It does generally follow that there is a correlation between low life expectancy and low incomes or PPP. In other words, if the country has a low live expectancy it will certainly be poor, for instance, Benin has a life expectancy of 53.8 years and a PPP of $990.00, and India has a life expectancy of 61 years and a PPP of $2,248.00. But the inverse is not true, it does not follow that a country with a high life expectancy will also enjoy a high PPP, Costa Rica has a life expectancy of 76 years but a PPP of only $8,650.00, and Belize has a life expectancy of 74 years but a PPP of only $5,60...

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In both, the supreme objectives of a fair state is to have united and honorable lives. As Aristotle asserts,"[T] he end of the state is a good life, and the state is the union of families and villages in a perfect and self sufficing life, by which we mean a happy and honorable life." ...

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The 20th century has seen the rise and fall of totalitarian governments and the terror and loss of human lives as a result. ... Freedom of expression, information, freely choosing, changing and discarding one's religion and the right to life are some of the fundamental Human Rights, which are threatened by fundamentalism, going to the extent of advocating death for non-believers and freethinkers. ... During such riots, persons belonging to one religious group deliberately destroy life and property of persons belonging to another religious group, even if they do not have any personal enmit...

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One part of the conference that I found interesting was when all of the Allies agreed on the new governments that should be put into place over the old Dictatorships "The establishment of order in Europe and the rebuilding of national economic life must be achieved by processes which will enable the liberated peoples to destroy the last vestiges of nazism and fascism and to create democratic institutions of their own choice. ... When the Cold War with Russia was going on we decided to not invade them because of the loss of lives due to ever growing capacity of both powers nuclear arsenal, but ...

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Instead, they ruled themselves directly; each man was a life long member of the decision making body. ... Locke's book, Two Treatises (published in 1690), stated that under the "social contract," the government's job was to protect "natural rights", which included "the right to life, liberty, and the ownership of property." ... From Locke, Jefferson borrowed the idea that all men are created equal, and he altered the right to life, liberty and property to "the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness." ... Participatory Democrats feel that citizens should have a vo...

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In "The Cruel Hand," Michelle Alexander begins to dive into the lives of ex-offenders - or ex-criminals - as they try to return to a life without bars. ... Once out of prison, ex-criminal are not only faced with the realities of finding everything essential to life: employment, a stable residence, and reconnecting with family, they are also faced with social neglect, copious amounts of legal fees, no government aid, and protocols seemingly designed to send them back to prison. ...

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Attitude was a key factor not only in the pride of the city, but in the day-to-day lives of the citizens, it would have seemed. Pericles spoke of the ways in which the people of Athens were able to enjoy themselves and the appreciation they seem to have had for life itself. ... Unlike its rival city, Sparta, Athens drew from a well of personal ambition and self-confidence rather than a forced initiation into the city life. ...

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Attitude was a key factor not only in the pride of the city, but in the day-to-day lives of the citizens, it would have seemed. Pericles spoke of the ways in which the people of Athens were able to enjoy themselves and the appreciation they seem to have had for life itself. ... Unlike its rival city, Sparta, Athens drew from a well of personal ambition and self-confidence rather than a forced initiation into the city life. ...

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The revolution, unlike the many others that had occurred in recent years took very few lives and caused marginal problems with both authority and civilian. ... The social democrats gained some power and the German people were content, this was not a revolutionised reform for Germany, but a need for a better life. ...

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Social equity allows us all to contribute to the social, political and economic life of Australia, free from discrimination, including on the grounds of race, culture, religion, language, location, gender or place of birth; and 1 Benefits for all - all Australians benefit from productive diversity, that is, the significant cultural, social and economic dividends arising from the diversity of our population. ... Every Australian benefits from our diversity and all Australians have the right to be active and equal participants in Australian society, free to live their lives and maintain the...

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Money is an essential factor of people's life. ... Poverty prevents them from life prosperity. ... All of displeasing conditions of their lives force them to raise money in every way they can, including taking bribe in elections. ... Although improving equality is the main part of Thai political agenda as the government honestly intends to tackle inequality, no any evidence of a good quality of Thai people's life in the countryside appears apparently. ...

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The primary goal of this theocracy is to boost a rapidly declining birth rate through the control of fertile women's bodies, and it does so through strict control of citizen's lives. ... Offred says this to us after an evening in which she has been forced to parade herself around with the General to a forbidden brothel (Jezebels), at a great risk to her own life. Her trip to the washroom is virtually the only thing she has control of, with the exception of her thoughts and memories of life before Gilead. ... In addition to water, oxygen, and nutrients, the most important factor for m...

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In order for reformers to gain support and inform the public of the brutality of industrial life they used books, detailed magazine articles, pictures, and exploiting statistics. ... The economy recovered from the corruption of the Gilded Age with strong trust acts and changing women's lives with the right to vote in 1919. ... The horrific details exposed to the public about industrial life were shocking, but reformers lacked the influence to make progress on the state and national level. ...

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Although in the United States today we accept democracy as a form of life it had its early beginnings in the city-states of Ancient Greece. ... Democracy represented a form of political life of the self-governing and included every citizen of the city. ... Individuals were able to shape their lives according to personal choice. ...

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Machiavelli's Republic Considering Machiavelli's concepts of virtu and the functional role of the citizen in state affairs, we can infer that Machiavelli's republicanism is above all else a commitment to the vivere civil or civil life. ... "Any form of government, including republican or popular government, which does not fulfill the requirements of civil and political life is either a tyranny or a corrupt republic- that is, the two worst calamities that can befall a people" Essentially, tyranny under this theory involves the absence of the rule of law. ... Like the juris...

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This objective is a primary goal for a number of reasons, the most important of those being the international interests of the United States, and the quality of life and freedom for the Iraqi people. ... Under Saddam Hussein's rule, the Iraqi culture and way of life has not been allowed to develop. ... This would show the American people and the world that this entire project of Iraqi Freedom was truly about giving the Iraqi people charge over their own lives (Lawson 4). ...

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The lack of knowledge or interest represents too large of a display of individualism in society to the point where many citizens have completely drawn themselves away from public life of any sort. ... Many argue that the decline in voting is a direct result of an increase in prosperity and overall satisfaction with life for many citizens. ... An increase in prosperity and overall satisfaction with life would be a valid argument if it was not known that those who do not participate are the ones who "have the fewest reasons to be satisfied- people with low incomes, insecure jobs and the unempl...

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In an era where everything is constantly becoming more intertwined with technology, the rituals of our daily lives follow this very trend. ... Putting his life and freedom in danger to resist complicity remains very aligned with the principles behind modern day hackitivist agitational movements. ... With all good things in life come bad and many internet hackers take advantage of their skills for personal rather than political gains; this is where the problem begins and an example of Hacktivism that is negative, harmful, and unjust Referring to the landmark New York Times v US Supreme Court...

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According to one common view, the quality of democracy depends upon the extent to which voters use their rights to vote and to take part in public life. ... Some nations believe that it is essential to take part in political life, and that the state should encourage, and even oblige them to do so. ... And with such important political matters affecting the every day lives of Americans, why is political participation so low in our country? ...

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The citizens of a democratic state or country exercise a control over their own lives, laws, and destinies. ... In ancient Greece, where the term democracy was coined, all of the members of the city-state would gather in a central arena to discuss the topics of interest at the time and everyone had the opportunity to contribute, as they saw fit, to the dialog that would eventually determine an aspect of their life. ...

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The quality of life seems to be poor in these countries where free speech is absent. ... Three of the Radio RTLM executives were convicted in 2003 after being guilty of a genocide which contributed to 800,000 Tutsis losing their lives. ...

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These things are known as allegories, because they are symbols that stand for the truths about human life. ... Similar to the breakdown of the island, over the course of Adam and Eve's lives, the Garden of Eden is gradually destroyed and has come to the same circumstance, no longer existing because of man kind's evil ways. ... Lastly, Simon is interconnected with nature and respects all life. ...

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The jumbled view that political reform and openness will immediately result `n a better economic life could lead to disillusion for the pools of youth suffering from a hangover effect after the revolutions. ...

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One of the reasons that China's GDP has been growing at a yearly average of ten percent for the past two decades is the large amount of Foreign Direct Investment coming from Hong Kong, Taiwan and the West. However, China's GDP growth rate dropped to 8.7 percent during 2012 with a slow down in export...

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Or do Romanians put up with the corruption, excessive red-tapism and week, politically controlled judiciary dominating the circumstances surrounding their lives and obstructing sustainable economic development as a god-given plight? ...

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