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How do members of Congress decide how to vote? Yasin Noormohamed In an age of increasingly more partisan politics‚ members of Congress have been voting more and more based on the views of the administration and their party ideology. However‚ to say that all voting is based on this would be a gross misrepresentation‚ and there are many other factors such as the views of constituents‚ their own judgement and the actions of party whips‚ all of which can influence how members of Congress vote. The views
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field of study. French radical theoretician‚ Regis Debray‚ for instance‚ proposes three historical ages of transmission technologies: the logosphere (the age of writing‚ technology‚ kingdom‚ and faith)‚ the graphosphere (the age of print‚ political ideologies‚ nations and laws)‚ and the newly born videosphere (the age of multimedia broadcasting‚ models‚ individuals‚ and opinions). Though these temporal strata have not been widely accepted‚ Debray’s work exemplifies the fact that the technologies of transmission
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has to accept the fact that he will die. He starts thinking of old stories of his past and that he was told while he sits by the fire and waits for his time to die. I think that from the very beginning you can see elements of London’s political ideologies brought out in his story. I think that the main theme is survival of the fittest. When his son says "is it well with you?" he is asking his father if it is right to just leave him there. The father says "it is well" which obviously means that he
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institutionalized structures of domination subordination ideologies arise to rationalize that structure of inequality/power. The social/political structure determines‚ in part‚ which meanings/ideologies are dominant. The social/political structure is held in place by‚ among other forces‚ the meaning that dominate the culture. Ideological domination (i.e. hegemony) is never complete. There is always people who refuses oppose and resist the dominant ideologies‚ to one degree or another. Therefore‚ domination
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the perpetual political changes create a direct implication to the day-to-day business activities and the type business investment plan to enter the country. Hence‚ conflict-of-interests are commonly tensions between the different in political ideologies‚ social issues‚ historical and culture background. As these interests are the catalysts to the type of regimes that the country will impose; moreover‚ these regimes will favour the different types of industries. For that reason‚ the organisations
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ethics. 2) Yes‚ there ought to be ideological rules‚ because professions have ideologies (or at least they ought to have ideologies). For example‚ in medical ethics doctors must subscribe to an ideology that they will do no harm to a patient. That is why ethical physicians will not assist in administering the poisons in lethal injection executions‚ although they will certify that a condemned prisoner has died. This is an ideology that doctors must
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all these reasons‚ if we want to understand how liberal democracies work‚ one must understand how a political party works. What is a political party? A political party is an organized association that brings together citizens united by a common ideology or philosophy‚ which she seeks fulfillment ‚ with the goal of conquest and exercise of power. This is an organization in the service of an idea. The political environment is not the same everywhere. It may give a different country to another characteristic
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are the traditional values of social order and morality‚ along with old-fashioned nationalism (Adams‚ 1993). “Religious fundamentalism may be heavily politicized and‚ conversely‚ it can adopt some of the characteristics of totalitarian ideologies” (Freeden‚ 2003). Fundamentalism is a main feature of the modern world. With it being a reaction to the secularization of the globe‚ as a moral protest to the modern values‚ it cannot be ignored. Several key characteristics of fundamentalism can
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He is a Sister: The Monstrous (De)Construction of the Sex/Gender Binary in Iain Banks’ The Wasp Factory Vikki Winkler English 498: Honours Thesis Advisor: Dr. Jodey Castricano March 31‚ 2008 If it is appropriate to define “ideology” as that which constitutes social‚ cultural‚ and political order‚ then perhaps it can be said that as a genre‚ the Gothic paradoxically both challenges and reinforces the stability of these seemingly “fixed” structures and‚ similarly‚ that it both disturbs and
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