Teaching strategies employed by effective teachers are always meant to keep the students engaged and motivated. There are several strategies to choose from, and hence teachers select the ones that will fit their classrooms and the ones that have been used before and worked best. Teaching Strategies for Reading Reading is a...
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George Orwell was an English novelist, journalist, essayist, and a critic whose work is marked by his awareness of societal issues such as social injustice, socialism, and opposition. The essay will use three of his works; ‘Can Socialists be happy?’, ‘Shooting an Elephant’ and ‘Down and Out in Paris and...
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Discuss the concept of State of Nature as it evolves through the period covered by the course. What are the various conceptions of it, and how do they relate to the development of the state, government or commonwealth? Discuss in relation to concepts such as peace, liberty, fairness and equality. Introduction The...
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The paper contains the various qualities of political leadership as outlined in “The Prince” by Machiavelli. The first paragraph is a summary containing the writer’s information, the setting of the story, the time and the reason behind the writing of the book. The second paragraph describes the meaning of Machiavellianism...
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Japan's Social System Japan’s social system is different from what is considered normal in the Western world. While some ancient practices have persisted, the post-war reconstruction of the country modified social life. The first reading covers important aspects of Japanese life such as alcoholism, codependency, domesticity, the corporation’s role in society,...
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Kurosawa Kiyoshi is one of the most celebrated directors in the film industry in Japan. Kiyoshi is famous for films known as the J-horror genre, for instance, the Pulse (2001), Retribution (2006) and Cure (1997). In all these films, Kiyoshi explores themes of anger, loneliness, hopelessness, and dissatisfaction that depict...
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In his discussion, Eric Wolf discusses the conditions that beset peasants for them to engage in a revolution. According to the author, it is not often that peasants engage in rebellions and revolutions as the peasants experience difficulty in moving from passive recognition of wrongs to actively participation of the...
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The main tenets of ancient modern debate revolve around social, economic, and political issues. They deal with the acquisition of power, retention of power, and human control. Scholars like Machiavelli, Thomas Hobbes, and Plato have discussed the issues that even today continue shaping modern day politics. The initial belief of...
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Plato’s ideas as espoused in his writing, “The Republic” greatly influenced Thomas More’s utopian society. Irrespective of this heavy borrowing, the book reveals some highlights which greatly undermine the setup of Plato’s commonwealth because of the contrasting perspectives of More and the context in which the writing takes place. There...
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Niccolo Machiavelli was an Italian political author and commentator whose works have been relevant to the current politics. He lived between 1469 and 1527 and celebrated for one of his most renowned books featuring the acquisition, maintenance and consequent expansion of political power, The Prince of 1513 (Hoffmann, S., 1988)....
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Conservative Ideology and its Definition by Michael Oakeshott Conservative is prevailing ideas that are composed of various complex ideas that relate to political movements, philosophical projects and also the social prescriptions. Ideally, conservative is not simple to identify in comparison to historic growth as it is liberalism. Hence, conservative tries to...
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by George Orwell and Eric Blair and Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury are dystopian fictions. The two fictions have a number of glaring similarities in the plot and character development. Evidently, protagonists in the two novels lead meaningless and bland lives, but the appearance of a woman in their lives...
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