... analysts were surprised: Spending was actually even lower than expected. A division of MasterCard showed holiday spending this year was down by as much as 4% over the same period last year, making this year the worst holiday season for them in modern times. Even retail behemoths such as Gap experienced a drop in sales by close to 20 percent. Best Buy and other electronics and ... , and threaten to put them out of business. Larger, stronger businesses, although they may find themselves with less competition for market share, will also have to face laying off more and more of their employe...

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... on its people, and thinks it is their responsibility to do something about it. One of Pendleton's main points is that of public and private morality. He tries to blur the line of privacy by stating that everything a person does affects everyone else, be it directly or indirectly. Then he follows up with "others have good reason to be interested in ... common are too few" (192). I find this weak because I believe in a diverse community. He is saying that people who do not have similar beliefs can not live together in society. The only weakness I found in Reese's article was his aggressiv...

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... of legal age control legislation passed by the government. However, the power of the majority can exceed its limits. Tocqueville believed that the United States was a land of equality, liberty, and political wisdom. He considered it be a land where the government only served as the voice of the its citizens. He compares the government of the US to that of European systems. To ... participation, and 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 unl...

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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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... 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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... 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 nothing wrong, it doesnt mean th...

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... unjustly by proclaiming ludicrous taxes and placing troops in a land where they are unnecessary. And The Declaration of Independence also states that the People and not the Government is ending the relationship with the British. It is the will of the people not the will of the Continental Congress or the individual colonial governments. "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are ... plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people." And The King also sent large armies and mercenaries "to complete ...

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... anything, to capture V, who is the one injecting dissent in Great Britain, even to the extent of having his party scolded every time especially the party leader-Mr. Creedy is also an indication of fear. The high chancellor ordered Gordon Deitrich's execution after a satire tv show that made fun of the high chancellor. The government prohibits the Qur'an, as well as subversive ... a society where you cannot express everything you want, you are also being repressed from your individualism. The government under the high chancellor prohibits the Qur'an, subversive paintings, and homoerotic p...

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... 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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... that can stop criminal and terrorist activity. "Uncle Sam and the Watching Eye," talks about it. In the article, Cindy Cohn of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a civil-liberties group based in San Francisco notes that, "Internet wiretapping was proposed and passed by Congress. [ ] And, she notes, there have already been calls for restrictions on the use of encryption technology, which allows Internet users to encode ... be read by anyone except the recipient" ("Uncle"). I do not think that the government looking through our e-mails will help solve anything except invade our privacy. ...

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... work hours 51.1% 17.6% 37.7% 11.0% 1-29 hours 16.1% 5.5% 12.4% 3.6% 30 plus hours 32.8% 11.3% 49.9% 14.5% Total 100% 34.5% 100% 29.1% The overall child poverty rate is 34.5% in 1999. About a half of these poor children are in households where nobody is in work and a third are in households where ... while it is true that worklessness is a major factor in child poverty, half of poor children are in households with somebody in work. The table also presents what would happen to child poverty if one could magically return work patterns back to their 1979 structure, but retains wages, demogra...

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... new cars, college funds, or frivolous entertainment.   Increasing minimum wage overall, decreases available jobs within individual businesses. The reason for this lies again in operational costs for employers. The viability of businesses depends on profits and when minimum wage rises, it reduces profit margins. Since the success of a business is measured on its growth, this would be counter -productive and thus create an adverse ... effect. In order for companies to make up for their losses they reduce the amount of jobs available and lay off workers ... instead. This is just another a...

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... since he was the oldest in the group. Others thought that Ralph should be the leader since he was already the colonel. Ralph was elected leader since he was the leader at the military school where they were all enrolled. Jack believed that everyone should have the liberty to do what he or she wanted without being reprimanded for it. He decided to be a rebel against what Ralph ... . There is a leader and followers. Others got tired of Ralph and all of his rules and decided to join Jack's gang. Piggy was the only one who remained loyal to Ralph and all of his ideas. They shared the same mo...

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... constitutional government into Russia. The worker population increased and Russia's few major cities namely, St. Petersburg and Moscow swelled with overcrowding. With low wages, poor working conditions, and no representative voice, strikes and demonstrations paralyzed the capital on and off for years. After periodic repression, the government could barely hold. This situation was made worse by the onset of World War ... I. Russia's backward position relative to the West, its lack of arms, poor training, and corruption in the high levels of government and the army translated into such mi...

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... a substantial influence on what Americans will regard as reasonable and acceptable, and on what they will try to achieve. Politics is the process that determines how a society will be governed. The play of politics in the United States takes place within the context of democratic procedures, constitutionalism, and capitalism, and involves elements of majority, pluralist, and elite rule. Politics in ... major patterns, including an enduring set of cultural ideals, a highly fragmented governing system, a high degree of pluralism, an extraordinary emphasis on individual rights, and a pronou...

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... of a certain religion or belief of some sort. There are many rights that protect us from causing problems within a group of people or even the government. Unfortunately it wasn't the same back in the 1600s when Europeans discovered the New World, and started to make new laws and to make their own decisions on how to deal with certain problems especially when it came ... 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...

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... is a government which derives its powers from the consent of the people. This concept goes back to the ancient Greeks, however, as time has passed and societies have evolved, democracy has adapted to the new 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...

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... settle new areas with their slaves. Document C is starting to explain some of the tension between the North and South with the Nullification Crisis where South Carolina nullified the Tariffs the Government put on the states. Document E is another Example of the Southern states beginning to resent the government and overstepping their rights as states, for example: the Nullification Crisis in document C and Document E with South Carolina which resulted in ... the Webster-Hayne debates on whether state nullification was constitutional or not and starting to recognize the separation that i...

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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 ... serve three year terms. Next, they made a quick agreement on a fixed salary for each Senator and...

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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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... people has total control over all the big decisions. He also made a case for elections, essentially the majority principle that makes it possible for the will of the majority to prevail over the minority. That solution formed another problem, the possibility of the tyranny of the majority. Madison solved all these key problems with formal institutions and considering the sociological structure of the society for which he was drafting the laws. Different arms of government ... to allow society to form so many factions that none of them is the most powerful. Since all the citizens of a la...

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... , if only for a moment. Ralph gives the rest of the boys' guidance and hope. He takes time to think things through then comes back ready to go. Ralph isn't the only symbol of democracy. The conch is a clear symbol of authority and order. Whoever has the conch can speak freely without interruption except by Ralph, the chief. "Where's the man with the trumpet?" Ralph, sensing his sun-blindness ... 169) In one quote Golding uses the words "The boy who controlled them" (19), this is referring to Jack and his hold over the choir. The quote from page 23 shows the power Jack wielded and the fea...

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... if there is any conflict of interest. Also, the lack of government would result with a very low quality system of education, and infrastructure as well. In terms of solving the common problems, according to Burton the best way is to privatize the commons (p. 5). According to him, privatization is the necessary condition for improving the lives of people in general, and the quality of goods and services in particular. ... Therefore, when it comes to security, the best solution according to him, would be to privatize the police. But as we know, in order the private companies to perform a ...

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... . Armenians of military age were also drafted into service. Tens of thousands wore the uniform of the Turkish armed forces. But when the war went badly, the Turkish high command turned its ire upon the Armenian men in arms. For the purpose of the undeclared and secret war against the Armenians, the men in uniform were selected as the first group from the Armenian population for extermination. Their disposal was critical ... avoid this fate some chose the only avenue of escape left to them. Arm in arm groups of women flung themselves from cliff-tops or drowned themselves in rivers. Neith...

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... He was mad before the story begins for only a madman would kill someone and cut him to pieces merely for the look in his eye. The Misfit and the narrator also share a sense of paranoia that is evident in the stories. While engaging in conversation with the grandmother, the Misfit portrays his own paranoia when the grandmother asks him why he was sent to the penitentiary for the first time. He speaks ... about how he was put in jail for killing his father. The problem he has ... the narrator in "The Tell-Tale Heart- is more psychotic because chronicles a journey into madness and gives us ...

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