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Posted by maboulette • 4/19/08 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Topics: 3 questions, Help, research, writing

Would you mind answering 3 short questions for me? It's research for an article that I am gathering information about and I would greatly appreciate it. I will give you multiple choices for the answer.

1. Below is a list of signs which are features of an Empire in history or that has been studied. The features are:
A. Sense of Divine Authorization.
B. Overwhelming Military Power.
C. Threats of terror.
D. Rules with "puppet" head of state.
C. Tributes and Taxation is huge.

Which is the answer:
a. The Roman Empire
b. The Nazi Empire
c. The American Empire

2. Who do you think said the following:
"...What we must do is break through the thinking that has too long captured us politically. We need a new politics of meaning. We need a new definition of civil society which answers the unanswerable questions of how we can have a society that fills us up again and makes us feel that we are part of something bigger than ourselves."
a. Adolf Hitler.
b. Hillary Clinton.
c. Robert Kennedy.
d. Julius Cesar.
e. John F. Kennedy.
f. Barack Obama.

3. Do you believe that there are some people are just born evil or is evil a product of our environment and experiences in the formative years of life?
a. Born evil
b. Caused by upbringing/environment

User Comments

4/19/08

Norski

Sorry. No dice.

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1. 4/19/08
  
  maboulette
  
  Sorry you wouldn't answer my questions - but I understand. And it really is research for an article.
  
  Later
4/19/08

BlogBadly

1. A
2. F?
3. B - it's clearly an environmental circumstance though mental instability/mental disorders do factor in.

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1. 4/19/08
  
  maboulette
  
  #2 is B - from a speech she gave in Austin years ago.
4/19/08

praning5254

sorry not familiar with #s a & 2...number 3, i say is letter b, based on phil0sophy, there is no man born of being evil, it's the environment that makes them one

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1. 4/19/08
  
  maboulette
  
  thanks for answering my questions - b is good on that late question.
4/19/08

kaybday

Part of the problem with question 1 goes to the use of the word 'empire.' Without some sort of clarification on how the word is being used, it's almost impossible to respond. In addition, there are many many different civilizations that might be listed in addition to those you have in your options. Alexander the Great? Ancient Egypt? Modern day Iran (since the clergy actually rule but the prez is a spokesperson for policy). So that's an impossible one to answer (for me, maybe not for others).

On question 2, I don't know. But I find this part eloquent but worrisome: "...how we can have a society that fills us up again and makes us feel that we are part of something bigger than ourselves." Because I see that as a spiritual aim rather than a government aim--we already are, in other words, part of something bigger than ourselves, in my opinion. Soon as you assign the aspiration to a government, in my opinion, you have completely failed the mission.

On 3, I think both or either. Some people may have inherent evil--there was a report out last week about DNA markers in people who tend towards violence (I didn't read it; this is a very loose recollection). And some are raised in misery yet manage to return good to others, such as youth who were assigned to concentration camps during the Holocaust then if they were lucky enough to live, managed to lead productive lives. I don't think there's a cut and dried answer to that question either.

So who's the article for?

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1. 4/22/08
  
  maboulette
  
  kaybday - thanks for your answer to my questions. The articles is not for anyone - just a few ideas I have running around in my head - no focus - need to decide if and how I am going to approach the issue that I would like to write about. Thanks for asking.
2. 4/23/08
  
  maboulette
  
  Your thought on #2 have interested me - so to further the dicussion, I will tell you that the answer is Hillary Clinton. It was when her father was dying and she had a commitment to make a speech in Austin at a function honoring Barbara Jordan (I think it was Barbara). Anyway, Hillary fly to Austin long enough to make the speech and then immediately left to be with her father. When she returned, the family made the decision to take her father off of life support.
  
  She never made a speech like that before nor since (that I know of) and I have been fasinated by her ever since then. That was in President Clinton' s first term but I suspect that you know that. You seem very intelligent and well read.
4/19/08

csiunatc

im going to say

c
a
b (with the caveat that some may be born with mental illness that limits things like Causality understanding and thereby their ability for compassion)

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4/23/08

melisasriwulandari

Too difficult to answer!!!

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