Not only does loyalty play a huge factor in economics, but so does selfishness. ... This true proof of how selfishness impacts not only oneself, but the peers as well. ... As a result the Arabs did not receive independence, yet showed the true flaws of the British. ...
Brinker's childish, manipulative powers have the greatest effect on Gene when Brinker is trying to steal Gene's loyalty from Phineas. ... Phineas lives a life of freedom and spontaneity at Devon that helps to reveal his true innocence. ... When Gene has to "study his French" (83), he exhibits his true nature in wanting to please his parents and teachers, and most importantly, himself. ... He is surprised by his own powerful transformation into a true athlete himself, attained only under Phineas" tutelage. ...
After World War 1, when Germany was required to pay reparations to the Allies, Hitler used this fact to try and prove to potential followers that the "true- Germans were being abused by other nations and races, and the abuse had to stop. ... Hitler used his anger towards his situation in life in order to promote anger and loyalty in his followers. ... Although it is true that he stole people's lives from them, he was never reported as stealing actual property from people, which is what these thieves are guilty of doing. ... He lied to everyone who crossed his path in order to get what he...
Like many European nations, Italy emerged from the First World War as a democracy in distress. Italy was on the winning side, but the war had cost nearly 700,000 Italian lives and over $15 billion. Moreover, Italy had received secret promises of specific territorial gains during the war, only to fin...
It took one hundred years, from the time it was first recognized as a syndrome among hysterical women in the late 1800s to its inclusion in 1980 as a diagnosis in the manual of the American Psychiatric Association, for posttraumatic stress disorder to be recognized as a legitimate illness. (Herman 12, 28) Victims were psychologically inclined to mask and forget their awful experiences, and society at large preferred not to contemplate the subject of atrocity if it could be helped. Three times, however, in one century, the victims were so numerous and their trauma so documentable that societ...
"Persuasion is the act of motivating an audience, through communication, to voluntarily change a particular belief, attitude, or behavior" The test of true persuasion is (1) whether the recipient feels truly free to make a choice, and (2) whether the originator would feel comfortable if he or she were the recipient of the message instead of its sender. ... As time went on he came to believe that Germany's victories were his alone and that most of his generals were narrow-minded, overly cautious and incapable despite the incredible loyalty that most of them displayed right to the en...
Fascism was celebrating the nation as an organic community that was above all other loyalties instead of the downtrodden feeling that was given off by "common ownership" of Communism. ... In a true Machiavellian fashion of eliminating any dissenter that could not be "swayed" to understand the "glorious new ways" Mussolini formed organized gangs called "The Blackshirts". ...
The twentieth century really begins before the end of the nineteenth century. Queen Victoria's Jubilee in 1887 was felt by many to represent the end of an era. An end-of-century stoicism, and a growing pessimism among writers and intellectuals, may be traced to several sources, not least the publica...
