Student errors, Fall Semester 2006

Democratic values are built from the idea that we as United States citizens can get along in an everyday environment.

Liberty is the unchangeable concept of the human condition.

This assurance is essentials in the voting process.

It ensures that know matter what area you grow up in, family you come from or school you attend that every citizen starts out on the same level ground in society.

Federalism has been looked at with scrutiny for many years by the people of Germany and The United States.

This system was done away with in 1789 when the Declaration of Independence was put into place. Under the Constitution union states were formed and a federal government.

The statement, “Comparing political systems is a waste of time. We can learn nothing from this process” is defiantly false.

Great Britain and the United States differ under governing circumstances.

The truth is that both or interdependent, and without one the other can’t exist.

All three of these nations guarantee a free health care system for their citizens, unlike here in the United States health care comes with a price tag.

Although the government has specific programs such as Medicare, Medicaid, strict guidelines are also implemented so that individuals have to meet certain qualifications and criteria to abstain and benefit from these services.

Although differences among states, communities, and nations are different in several areas, we may assume that political, social, and economic policies help, and understand these policies in depth.

Unlike American government, Germany adopted democracy after the Nazi rule.

This is similar to the United States whereas the lower class depends on the lower class.

The whole point of the unification was to implement some form of stability in German.

The French and British systems of government also both share similar considerations for the social diaspora within their country.

The Queen is the head of both the Anglican and the Roman Catholic Church.

The France Republic system of government does make more sense than the United Kingdom of Great Britain’s, because they both have two different systems of government.

Members of the House of Commons are elected for five year terms by popular vote unless the House is dissolved earlier by direct universal suffrage.

Whereas Great Britain is a Monarchy and the United States is a Republic, they are very much alike.

The role of the British Prime minister is to select his own cabinet, such as that of the United States President.

When things such as war or apartheid take place in certain countries one may analyze countries political system to see why these things have occurred.

Political development came for Great Britain in the form of the Magna Carta signed in 1912.

The final legal and political authority to make decisions by British’s sovereignty is affected in many ways.

While West Germany was once considered one of the worst prosperous economies East Germany was suffering under Communist policies and a communist regime which made their economic status quite different.

For example, in august 2005 Hurricane Katrina was a major issue which led over 10,000 black families out of homes and jobs.

Many Americans believed the election was ridged for Bush to win with the miss count from Florida.

Political parties are organized groups that gain political power by electing people to office so that their views become a way of life.

Know matter what level of office your running for rather it be student government to the presidency it’s important to campaign to campaign.

Whether it be promises made in his campaign or his good tract record.

The two party systems are also to be blame for low voters.

The age to vote was changed from twenty-one to eighteen, yet young adults, between ages 18 and 24 are less likely to vote. This age group decline voter’s turnout.

Pericles’ Funeral Oration was observed during the time following the Peloponnesian War, it was a customary objective in the Athenian culture to honor those killed in battle by conveying a public speech, which translated the importance of their strong loyalty and allegiance to Athens.

Both Pericles and Lincoln understood the importance of justifying the deaths to those who had lost loved ones and needed immediate answers to why was this measure of extreme necessary.

The Peloponnesian War and the American Civil War were both historically significant wars throughout history, which had a great impact on the everlasting spirit of democracy.

Plato wants only a selected enlightened few (who he refers to as the Garden Class) to lead.

Agamemnon, on many occasions in the Iliad, when faced with this choice vies not for benevolence and morality, he instead seeks self-service.

Two of the most famous orations were that given by Pericles’ and Lincoln.

It is known that they praise their past fathers for upholding values and fighting to create the democracy in which they now live.

In a few sentences he states that ones nation is unique because they are conceived in liberty and that they are a nation were men are equal.

Yet will the large steps Plato has made that most men of his time would not have this still were a time where a patriotical society existed.

This is interesting, given that boys are foster in an environment to always be right. And because of this environment, it can strongly attest to more men, and a lot less women, pursuing careers in math and sciences.

Both a monarch and a republic state have played a significant role throughout history.

One of the most important similarities that both Han Feizi and Machiavelli have in common is the idea all individuals are born selfish.

He can also be viewed as the greatest Latin orator and prose in history.

Marcus Cicero lived amongst the rise and fall of the Roman Republic.

The present of lawyers – namely Cicero – would help members of the State obey these Laws as written.

Cicero embodied a free state without Laws that would create equality and fairness throughout this given State.

Plato became a champion of the female cause condoning the strength of women to lead and play a significant role in his ideas on the ideal state.

They mutually, seemed to have had a preoccupation with the ruler being overthrown or deceived by those closest to them, both men also emphasized the fact that a ruler should act quickly, and decisively.

Machiavelli insist that a ruler most inmate the ‘lion and the fox’.

Women in the world of theory are not regarded with the same intellectual prowl as their male counterparts.

Pizan questions whether or not women should be taught education just like their counterparts and why men think women should not be educated.

Pizan learned her intellectual powers from her father.

When we talk about Han Feizi, there’s a great deal of assumptions that can be generalized, in regards to how he views the human beings, and how government should be ran.

Once again, here Machiavelli stresses out the importance in balance, and exercising power in doing whatever works.

Han Feizi, is very cut and dry, he is a one man street, and although Machiavelli doesn’t state that people are “good,” he implies that fear alone is not the only way because people can revolt against you, and that’s why timing and balance are extremely important.

In the oration, Pericles describes the honorable courage and self-less attitude the people of Athens inhabit in comparison to other civilizations.

Although Machiavelli and Han lived in two completely different times, some of their schools of thought were the same.

They both give their take on how to defend themselves against being betrayed.

In the time of Han Feizi, which was before B.C. China, there really were no other types of government.

The nature of reality includes epistemology, ontology, ethics, logic, metaphysics, and law.

Matters of the spirit and soul include humility, virtue, wisdom, universal truth, transcendent dimension, life, ethics, values, morality and Yahweh the creator (the scared, original, and believed to be the most accurate name of God in Hebrew).

In Augustine’s “City of Yahweh,” he defines the proposition on what is best for humanity and includes scripture, the fall on man, and worldly calamities to justify his reasoning.

The men in Pericles’ Funeral Oration died for democracy, which is an institution of government that puts too much power in the hands of the people.

The men Pericles praises in his Funeral Oration died for a complex system of government where punishment and corruption allowed for unjust dispersion of consequences.

In the middle ages men who did not reach ultimate fulfillment in their lives were reincarnated into women.

However, Aristotle believed social order was a fundamental eliminate to securing public good.

Niccolo’ di Bernardo dei Machiavelli unlike Han Feizi was not of Chinese decent.

In Han Feizi time benevolence was rare so, Han states his (the rulers) sensible trepidations at being adapting your means of persuasion to your people and their circumstances, being determined sparing in your trust.

Furthermore, the significant difference between Confucius come about in their views on human nature, and the type of individual the posses the right to rule, or govern a state.

Men cannot and will never fully understand the idea of child birth, and until they do women will forever be considered inferior.

China’s political development has been ever changing.

I can visually remember seeing the made in China encrypted on most of my childhood toys, clothes, and appliances.

Most Americans view Japan and the Middle East as major economic treats because of Japans car production, and the Middle East because of the large oil possession.

Several of Chinese owned companies are buying and investing millions of dollars in to oil and gas fields and energy companies. This is an intelligent move of the China’s end, regardless of the amount of natural and native resources they are buying up oil in other countries to secure their economy in the future.

After reviewing the state of Japan’s economy, one can assume that the decline of economic supremacy is due to Japan’s lack of strong international ties.

China can be viewed as a universal workshop; it produces productivity all over the world.

Who is to say their own form of government was not inadequate enough that they needed democracy to be introduced.

The Supreme Court is set up to where they can reject to enforce a law.

The U.S. had more input in Japan’s launchers in the 1970s than they did.

The world is also aware of the Palatine vs. Jew conflict and uses the issue to define Israel’s overall political structure.

Israel is actually divided between religious v. secular governments.

Egypt even went so far as forbidding the UN peacekeeping force to keep out of the Gaza strip.

This created a dominion effect and triggered the 1973 Yom Kippur War.

The Revolutionary United Front (RUF) was to believe to be a rebel army that fought a failed ten-year insurrection in Sierra Leone, starting in 1991 and ending in 2002.

Once a partner in a union with Denmark, Norwegians disassembled themselves, and claimed their independence from Denmark in 1814.

After Christopher Columbus sailed there in 1942 Cuba became a Spanish colony.

He set up Protestant schools through out the Island to convert the people from Catholics to Christians.

Both of the educational systems has pros and cons that were either bad or good.

Located in the Southeastern region of Europe, Romania is a country that is saturated with history.

During this time in Romania when Romania received Transylvania and other states from Hungary, the Romanian government planed heavily proposed nationalism within all their states.

The recent psychical attacks on the Roma have left them in constant battle for protection for themselves and the rest of the community.

Throughout recent years there have been attempts from by women to create various programs to ensure the protection of women and children who are a product of domestic violence.

Again, the British began this warfare with the lower hand against the Boers.

The British took the time to strip their new cohabitants of their individuality on some levels.

If they can not pay for water how would they pay for sanitation to get transported out of their area and into a waste facility?

With a national income of 700 dollars, it is hard for the citizens to make a living and to pay the cost of water.

Mexico’s current president is Vicente Fox Quesada and had a current currency of Pesos.

Many would agree that both China and India have transformed significantly in size, and taken control of their economy, and as a result they both have become dominate nations in their own way, as well as pose a threat to the supper powers in the world.

The liberalization of India’s economy evolved in 1992, with a unique path to boast up its economy.

The inspiration in the creation of Japan comes from the Sun Goddess Amaterasu in which the future emperors were supposedly descendents.

Both thinkers evaluate the fundaments of human nature and the basic objectives a government should achieve.

Hobbes says that according to the social contract you should do what you are told, you have to right not to be punished.

Though some of their beliefs are different many argue that they are alike even though Hobbes began his teachings a decade before that of Machiavelli.

Rather them bringing integrity back to government as promised in their contract wit America, Republicans have brought unprecedented new levels of correction to government.

The Roma also believe that a woman’s menstruation cycle is also a curse and should be washed separately from other articles of clothing.

We began first with Thomas Hobbes, whom many considered an extreme pessimist, due to the fact that he lived in the industrial revolution, which brought great dislocations, and the unmerciful, and uncomfortably state of nature.

To be considered equals, African Americans achieved every goal that stood in their path.

Civil rights have come a long way and now have proved to be true.

Therefore, Women and African Americans from across America rose together to overcome one of the most life-changing conflicts in history.

The War in Iraq has sent Saddam Hussein to prison but it has not yet provided diplomacy to Iraq so its also wasting our tax dollars.

Its significant for us because America has numerous amounts of people with numerous amounts of religions.

America is regarded as the most powerful country in the world and with it’s population grown an increased treat to the national security.

Each individual is set to certain political parties which are Democrats and Republicans.

The most fairness in politics all goes to the Republican parties because of the contributions the party gives to the campaigns and the government.

There for our economy is divided equally in all areas mainly the work force.

Since 1978 China’s economic situation has improved greatly. With the help of Deng Xiaoping, the most power leader residing over the People’s Republic of China.

After the economy is stable, Chinese aspects began to incorporate themselves in the form of Marxist ideologies which are common to the Chinese.

Society teaches us everyday that the strongest, richest, and most cleaver shall hold power.

There government has political parties but still has the Communism factor involved that governs all of the people.

Mexico is the owner of its own oil. This oil is known as PEMEX.

Augustine helped to merge Judeo-Christian principles and beliefs during his time.

Aquinas believed that hearsay is punishable by death.

John Calvin worked close with Martin Luther although they had some opposing views of Jesus Christ being human or not.

Nigeria is a rash and unpredictable country.

Plato and Aristotle are Western thinkers whom have unclear views as to what a stable social order is.

With this unlimited natural freedoms people are entitled to all things and as a result has the freedom to harm a persons own self preservation.

When talking about the state of nature Rousseau is describing a man striped of their civilization.

It is unbelievable to most that these two countries [Mexico and the United States] are extremely close in location, however, they comprise of two completely different economies.

Poverty-stricken problems can be viewed as the primarily reason for migration.

The United States receives a vast majority of the Mexican Population that may be seeking a live problem free of poverty.

Aristotle school of though consisted of the Peripatetic school as well as the tradition of Aristotelianism.

Confucius’ began with the school of thought known as Humanism – a school of thought dealing with humans.

Before becoming communist, China ruled by an emperor for much of its history.

The Difference between the governments of Middle Eastern countries and that of the more governmentally organized countries that we have studied such as France, Britain, Germany, Japan, and Russian lies closely within their belief system. Many countries of the Middle East are governed according to the traditions of their perspective religions, namely the Islamic and Muslim ideologies.

The government of Oman is more of a Monarchy in which hereditary descendants are heirs to the kingship.

The government of Kuwait is a Middle Eastern country whose head of government is based upon a hereditary heir to the throne.

China is not likely to engage in a stable democratic government because of many years of communistic rule which has shaped much of their livelihood.

Outbreaks of polio can be found affecting Nigerian youth and young adults rampantly.

Israel is the only so-called “Western democracy” that forbids all Jews from praying at their holiest site on the face of the earth.

An overthrow of a figurehead can create unwanted chaos and social upheaval.

Both Machiavelli and Han Feizi stress the importance of the monarch or the ruler as an omnipotent being.

Beginning with the Shang (Yin) Dynasty, lasting up until the Xing Dynasty in 1912, with each violent change of regime, the people of China also experienced progress national progress: the territory expanded, Chinese culture and technology reached noteworthy peaks, and in the wake of European imperialism, the Chinese developed new and innovative agendas in an effort to modernize it military.

The ruler has to activate calm.

The revolution was for then Chinese dictator Mao, who died in 1976 ending the Cultural Revolution.

The Chinese government is complex and uses many customs that have been used for decades.

The country is about 20% the size of the United States and many Arabians are not connected to the world.

The root of democracy was planted in Iraq with the war on terrorism created by the United States.

The Miss World pageant of 2002 moved the Nigerian capital of Abuja to London because of violence in the northern part of the country.

Chinese philosophers leave thongs behind such as Dao or the way.

China as a country, after the Russian revolution in 19117, begins to establish itself as a socialist state. In 1949, the acknowledged itself as a Community state, giving all powers to the Communist party. This new form of government, operated by the principle of Lenin, a Democratic Centralism, consists of the idea that official principles and decision making is made by the center by the democratic level. This new form of government, still resemble the warlord rule that China was built upon.

Furthermore, as we approach the twenty-second, the United State sees China not only as a business party, but as well as a competitor for the most dominant country in the world.

Within the world alone India, is the major supplier to software design, to their proficiency in computer engineers, and equipping a large number of well educated citizens.

He says that there would be no need for the temporal law or sword if the world were compromised of real Christians.

Soon after their independence Nigeria, in 1960 formed the First Republic, where the northern, Easter, and western were all dominated by northern leaders.

On the other hand Confucius whose political thought was based upon his ethnical thought, for he argues that the best government is one that rules through “ritual,” and peoples natural morality, rather than using bribery and force.

Political Parties are banned from Libya as well as a parliamentary government and majority rule but is made up of other institutions such as the Revolutionary Command Council which was in control of the decision making, as well as tribal groups an the Basic Popular Congresses.

Also his teachings were for total Chinese dominance not only in its region, but to spill over into other borders.

Could it be that a ruler makes decisions that may not constitute the teachings of Mencius?

Aristotle was the first theorist to operate without a theory.

While offering differing opinions and aspects of philosophy, they shared a few very pertinent views as it pertains the ways in which society ought to be governed.

Western thinkers such as Plato and Aristotle provide some insight on reason and wisdom on governing but lack in aspects that are vital to ruling over a society.

There is no balance of power the government is a part of aspect of country.

Nigeria has been labeled as a Third war country and the most corrupt country in the World. Both are bad because a country of this size should be established by now and should be dealing with the same issues of the past.

The Mexican political system is now based on the United states model, but before the change they did not have a limit on the amount of terms any on person could sever.

The war was over Texas, which had been a part of Mexico until the Texasian, which were then Mexican, were told they were not allowed to have slaves.

The United States produces most of the produces Mexico produces in Mexico for cheaper than they would in the United States.

When we loot at their performance from the point of view of governance rated by the World Bank, there are hardly any significant differences between these two governments.