DBQ: Manchester A city of prowess should be as hygienic as it is regal. Manchester circa 1800 was indeed a city of great proportion‚ although its cleanliness was in no question due to the lack thereof. A result of industrialization‚ Manchester’s quality of living deteriorated. Industrial expansion took priority over the inhabitants. To their detriment‚ modest changes had been made to aid in the effort to further the progress of a better Manchester for all. The Industrial Revolution impaired the
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European societies‚ where the ideals originated. As early as the 1780s‚ Michel Guillaume Jean de Crиvecoeur‚ a French writer living in Pennsylvania who wrote under the pseudonym J. Hector St. John‚ was impressed by the democratic nature of early American society. It was not until the 19th century that these tendencies in America were most fully expressed. When French political writer Alexis de Tocqueville‚ an acute social observer‚ traveled through the United States in the 1830s‚ he provided an unusually
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are making off of it and they do not care about human welfare. This is best put by Flora Tristan she wrote‚ “If you visit a factory‚ it is easy to see that the comfort and welfare of the workers have never entered the builders head” (Doc 7). Alexis de Tocqueville a French visitor said the civilized man is turned back into a savage (Doc 5). Since he is a visitor to the country he will say whatever he wants or thinks about the situation and it will not affect him. With these examples it shows that the
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COMPONENTS OF CIVIC EDUCATION The core meaning of civic education is that it is a subject that promotes civic knowledge‚ civic skills‚ civic values and civic dispositions. Civic knowledge is concerned with the content or what citizens out to know‚ it is thorough familiarization with what civic life constitutes. It is having an understanding about basic principles of democracy‚ politics‚ elections‚ institutions. Having the understanding of the rights and responsibilities‚ knowledge of what rights
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Alexis De Tocqueville explains in Democracy in America: “Nothing is more wonderful than the art of being free.” Tocqueville explains that being free is very valuable and this is in turn help with furthering justice. Dissent furthers justice by taking into consideration many perspectives. For example‚ the controversial
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Revivalism & Social Reform Grant Dockery Timothy L. Smith Christianity in the 1800s was a huge ordeal. It was growing exponentially between groups of people‚ churches were spreading‚ and the word was being taken out‚ but there are many questions to be asked about Christianity at that time. Churches and the government were tied tight‚ with which the church was very happy. Buildings and money were provided for the people‚ given that they help out in a number of ways. It was said to be a politico-religious
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Commentary Blog travel writing is written at a personal level‚ it engages the reader using more common humour and relation to everyday tasks. The language is often informal and the writer uses small personal anecdotes throughout the writing‚ for example‚ ‘don’t worry mum‚ we scooped the ice out of every glass‚ just in case!’ as blogging sites are commonly used as a method of contact for relatives and friends while a person is travelling. A range of sentences are used throughout the writing‚ often
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of capitalism in terms of what he coins: reflections on an episode of intellectual history. The next step will be to view some of the key names mentioned in the third part of the text. These writers include the likes of Adam Ferguson and Alexis de Tocqueville. What are easily identifiable are a respect for the historical figures that preceded them and also a respect for the magnitude of their vision. On the other hand‚ a gradual divergence into the realms of new ideas can be seen‚ fuelled in turn
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choose to take the one that benefits the individual or the one that benefits the greater good. No matter whose view we look at it all comes back to the same thing conflict and how we deal with it. Berman quotes from Democracy in America‚ Alexis de Tocqueville and he talks about the American life how its full of worry and how people pursue success that eludes them forever in which they are seeking materialistic success with the largest return in the shortest amount of time. Both men in the movies
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“If society is tranquil‚ it is not because it is conscious of its strength and its well-being‚ but because it fears its weakness and its infirmities; a single effort may cost it its life. : ― Alexis de Tocqueville Throughout history‚ resistance has been analogous to change; from the American revolution to modern day global decolonization‚ the introduction and diffusion of new ideas is integral in a society intending to improve. In a free society‚ peaceful resistance prevents stagnation-- it is
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