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Essays 451 - 480

Wright/Armageddon in Waco

presents views that see the tragedy at Waco as entirely due to the mistakes of government agents in handling the situations and no...

Social Justice and Democracy in Education

important because school systems have not kept pace with society. Change is needed and sometimes reform and renewal are vital elem...

A Consideration of a Non-Binding Resolution to Prevent the Dispersal of More U.S. Troops to Iraq

As House Speaker Nancy Pelosi just observed, the key to effective decisions in regard to Iraq and other critical issues is biparti...

Le Guin/Left Hand of Darkness

eyes," but finds this awkward as he "self-consciously" sees a Gethenian "first as a man, then as a woman, forcing him into those c...

Is Democracy Possible in Libya?

lifting economic sanctions against the country (Thompson, 2006). The renewed ties, however fragile, between the U.S. and Libya mea...

A Local Smoking Ban: Controversy Verses Reason

to do so. Those of us that do not smoke resent the fact that everywhere we go we are confronted with second hand smoke. When you...

Media Concentration and Democracy

TV" (Turner). The commission wanted the entrepreneurs to thrive; they wanted competition to arise so the audiences would have a ch...

Impacts to California Water Resources

occurs during rainfall and snowmelts as well as from atmospheric deposits. Nonpoint sources can include everything from stormwate...

Designing a New Political System

can stand for election, telling the electorate what they stand for any their policies. The electorate will then vote for the perso...

The Evolution of American Democracy

James Madison and John Jay (Federalist party, 2005). Opposition to a strong federal government was known as anti-federalism, and ...

U.S. Democracy and the Civil Rights Movement

In six pages this paper examines the impact on U.S. democracy registered by the civil rights movement that considers its significa...

Comparison Between John Locke and Plato

He saw the changing world and the things within it as mere shadows or reflections of a separate world of independently existing, e...

Democracy Threatened on September 11, 2001

Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. It was not the only attack against American citizens and property since 1941...

Internet Effects on the Contemporary World

In five pages this paper examines the contemporary social effects generated by the Internet with such issues as the law, data usag...

China and Concept of Democracy

In eight pages the interpretation of democracy by China is examined in terms of its political structural reflection and its influe...

United States' Democratic Model Input Types

In six pages this paper discusses input such as votes, lobbyists, special interest groups and committees to evaluate how 'democrat...

Thomas Youk's Assisted Suicide Aired on Television

particularly when a known controversial figure assisted the act? What happened was that Thomas Youk was given a lethal injectio...

Disguised Authoritarianism and 'Illiberal' Democracy

limited. The rule of the people is determined by what those ruling the people want them to want. Throughout the World Zakaria (19...

Ideologies of Machiavelli, Plato, Socrates, and Aristotle on Democratic Rule

of the United States. Without the philosophies of those that lived in the centuries prior to the U.S. Declaration of Independence...

Political Structure of China

welcomed the variegated input received on every political issue. Indeed, democracy became a well-oiled machine that prospered for...

Process of Poetry

has to "face the men of the time" and "think about war," in order to "construct a new stage" (Of Modern Poetry...Stevens). What St...

Comparison Between the Stalinist and Democratic Revolutions of Russia

the General Headquarters and suggestions by Front commanders and on special reports."i Information was paramount to the continue...

Correlation Between Education, Capitalism, and Democracy

point is that democracy is not the "be-all and end-all" for many nations and that far too many Americans have used the ideal of de...

Democracy and Latin America

arise in its place. Indeed, the respective governments were not about to allow such a perceived takeover without as much as an al...

World of India

- not out of necessity but out of desire to remain stylish - is morally wrong when that money could be used to help feed starving ...

Government of Chile's Formation by Politics

parties were displaced from circles of power - the only time in the history of that country that it happened (Valenzuela, 2001)....

Individualism and Democracy

In five pages contemporary democracy is discussed in terms of how it can be threatened by radical individualism. Three sources ar...

Democracy and Education by John Dewey

education, should be limited to the socialization process, rather, he thought that education formed the foundation for the process...

Democracy Transition of Paraguay

affairs and national affairs of state. This was clearly outside of his parameters, but he was ambitious and stubborn and determine...

Black American Perspectives on Death and Dying from a Religious View

traditions carried down through the generations (Ruark, 2003). Dr. Ronald K. Barrett has spent many years studying how African Am...