... governed by a king or an aristocracy. To add, salaries for public officials came from Pericles's actions; to make the government even stronger. Another aspect of Athens that affects the western civilization is the philosophy of the time. Some of the great philosophers in Athens, besides the law giver, Solon, were Socrates, Plato, Aristotle. Socrates was a very ugly, but very wise man. He ... 468 BC; they both were great dramatists. During the Pelleponiesian War, drama took a change. Comedies, where fun is poked at political ideas, people, rose into play. A great playwright and the time w...

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... 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 ... have no freedom of personal expression or individuality. The state government that Auden describes is that of communist system. The title of the poe...

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... beings. Islam also had ideas of self worth and responsibility that helped contribute to the development of Western Political thought. The teaching of Islam emphasized on the dignity of all human beings and the brotherhood of all people, as well as a unity of all people that leads to the tolerance of different groups within a community. All of these religions had an ... influence on the development of Western Political thought, mainly the responsibilities of individuals to combat oppression, an individual's self worth, and the equality of all people. Western Political thought was heavily ...

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... can and sell it for the lowest possible price while still earning a profit. Because the price of the item is low and the quality is high more people will buy more of the product. Also the income of American's has been rising. In 1950 the average income of each person per year in the United States was $9729 and in 2002 the average income was $39,271 . One can see ... that the average income of people in the United States has been ... than $850 per person a year while the United State's average income is $39,271 per person a year. China is thousands of years older than the United States ...

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... France, Europe and other Westernized countries worldwide. Specific examples will be cited to demonstrate how the Western civilization was influenced and changed by the French Revolution. Civil Disorder and the Right to Protest The storming of the Bastille in 1789 was the spark that ignited the French Revolution. Civil disorder actions against the ruling groups became an everyday scene in France. Thousands of men and women gained firsthand experience ... documents of world - wide importance, such as the English Magna Carta of the 13th century, and the American Declaration of Independence...

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... : State University Press, 1997. Junn, Jane. Assimilating or Coloring Participation?. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1997. Kahn, Kim. The Political Consequences of Being A Women. New York: Columbia University Press, 1996. Kathlene, Lyn. "Alternate Views of Crime." Western Political Quarterly. Fall 1998: 107-120. Kathlene, Lyn. "Uncovering the Political Impacts of Gender: An Exploratory Study." Western Political Quarterly. Spring 1999: 397-421. Palmer, Barbara. ""To Do Justly ... ": The Integration of Women into the American Judiciary." Political Science Magazine. June 2001: 235-239. Steinem, Gloria...

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... law could be made without the assent of parliament. The judicial system also became independent, and was no longer reliant on the whim of the monarch at that time (ss17,45). Fair criminal procedure was introduced (ss38, 39), a system that included consistency in sentencing (ss20, 21) and the concept of equal access to justice (ss40). The fundamental components of the Magna Carta remained. The separation of powers doctrine was ... recognized as a necessity for rule of law and the concept that even the executive was subject to the law was enforced thus beginning the evolution of modern de...

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... Support for their cause was now pouring in. The woman's vote was endorsed by the Progressive party and the General Federation of Women's Clubs. In 1912, the national platform at the Progressive party convention incorporated a woman suffrage plank. And in 1914, the very mainstream General Foundation of Women's Clubs had finally endorsed woman suffrage. In the 1890's, western states like Wyoming, Utah, Colorado, and Idaho ... enfranchised women. In 1910, the state of Washington gave women the vote. In 1911, California finally gave in, and by 1914, Oregon, Arizona, Kansas, Nevada, and Monta...

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... Law, which was established in 1949, was created to modify the democratic structures of the past while still emphasizing "human rights, individual liberty, and the division of powers in a federal structure-(Mahler 244). Germany is the only major state of Western Europe with a federal structure, which also differs from Britain. The power is divided among the Lander (states), who hold a lot of influence. This separation of powers ... among the 16 states protects Germany from the abuse of power (which the whole world witnessed as a result of Nazi Germany). Germany's institutions of governme...

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... every topic does in politics, communism and the Cultural Revolution have good and bad things about them. Li Zhaoxing points out all of the good things that have come out of the communist based government. These ideas include the vast reduction in poverty, it's long tenure of 50 years, and it's ability to change to meet more western type belief systems without losing it's communist ... ideas. When he talked about the poverty he mentioned that in it's tenure, the Chinese government has moved 200 ... million people above the poverty line. He also mentioned that 4 to 5 million are still be...

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... (Library, Park, Hospitalsetc.). Besides that, the government also creates Laws (Bicycles, cars Laws, Seatbeltetc.). The definition of the government: A group of people come together to organize their affairs and decide how to get things done! The type of system of government we have in Canada is "Democracy". It is inherited mainly from the western European political system across the Atlantic Ocean. Moreover, there are three ... levels of government: Federal (Concerns to all Canadians for the whole country), Provincial and Territorial (mainly administer to the needs for Provinces and Te...

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... any citizen can set about engendering real change. Political organizations can serve as catalysts for one's beliefs; our generation comes from a proud line of activists: from the civil rights movement to the Vietnam draft protests, when the status quo tastes wrong to us, we mobilize. While in our society burning draft cards might smack of controversy, such an act might warrant death in ... Poland, revolutionary France, and countless Latin American Countries. One period in particular that well-evidences this is the fall of communism in the former Eastern Bloc. America not only provided a...

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... any citizen can set about engendering real change. Political organizations can serve as catalysts for one's beliefs; our generation comes from a proud line of activists: from the civil rights movement to the Vietnam draft protests, when the status quo tastes wrong to us, we mobilize. While in our society burning draft cards might smack of controversy, such an act might warrant death in ... Poland, revolutionary France, and countless Latin American Countries. One period in particular that well-evidences this is the fall of communism in the former Eastern Bloc. America not only provided a...

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... any citizen can set about engendering real change. Political organizations can serve as catalysts for one's beliefs; our generation comes from a proud line of activists: from the civil rights movement to the Vietnam draft protests, when the status quo tastes wrong to us, we mobilize. While in our society burning draft cards might smack of controversy, such an act might warrant death in ... Poland, revolutionary France, and countless Latin American Countries. One period in particular that well-evidences this is the fall of communism in the former Eastern Bloc. America not only provided a...

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... any citizen can set about engendering real change. Political organizations can serve as catalysts for one's beliefs; our generation comes from a proud line of activists: from the civil rights movement to the Vietnam draft protests, when the status quo tastes wrong to us, we mobilize. While in our society burning draft cards might smack of controversy, such an act might warrant death in ... Poland, revolutionary France, and countless Latin American Countries. One period in particular that well-evidences this is the fall of communism in the former Eastern Bloc. America not only provided a...

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... to demand it, became in these years a central component of American freedom (50)."" Americans habituated to expanding the meaning of freedom in order to convenience themselves and justify their actions. Freedom had become to most Americans at this time a means to an end - happiness. As the result, western travelers began claiming land and establishing farms, ranches, and mines without any thought on whether ... the land had already been claimed by another. This shows how greedy, selfish, and undiplomatic they each became in order to follow their ... dream of freedom and their desire to...

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... have outlived many other forms of government. "Before the end of the 19th century, every important Western European monarchy had adopted a constitution limiting the power of the Crown and giving a considerable share of political power to the people."" (Microsoft ® Encarta ® Encyclopedia 2002. © 1993-2001.) Although the leaders of the WW2 generation not only got us through the depression and the war there would have been nothing there in ... the first place if it were not for a few good men with ... ...

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... would attend to the well being and interests of the mass. Therefore, 1848 was only a temporary setback in the path of gaining nationalism. Socially, the year 1848 started the age of masses. The serfs in Austria were emancipated. Hereditary rights of landlords in administration and jurisdiction were abolished. General triumph of the bourgeoisie in Western Europe was marked. A. Cobban describes the Second Empire of France as the Bourgeois Empire. Economically ... , Upon 1848, the Industrial Revolution was only in initial stage that many countries adopted pretective tariff. However, free tr...

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... his reign and increased the popularity of drama and philosophy. Through the help of the people, Athens also became a beautiful city-state; well known for its buildings, temples, statues, and a government system that still continues to influence nations today. Many of the key features of Pericles" era, in fact, still have an effect on the ideals of the western world. After the Persians burned it down, ... Pericles had the opportunity to unite Athenians ... and start to rebuild the city-state of Athens in a new way. To start, he employed citizens as workers and ... ...

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... describing injustice and showing why it is to be rejected. The Republic is more than a work on politics in our narrower sense of the term. It is also more than a work on ethics, that is, on how the individual should live rightly and happily. It is also a work (in many cases the founding work in the Western tradition) on psychology, education, aesthetics, on what today we ... would call "sociology", and on philosophy in its more restricted meaning as epistemology (theory of knowledge) and ontology (which concerns itself with the nature of being). It is one of ... the relatively few book...

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... Locke that people can ans should learn from past experiences. In the 1800s America is struggling, because of the effect of the war between France and England on them. James Madison, the president, wants to declare war against England for their acts. The British were arming the Indians, had not moved out of the Western forts, destroying American trade ships, and were taking American soldiers ... to fight in the war against France. When the U.S. finally declared war they bombed the little forts, ... and lost. When the British attacked they hit Washington DC ... ...

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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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... expanded, and financial institutions restructured. However, disadvantages came along with these advantages in this New Jacksonian Democracy. One of the downfalls was that the extent of political freedom was stretched to all white males - but only all white males. From that class, the poor were very well able to advance to wealthy as well as powerful. However, Native Americans and those who were ... enslaved did not gain the same rights extended to whites. This white supremacy was one of the questionable practices taken up in the New Democracy. Another questionable practice of Jackson wa...

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... traits. They were prude, bossy and fussy. Women did not stand behind each other or impose political views, and many didn't even register to vote. Due to their ignorance of the political world, women voted as their husbands did, thus, just giving away their vote rather than voting for what they believed in. today this still seems to have little change ... . Women became more organized, this harmed the women's movement because their unity was based on a weak foundation like motherhood and other more occult characteristics that did not maintain a bond in later years. Women were ignorant to ...

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... Educational Fund (MALDEF) to name a few. Proposition 54's founder and chairman is none other than Ward Connerly, the chairman and founder of the American Civil Rights Group. Connerly, was elected a position on the Board of Regents of the University of California and was also chosen to lead the "Anti Affirmative Action Initiative," known to voters as Proposition 209, by former Governor Pete Wilson. It passed ... percent to 45 percent," according to an article entitled, "High Court Allows Prop 209's Repeal of Affirmative Action," by David G. Savage of The Los Angeles Times. Although, on M...

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