There are going to be a few jarring notes in every society, curious people and situations that defy the norms. ... Back in school, our fifth grade textbooks would also remind us that 'India is a diverse country'. ... A liberal attitude goes hand-in-hand with free speech. ... But where does it evaporate, when it comes to choosing the appropriate age for marriage? ... A few years back, even talking about rape was supposed to have brought dishonor to a girl's family, not to her perpetrator's family. ...

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It could go back and forth between the Representatives and the Senate and adjustments could be made to become a command. ... The individual will only be permitted back to the Utopia if they have truly learned from their mistake. ... People go to see an area of the arts on a regular basis. ... They will go through a series of classes and will be tested. ... If there is a problem and the couple seems that they can not resolve the problems in an adult manner then they will have to give themselves more time and come back to the classes at a later date to see if they have made changes...

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Unless "the philosophers rule as kings or those now called kings and chiefs genuinely and adequately philosophize, and political power and philosophy coincides in the same place... there is no rest from ills for the cities...nor will the regime we have now described in speech ever come forth from nature, insofar as possible, and see the light of the sun" (P.153 line 473E). ... Again, their reason comes from what they see. ... They need food and drink because they want to survive, they need to go to war because they are honor loving. ... The ultimate mission of a philosopher king, one who has b...

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The community is part of their team, and it's role should not go unacknowledged. ... I believe that giving back to the community in some way is important for athletes. ... Because you didn't come from a foreign country, then obtain your citizenship, you may believe that the oath of citizenship doesn't apply to you. ... There are four themes associated with Citizenship go to the following link and read about the 5 themes for citizenship and the take the quiz. ... Out of honesty, compassion, and respect comes Responsibility, which includes both private, personal responsibili...

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They have come to a conclusion that the percentages of voting groups can be directly related to the social economic status of citizens. ... Educated and higher income voters essentially go hand-in-hand, since those who are educated tend to have a higher income level. The reason put forth for the positive relationship between income and voting is that people who are struggling with everyday existence are not going to have the time, the energy, or the resources to partake in nonessential activities such as electoral participation. ... Political scientists have pondered this question for decades,...

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Currently, around 67% percent of students will continue onto college, where an even deeper formation of ideas will occur (Back to School Statistics). ... If the theoretical student goes through this entire process to come out an effective member of democratic society, how could compulsory education ever be questioned? ... This student has gone through the utopian ideal of a school system and has come out with the hopeful results. ... In reality, the school system most students go through does not prepare them for the world in the way it theoretically intends. ... The average student attends pr...

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It is hard to justify killing one's own daughter so that somebody else can get his wife back. ... He goes on to wage war and destroy innocent lives, angering both the people and the gods. ... He does come to a bad end in an ironic twist as Agamemnon, the sacrificer, becomes the victim when his wife Clytemnestra murders him. ... His first wife, Medea, is a powerful woman who has no place to go, so she becomes desperate. ... Jason comes after Creon, and displays many more human weaknesses. ...

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People blindly interpret supporting the troops as defending America's freedom yet the only war since 1812 though that comes even sort of close to actually threatening the safety of America's freedom is World War II, but even that's argumentative. ... If the America Government wasn't so concerned with being the best country in terms of power and more concerned with international peace and welfare than we could have avoided war and everything it comes with. Considering that America is the most powerful military country in the world and Iraq is a weak Third World country it is...

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The evolution of storytelling has come a long way ever since films like The Kleptomaniac (1905), A Corner in Wheat (1909), and Sherlock, Jr. (1924) came out. ... Watching these films I found myself paying even closer attention to what was going on because there was no sound to back up the story. ... In A Corner in Wheat we see economic inequality going on when the rich owner of the wheat industry raise bread prices high enough that the poor can't afford to buy a loaf of bread. ... The Kleptomaniac was really the only film I had trouble following what was going on. ... In today's ...

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It was also stated that politicians tend to take non-centrist outlooks that is why Bishin gives us two models to back it up. ... When it comes to differentiating Frymer and Bishin's theory, the topic lead us to the talk about races and African American rights. ... It is very possible for this theory to fail on the subject of black rights because of the other interest groups supporting them as well as many other groups going against them. ...

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Political participation has decreased in the last decade and analysts expect even more of a decline in the decade to come. ... People in this country are just too lazy to go out and vote. ... "55 percent of Americans have access to the Internet, with over a third "wired" Americans going on-line five or more hours a week. ... To find out any of the politician's issues they can go on the web while talking to friends. ... Although this goes against our idea of a democracy, a large amount of people in the country feels this way. ...

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Political participation has decreased in the last decade and analysts expect even more of a decline in the decade to come. ... People in this country are just too lazy to go out and vote. ... "55 percent of Americans have access to the Internet, with over a third "wired" Americans going on-line five or more hours a week. ... To find out any of the politician's issues they can go on the web while talking to friends. ... Although this goes against our idea of a democracy, a large amount of people in the country feels this way. ...

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Participatory democracy is the older theory that dates back in time before the Constitution. ... Our representatives are not bound to our opinions while in office, and great harm can come from one single term. ... Robert Pranger makes the point that in participatory democracy it is not a particular group that makes it political rather than it is what goes on in and between the group members that makes it political. ... We have the right to voice our opinions, but actions are harder to come by. ...

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Justice is the underlining truth in the Republic of Plato. However the question is, is Plato's idea of a just society in fact the "truth-? Socrates spent a great deal of his life seeking out the "truth- and definitions of question that would universally answer the notion of right and wrong; ...

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The army's image in front of the Egyptian people was completely shattered; there were many errors in the management of the country, because the military is simply not trained to run the internal affairs of a country, as well as many violations of human rights, for instance, the crackdown on the NGO's and the arrest of its employees, except for the foreigners who were sent safely back to their country. ... This was followed by a number of other totalitarian measures, for instance, Hisham Kandil's government drafted a protest law to limit the demonstrations and pacify the people&#...

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When it comes down to what government agencies are doing, they tend to try to keep everything secret . ... Americans benefit from this with the fact that we are learning what the government is secretly doing behind our backs . ... Things like the newspaper that are read everyday by people, inform us on what is going on in politics . ...

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Indeed, the previous decade had seen the nation's masses call for a 'constitutional government' and, by the beginning of the 1920's, elected politicians had come in from the peripheries to wield considerable, actual power. ... Why then, by the end of the decade, had the tide of democratic process receded, and how had Japan's conservative and authoritarian elements reined back power from the hands of the people? ... Charges and counter -charges between factions of the Diet did little to aid its reputation, 'with opposition politicians who schemed to destroy ...

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The causes of this can be traced back as far as 1861. ... By October 1905, the relations between the Czar and his subjects had come to a complete breakdown. ... They were faced with a choice between going with the peasant masses or with the liberal bourgeoisie. ...

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The overwhelming majority of states go further than this in redistributing some of the nation's wealth to ease the lives of the poorer members of their society. ... The difference comes with the West's general liberal stance which prioritises the rights of the individual over the collective good – a societal attitude that has developed over centuries and has been shared with nearby countries via our interactions with them over the years. ... Lipset's definition, however, comes into conflict when considering the international relations of political states. ... This paternal...

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