...William Mati Mr.Laing CHC- 2D0 June 1, 2012 Fidel Castro: A leader without limits Fidel Castro was an extraordinary leader who fought for the good of his people and led them to victory in the Cuban revolution. This victory did not only prove Fidel's courage by standing up against the Cuban government and standing up for the poor, but it also demonstrated his determination to become victorious. However, in order to overthrow the government, Castro would have needed supporters for his cause, in which his charisma helped influence. Such a revolution would be impossible to achieve if Castro was not an extraordinary leader. Fidel Castro was courageous, charismatic, and determined. First, Castro always displayed courage and bravery throughout his lifetime. After he witnessed what was truly occurring in Cuba, Fidel began to doubt the political system and the rein of Batista. As a result, Fidel had begun to participate in revolutionary campaigns and speaking out against Batista. On July 26 1953, Castro participated in a battle between the guerillas and the military. Many of the guerillas were killed, but luckily for Castro, he was sent to prison and later exiled to Mexico, where he formed a revolutionary group. Forming another group displayed courage by attempting another assault on Batista and risking death. Since Castro supported communism, he was put at further risk because the concept of communism was looked down upon. "The Communist Party with only some ten thousand members...
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...indisputable and M.Roshwald (2000) emphasized the importance of freedom with these words; ‘’Give me liberty, or give me death’’ (p.1). However, in today’s world, freedom is limited by dictators or majorities. J.S.Mill (1859), claims that, majority, which means the most active part of the society, may desire to oppress minorities and precautions are needed against this abuse of power. Mill raised awareness and warned against tyranny of majority. Social tyranny is more formidable than political oppressions, because tyranny of majority limits freedom of thought, prevents social progress, which is the beginning of all corruptions, and it is more difficult to escape and severer to endure than oppressive political regimes. First of all, majority’s opinions, values and norms determine all society’s values and point of views. Tyranny of majority can manipulates and suppresses minority’s thoughts and opinions. One step further, social tyranny may limit freedom of thought. According to K.Stone (2008), ‘’ Social tyranny penetrates even more deeply into everyday life, into the soul itself’’ (p.1). Starting from this point of view, tyranny of majority has a great power hence; it can manipulate all people thoughts easily and penetrates in all thoughts. Most in demand thoughts and are popular thought which can determined by majority. Stone (2008) clarified that, ‘’ ascendant part of the social structure, the big part of the country generally emanates from the interest of the upper class and determines...
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...Was Hitler a Weak Dictator? David Williamson examines two seemingly irreconcilable schools of though Perhaps of all the exam questions set on the Third Reich, `Was Hitler a Weak Dictator?' is the most difficult. It leads to the heart of the complex Intentionalist-Structuralist debate. On the one hand, there are the Intentionalist historians who argue forcefully in the words of Norman Rich that `Hitler was master in the Third Reich', while the Structuralists stress the many constraints on Hitler's power which range from his own personal inadequacies to the limits imposed upon him by the structure of the Nazi party and state. Mommsen, for instance, argues that he was `in many ways a weak dictator', (1) and David Irving in one of his earlier and less outrageous books even goes so far as to describe him as `probably the weakest leader Germany has known this century'. (2) The weak dictator/leader argument is paradoxical and is bitterly contested by a formidable array of historians who include, amongst many others, Bullock, Bracher, Dawidowicz, Hildebrand, and Jackel, who argue that Hitler had a programme and possessed the necessary powers to implement it. Bracher and Bullock, for instance, see Hitler as an immensely cunning politician who would use any tactic to further his aims. Bullock stresses that his foreign policy is only explicable if seen as a combination of `consistency of aim with complete opportunism in method and tactics'. (3) It is certainly hard to make out a case...
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...The Memory of Fidel Castro The 20th century was the era of the dictator. Around the world, dictators rose and affected millions of lives for better and for much worse. In 2016 Fidel Castro, the communist dictator, passed away and left behind a controversial legacy. Castro's regime leaves behind a polarized memory split between people who him and heroify him. Some people view him as a great liberator of Cuba and some consider him a ruthless oppressor of his dissenters. Cuba is an anomaly among countries due to Castro’s policy on decolonization that has enriched the lives of many while simultaneously oppressing and destroying the lives of countless others. While Castro created many social movements such as health care and education that benefited...
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...Movies have a huge contribution over societies. Some movies try to draw a picture that completely deceives and tricks people into believing in the concept that they try to distribute. In addition to that, movies may support an impression or a stereotype. But on the contrary, sometimes they may disprove it by some way or another. The dictator movie which has been published at 2012 by the director Larry Charles, who is of American origins, is a living example of how producers may use their power into supporting an impression that a lot of people already believe in. In this movie, Larry Charles had showed that Arabs are hairy, rich, terrorists, who find a huge importance in sexual intercourse with women. Moreover, Charles had supported these stereotypes by using humour and sarcasm as weapons to accomplish delivering those ideas to the spectators. Arabic music was used as a theme of the movie in order to stir the viewers into the Arabic region. Charles was creative in mixing between the Arabic theme represented by the music and the ideas that he wants to plant into people’s heads. In the beginning of the movie, he started by shooting the birth of the main character, Haffaz Aladdin, emphasizing over the amount of hair he had, reaching into the point that Arabs are hairy human beings in nature. Beards were one of the director’s techniques that have been used in building up to the conclusion that Arabs in general are leaning toward terrorism. Not to mention that, the main actor who...
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...every four Americans was unemployed. The Great depression had begun which put Germany under great misery and they needed a solution, that’s when Adolf Hitler came (The Depression). He became leader of the third Reich. He was a cruel dictator in the 1930’s, who was determined to do anything to restore the honor to his country, Germany (American). When Hitler was younger he was influenced by his teachers and he was surrounded by the political confrontation in the Austrian empire, which is what made Hitler have such strong leadership. There was a lot of prejudice against different ethnic groups which is why Hitler is so prejudice. Hitler was temporarily blinded in a gas attack and later that day he found out the news that Germany had lost the war. He was so humiliated and was determined to play a role in restoring Germany to a position of power and respect on the world stage. He vowed to keep fighting for national glory. His solution for restoring Germany’s power was to have a national dictatorship. He believed that his traitors were the Jews, socialist, liberals, pacifists, and all Germans who believed in Democracy. Hitler soon joined the Nazi party and became leader of it. He made the Nazis into a military-like organization and ruled them like a dictator (American). “On February 27 a fire destroyed part of a building and although it was started by a man who was a communist, Hitler used this as an excuse to begin a reign of terror against all other political enemies. The parliament...
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...explosion, urbanization, and other demographic factors of the industrial Revolution. Also, discuss the growth of huge industrial cities during the 19th Century. (Bentley & Ziegler, chap.29) 3. Chinua Achebe's novel Things Fall Apart is a good portrayal of an African society in a pre-New Colonialism era. Focus your study on Okonkwo's relationship with his society, which formed his values and traditions. Compare those norms with the arrival of Christian missionaries and the introduction of the European laws and values. (In an essay explain with concrete examples the political, social, economic, judicial, and religious structures of the village of Umofia from Achebe’s book Things Fall Apart. Also, state why Europeans were so determined to bring changes to this society and what kind of action Okonkwo took to defend his village.) 4. Examine the decline of the Ottoman Empire. What factors explain this process? What attempts at reform did the Ottomans undertake? (Bentley & Ziegler, chap.31) 5. Learn how and why Japan became industrialized (make sure you review your notes on the movie; Meiji Transformation). Learn also about hollow...
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...The First World War (1914-1919), known then as the Great War, caused the death of 9 million people. Ending in 1919, after Germany’s forced signing of the Treaty of Versailles (ToV), the League of Nations, unbeknowingly, produced a catalyst to an uprise of one of the most brutal dictators in modern history. The ToV saw to it that Germany, after already burning most of their resources, was severely punished and crippled politically, economically and socially. This tragedy gave rise to one of the most democratic regimes ever recorded in present day history, the Weimar Republic (WR). Ironically, this republic enabled a cruel, fascist and oppressive dictator, Adolf Hitler, to legally rise to power (1933-1945). Hitler was able to rise to power for...
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...we sell you weapons and you release hostages. Monies profited from this illegal black market scandal was funneled to the contras of Nicaragua to support their internal democracy issue and eventually allowed them to overthrow Anastasio Somoza Debayle. This whole scandal reflected poorly on the United States and President Reagan as it was a defining point in his presidency and almost cost him his office. This scandal first began in 1985 and continued until 1986 and was actually effective until the Hezbollah terrorist group got greedy and started taking more hostages in demand for more weapons. The article was first reported by the Lebanese magazine Ash-Shiraa in a multiple set of articles and from this the Congress of the United States determined that the President of the United States of America would bore the ultimate responsibility of the scandalous affair. The multitude levels of those involved personnel from the CIA, the National Security Advisor, Secretary of Defense and the Military Aide to...
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...consequentialist. In other words, actions do not have an inherent rightness or wrongness. Rather, the theory examines the consequences of actions in assessing their morality. In drawing its conclusions about morality, utilitarianism does not take into account any laws, societal conventions, or religious views. It looks exclusively at the resultant pleasures and pains in all affected agents. Jeremy Bentham developed a ‘hedonic calculus’ to help quantify utilitarianism. In short, his methodology involves evaluating the utility of each possible action at a given moment. The action generating the highest utility represents a moral obligation. Any action producing a lower utility is morally wrong. It is crucial to understand that morality is determined retrospectively in this theory: it is the real outcomes that matter, not the expected outcomes. Although utilitarianism appears intuitively strong, several powerful objections have been raised. In this paper, I will present and analyze several of these objections, namely those raised by John Stuart Mill in his own work on utilitarianism. The first objection portrays utilitarianism as ‘the doctrine of swine’. According to this objection, the sole pursuit of pleasure is...
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...Stalin (his adopted name, meaning "Man of Steel") had an active role in Russia's October Revolution in 1917. He maneuvered his way up the communist party hierarchy, and in 1922 was named General Secretary of the Central Committee. By the end of the 1920s, Joseph Stalin had expelled his rival Leon Trotsky, consolidated power, and was the de facto dictator of the Soviet Union. In the 1930s Stalin executed his political enemies and started aggressive industrial and agricultural programs that were supposed to lead to miraculous improvements in production, but instead left untold thousands of peasants dead. During World War II, Joseph Stalin was the commander of the Soviet military, first making a non-aggression pact with Adolf Hitler (1939) and then joining the Allies after Germany invaded Russia in 1941. Stalin attended the postwar conferences at Yalta, Teheran and Potsdam that determined the shape of the postwar world. He endured as maximum leader until his death in 1953; years later he was denounced by his successor, Nikita Khrushchev, and "Stalinism" was officially condemned. Brief Bio Joseph Stalin (1878-1953) was the dictator of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) from 1929 to 1953. Under Stalin, the Soviet Union was transformed from a peasant society into an industrial and military superpower. However, he ruled by terror, and millions of his own citizens died during his brutal reign. Born into poverty, Stalin became involved in revolutionary politics, as...
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...Animal Farm Questions Chapter 5 18. Make a list of 6 things Napoleon does in this chapter to secure his position as leader of the Farm. Which do you think was the most effective? Napoleon tries to solidify his leadership much like his Russian Revolution counterpart Joseph Stalin does in multiple ways. 1. Napoleon manipulates the animals by talking to them one at a time. He does this early in the book when Snowball is trying to persuade animals to join him on his ideas. Napoleon is a dissenter in the midst who talks individually to get them to see things his way, for example in the case of the windmill. 2. Napoleon also enlists the help of a gifted and crafty speaker on his behalf. This is Squealer. Stalin had Pravda as his mouthpiece in Russia. Napoleon uses Squealer to make great speeches that demonstrate production is better than it was in Jones time by shouting out tons of numbers. 3. Napoleon has Squealer use propaganda. Fear is an emotional appeal used to get the animals to remain faithful to the cause of animalism. The slogan "Four legs good, Two legs bad" unifies the animals against a different enemy. Napoleon uses Snowball almost a scapegoat and they blame everything they do not want to take credit for on him. So if they are stuck in a bad circumstance, Snowball gets the blame. 4.His use of force to maintain order. He used his fierce dogs to scare the animals into submission (compared to Stalin's secret police), and also to protect himself from harm. These dogs...
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...There are certain freedoms in life to which we should all be endowed, as people of the world. There are some people in this world who seem to believe that part of those liberties include stripping others of theirs. Throughout time, there have been many horrible dictators in multiple countries around our world. Despots such as Mussolini, Lenin, Kim Jong-Il, and Saddam Hussein have terrorized entire governments and the people living beneath them. One of the worst that we all know by name is Adolf Hitler. Hitler’s acts against the Jewish people as a totalitarian dictator in Nazi Germany revealed to the world just how erroneous discrimination and supremacy based upon race are, and how important it is to love our brothers and sisters. I am...
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...The Inca Empire was ruled by an emperor called the Sapa Inca, with the position passed from father to son. The Sapa Inca chose the viceroys who were usually relatives. In contrast, Latin America was ruled by an emperor for certain periods of time, but was also ruled by a culmination of dictators, presidents, and military leaders as nations struggled to maintain a stable government and economy. These Latin American positions were based on heritage instead of relatives. For example, the citizens with the highest authority were the Peninsulares who were Spanish born settlers, followed by the Creoles who were American born settlers with Spanish descendants. The lowest classes were the Native Americans and the Africans who had no rights or power, and were often used as...
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...C100 Foundations MAJ LeAngela Jones C112 Stage Setter Essay Thomas Barnett The Pentagon War:” It explains why we’re going to War and why we’ll Keep Going to War” CGSC 1. Critique the Author’s thesis: Thomas Barnett has briefed many people on The Pentagon’s New Map: It explains why we’re going to war and why we’ll keep going to war” as part of the Non-Integrating Gap. The Pentagon's New Map was intended to provide direction for the Pentagon in search of a strategy following the 1927 Post War and how globalization has affected this world. Is Thomas Barnett way of thinking about war the way most Americans think about war? I agree with the majority of Barnett’s article on “The Pentagon New Map”. He talks about how the threat of the disconnectedness of the Gap will reduce the level of disconnectedness and shrink the Gap. Protecting American citizens at home and abroad is one of the toughest tasks the President and Congressional leaders assume after they assume the oath of office. Disconnectedness can be seen among the citizens of the United States. Some of the same reasons identified by Barnett as causal factors are also applicable on a lesser scale. Take a look at the disadvantage people living in the United States; some in projects and others in trailer parks. Many of them are somewhat educated and want success; however, they take the wrong course of action to be successful. When they witness the success of others and the personal property owned by successful people...
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