century it has widely been accepted that the state has some responsibility towards attempting to fulfil some of civil society’s needs and the needs of those most at risk. Changing definitions and attitudes surround the concepts of need and inequality; this means any discussion of these instantly encapsulates the political and ideological debates which affect all aspects of social policy. Titmuss (ed. 1987) writes that ‘collectively provided services are deliberately designed to meet certain socially recognized ‘needs’; they are manifestations’ this means any changes within these are interrelated with those in society. Miller (1987) draws from Titmuss’s work explaining that the inequality which creates need is formed from the very nature of an advanced industrial society as ‘the costs of economic growth and stability are not evenly distributed’ he describes the welfare state as ‘compensation for the vulnerable who pay the prices of ‘progress’ (1987). This essay seeks to examine the concept of need within social policy by looking at how it became recognised in the 19th century and how it was defined in the 20th century. This will include looking at what social legislation has been borne out of its recognition. I will also look at the changing attitudes towards inequality and the left/right political and ideological...
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...Assignment Week #8 Olympe de Gouge and Mary Wollstonecraft, the Right of Woman. Prof: Lynn Wilson Yusra Elfaki Oylmpe de Gouges (1748-1793) was born in the South of France to a butcher and a washerwoman, she was one of the victims of Reign of Terror. She moved to Paris after the death of her husband and gegan to write essays, manifestos, and plays concerning social injustice. In the beginning she greeted the start of the French Revolution with enthusiasm, but when she learned that equal rights to vote and hold political office were not being extended to women, she became disenchanted. In 1791 she joined a group of advocate for women’s rights which in the end resulted in an ultimate sacrifice “Death.” On the other hand, Mary Wollstonecraft was born in England (1759-1797). She published A Vindication of the rights of women in 1792 and publishing History and Moral View of the Origin and Progress of the French Revolution. The main focus was that the French Revolution certain policies were unfavorable to women. She has accused Rousseau and others of trying to restrict women’s experience and narrow their vision, keeping them as domestic slaves to men In contrast to the writing of her French contemporary Olympe de Gouges, she was deeply influential leading to the liberal feminist movement, arguing not for a radical restructuring of society, but for the right of women to access the same social and political...
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...1. Related to the videos: do the issues we looked at and discussed go too far? Should we leave the First Amendment alone, or should we revise? In relation to the first amendment and the issues we looked at, as stomach wrenching as some of the ideas and arguments were I do not think they went to far. The first amendment is a beautiful thing for everybody and how they choose to use it is their own choice and freedom. In any democracy there is a give and take, a good and evil, there are going to be people who do amazing and positive things by use of the first amendment. There will also be people like the Phelps family, who cowardly hide behind it, exploit it for all it stands for and push their radical religious views in a disgusting manner. Be that as it may, they do indeed have the right to do so and for every few months when we hear about their types of ridiculous behaviors and antics their are millions of others using freedom of speech for good and helpful reasons. 2. If we did revise, who would decide and what would be possible ramifications? The constitution states in the preamble WE THE PEOPLE, for no other reason than that, WE THE PEOPLE should be the ones who should have the power to change it. If the government wanted to change it the constition would be tainted for all it stands for. I think looking at it rationally where can you really change it? Are you going to change it to freedom of speech is ok only if everyone likes what you are going to say? no...
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...The media reaction to immigration problem in the United Sates is as diverse ad the cultures and peoples it impacts. While there does exist some common public and political views there is also facts information which could alter those positions. The media piece, discussed here, found on YouTube under the title AP Gov. Immigration 2011, posted by dmcb324, a variety of media clips providing information from numerous news sources both local and international are given. This paper will use this media format to address the questions on the media reaction toward immigration. What is the historical framework of this issue? The framework presented in this media presentation covers a current and present time frame beginning with the elections of 2010 through the months of 2011. So the information seen and heard is very up-to-date and thereby relevant in today’s societal issues. What is the political context of this issue? The piece presents all sides of the political spectrum. It utilizes news clips and media information from both liberals and conservatives and well as members of the Democratic and Republican parties. This unique combining of views and information provides for a very thought-provoking and unbiased look at some of the issues around immigration today. By presenting only the information, alongside the human elemnts impacted without slanting it does not lead the viewer to any conclusion and presents hwo truly complicated the issue is. What message does the...
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...In Charles Larmore’s essay, he tries to illustrate the idea of political liberalism from board to narrow. Firstly he admits that liberalism is a controversial issue even between its adherents and adversaries, but that is not worthless to investigate. Larmore points out that there are two basic problems motivate us to continue research this project. The first one is we always try to seek the moral limits to the government. This is not just that provide rules to constrain the conduct of the rulers. More significant point is to find out the common goods that the government ought to promote and recognize. The second basic problem is that the increasing awareness that the reasonable people tend to differ and disagree about the nature of the good life. This is mainly focus on the reasonable disagreement about what good life should be, the example given by Larmore is religious wars. On the other hand, rather than the views hold by pluralists that who asserts there are many valid forms of human self-realisation, Larmore tends to think that there should be common values we would accept unanimously (e.g. we share certain views that what makes life worth living). Larmore claims the minimal moral conception can be devised political principles which expressing some idea of common goods. One of the methods can be able to describe the idea of that is using “neutrality”, which means that to be neutral with respect to controversial views. Larmore believes that different views of good life...
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...History of Politics A Research Paper Presented to The class of Miss Rhoda Mae R. Navasquez Southern Cotabato Academy, Inc. In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirement for the Subject English IV by Jeison L. Omandam December 01, 2011 INTRODUCTION Political history is the description and analysis of significant political occasions, movements, thoughts, and leaders. Typically it is developed around the nation states. It is distinguished from but relevant to other areas of history such as economic history, social history, and military history. Usually, political history discusses events pertaining to nation-states and the political process in particular. As per Hegelian doctrine, Political History ‘is a perception of the state with a guiding force beyond the material benefits of its subjects: it meant that the state was the root factor of historical change’. This differs with one, for example, social history, which predominantly discusses the events and lifestyles of common folks, or people’s history, that is historical account from the view point of a lay person. A study of political history typically centers on a single nation and its political change and aggrandizement. A few historians highlight the ever increasing drift toward confined specialization in political history over the course of recent decades: ‘wherein a college professor in the 1940s resorted to identify himself as a “historian”, by the 1950s “American historian” was the designation.’ Political...
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...To what extent is there tension between liberalism and the principle of equality? Liberalism is the orthodox challenging position that believes in power to the people giving reference to the term ‘Free men’ where liberalism was the product of the breakdown of feudalism in Europe replaced with a growth of a ‘Market’ and a capitalist society. Royalty was at the time supposedly chosen by god ‘Absolutism’ but people began to question the power of the king (Glorious and French revolutions). The central theme of the liberal ideology is a commitment to the individual and a society that entices the desire of individuals to fulfil their potential enjoying maximum possible freedom within a like freedom for all. Equality refers to being treated equally and of identical moral worth, however there are diverse types that branch from this. Both Modern and Classical Liberals support three types of equality. Individualism implies a commitment to ‘foundational equality’ that feels that human beings should be ‘born’ equally in the sense that all individuals are of equal moral value gaining natural or human rights. The second type of equality is ‘formal equality’ ideas concealing that we should all have the same formal status. Largely in terms of rights and entitlements it disapproves social privileges that are given to some and denied to others due to ‘irrational factors’ such as race & gender, creating the essence of ‘difference blind’. Non-legal factors should be discarded during process...
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...Frederic Sorrieu The first print of the painting shows the people of Europe and America marching towards the Statue of Liberty and paying homage to it. Liberty is personified as a female figure which holds charter rights in one hand and the torch in other. THe shattered images of absolute institutions lies on the earth .Frederic Sorrieu always visualized a world made up of democratic and socialist republics. He wishes to potray a world where all countries respect statue of liberty or in other terms where all countries promote Charter of the Rights of Man and fraternity. GERMANIA GERMANIA-personification of the german nation or the germans as a whole commonly associated with the romantic era and revolutions of 1848.she is the female allegorical figure of germany representing germany 's strength,power,willingness to make peace &heroism.she is depicted as a robust woman with long, flowing, reddish blondehair & wearing armour.she often weilds the reichsschwert(imperial sword)&possess a mediaeval style shield that sometimes bears the image of a black eagle on a gold field Marianne During the French revolution artists used female allegory to postray ideas such as Liberty, Justice and the Republic. Similar female allegories were invented by artists in the nineteenth century to represent the nation. In France, nation was represented by Marianne, a pop[ular Christian name which underlined the idea of a peoples’s nation. Her characteristics were drawn from those...
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...fawfafwwfacfawfafawfaefefaferhgrjgrgjirgjrijigrgijrigjjgj;rgjkljh jfjgkjgjijeiigjihirijgiejhehijrgjihrhrhrHong Kong had some legislation relating to the minimum wage as early as 1932; the Governor was granted the right, but was not obliged, to establish a minimum wage.[1] The Trade Boards Ordinance also gave the governor (and after 1997, the Chief Executive) the power to set minimum wages for piece-rate and time-rate work, and established penalties for non-compliance.[6] However, no governor exercised these powers.[1] In 2006, legislators floated a proposal for a voluntary minimum wage.[1] The executive branch formed a Minimum Wage Provisional Commission in February 2009 to research and eventually set a proposed wage floor.[7] More debate came about on the possibility of a minimum wage in 2010. Legislator Tommy Cheung, who represents the catering functional constituency, suggested that the minimum wage be no greater than HK$20.[8] This earned him the derogatory nickname "Twenty-dollar Cheung".[fn 1] He later amended his proposal to HK$24.[9] Lam Woon-kwong of the Equal Opportunities Commission also indicated he had no objection to a lower minimum wage for disabled people.[10] Chief Executive Donald Tsang was opposed to the whole concept of a minimum wage, according to legislator Lee Cheuk-yan of the Hong Kong Confederation of Trade Unions. Other voices of opposition included the free-market think tank Lion Rock Institute, as well as Miriam Lau of the Liberal Party, who gave...
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...'Modern liberals have abandoned individualism and embraced collectivism.' Discuss the question asks to Analyze how liberalism stemmed into abandoning the two core values of individualism and collectivism. In the essay that follows it will be assessed how modern liberals evolved from their classical core beliefs. Individualism, this is the most fundamental feature of liberalism. It is the unique feature that distinguishes it from the other ideologies. Classical liberals interpret it as an individual his or her own self-awareness, personality, capabilities and free will to decide their own fate. On the other hand, Modern liberals accept the idea of individuality but made certain observations, such as; we cannot consider ourselves completely free to peruse our own interests because we also have social obligations to consider the needs and welfare of others. It can be already be seen how the attitude of the liberals change towards the individual, as at first they view each citizen as a single special individual, however now, they have a broader view of the society as they have to care for each other and not only themselves. Thomas H Green was one of the first philosophers to have a new perspective of the idea of liberalism, thus creating the foundation of modern liberalism. He believes that individuals have sympathy for one another which link to the idea of caring for one another and not only for themselves. This already highlights the fact...
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...Pragmatism essentially believes in a more practical behavior or form of policy, as opposed to an ideological principle. Conservatives traditionally favour pragmatism because it emphasizes the impact of applied ideas that have been tested over time- highlighting the importance of tradition (one major traditional conservative value. One-nation conservatives agree with the foundations of pragmatic ideas. Whereas the New Right was heavily ideological- arguably, the application of Neo-liberal ideas with an emphasis on free-market economics (i.e.: heavy privatization in the Thatcher period) shows a radical change into applying newer principles. Traditional conservatives place a higher emphasis on pragmatic ideas- as these ideas have been tested over time (a conservative would argue that they work; they are product of years of continuity) thus humans are incapable and essentially limited in radically making theories themselves. Their ideas may be based upon the idea of tradition; which aligns itself with the Darwinian belief that only the fittest policies have survived over the years- and have created what Chesterton called the ‘democracy of the dead’ which is much more reputable than todays ‘arrogant oligarchy’. Pragmatic ideas are preferred because they have continuously growing over centuries whereas principle would ensure instability- for example: the sudden abolition of the monarchy would heavily affect the public; because it’s nationally loved- therefore extreme principles of...
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