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to push one button but their finger made its way to another, or perhaps the computer will crash in the middle of a vote five minut...

Virtuous action was defined by Aristotle as what a person with practical wisdom would choose. The golden mean, as defined by Ari...

With the plain-speaking simplicity that was his trademark, Whitman constructed this poem in such a rhythmic way that it could be s...

address the problems of individualism in our contemporary society. While Wests "Race Matters" makes a frontal attack on these pro...

Some values to emanate from democratic societies include the right to be heard, the right to the pursuit of happiness, and all the...

original named Northern Rhodesia while it was administered by the South Africa Company from 1891 until it was taken over by the Un...

system, he fails to make the point that the society would be much better off with a monarch in charge. Of course, one can look at ...

very much dominated by the French who were in favour of alliances with Germany and of undertaking large scale technology projects:...

challenged mankinds very conscience. He retreated to Walden Pond in order to refresh his own character and to effectively remove ...

way they had not been before. Democracy truly had the ability to empower both the people and the government; the people no longer...

a democracy. Plato contended that it would be impossible within a democracy to have the kind of harmony and societal unit...

as being possible to do. Hobbes distinguishes between a right and a law. A right, according to Hobbes, "consisteth in libe...

catalyst and to some extent the cold war would prod Japan to its ultimate height. Still, turning outside of the general traditions...

avoiding issues. The different speeches by the candidates can then be assessed. Often on the promises they make, but also on the a...

this section, well try to answer if a liberal democracy requires a strict separation of church and state. In theory, at least, a d...

coercion is prevalent (British Library, 2003). However, big business has become so big and capital has become so concentrated in f...

economies was structural in nature (Onis). They believed that implementing a development strategy that relied on free market forc...

of "players" in terms of owners and mega-merger conglomerates, such information becomes increasingly homogenized and increasingly ...

for all citizens of a nation. Then we have Adam Smith, a Scottish philosopher whose focus was on morals. He was, interestingly ...

that is often referred to with awe and reverence. The framers are still held high in esteem. In fact, they are called "framers" wi...

It states, "Everyone has the right to take part in the government of his country, directly or through freely chosen representative...

in ancient Greece comes to us through their stories, their tragedies. "Greek tragedies dealt with universal themes that are still ...

dispose of their possessions and persons, as they think fit, within the bounds of the law of nature, without asking leave, or depe...

"aggregate" was benefiting in this period, however, others were flailing desperately in the ever-deepening economic waters just tr...

In Europe, however, greater religiosity tended to be linked to internationalism, European integration, and support for foreign aid...

claimed that this form of democracy has outlived its usefulness. The question is, has it? If in fact there is something that can b...

Unfortunately, however, it has been throughout the last century that this idea has suffered various forms of exploit, compromising...

US involvement in Nicaraguan politics was a factor in pushing Nicaragua toward democracy, one of the questions that has yet to be ...

In seven pages socialism, capitalism, democracy, and liberalism are a few of the concepts discussed and analyzed with the assistan...

In thirty five pages this paper examines the history of foreign aid with a consideration of the Third World debt crisis and includ...