Who doesn’t love some fresh air? Who doesn’t love new ways of thinking and less corruption? The answer is: no one. Yet in our current republican democracy in the United States there are term limits for the president‚ but not for congressmen. Members of the House of Representatives serve two-year terms and are considered for reelection every even year. Senators‚ however‚ serve six-year terms and elections to the Senate are staggered over even years so that 1/3 of the Senate is up for reelection during
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Solution: In Athenians public life‚ the process of making decisions that affect the community is via democracy. However this form of democracy did not grant everyone in the community a say in the government. The only few who have right in government are men‚ free men with complete Athenian parents. According to our discussion forum‚ we discovered that democracy was the rule of the ‘Demos’ which means people that are free‚ native-born of Athens. These classes of citizens are referring to as ‘Thetes’
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Spartans vs. Athenians Can you imagine four-thousand spartans charging down a hill while three-thousand Athenians ready their bows and release them all simultaneously while the string whips in the hard rain? The Peloponnesian War was one of the most fierce wars in Greece because many people fell in battle. From the South were the Spartans. Their forces had never been stronger with a reformed‚ military-based government. From the North was the Athenians who had just been through a war that had
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Lincoln believed in the Greek meaning of Democracy. Lincoln was a lifelong Whig‚ anti-Jacksonian‚ and anti-proslavery democratic party. To Lincoln there was a difference in definitions. This would explains why Lincoln used the word fairly seldom. Wilentz clarifies Lincoln’s usage expounding‚ “Democracy and not democracy . . . ‘Allow ALL the governed an equal voice in the government’. . . “And that‚ and that only‚ is self-government’” (Wilentz 53). Here we see Lincoln using terms such as “self-government
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and the citizens will be well represented. A representative democracy was‚ overall‚ a more effective answer to the question of how to govern the new country rather than a direct democracy after seeing the effects that the Articles of Confederation created when too much of the power of the government was given to the people and their states. A stronger central government was needed without taking away the voice of the people‚ and that’s what was decided on. However‚ even though this way has proven to
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Planaria Regeneration in Ideal Temperatures vs. Cold Temperatures Christina Malfas Abstract Planaria are flatworms that live in quiet freshwater bodies. They live in a narrow range of temperatures‚ from 22-24°C. They regenerate asexually‚ specifically through a process called epimorphosis‚ in which they completely regenerate one half of their bodies after splitting themselves in two. The diffusion gradient model assumes that cells in an organism “know” their orientation on that organism due
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children are executed by terrorists in a school in Russia. Democracy is being threatened by enigmatic zealots all over the world. The United States have fought for Democracy as far back as the Revolutionary War‚ and both World Wars. Once again our military is being asked to make the ultimate sacrifice in the attack on democracy against these zealots. Fighting for democracy has been the cause of wars since the days of Pericles. Pericles states that "Our constitution does not seek to copy the laws
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the ideal society: An ideal society is something that the human kind strived to achieve throughout the whole existence‚ a society where needs of the people regardless of their race‚ religion or wealth would be met. There has been pondering over the conditions of such system‚ and many great thinkers‚ such as Plato‚ Thomas More‚ Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. etc have offered their opinions on them to the public over the years. A dream of ‘Utopia’‚ however‚ seems unreachable as of now‚ as ideals and
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Democracy is said to be one of the best forms of government. People choose democracy mainly to remove corruption‚ hunger and poverty. Poverty is regarded as one of the worst affecting social evils. Population‚ Corruption‚ Economy and Illiteracy are the main factors which directly or indirectly lead to poverty. Population is one of the major factors which lead to poverty. The excessive population increases poverty. The increasing population decreases the per-capita income of families. For example
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The position of Athenian women in the classical period was that they were inferior to the male counterparts. Athens during the classical period was a predominantly patriarchal society‚ therefore‚ the division of labour was by gender; women were to tend to household duties while men worked outdoors. Athenian women were also expected to remain silent‚ they were a muted group which was expected to behave obediently‚ remain loyal and virtuous to their husbands. The idea of women being equal to their
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