He sees the best men of his generation mining coal and pulling rickshaws, he sees Western "civilization" forcing them to work jobs they hate to buy stuff they don't need, he sees, in short, the destruction of an idealized traditional Japanese culture by a very different west. Part of Akutagawa undoubtedly wants to view the Westerners influence upon Japan as immoral and corrupt, yet he sees the Janus-faced duplicity of his position, who is he to define morality? ... It is exactly this confrontation between an immovable force and an immovable object that can be viewed as a grand metaphor...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The practice of converting arable land into pastures resulted in massive unemployment, forcing many to resort to theft and other unlawful measures. The average king was often corrupt, having dishonest methods of raising money and starting unnecessary aggressive wars. ...

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The reasoning behind this view of the state is the assumption that political authority in any shape or form is completely corrupting. ... Another theorist, Stirner, suggests the state rips people of their natural egoism and as a result, the state is believed by some to control the behavior of individuals and force them into unnatural social relations. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Despite the eventual diversity, the New England colonies' strived for a pious society based on their spiritual beliefs, free from all sin, to be a role model for their corrupt, sinful native land of England. ...

• Word Count: 1906
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate