The failure of the great creative ideas as they had been formulated in the Middle Ages had left human thought for a time destitute of the guidance of creative ideas; even educated and imaginative men saw the world ungrammatically; no longer as an interplay of effort and destiny, but as the, scene in which a trite happiness was sought and the milder virtues were rewarded. ... It is inconceivable that that world of the middle eighteenth century could have produced a Jesus of Nazareth, a Gautama, a Francis of Assisi, and an Ignatius of Loyola. ... From the Gulf of Finland to the Eastern Ocean, Ru...

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In the Eastern corner of the map we have a vast region that upholds the name of the Rus population, a country of a mixture of populations stretching over two continents that has fallen into disarray after the death of its architect, Iosif Vissarionovici Stalin but as everything there is in Russia it changed from Ioseb Besarionis Dze Jughashvili to what we know as Stalin yet his Georgian roots are of no concern to us, the important piece of puzzle is what he left after his death a succumbing empire similar to the fading Western Roman Empire at his end, a population living in lush, greediness, g...

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It is a political process that has started its third wave in Central and Eastern Europe after the fall of the Berlin wall in 1989 and the break-up of the Soviet Union in 1991. ... This paper provides a comparative analysis of the democratic performance of three countries- Slovakia, the Czech Republic and Poland- of the post-communist region of Central Eastern Europe, to lay the ground for further research into why their performance scores where it does on our scale. ... Overall, the Czech Republic scored on the comparative democratization scale in the middle compared to the two other countries...

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However, over the years Nigerians have developed a number of important components of successful democracy namely the fourth Republic which includes a diverse and vigorous media, an educated and often critical elite, outspoken human rights organizations, a growing middle class and a respected legal profession and judiciary. ... Thus when the narrow suffrage of a competitive oligarchy has been extended to the middle class and minority groups, the number of party leaders and members of parliament drawn from the middle class and minorities has increased, thus establishing inclusiveness and competi...

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