The portioning of petrol from 1940 meant only 26 kilometres of driving could be made by the Japanese people, in an attempt to refrain from depleting necessary resources. Petrol rationing did not only affect Japan, as it extended to Australia where people used large gas burners instead of the ordinary petrol. ... The fact that some ordinary people even praised the system of rationing shows helpful tips such as cooking columns in newspapers were effectively relieving the stress of needing scarce resources. The initiative of ordinary women during the war was advantageous for people who felt ...

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In Stanley Milgram's article, "The Perils of Obedience", the Yale University psychologist summarizes his experiments to determine if ordinary people, simply obeying instructions, can become instruments in a frightening, malicious process. ... In Milgram's basic experimental setup, ordinary people were recruited and brought into a laboratory to participate in what they were told was a study of exploring the effects of punishment on learning behavior. ... Before conducting the experiments, Milgram sought predictions of the outcome from a wide variety of people. ... However, a colle...

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Hegel, a German philosopher, influenced Dostoyesky with his utilitarian emphasis on the ends rather than the means whereby a superman existed as one that stood above the ordinary man, but worked for the benefit of all mankind. ... Furthermore, he would have been able to avoid submission to the common law of the "ordinary" people in order to preserve his greatness. ... After his confession, Raskolnikov experienced the physical punishments for his actions; however, far more painstaking was his previous punishment as he suffered the loss of a conscience battle upon the self realization that he...

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Hegel, a German philosopher, influenced Dostoyesky with his utilitarian emphasis on the ends rather than the means whereby a superman existed as one that stood above the ordinary man, but worked for the benefit of all mankind. ... Furthermore, he would have been able to avoid submission to the common law of the "ordinary" people in order to preserve his greatness. ... After his confession, Raskolnikov experienced the physical punishments for his actions; however, far more painstaking was his previous punishment as he suffered the loss of a conscience battle upon the self realization that he...

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These choices, in turn, placed these countries and people into one of four categories: perpetrators, bystanders, resisters and rescuers. ... These people may have been driven to act as they did for a number of reasons; whether out of fear or out of blind obedience, as is often the case, with many Nazi Party officials claiming to have simply been "following orders ". ... Source 13, a photograph of Jews being forced to scrub the streets by Nazis whilst crowds of people looked on is a perfect example of bystander behaviour. ... Motivated by a sense of moral conviction, these groups or individuals...

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Like many of Munro's beautifully-crafted stories, this one is notable for the depth with which these ordinary characters are developed through the author's typical and natural use of meticulously chosen images, phrases, and pieces of conversation that often say more in their omissions than in their actual words. As the students begin to explore these ordinary people, they begin to understand the tension and anger that exist in this new subdivision of shiny, new homes, where disorder, eccentricity, and non-conformity will not be tolerated by the upwardly mobile, good "people who win."...

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Popular Culture Popular culture is the culture that is adopted and appeals to large masses of people, normally the middle class citizens. ... Popular culture means that artefacts and styles of human expression develop from the creativity of ordinary people, and circulate among people according to their interests, preferences, and tastes. Popular culture thus comes from people; it is not just given to them. ... The point of views below will be given to show about popular culture, and what any other people think. ... To conclude this section, the " popular" in popular culture really means...

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However, scholars like Pollock et al. (2000) discredit the whole concept as being white, patriarchal and of catering for only upper class people. ... Similarly, Calhoun (2008) attests that, since cosmopolitanism comes from the Western philosophy, the assumption in the Left is that cosmopolitanism is very elitist and that it comes from the free-loating attitude of the rich people who can travel all around the world (Robbins, 1998 )tasting a little bit of this culture and that one and not being responsible about it (Appiah, 2006). Robbins (1998, p.1) states that "cosmopolitanism is being redefi...

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You can use this money to help pay for funerals and other expenses that come along with dieing because like hospital bills funerals are very expensive and most people would not be able to pay for one out of pocket. ... In order to convince people to get life insurance the agencies will split it up in to two types of insurances that will cover you for a different amount of time, term and ordinary life. Term insurance is a lot cheaper but it is usually a month by month coverage whereas ordinary life is a lot more expensive but it covers the person for life so it all depends on the buyer to make ...

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The Salem witchcraft accusations of 1692, was a period of hysteria, where ordinary citizens from an ordinary village became hell-bent on ridding their community from the influence of witches. ... This could have been the reason for some underlying animosity between the two factions of villagers, which leads to the question, what kind of ulterior motives drove the people of Salem Village to accuse people of witchcraft? The people of Salem Village used witch-hunts to rid the community of people they resented. ... According to Reverend John Hale, Bishop "did entertaine people in her house at uns...

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However, the facts in post-war Iraq tell us that either is there liberation for Iraqi people, nor have the weapons of mass destruction ever been found. ... Iraqi people have never been liverated by the US. Bush claimed that Saddam Hussein commited extremely "grave violations of human rights" in that thousands of political opponents and ordinary citizens were subjected to all kinds of spiritual and physical misery. Therefore, America should volunteerly "meet the challenge to help liberate the Irapi people from the "totalitarian state".(Bush) In fact, what Iraqi people faced was horror and aggre...

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Early Christianity appealed mainly to the masses of ordinary people; however, as it gained popularity amongst intellectual elites, it rose in the social hierarchy. ... " Within the ordinary working class, there was an ordinance for women to work alongside men in daily labor as stated by Pagels, "In the lower class, where all labor was needed, women had been allowed to perform any services they could do;" thus, there was more equality between the sexes (University Readers 86). ... The higher class were more patriarchal in comparison to the ordinary working class, due to women&#x...

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As it is an extremely interesting subject many scholars, historians, writers and ordinary people have taken the time to look back and ask the questions of Nazi Germany. ... Gellately writes this book in concern of how people could carry out the inhumane orders of there leaders. ... Gellately suggests that in his book that the ordinary Germans were already willing to act against those who they thought were making ill of society. ... The book tells about the Nazi's use of propaganda, policies, policing and image as a way to influence people and the enemies from within. ... It's ...

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A psychiatric disorder is a mental or behavioral pattern or anomaly that causes either suffering or an impaired ability to function in ordinary life, and which is not a developmental or social norm. ... These disorders are most commonly diagnosed amongst people today. ... People with schizophrenia attempt suicide more often than people in the general population, and estimates are that up to 10 percent of people with schizophrenia will complete a suicide in the first 10 years of the illness particularly young men with schizophrenia. ... People with schizophrenia attempt suicide more ...

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Russell's central argument is the idea that everyone in the workforce would be better off if the ordinary workday was halved to four hours a day. ... As a supporting example to this argument, Russell brings in a hypothetical situation of people "engaged in the manufacture of pins." ... Russell hypothesizes that because people will have more time free from work, they will be actually more willing and able to use this time more productively. He believes that many people would pursue education further, others would make intellectual contributions to the arts and sciences, and "ordinary men a...

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They believed that state governments were more likely to protect the people's liberties than the central government. In the opinion of many Republicans, the government should work to support the interest of ordinary citizens who were the majority. ... The apparent differences in the views of the people became more apparent with the debates of establishing the Bank of the United States and how best to deal with the Nation's debt. ... The Republicans believed the "ordinary" people should have a say in the government and that the aristocrats should not have all of the control....

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Through this court system, criminal law is interpreted by a jury who are seen as expressing the opinion and sense of the ordinary man and woman in society. ... In Australia the jury is made up of 12 people, however the amount of people in a jury can vary depending on which sate or country the trial is taking place in, eg in the United States of America criminal cases are tried by six member juries. ... The use of the jury therefore keeps the criminal justice system on level with the standards of ordinary, everyday people this also ensures that the support of the community behind the legal ju...

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The two public experiences are Ordinary and Extraordinary experience. Both of these experiences are likely to take place in the presence of a number of people or a large crowd of people. ... Specifically the problem with an ordinary experience is that what is out of the ordinary for one person may seem perfectly normal, to another. ... The advantages of trying to prove the existence of God from a conversion experience is the fact that the change in a person's life is evident and the change can be verified by the people who are close to that person. ...

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As part of Yeats" obsession with history in his poetry, a common idea among many of Yeats" poems is that the ordinary and seemingly insignificant aspects of life can lead to sweeping historical changes and the ends of epochs. "Long-Legged Fly" (1939) is a poem which presents the intimate sides of great people such as "Caesar" and "Michael Angelo." ... The idea of the ordinary and seemingly insignificant is reinforced with imagery of the every day, such as in the passage, "Quiet the dog, tether the pony/To a distant post." ... Each stanza characterises one of the three important people from dif...

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The new definition of the current leadership in the Harley-Davidson company is in creating and sustaining an environment in which people ecause they want to. "Leadership is a process whereby everybody can make contributions to the success of the company and ordinary people can achieve extraordinary things." ... The structure of an organization has a significant influence on how people act. In aerarchy, people generally have limits on their responsibility and authority. ... Harley's circle organization provided people with greater responsibility and authority, and reduced the hierarchy th...

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The structure of a Mass includes leaving the ordinary, preparation, the climax, celebration and the returning to the ordinary. ... The Christ of Faith becomes present for people of faith, as ordinary bread and wine turns into the body and blood of Christ. ...

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People jumped to conclusions and had predetermined thoughts because the jailers involved were city employees and taxpayers paid their salaries. ... The initial conclusion to this scenario is the feelings that as a fellow employee of a law enforcement field I have seen and heard many police officers and people in authoritative positions feel that they can get away with more than the ordinary citizen. ... People and incidents like this contribute to giving the law enforcement a bad reputation....

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The ordinariness of day-to-day life that families encounter is most often the subject matter of Tyler's novels; many critics ascribe her popularity with reading audiences with the fact that her characters are relatable and ordinary but not simplistic (Concise Dictionary ). ... Perhaps one of Tyler's greatest family novels is If Morning Ever Comes, a story about a home that is "cluttered with people and objects and becoming the place characters often leave and always miss" (DISCovering Authors). ...

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SEPARATION OF POWER The principle of separation of power proposes that in order to ensure good governance, executive, legislative and judicial powers should be exercised by different individuals or different groups of people. ... - He has power to summon the legislature to convene extra-ordinary sessions... Through the force of the Rule of Law, he, the President, can be summoned, like any ordinary citizen, to appear before an appropriate court of law. ...

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The potential for structural violence is illustrated in Boll's presentation of the police, who are shown as limiting the personal freedom and infringing the dignity of ordinary citizens. ... In section 41, this culminates with a tongue-in-cheek appeal to the reader to sympathise with the plight of ordinary people who tap phones and are forced to listen to all manner of potentially distressing or simply mind-numbingly boring conversations. ...

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