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    The Importance of Voting

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    Importance of VotingJared Candelaria May 30‚ 2012 S.M.S.S. Grade 8 The Importance of Voting Voting is a special right that all of us have for living in this free country. Voting is a right that‚ throughout the history in many countries‚ people from across the world have fought and sacrificed everything to achieve. It’s a right that people to this day continue to fight for in places where corrupt governments suppress their freedoms and rights and it is

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    Intervention Provincial and local government National government intervening in provincial government * The national government is given overall responsibility for ensuring that other spheres of government carry out their obligations under the constitution * Where a province cannot or does not fulfil an executive obligation in terms of legislation or the constitution‚ the national executive can intervene by taking appropriate steps to ensure the fulfilment of that obligation including

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    Voting Mandatory

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    people. There are always tons of people who are upset with the outcome‚ and we are wasting the rights that Americans had to fight wars for. Thus‚ United States Federal Government should make voting mandatory because we will get better results and we won’t waste our precious rights. The first reason why voting should be mandatory is because we’ll be able to get better

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    Michelangelo is a amazing artist from the Renaissance in florence italy around the 1500’s.He was a world-renowned sculptor‚ painter‚ architect and….poet? Soon after Michelangelo’s move to Rome in 1498‚ the cardinal Jean Bilhères de Lagraulas‚ a representative of the French King Charles VIII to the pope‚ commissioned "Pieta‚" a sculpture of Mary holding the dead Jesus across her lap[https://www.biography.com/]. Despite being in the employ of the Medici Pope Clement VII‚ Michelangelo backed the republican

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    As a British tax-collecting Loyalist living in the colonies‚ it would be an understatement to say I do not feel safe in my own home. After the Parliament approved the Stamp Act on March 22‚ 1765 a measure that imposed a tax on all printed materials for commercial and legal use—including papers that ranged from wills and deeds to playing cards—as a means to pay for the deep debt Great Britain had incurred protecting the American colonies from French and Native American forces during the war‚ which

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    which in turn increased trade happening between the two regions. Over all‚ after 1500 CE‚ there were more routes and ways to be able to trade and communicate effectively. This also ended up connecting Europe and Asia which did all of the previously mentioned things and formed colonies. Some technical developments that made transoceanic European travel and trade possible could be the astrolabe. The astrolabe was a

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    Compulsory Voting

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    In many countries‚ at times of national and local elections‚ often only a small part of the population casts a ballot. In order to address this problematic issue‚ many governments take the aggressive measure of compulsory voting to constitute more public involvement in politics. Even though the government believes this is going to solve this issue‚ there are many drawbacks to this approach for example; this method is unconstitutional‚ citizens lives are jeopardized‚ and the results of the elections

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    Customs and Courtesies

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    Marine Corps customs and courtesies are very important to the way the Marine Corps works. They are intended to reinforce discipline and the chain of command‚ showing how Marines will treat their superiors. They also enhance esprit de corps and unity. This is what makes the Marine Corps the brotherhood that it has become. Military courtesies include correct forms of address like; Sir‚ and Ma’am‚ and when each should be used; the salute‚ and standing at attention‚ proper wear of military covers‚ and

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    One significant change from the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment were the rise of philosophers and their ideas. During the Middle Ages‚ studies‚ science‚ and philosophy had dissipated in Western Europe ― due to reasons such as the fall of the Roman Empire‚ the Dark Ages‚ etc.―‚ leaving only the Byzantines to continue their studies in philosophy. Having more philosophers in the West during the Enlightenment demonstrates an important change from the Middle Ages‚ because‚ these philosophers were able

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    Voting Age

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    Democracy is an egalitarian form of government in which all the citizens of a nation together determine public policy‚ the laws and the actions of their state‚ requiring that all citizens (meeting certain qualifications) have an equal opportunity to express their opinion. And that opinion is expressed by the simple act of voting which is one of the most important human rights . In lebanon ‚ we get introduced to that concept at a young age in school when kids get to vote for their class president

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