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    Prospects For Democracy “A democracy is nothing more than mob rule‚ where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine.” “Democracy... while it lasts is more bloody than either [aristocracy or monarchy]. Remember‚ democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes‚ exhausts‚ and murders itself. There is never a democracy that did not commit suicide.” It is the year 2010. Democracy has become so successful that countries who ’ve enjoyed it are trying to share

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    Selena Martinez Mrs. Lesosky Pre-Ap English II 18 March 2013 The Perils of Indifference Analysis At the end‚ and the start of a new millennium‚ or world has witnessed both atrocities and amazing displays of human compassion. In The Perils of Indifference Elie Wiesel successfully portrays his thoughts by applying anaphora’s‚ and the distribution of both ethos and pathos. Throughout his speech Wiesel repeats the word indifference quite often. An anaphora is the repetition of the same word

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    that was around 65 years ago. I feel as if the wait and how long it takes is even longer now to get citizenship. The main idea for the article‚ A Slave to Yellow Peril‚ is the attempt of the Asian population coming to the Midwest and specifically in Wichita. The article focuses on the demonstrations of racism against the Chinese. Americans were afraid that the Chinese were going to come and “suck the blood from Uncle Sam” (page 24). The Chinese were considered more intelligent and able to work for

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    A Complacent Society in Peril: The Current U.S. Economic Dangers and Dismissive Americans Outline Thesis: Today‚ the U.S has drifted into that same complacent and lethargic spirit concerning the warnings that are so resounding about a coming global economic collapse‚ as well as willfully dismissing and minimizing many other global forebodings. I. Introduction A. Economic danger ahead B. Ignoring the situation II. Body: Topic 1 A. Collapsing U.S. and European economies B.

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    There are two different understandings of democracy: direct democracy (the rule of many) and representative democracy. The US government uses representative democracy‚ everyone is given their own power‚ even if it’s as minimal as voting for a leader to represent you. The Framers of the Constitution believed a direct democracy would lead to people following the popular opinion instead of the common good for the nation. Despite being run on a democracy‚ people have separate views of how the government

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    Persuasive Essay Barbra Hudson is one to the wealthiest women‚ but even though she had a lot of money‚ she did not have a happy life. Instead‚ she divorced two husbands and is a lonely woman. If you have a lot of money it doesn’t matter because people with lot money don’t have happy lives‚ they end up as drug addicts that go to jail and sometimes end up broke. That’s why money doesn’t but happiness. The reason money doesn’t buy happiness is because celebrities or rich people end up as worthless

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    Analysis of "Peril of Hope" The poem "Peril of Hope‚" by Robert Frost is about having hope. The poem speaks about no matter how things are one minute they can always change. Hope‚ however‚ is constantly there and will always be there to help get through the tough times until things get better. Imagery is used throughout this poem to help describe the extent of the boundaries of hope. Hope has endless boundaries in this poem it goes from one extreme to the next. In the first stanza

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    involved. For example‚ in "The Perils of Indifference" by Elie Wiesel‚ it says‚ "He understood those who needed help why didn’t he allow his refugees to disembark." This shows that the way Franklin Delano Roosevelt didn’t send help right away affected the prisoners of all the different concentrations camps created by the Nazis. When someone does not realize they need to do something about what is going on people suffer. Another example of this is in the article "The Perils of Indifference" where it

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    Jacksonian Democracy Worksheet Jackson and his followers‚ known as “Jacksonian Democrats” became popular in the 1920s and continued as one of the stronger of the political factions in America up until the time surrounding the election of James Buchanan. Jacksonians prided themselves on upholding the Constitution‚ political democracy‚ individual liberties‚ and economic opportunity. Jacksonian ideals did uphold the Constitution‚ but their view of themselves beside that is only partially accurate.

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    forth are the surprising effects of simple commands and the subliminal influence. The articles “The Perils of Obedience”‚ by Stanley Milgram‚ and “Opinions and Social Pressure”‚ by Solomon E. Asch‚ both exhibit the traits of simple‚ ordinary test subjects following orders and actions by someone who is illustrated to have power or the general consensus but realistically do not. In the article‚ “The Perils of Obedience” by Stanley Milgram‚ the experiment consist of two subjects‚ the ‘teacher’ and the

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