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    Evolution

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    over the last century and a half. Another crazy thing is that it usually takes thousands of years for an animal to develop evolutionary changes like the elephant has done‚ but the elephant has done it in 150 years? Well‚ scientists call this rapid evolution and it is all due to one very common problem (Environmental News Network et.al 2008). What I was able to find out though was that this evolutionary change is actually helping them survive. How you may ask? Well‚ one problem in today’s world that

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    Democracy is always named and used in the liberal discursive process. But if we refer to history‚ democracy of these days is not the same as democracy decades ago. Thus‚ it is important that democracy is understood as an evolution and not as a static concept. Similarly it is necessary to understand democracy by its principles and not by its practitioners in power. Liberal democracy can be briefly defined as a system of government in which the people rule themselves‚ either directly or indirectly

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    to the people” * John Lennon Introduction Democracy‚ it is generally believed‚ had its roots in Ancient Athens. We know it spread its stems to most of Europe and later to parts of Asia by mid 19th century ‚ mostly in the form of parliamentary democracy. But in the context of this paper‚we are not interested in the histrocity of the idea or concept of democracy‚ but in the idea itself. That is to say we want to analyze the meaning of democracy and its different forms‚ study its efficiency (so

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    democracy

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    IN THE NAME OF ALLAH WHO IS MOST BENEFIENT AND MERCEFULL. Subject: Business Communication Submitted to: Sir Imran Hanif Submitted by: M.Sheraz Anjum Roll NO.716 Bs(IT) 2nd Department of Computer Sciences B – Z – U Multan We know it is dip in eternal space Our inadequacies now stare in our face We hope for direction and

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    Vertical Democracy

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    Vertical Democracy and Western Democracy A new model of democracy has been evolving in the east over the past few years through shifts and evolution of ideologies in China. This model‚ dubbed Vertical Democracy by political analyst‚ offers an exception to the system of modern Western Democracy that was long accepted as the only functional democracy for developing countries to aspire to. Vertical Democracy differs from traditional western democracy in the fact that there is bi party periodic elections

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    EQUALITY AND DEMOCRACY

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    EQUALITY AND DEMOCRACY  South Asian countries have fundamentally regarded economic development as a political matter.  Another thing that differentiates South Asia is her commitment to egalitarianism in terms of planning.  In terms of guiding beliefs‚ there is a similarity between South Asia and the West. However‚ a time dimension is involved.  During West Asia’s development period‚ social welfare was still in its early stages.  Social welfare was part of abstracts by scholars and even rebels

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    “By 1928‚ the essentials of democracy had been achieved”. How far would you agree? Democracy‚ the ideal that all the citizens of a nation determine together the laws and actions of their state: a government ‘for the people‚ of the people and by the people’‚ was necessary in Britain‚ as Aristotle once said‚ ‘man is by nature a political animal’. Franchise is the right to be able to vote and in 1830‚ only one out of ten adult males could vote; by 1832 it was a privilege of the landed elite and by

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    Direct Democracy vs Representative Democracy The term Democracy is derived from two Greek words‚ demos‚ meaning people‚ and kratos‚ meaning rule. These two words form the word democracy which means rule by the people. Aristotle‚ and other ancient Greek political philosophers‚ used the phrase‚ `the governors are to be the governed’‚ or as we have come to know it‚ `rule and be ruled in turn’. The two major types of democracy are Representative Democracy and Direct Democracy. Clearly

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    The Athenian democracy in the Golden Age functioned somewhat like ours does today. Athenian countryside was divided into areas called demes. In each of these demes‚ registers they kept track of which citizens were eligible to attend the assembly and vote on laws and public policies. Each Deme was then grouped into 10 tribes for other political functions‚ such as choosing representatives for the council of five hundred citizens. The number of representatives chosen from each deme was proportional

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    Jeffersonian Democracy vs. Jacksonian Democracy Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson were both strong advocates of a democratic government in America‚ and both claimed to be for the “common man”. They did‚ however‚ have their differences on how they believed a democracy should be run in their respective eras. Even though they were both wealthy farmers‚ Jefferson appealed more to the upper class‚ while Jackson appealed more to the lower class. Thomas Jefferson had a strict interpretation of the

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