This type of power was intended to make the process of decision making faster and more decisive. However, we see this power abused by Creon in his decree. The people of Thebes find Creon’s decree to be unjust but only Antigone has the strong will to disobey the law and do what the people will not. Creon’s son Haemon tells his father what the people of Thebes have been saying about Antigone’s actions and her proposed punishment: “Death? She deserves a glowing crown of gold!” (Sophocles, 1984, pg.
In his message to Congress in January 1936 Roosevelt indicted nations that had the "fantastic conception that they, and they alone, are chosen to fulfill a mission and that all others... in the world must... be subject to them." at the same time he issued a proclamation of neutrality and invoked the mandatory arms embargo -this supposition in Washington was the embargo that would hurt Italy more than Ethiopia since Ethiopia lacked dollars and buy arms. -actually the arms embargo did little hard to airily since it had its own munitions industry. Where the restriction of American exports really could hurt the Italian war making capacity was in oil. -but the neutrality act covered only implements of war.
Both Germany and Russia mobilized their armies in haste, because each one feared defeat by powerful enemies if they delayed. Germany and Russia also rashly committed themselves to support Balkan clients - Austria-Hungary and Serbia, respectively - because Berlin and St. Petersburg feared that failure to do so would cost them the trust of important allies and leave them isolated. This view treats Balkan matters largely as influences on policy
However, Margaret was very hostile to York and pledged to completely destroy York, his family and all his forces. She then became the leader of the Lancastrians as Henry was too weak. In 1459, with the help of the Duke of Buckingham, she managed to persuade Henry that York was plotting against him and therefore should be branded as an enemy of the state. As a result this caused York and Warwick to mobilise their forces and launch a full scale rebellion against Henry and the Lancastrians. This bad political move meant that York had grown in considerable force and had no choice but to fight the Lancastrians, otherwise he would go to prison or even be executed.
In “The Transformation of Maria Fernandez” author Anita DiPasquale describes, how a war in Nicaragua between the Sandinistas and the Contras affected Maria Fernandez life. When Anastasio Somoza Garcia had himself elected president of Nicaragua, all three Somozas ran the countries affairs to benefit themselves and against the interest of their citizens. Life for the Nicaraguan citizens was harsh, they suffered from poverty. When the people finally realized that life wasn’t going to get any better, they decided to turn to their only other option, the communist Sandinista government. When the Sandinistas overthrew the Somoza regime in 1979, they became the government of Nicaragua.
During the Kosovo war, first against the Serbian military national news agencies and television broadcasting system was devastatingly bombed, resulting in interruption of the other radio and television, the Serbian side can not get through the mass media to mobilize and strengthen the people, the military, and plug through the mass media to tell the truth to the people of the world can force has also been greatly weakened. At the same time, the US led NATO full use of the dominant variety of modern means of communication, even to false information and killed at his new position contrary to other countries and influences international public opinion and maximizes the international isolation of Serbia purposes. The first Chechen war, Russian military defeat for many reasons, but no attention to the control of mass media, the results of Russian public opinion was slander, that the people of the Russian military cast doubt on the legality and legitimacy, the most falling apart, Russian authorities to solve the Chechen problem loss of confidence, this is the last sign of humiliation caused by the city under the Russian Union is a very important reason. In the second Chechen war, The Russian authorities note that the communication strategies role. First, by official media coverage of atrocities separatists, which public support and
A temporary measure, it was followed by a more dramatic and permanent suspension of civil rights following the February 27 burning of the parliament building. Though the origins of the fire are still unclear, in a propaganda maneuver, the coalition government (Nazis and the German Nationalist People's Party) blamed the Communists. They exploited the Reichstag fire to secure President von Hindenburg’s approval for an emergency decree, the Decree for the Protection of the People and the State of February 28. Popularly known as the Reichstag Fire Decree, the regulations suspended the right to assembly, freedom of speech, freedom of the press, and other constitutional protections, including all restraints on police investigations. Justified on the false premise that the Communists were planning an uprising to overthrow the state, the Reichstag Fire Decree permitted the regime to arrest and incarcerate political opponents without specific charge, dissolve political organizations, and to suppress publications.
This particular phase in history of the United States is referred to as either ‘The Red Scare’ or ‘McCarthyism’ because of the government-initiated propaganda against Communism. This era’s anti-communist hearings destroyed lives and friendships as paranoia swept America, according to Arthur Miller (Miller “Are You”). “The Crucible” evokes a lethal brew of illicit sexuality, and a fear of the supernatural and political manipulation, a combination that was similar to McCarthyism. When Miller wrote it, Senator Joseph McCarthy and the House Committee on Un-American Activities wanted him to sign an anti-communist declaration because the object was to destroy the least credibility of any and all ideas associated with socialism and communism (Miller “Why I”). Whether McCarthy was right or wrong, people can learn some important lessons from the past, present, and future.
This led to demise of the German democracy, and the dictatorship of Hitler, and the total control of the Nazi party. When the Nazi party gained full control the total accost on the Nazi party began with an attack of propaganda focused on slandering the Jewish people. Soon this propaganda furthered itself. The next step the Nazi regime took to push the Jews down was the institution of the Nuremburg laws. These laws were the most infamous of the anti-Jewish legislation, and were
In response to Gandhi’s call for immediate independence, the British reacted by arresting the majority of the leadership of the Indian National Congress. The following day, people protested in violent and non-violent ways. Gandhi’s Quit India Speech was the catalyst that provoked differing religions to unite and to fight for a single cause --- Indian independence. To gain insight of the Quit India Speech, I researched various sources including newspapers, Internet, and books from the library at my school and at local colleges. Fortunately, I managed to get a hold of a wealth of multimedia of those turbulent times in Indian history.