... to relate to them? If you didn't know your friends how would you be able to help them? If you didn't know the skills of your work, how would you be able to work? In my eyes it all comes down to one thing, and that is knowledge ... . The bible says, "My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge", and if you think about it, it's true. When I talk to people my age we talk about cars, videos, ... clothes, sporting events, and things of that nature; they know everything. I can't remember having a conversation about the government with anyone my age, because it's something they don't know ab...

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Why is the Average Unemployment Rate Falling? The government has reported that the unemployment rate fell by 0.2 of a percentage point. Businesses cut 89,000 jobs in January, which followed job losses that averaged 311,000 a month in the last three months of 2001. Economists had predicted the unemployment rate would continue to rise. So why is the nations unemployment rate decreasing? Employment gains in construction, air transportation and retailing helped offset job losses in other industries. Recently there has been also been evidence of an increase in the manufacturing sector. Analysts say...

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"Democracy" is a difficult term to define. What one person defines as an "ideal case" another person refutes as not representative of democracy in the slightest bit. The term has been modified throughout history to fit the diverse forms of government that have titled themselves a democracy and has wavered significantly from its philosophical ideal. Democracy literally means "government by the people" and in Athens the demos were the poorer people. Prerequisites for Successful Implementation of Democracy: - In social aspects, there has to be an educated mass with strong sense of political consc...

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... taste, would be endangered by "the tyranny of the majority." In the United States the majority rules, but whose their to rule the majority. Tocqueville believed that the majority, with its unlimited power, would unavoidably turn into a tyranny. He felt that the moral beliefs of the majority would interfere with the quality of the elected legislators. The idea was that in a great ... intelligence, than in one individual, thus lacking quality in legislation. Another disadvantage of the majority was that the interests of the majority always were preferred to that of the minority. Therefore,...

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... a poem that is written in free verse. Although, there is an apparent rhyme scheme, there is no pattern to which words rhyme, sometimes it is the next line that rhymes; yet at other times, it is the line after the next that rhymes. It is a poem because it is structured like a poem. However there are no stanzas, it is just one large paragraph ... . The main idea of the poem is the opposite of what the poem literally states. It is because the poem is written as a satire on the world. The point of the poem is that just because a person's life has nothing wrong and just because he does nothin...

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... . This obviously came from the writing of John Locke who believed that the people are the true power and not the government. The Declaration then goes on to list all the complaints against King George III. Some of the complains were about the king didn't allow the governor to pass laws that were of great importance, how he would dissolve House Representatives whenever they opposed his invasions on peoples rights. He has ... abdicated the government in the colonies and by doing ... ...

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... , you are also being repressed from your individualism. The government under the high chancellor prohibits the Qur'an, subversive paintings, and homoerotic paintings that are examples of how the government censors what you are only allowed to see. The prohibition of vandalism that advocates the letter "V" on walls and streets represses individualism too because the citizens don't have the right anymore to show their support explicitly to ... of Gordon Deitrich, showing dissent is unacceptable and will result in the most extreme punishment. The government uses censorship to ensure that th...

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... in might violate the Free Speech act of the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. Universities that are funded by the government don't have the problem of hate speech to the extent that private institutions do. Because of that the author proposes steps that such institution have to take if they want to deal appropriately with the problem of hate speech on campus. The author also explains how the First Amendment relates ... to the issue of hate speech. I believe that the author has the right credentials to state his opinion about the hate speech phenomena. He is a law professor at th...

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... Constitution. James Madison was one of the leading and most important architects of this most important document. A study of his detailed notes from the daily meetings of the statesmen give us great insight as to the painstaking process that took place in order to draft the framework of this new Nation. His notes explain the fears and concerns of the people of that day as they had ... recently fought and won the war of independence with England. The delegates were determined to never be ... what the people think. The final vote was that the House of Representatives would serve three ye...

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... that she has to come up with 20,000 dollars or her child will not be able to live. This is very common in the United States. Is it that child's fault that his mom can't pay for the operation, yet he gets punished? Canadians are all equal so we should all pay into income tax to support affordable health care, so this ... homeless persons a year. When you walk down the street and see a pan handler you throw change into their hat because you know it's the morally right thing to do. Same with social services you are giving money to the government to support everyone equality in the country....

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... governments condition their citizens to make sure they act to their high standards. By constantly giving their people soma, a drug that creates happy and mindless people, the government can assure everyone will be happy with their status in society, and will never try to rebel. People in Brave New World never question their lives, and all they ... of ignorant happiness. In Oceania "you were being watched at any given moment" "(Orwell 4) by the party for any wrong actions, with brutal consequences if found guilty of any wrongdoings. By instilling fear in their people, the party is able ...

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... Lowry, develops many interesting thoughts and issues for the responder to consider which do lead to a broadened understanding of the self and world. The concept of euthanasia and suicide are an interesting concept of this book. An important part of building a utopia, in this book is that the elderly need to be "put down" as though they were merely a family pet, ... painless suicide rather than a self-inflicted and painful death. In the book, the importance of a family unit is highly emphasized, attempting to show the importance of a caring family. This has some rather adverse affects i...

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... people have basic rights that should not be taken away from them by any government because any basic right that people have is given to them by the government in the best interest of the people. Thus, the right can be taken away by the government for the best interest of the majority population. Many of those basic rights include our safety such as airport screening and frisking ... . The government wants baggage screening so many other lives can be saved from terrorism. That means that the government has to violate the privacy of individuals for their safety. Another basic right ... , l...

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... reaction was, I thought that the judicial system was a successful way to control the way things work, to a certain extent. I think it was a good thing to have Christianity as a central religion. There was a lot more control over everyone and everything that went on. In my reaction to Christianity being a central religion, it was a good way to have people under control, for example, drug addictions, family ... money at the time. Everybody came from the same place and everyone was new to the country, so there were many things that they all had in common. The government had more control wh...

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... to write it. Indeed, I think the time I get to know about what was going on and what this course is about is right before spring break. Dr. Robert Wood was very thankful. The midterm study guide he provided for us helped me a lot about knowing the course materials, especially the White House staff members. I have learned a lot while I was reading and reviewing for the midterm and I got some ideas ... about what we had been through the midterm. Unfortunately, unlike ... . As a member of a team, I can communicate with my team members. Like the White House simulation, as a team, we have a ...

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... that I have chosen comes from the Wall Street Journal on September 29th. The title of the article is "The Do-Not-Call Dilemma" and as stated in the title concerns the justification and rebuttal of the recent actions of the government to enforce its do-not-call list. This is an issue that concerns approximately fifty million Americans of all ages. How many of you sitting in this room now ... by abiding by the original reason to enact the law. We are all entitled to the right of pursuit of happiness and by siding with this we are pursuing are form of happiness in the form of solitude and ...

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... in danger of being priced out of this market. Anna O'Raw has been a primary school teacher for 3 years and currently earns £19, 000 a year. In the area of London where she lives, a 2 bedroom flat costs more then 250 thousand, and last year, a garage on her street sold for £70, 000. This could be any one of us, ending up homeless despite our glamorous ... qualifications. And don't think having a levels or a degree will save you from living it rough. Hidden underclass's of highly educated people are sleeping on Britains streets. Almost 50 % of the homeless questioned in a survey by the ...

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... did he served the community"(5). The idea that a perfect modern man is not meant to have any complaints and to serve the community, suggests that the state requires it's citizens to work for the benefit of the state, not the individual. The fact that nothing should be questioned shows the obedience to the state that is needed to maintain the utopian society that the poem discusses. During the time period that "The Unknown Citizen" was ... written, in the late 1930's, Americans were issued Social Security cards ... ...

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... composed of computer aficionados who stay on the fringes of legality. The CU is composed of relatively intelligent people, in contrast to the media's description of the ultra intelligent and sophisticated teenage "hacker." The majority have in common the belief that information should be free and that they have "a right to know." They often have some amount of dislike for the government and the industries who try to control and ... commercialize information of any sort. This paper attempts to expose what the CU truly is and dispel some of the myths propagated by the media and other orga...

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... because they had to take out loans to pay for farm equipment and to feed their family. The drought persisted for three long years. The only way to retrieve water was to use windmills as water pumps to pump water up from under ground streams. The farmers tried to bring this to the attention of the government but the government thought it was just another crisis. "Outsiders" couldn ... he told them "this gentlemen is what I have been talking about." This was the first time the East had suffered a dust storm. The government had labeled soil as "limitless." This changed their mind about soi...

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... were still buying shares, expecting prices to go on rising. However, it could not last. Once people took notice of the falling profits of the companies, panic took over, and the collapse of the economy happened - The Wall Street Crash. One of the causes of the Wall Street Crash began throughout the 1920's. During the 1920's there was much inequality in the USA. The distribution of wealth was not even and so although ... could sell, there was overproduction. With this, profits fell and share prices were also bound to fall. Another cause for the Wall Street Crash was that there was no expo...

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... example is the great depression in late 1929. The Roosevelt administration implemented many social benefit programs to assist Americans in getting through the depression called the New Deal. But the major fix of the depression was the start of WW2 when the economy was mostly centralized around production of war mechanisms. The first lesson is that government expenditure cutbacks are the worst policy for correcting a balance of payments problem. The second lesson ... is that the devaluation of an overvalued currency does provide a major boost ... ...

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... circumstances imposed through time and new interests keeping its essence intact. As Abraham Lincoln affirmed "Democracy is the government of the people, by the people, for the people". This observation poses several questions: Who is the people that should govern? Who decides what the best interest of the people is? Should it be a majority? Or should minorities be protected from majority factions? These questions give rise to a debate ... around two different models of democracy: the majoritarian and the pluralist. Under a democracy, governments have to make decisions based on people .....

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... companies that an animal can be "too dead." II. Aspects of Animal Cruelty A. Slaughterhouses for the Meat Industry: what tortured cattle, sheep, pigs and horses are put through while their venture through the slaughterhouses. B. Slaughterhouses for the Poultry Industry, how chickens are slaughtered, and the exemption of from the Humane Slaughter Act. C. Workers and the cruelty that hey are faced with as well as receive while working in ... the slaughterhouses. III. The Movement in the Effort to Stop Animal Cruelty A. Groups such as P.E.T.A., S.A.A.C., S.T.O.P., speak out to educate peop...

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... by Robert Morris of 5% of national input was rejected because one state out of thirteen, Rhode Island, refused it. The US also had bountiful debt to the people with bonds or IOU's, to the French, and to the British in the US for their loss in the revolution. The Land Ordinance of 1785 that surveyed western land and sold it to Americans was passed to gain some money ... , but although it provided the government with money, it didn't account for the greater financial loss. All of this ultimately led to great inflation, which highlighted the government's weakness, for it had no ... proved ...

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