STUDENT ELECTIONS ON THE ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE INTRODUCTION “A 10% failure rate in Lebanese universities! What happened?” wrote the famous editor and write Khalil Hanna in one of the newspapers. He continued his piece talking about the elections in the universities. One can’t but ask those questions: Should university heads allow such event on campus? Are students benefiting from their university’s educational experience‚ or are they investing their time in preparations for elections‚ thus
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immediately preceding the election. No literacy‚ property‚ or other substantive requirement shall be imposed on the exercise of suffrage. III. Elections An election is a decision-making process by which a population chooses an individual to hold formal office. This is the usual mechanism by which modern representative democracy fills offices in the executive and legislative branches of government‚ and could either be national or local level. Regular elections are those held regularly
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Democratic Values and Leadership By A New Generation‚ SIPA Commencement Address 2011 “DEMOCRATIC VALUES AND LEADERSHIP BY A NEW GENERATION” SIPA Commencement Address by H.E. Mr. Kofi Annan Columbia University‚ New York‚ May 14th 2011 Thank you‚ Dean Coatsworth‚ for your kind words of introduction. President Bollinger‚ distinguished faculty‚ proud parents‚ loving friends and‚ most importantly‚ the graduates of the class of 2011‚ good afternoon. I am honored to be a part of such a joyous
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Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. A country deemed so oppressed that it is often compared to George Orwell’s 1984. So why do the people not rise up against the government and retake their country? What kind of oppression are theses citizens subject to? Lets quickly review two key misconceptions about the North Korean country‚ government and the people. First the most common attribute often linked to North Korea‚ communism‚ but the government’s policy is known as Juche. Juche (while similar
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The Election of 1800 There have been fifty-eight presidential elections in the United States. Each election‚ significant in it’s own way‚ some more than others. The election of 1800‚ had particular significance‚ it alone brought forward a string of Republican Presidencies which changed the United States and set the stage for formal political parties. First of all‚ this was an election between the Federalists and Democrat-Repubilcans. John Adams was the Federalist President and his competitor
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Quotas: From Discrimination to Democratic Legitimacy EARLY DRAFT – NOT FOR CITATION It is an established rule of U.S. constitutional law that the state cannot impose or pursue race or gender quotas.[1] In the private sector‚ an employer’s pursuit of numerically fixed race or gender balance is suspect under Title VII.[2] Under both bodies of antidiscrimination law‚ quotas are regarded as discrimination. If a civil rights initiative can be portrayed as encouraging employers to adopt quotas
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into new hands‚ with the Weimar Republic taking over. However‚ there were many people‚ especially from the left that didn’t want the revolution to just stop at achieving a democratic Republic but instead wanted the revolution to go further and evolve into a constitutional democracy. The three main reasons why the evolution did not occur were because of the attitude of the people‚ the failure of the left to further the revolution and the success of the Weimar Republic in defending itself. In 1918
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wID Terms for Final 1. Nat Turner Revolt (1831): Slave revolt in the South led by a Virginian slave‚ Nat Tuner. Tuner said he was guided by God to free his people. The insurrection lasted 48 hours and 60 whites were killed. South’s bloodiest slave insurrection. Significance: fear among white southerners‚ increased severity of the slave codes‚ collapse any movement of emancipation in the South 2. Anti-slavery argument (1830s-1860s): America is God’s Promised Land‚ except for slavery which
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Viniqua Cook Ms. Williams EH 101-1BB 30 April 2012 Why Abraham Lincoln Won the Election of 1860 The Election of 1860 was an interesting election because it split the nation in two and showed how divided America could get. Likewise‚ it was the last election before the Civil War and it was the first Republican victory. Abraham Lincoln‚ better known as Honest Abe‚ is mostly remembered for freeing slaves and of course‚ his top hat. On the other hand‚ Stephen A. Douglas is known as the Little Giant
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Emergence of the Democratic Republic and the Impact of the Treaty of VersaillesThe Establishment of a Democratic Government By September 1919‚ the German High Command had realised that the war was lost‚ and established a more democratic government. This was done so that the Allies might be more lenient in forming a peace treaty‚ particularly as democracy was essential under US President Wilson ’s Fourteen Points‚ and the Germans felt that a peace arranged by the US would be better for Germany than
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