... main actors in this movie. The first actor is the country of Panem as the national government where its interest lay on maintaining and asserting power upon the people. The Country of Panem in this movie is a totalitarian state. Totalitarian state itself is a state which its form of government has the centralized, total power of both public and private life of its people3. There ... are no democracy processes in this type of government. All its policies come from the leader of the government without any consent of its people. That is the reason why, in a totalitarian state, the people's...

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... in some way. In present day, factions play a diverse role in politics across the world depending on the type of government the country has. In some countries like Saudi Arabia political parties are outlawed because with the totalitarian monarchial system of government they employ there would have no purpose. The royal family has sole power over national decisions and factions within the state ... uprising against the royal family and its affiliates. Even so, not all totalitarian states outlaw political parties. North Korea, a country notorious for its totalitarian ideals does allow a ra...

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... founders of modern political philosophy. He argued that both the law of nature and social contract  provided the basis of sovereignty. Traditionally, Hobbes is seen as a defender of absolute monarchy, a government system where the power is held  in the hands of one man, the Monarch. Rousseau was a contributor to the Encyclopedia and a major philosopher of the French Enlightenment. His thought  ...  and authors rose to say that Hobbes and  Rousseau are not the philosophers that they pretended to be. John W. Chapman, an American philosopher states in his study that Rous...

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... own designation. Sexual assailants could face harsher penalties for having a sex drive"(Martin). The only reason hate crime gets a separate distinction is that the government does not know how to deal with this phenomenon, by creating these laws they avoid being "perceived as defending racists, bigots and homophobes"(Martin). Besides, ... ? It seems clear that these hate crime laws are superfluous. Next, hate crime laws are unjust. With creating the hate crime laws, the government has made the fact that a crime is more or less serious according to the thoughts of the perpetrator. Perpetra...

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