ISIL’s Digital Heroin: Exploring Propaganda & Recruitment Narratives

 Abstract Ancient religious duty hybridised with pop-culture in an all-welcoming ‘established’ Islamic utopia are the key narratives of the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant’s (ISIL) social media recruitment and propaganda campaign. Unlike previous organisations such as Al Qaeda, ISIL has a well developed understanding of who their audience and potential recruits are … Read more

Discover Why Communism in Theory Does Not Work and the Impact of Political Institutions on Innovation

 While many people here have made good points about how communism in practice differs from communism in theory, I think the theory itself is severely flawed. Most of my information is coming from the book “Why Nations Fail” by Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson, which presents very convincing arguments on the effects that political … Read more

Exploring Issues of Physician-Assisted Suicide and Patient Autonomy

 In earlier periods of human history, physicians could do little to stave off death; now, improvements in public sanitation, and the many technologies of modern medicine have combined to lengthen the human lifespan, particularly in the developed world. The result is that, with its sophisticated health-care systems, most the population in these countries die … Read more

Research on Democracy as a Universal Value: Examining Cultural and Religious Implications

 Recently, there are many different cultures and tradition according to their situations and conditions of their country and region. Regarding to this variety, it is hard to identify anything in common among nations. However, after the collapse of Soviet Union in the early 1990s, some scholars have mentioned that democracy has been considered as … Read more

Exploring Impact of WTSC 2015 on Children, Chapter 1: “Providing Help, Assessing Needs

 This assignment will be analysing and looking at WTSC (2015) and how it has an impact on children; it will be focusing on chapter 1, which is ‘providing the help, and assessing needs’. Working Together to Safeguard Children (2015) gives a description of ‘seriously harmed’ following concerns that some ‘Local Safeguarding Children Board’ (LSCBs) … Read more

The Reasons and Theories Behind the Disconnect of Policy Intention and Implementation in Kenya

 Why is there often a gulf between what policy-makers intend and what is implemented? Illustrate your arguments with two examples with which you are familiar. The gap between policy intention and implementation has attracted great research interest (Matland, 1995), yet still, many policies end up in failure (O’Toole, 1986). Different reasons can be advanced … Read more

Comparing the Effects of Tobacco vs. Marijuana: Who Wins?

 Tobacco products vs Marijuana   Tobacco products have many negative effects in so many different ways. Tobacco and its products affect and harm the environment that it is grown in and the environment it is consumed in unlike marijuana. As for the consumer of a tobacco product there lives are at risk as well. … Read more

Review: “Can Democracy Stop Terrorism?” – Gause (2005)

 Review of “Can Democracy Stop Terrorism?” In his prescient yet flawed article for Foreign Affairs, F. G. Gause (2005) analyses whether democratizing an Arab country will make that country “less likely […] to produce terrorists and terrorist groups” (p. 62).  The author investigates his subject in light of the Bush Administration’s policy of democratizing … Read more

Do We Need a Group-Level Perspective to Measure Structural Inequality?

 Why are group-level differences important for making a judgment that there is structural inequality? Word count: 4706 If structural inequalities exist, then our approach to evaluating social justice should be able to take such inequalities into account. In this paper, I argue that in order for judgments to be made about structural inequality, a … Read more

Physician-Assisted Suicide: Respecting Patient Autonomy? Should Docs Respect Patient Autonomy by Allowing PAS?

 In earlier periods of human history, physicians could do little to stave off death; now, improvements in public sanitation, and the many technologies of modern medicine have combined to lengthen the human lifespan, particularly in the developed world. The result is that, with its sophisticated health-care systems, most the population in these countries die … Read more

The US’s Hypocritical Policies and Latin American Struggles: Exploring the US’s Role in Latin America During the Cold War

 With twenty independent nations, and six dependent territories, the Latin American Region of the world is a very influential group of states, with very differing ideals and opinions. While the United States had many large proxy wars being fought around the world, American politicians were very afraid of one thing, Latin American Dictators. Throughout … Read more

Exploring the Gothic Architecture of York Minster & Notre Dame Cathedral

 Gothic architecture includes styles of cathedrals which consist of large churches with prominent towers, I have found that a main feature within gothic architecture is verticality. These towers were meaningful of God, people would look up to admire the sky scrapping tower reminding them of the power of God. Gothic buildings usually had three … Read more