... youth gangs, sports teams, clubs, unions, or anything else which allows the individual to belong to a specific group. Each group has its own ways of identifying its members and excluding outsiders. When a country or city is threatened the members of that region band together to defend it from the invaders. One step down from the tribal unit is the exclusive family ... feeling fades quickly especially once the move begins and the audience's attention is focused on the screen. If provoked enough the individual will defend his territory, violently if needed, from outsiders. In this respect...

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... cultures and the encouragement of free thought created a sense of unity that was much more appealing compared to the restraints of the Roman Catholic Church in Western Europe which pushed outsiders to conform, and free thought to be repressed for Church theology, thus allowing the Islamic world to develop into the dominant group of the time. To compare the differences in ... ...

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... it also acted as the key behind dividing the entire kingdom into three parts. As a result the kingdom lost its strength, power to protect itself from the attack of various outsiders in the coming years. As the time moved on, there was more division in the regime. The continuously decreasing level of immunity among the leaders resulted into more problems for ... ...

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... . In western Europe, Jews had made progress and were often well-established members of society. However, the Dreyfus Affair revealed that the Jews in Europe were still, in many ways, outsiders. Theodore Herzl, who was chosen to observe the hearings, reached this conclusion and it inspired him to write his book Der Judenstat that advocated the need for a Jewish homeland outside ... ...

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... rules of cleanliness, but people suspected them of poisoning the city wells (Biel 40-41) "The rights of Jews were severely restricted in medieval Europe "they were spurned as outsiders in a universally Christian society- (Corzine 70). "In Basel, Switzerland, Jews were rounded up, forced into buildings, and burned alive- (Biel 41). In Germany the persecutions were even more horrifying as ... ...

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... states remain crucial in shaping the social bond which exists at any given time and in any given space. They continue to alter the relationship not just between insiders and outsiders, but between citizens and the state. But their power to mitigate the influences emanating from global markets is more constrained now than at any time in the Westphalian era. Specifically ... ...

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... as a way to move the state in a more right wing direction i.e. Fascism and Nationalism. Nationalism brought about internal upheavals. Minorities suffered most from this ideology because they were considered the "outsiders- in the new states and attempted to deal with the circumstances. Some left the state looking for acceptance in another states only to find themselves out in the cold with ... ...

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... of this terrible disease for Europeans was mostly irrational and superstitious. Plague stimulated authors and poets to write about effects the on society if this disease endures. The violence against outsiders was demonstrated, in a tragically negative manner. Women lepers and Jews were said to be the people that polluted the society which caused God to be angry. Not since the sixth ... ...

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... vast steppes of northern China. Both of these walls are miracles of both architecture and administration and have stood for over a thousand years. While both walls served a function of keeping outsiders away, they seem suspiciously symbolic of a different kind of wall that surrounded both of these cultures for years to come. Both China and England are considered by history to be ... ...

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... . In some cities, the plague killed as many as two-thirds of the population. Every social group suffered, but the rural population and the wealthy, who had less contact with outsiders and who could afford to move to more secluded areas outside the cities, escaped the worst effects. Outbreaks of plague continued throughout the Middle Ages and into the 18th century ... ...

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