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    decade leading the Great Depression is important because it shaped American history like no other era. This writer will explore five key events that molded American history: The roaring economy of the 20’s‚ a car culture‚ managerial elitism‚ a consumer culture‚ and a stock market recovery. The brief economic boom of the 1920s had a dramatic impact on the U.S. economy and this paper will connect the dots with spending too much on credit which proved to be the New Era’s undoing

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    communities‚ and without these communities our states would mean nothing. For that reason‚ participation in these communities in intersectional ways and emphasizing membership and solidarity are two of the most important aspects of citizenship. There is elitism and a man-made disconnect that occurs when we forget who these concepts are meant to be aimed for –the masses. In the case of the Islamic school‚ the masses are the students. While they are involved in the “political” aspects of school‚ they are disconnected

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    that not one house exercises greater power than the other. In addition‚ in modern United Stated‚ a well-established‚ well-organized government consisting of the judicial‚ executive and legislative branches provided checks and balance. Nevertheless‚ elitism was a prevalent phenomenon in the ruling class of Ancient Rome‚ much like the current American elite politicians yielding vast political power. Ancient Rome has indeed laid the foundation for the development of the modern Western world‚ including

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     Merriam-Webster. (2014). Minimalism. Retrieved from http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/minimalism Ethical Extensionism. (2012). Retrieved from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethical_extensionism Merriam-Webster. (2014). Pluralism. Retrieved from http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pluralism Merriam-Webster. (2014). Naturalism. Retrieved from http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/naturalism  Merriam-Webster. (2014). Pragmatism. Retrieved from http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pragmatism Merriam-Webster

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    changes brought about by the Revolution was the most significant? Could the Revolution have gone further toward the principle that “all men are created equal” by ending slavery and/or granting women the right to vote? Should the Founders’ general elitism and indifference to the rights of people‚ women‚ African-Americans‚ and Indians be held against them? 2. Was the USA in a crisis under the Articles of Confederation‚ or was the crisis exaggerated by the Federalists just to justify their movement

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    Pluralism has come to act as a force in many countries and territories all over the world today. Everywhere you look there are vast amounts of religions that are coexisting at once in a given space. In medieval Spain the Umayyad’s existed with faiths that sprung from Jewish‚ Christian and Arabic backgrounds as well as many smaller faiths and focused on religion as a life path. In ancient Rome‚ the empire was focused on religion as knowledge and only had a religion that would contribute to the overall

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    Take Home Exam Aman Birgi 100836261 PHIL 3340 Vida Panitch Part A: Political Liberalism John Rawls ’ Political Liberalism is an answer to the most common criticism of his Theory of Justice as Fairness where critics argued that it was just another conception of justice that is incompatible with other doctrines. It failed to clarify the concept of the good in a reasonable pluralist society by not distinguishing between an independent

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    Interreligious Dialogue with respect to theological pluralism Statistics show that most of the world’s population is affiliated with some type of religion‚ with Christianity and Islam encompassing slightly over 50% of the population. Though interreligious dialogue is beneficial in gaining a better understanding of another’s religion‚ is it possible to hold one’s religion as being the absolute truth while engaging in an open interreligious dialogue with another religion? Many spiritual people

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    “A Defense of Religious Exclusivism” Alvin Plantinga Religious exclusivism is an idea that is the complete opposite of religious pluralism. Religious pluralist’s such as John Hick have ideas containing a set of beliefs asserting that multiple religions can not only all co-exist‚ but they can all also be true within their own beliefs that they hold about the cosmology of the Earth‚ God‚ and our existence. And the complete opposite of John Hick’s belief is the idea of Religious Exclusivism.

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    (Hall‚ “United States Supreme Court Decisions”) I have mentioned these court cases to show how recent this “new” view of separation of church and state re is. This new view of separation of church and state is called pluralism. The definition of pluralism is: law being decided by the majority or by the ruling group or individual apart from an objective morals. Today’s view is that the government should be tot neutral‚ and have no religious or moral prejudices when making laws. (Coyle

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