... can have a voice in setting the rules that they must abide by. This theme of, in a sense, being one of the rulers (participating in government) instead one of the ruled (as in a dictatorship) is the central concept that is supported and upheld by the other principals of democracy. In ancient Greece, where the term democracy was coined, all of the members of the city-state would gather in ... fall prey to the power of a dictatorship as the result of a single group gaining too much power. Another aspect of a democratic government is the control of the agenda by the people of that society...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... What separates us from animals? It is our ability to learn that sets us apart from every other living species in the universe. However, by burning books new ideas are limited and the average person is prevented from becoming educated. This takes away from the very humanity of the humans making up the society that exists in both Fahrenheit 451 and the ... all over again. One hour can alter the whole routine setting everything off. For adults it's sleep and work. In both universes these routines turn life-filled, fun-loving humans, into programmed, brainless machines that do what they are ...

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• Grade Level: High School