In the Enlightenment period, there were different views concerning life and religion. ... Man was going to start thinking for himself and learn what this life and the environment was about without being dependent on another person's idea. ... They were empowered to break free from the previous primitive life to act and think correctly. ... Reason, in their mind, was the key towards a development of a more advanced stage in life. Technology was a higher level of knowledge that elevated a person's moral standing. ...

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In most sports and some wars there are clear winners and losers, but for other events in life the outcomes are uncertain. ... Those with the ability and a good business sense could improve their life, no matter how low their station was. ... The of Man said that there would be equality of all persons before the law; equitable taxation; protection against loss of property through arbitrary action by the state; freedom of religion, speech and the press; and protection against arbitrary arrest and punishment.ix These clauses caused the nobles to lose all their social and institutional adv...

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(1) There were three major influences in Lyndon Johnson's life. ... The third influence on LBJ's life was President Franklin D. ... A view that encouraged bargaining and debating among different groups, and to get the common person involved in major decisions. ... He wanted all citizens to have and experience the American life. ... " (16) The two main arguments advanced by the Moynihan Report is that the root of black poverty, unemployment, and ghetto life is in the breakdown of the family. ...

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The appointment of these positions was largely influenced by Napoleon as First Consul however, so in reality he was electing people who would be loyal to him and this contradicted the concept of meritocracy or "the best person for the job ". ... The establishment of the Legion of Honor, which was the reward for military, civil, and judicial service, united people from different walks of life and was the symbol of the reunion of all the estates and parties. ...

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Moreover, they prefer to rely on such dogmatic thinking because they are driven by the fear of death and dogmatic certainties afford them security from death in the form of providing meaning in life especially in relation to the "others," or those outside of a group that one belongs to. ... Similarly, as Eidelman et al. propose, it is much easier for the same reasons to draw dispositional inferences about a person's behavior without taking into account situational factors, which naturally requires more time and effort to think about. ...

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With the Old Age Pensions Act, the elderly poor who were 70 years old and above were given 5s a week for a single person and 7s and 6d for married couples. ... The life expectancy in Britain at that time was 50 years for the males and 55 for the females. ...

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Having taken the opposite philosophy of Hobbes, he can still return to the original and not a reflection on the continued functioning of a democratic society based on the Social Contract (1762) in which the sovereign people organize collective life. ... In fact, Robespierre (a French important figure in the French revolution), in his decisions of killing every person which is against his intellectual ideas, was using Rousseau's ideas and psychology and pretending represent the people to justify his actions. ...

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In 1920, the country of Japan was beginning to show outward signs that it was embarking on a path towards political modernization and a model of relatively liberal democracy. 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. Rapid industrialization developed both a moneyed bourgeoisie and an urban proletariat, and trade unions and political organizations had begun to spring up at a greatly accelerate...

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