Essays on Political Science

Everyone desires to have a government that listens to their wants and acts accordingly to fulfill them. This makes the government appear responsive and genuinely invested in its people. However, does a government that always does what its people want, necessarily equate it being good?...

The war started on March 15, 2011, as demonstrations by the people, they were dubbed as people uprising. The protesters had their grievances demanding that the then government was incapable and should be surrender power. In April the same, the demonstration turned chaotic as military...

Emile Durkheim, Karl Marx and Max Weber are our key theorists who with differing ideologies attempt to take on the causes of social inequality. Understanding concepts of social inequality requires a wide lensed perspective and this can be seen within these three theorists’ concepts. This...

Whenever the subject of gun control comes up in a conversation, things always get heated. But, reactions to mass shootings and terror attacks have caused the debate over the second amendment to escalate towards such a direction where strict policies are needed. The second amendment...

The Reformation is where all of the altercations began. This broke the unity of the Latin Church and started many wars. The papacy, in 1500, had position as Europe’s authority. Popes used to have disputes over the church, but now show power that is paid...

At the end of the world war, the world is divided into two, east and west. This is marking the beginning of the Cold War. As the capitulation of Fascist states in the Europe and Asia, the communist and democracy country spread their ideologies to...

This paper examines the devastating economic, social and political situation in Weimar Republic and the concept of hyperinflation as part of the daily life of the Germans during those times. A movie ‘M’ and a TV series ‘Babylon Berlin’ will be described as examples to...

In 1934, Upton Sinclair used his Democratic Party nomination for governor to promote his plan to “End Poverty in California” and gain material for the selling of his books. As an internationally known author and socialist, Upton Sinclair preyed on the hopes of the residents...

Through this essay, I will try to investigate the development of Ukraine (or lack thereof) and link this development to its institutional structure. I will try to examine what are the reasons behind Ukraine’s economic and social struggles. Ukraine is an interesting case since it...

Originating from the Greek word ‘mimema’, meme was firstly put forward in Richard Dawkins’ ambitious book The Selfish Gene in 1976, in which the definition of meme is divided into two stages. The first stage of memes is regarded as a unit of cultural imitation,...