What are the BRICS countries? What factors make them important players in world politics?
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An ideal answer should include:
1. The BRICS countries include: Brazil, China, South Africa, Russia, and India.
2. In the first few years of the twenty-first century, senior analysts at Goldman Sachs, a global investment firm, attempted to predict the worldwide distribution of power in 2050. They posited that a small set of countries outside the Global North would have a huge impact on the global system.
3. The factors that make the BRICS so important for global politics include: population (about 40% of the World's population with 3.1 billion people), GDP (1/3 of the world's economic output), size, extensive resources, and geostrategic locations.
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How did the events of Miranda v. Arizona lead to the police practice of reading suspects their rights upon arrest?
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What was the effect of the state action doctrine?
A) Only state and local governments, not private individuals, were required to conform to the equal protection clause. B) Individuals, as well as state and local governments, were required to follow the letter of the law. C) State and local governments could regulate whether or not individuals were allowed to discriminate in housing. D) State law schools could not be segregated if they received state money. E) Individual students who were fighting for desegregation were allowed to go to other states or localities for their education.
Why is it useful to have different methodologies to study the effects of stress, happiness, etc?
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The state of nature refers to
a. order without equality. b. regulation without leadership. c. order without conflict. d. government without values. e. society without government.