Q.1: How did Nationalism and the idea of the Nation-State emerge? Ans: Till mid-eighteenth century most of the people around world did not have concept of nationalism i.e. about their nationality‚ their national identity etc. This is because at that time nations did not exist in their modern form. People lived within kingdoms‚ small states‚ principalities‚ chiefdoms and not within nations. The first clear expression of nationalism came with the French Revolution in 1789. Thus‚ the idea of nationalism
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DOMA Ruling Last week was a huge week for our supreme court. There were a couple really important rulings. There was the University of Texas Vs. Fisher‚ which argued race when accepting students into their school. There was also a voting rights act ruling as well. The one that stuck out most to me was the court’s decision on DOMA. DOMA stands for “defense of marriage act.” It was signed by President Bill Clinton in 1996 to prevent same-sex couples whose marriages were recognized by their home state
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There may be :- * impartiality of judicial officer. * preliminary objections * applications as to trial * jurisdiction * defects in charge * no locus standi Impartiality of judicial officer: S439: any magistrate must preclude himself from trying a case where he has personal interest in it. Case: Mohd Ghazali Ibrahim – accused was the presiding magistrate’s brother. Magistrate discharged him. High court set aside the order and ordered a retrial before another magistrate
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issue of the ruling class discussed in the German Ideology. More specifically the theory being that the class which is the ruling material force of society‚ is at the same time its ruling intellectual force. (Marx 31). In other words‚ the predominant ideas of a society at a given historical time are created by the ruling class and serve the ruling class. Because how we live shapes the way we think‚ whoever owns the material productions of society controls society‚ in this case the ruling
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3 2012/13 Student Number: 09018133 Submission Date: Before 3pm‚ 30 April 2013 Words Total: The UK and the EU: in or out? Advantages and disadvantages of EU membership for the UK. How would a UK outside the EU look like? Introduction Since the first stage of the nation’s participation in the EU‚ Britain has viewed membership as a means to an end-namely‚ securing the upside of the welfare-enhancing trade that comes with free access to hundreds of
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Preliminary Reflection on Sociology I have very little expectations so far for this course‚ but topics that I would like to learn about are deviance‚ social problems‚ marital and sexual‚ urban‚ theory‚ research methods‚ statistics etc. Many people that have taken this course always tell me how interesting and fun it is‚ so I hope this class will be able to interest me and not be a dreadful. To be honest this is my first time taking a sociology course. This year would be my first year
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1635 Index 1. Introduction ----------------------------------------------------------------------3 2. Positive Changes in British economy after UK joining EU -----------4 3. Further Benefits of British society from joining EU ---------------------5 4. Viewpoints of UK public about joining EU and staying EU------------6 5. Conclusion-------------------------------------------------------------------------8 6. Bibliography-----------------------------------------------------------------------9
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“The ruling ideas of the age are ever the ideas of the ruling class.” – Marx & Engles High culture is characterised by timeless artefacts that shape and reflect the taste of those of the ‘high class’. In the past‚ before the introduction of popular culture‚ it was the ‘ruling classes’‚ the people with the money‚ power and status that defined what was considered to be of a high quality hence a part of ‘high society’. It was these people who outlined what was ‘good’ and what was ‘bad’‚ what was acceptable
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The story The Ruling That Changed America is about the case of Brown vs The Board of Education. The case ended up making it all the way to the supreme court where they ruled that there should be no segregation within schools But a lot of southern states did agree with this law at all and they felt it shouldn’t be in effect because they thought things were perfect the way they were before. The southern states tried to get around this law by using different tactics such as closing
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Does the EU suffer from a democratic deficit? If so‚ can it be solved by conferring greater powers on the European parliament? ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- The ‘standard version’ of the democratic deficit formulated by Weiler‚ consisting of the increased role of the executive Commission in matters of legislation‚ the weakness of the European Parliament (hereafter the EP)‚ the lack of ‘European’ elections‚ EU distance to
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