For the purpose of this paper, attention will be focused on the Antigonid, Ptolemaic, and Seleucid kingdoms and how these powerful institutions employed these particular methods to legitimise their personal monarchies. The use of propaganda to form alliances by the successor kings, as a political strategy, is most certainly visible in the century following Alexander’s death in 323 BC . It could be argued that Antigonus I, through his proclamation of Greek freedom in 315 BC , was engaging in propaganda as a means of securing legitimacy and power for his monarchy. We know from Diodorus ; Antigonus marked Cassander as an enemy of the Greeks and Macedonians and accused him of attempting to enthrone himself in Macedon. He then proclaimed freedom of the Greeks.
Campaign contributions play an integral role in the political process; these funds are usually targeted donations by interest groups and corporations who will be expecting some sort of compensation for their financial support. If said politician is successful in their bid for office then its time for the politician to crudely put: pay up. For example an oil company might donate heavily to a politician that vows to keep environmental agencies off their back. This back and forth game between politicians and financial benefactors has become ingrained into the political process, Money talks and politicians listen. PACs and Super PACs although both are vessels through which to donate money to politicians, they have one key difference: Super PACs have no ceiling on how much money they can donate while PACs cannot donate more than fifteen thousand per year to national parties and no more than five thousand to specific candidates.
This supports the view because it says, “Look to the king’s profit and make sure all parties shall be contented.” This supports the view that finance was a key part of the dissolution because the King’s profit is highlighted as an important part of the letter, so it was obviously an important part of the Earl’s task. The second piece of evidence that the dissolution of the Greater monasteries was financially motivated was that it was only the greater monasteries dissolved. This suggests financial motivation, as any other cause, such as corruption or religious disagreement, would have seen all the monasteries, large and small, dissolved, where as a financial cause would only require the dissolution of the larger, wealthier monasteries. Thirdly, Source 8 agrees with the view because it says that the dissolution purely financial and that it were for both long term and short term financial benefits. This is because the sale of the goods found in the monasteries would provide short-term revenue for Henry’s war chest, and the land itself would be Cromwell’s way of providing a long-term income.
To what extent did family structures change in England c.900 – c.1150? Families were integral to society in the medieval period of c.900 to c.1150. They played a key role in politics, property, wealth, inheritance and personal feuds. When examining and analysing family structure during these years it is clear that profound transformations and changes occurred. Historians such as Kathryn Lowe argue that the extent to which this occurred has been exaggerated, whilst others have claimed such transformations have been fabricated and did not occur.
The book is important to the research as it gives the details about the act and its implementation process. Tate, N. (2014). Obamacare survival guide The Affordable Care Act and What It Means for You and Your Healthcare (1st Ed.). New York: Humanix Books. Since it is still not completely understood what the Health Care act entails, this book provides a critical look at the ACA.
Wealthy citizens commissioned specific art for both secular and religious projects. Though medieval tradition of religious subjects and stories from the bible continued this was combined with ideals of human figures and nature. This paper will describe, analyze, and interpret The Usurers by Marinus Van Reymerswaele. The Usurers,
One of the most important issues in the church was education and financial security. Hitler understood that the Church was willing to sacrifice and was able to take advantage, as Paul explains “Hitler sought to eliminate Catholic opposition in favor of obligatory loyalty to his regime. For its part, the church was obsessed with its educational privileges, and especially with securing fresh sources of income. It would willingly sacrifice political power to protect them. As both sides worked in haste to produce a treaty that would normally have required years to complete, Hitler took masterful advantage of Vatican over eagerness.”(Paul, 11) This excerpt shows how desperate the Catholic Church was to retain its core values, even if it meant losing its political
Once the donation is under the table, democracy To borrow from Justice Scalia in Doe v. Reed (2010)xviii, “Requiring people to stand up in public for their political acts fosters civic courage, without which democracy is doomed ”. In Doe v. Reed, the Court holds that compelling disclosure requirements do not violate the First Amendment right to freely express. If anything, the future campaign finance should focus on a stricter disclosure requirement. Concluding Remarks The rising cost of federal election is an inevitable trend due to candidates’ increasing reliance on polling to gain public opinions and utilization of various other technology platforms
In the article Shirky establishes the point that we are now going through a similar growth in our publishing capability as we had in our past. This capability, according to Shirky, enables us to create new “education resources” such as Wikipedia and Patients like Me. The article also shows how there is much nonsense out there and points towards further historical references of people who were against the widespread availability of knowledge, such as Edgar Allen Poe and Martin Luther King Jr. Yet this article goes on to say that these “pessimists'” awe of the past was unfounded, compared to the present in which people went towards pointless content as well if not more. Shirky points out that in the end the increase in the freedom and availability to make content is a positive change even though it comes with “dumb videos and erotic novels” (Shirky).
Student Teacher Hon/ Comp Lit 6 Sep 2012 Why is it important to tell stories? Stories are the invisible time capsules from ancient times. We can tell stories about what happened, what is happening or even what we think will happen. Stories are and important part of human nature. Without stories, we wouldn’t know where we came from or any of our past in fact, but stories have more purposes then just history.