Once there was a teenage girl named Sydney Madison. She attends Thompkins E. Middle School‚ in the city of Evansville‚ Indiana. The school that she attends is a public school‚ so anyone who wants to go there can. She is a beautiful young lady with hazel eyes‚ light brown hair‚ straight teeth‚ and she wears a bun most of the time. She is smart‚ pretty‚ and generous to others. She loves to dance‚ do gymnastics‚ and play soccer. She is having a great day until she forgets her homework at school; we
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James Madison and Thomas Jefferson served very successful terms as president of the United States of America. Madison’s greatest accomplishment was the moral victory in the “War of 1812”‚ while Jefferson doubled the size of America with the “Louisiana Purchase”. Also‚ having an exceptional relationship allowed them to create the Democratic- Republican party. Despite sharing the same views on government‚ the aftereffects of their presidencies turned out to be far different. Because James Madison Resolved
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Since Alexis de Tocqueville was born shortly after the conclusion of the French Revolution‚ he escaped its physical brutality but not the religious aftershocks that followed. Tocqueville witnessed extremists overturning Christianity in favor of the Goddess of Reason‚ and he witnessed as the lack of religion drove French citizens to intellectual servitude. When he was granted permission to study the United States’ penal system‚ he took it as an opportunity to analyze the results of the democratic
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I believe the nation is not in peril per se‚ but the country is notably stagnant economically‚ educationally‚ and in a war that has been severely mismanaged. I believe a change‚ a new circulation‚ and fresh thinking is in order—and I believe Sen. Barack Obama is currently the most viable agent of change. It seems as though his often repeated platform banner of “CHANGE” seems to be exactly what most citizens are yearning for. In pouring through and examining countless research for this paper
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widely shared beliefs‚ values‚ and norms that define the relationship between citizens and its government‚ and citizens to one another. Alexis de Tocqueville‚ an early observer of the American political culture‚ provided some insight during the 1830’s in regards to the relationship between American citizens and its democratic government. Tocqueville believed that equality was what made America great and why its democratic system worked so well. Today equality is still the basis for the American
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aforementioned time period. As depicted by the writers Muhammad As-Saffar‚ Alexis de Tocqueville‚ Edmond de Goncourt‚ and Marc Bloch‚ Paris was a city of influence and a city of the people‚ though not always representative of the nation of France. Muhammad As-Saffar was a Moroccan scholar visiting France in 1845-1846‚ the later years of the July Monarchy‚ a time of relative peace and stability. Within
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In “Democracy in America‚” Alexis de Tocqueville argues that the biggest danger of democracy is the feeling of‚ what he coins‚ “Individualism.” Tocqueville states when introducing the concept of individualism that it is “of democratic origin” and may spread with the “same ratio as the equality of conditions” (Volume 2; Part 2; Ch 2.). His primary reason for this is that in an equal society men are no longer attached to other men. He compares it to an aristocracy‚ where every man is a link in a
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Americans seem to inherently focus on individualism and self-interest‚ according to Caleb Jacobo and Alexis de Tocqueville. Tocqueville‚ a Frenchman who visited and wrote about America in the 19th century‚ and Jacobo‚ an American writing in the present day‚ have similar ideas despite their cultural differences. Jacob argues that this natural focus on individualism comes from America’s founders who came here in order to escape the popular statism in Europe‚ as he says that “America was built on the
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Christopher English Foundations of Social Science Dr. Kelley 9/17/12 Marx versus De Tocqueville Intelligent‚ respected‚ revolutionary‚ and revered are just some of the superlatives used to describe the multitalented Karl Marx and Alexis De Tocqueville. These two European men both living during the time of the French Revolution‚ would go on to create works and research that would socially shake up the world. Both individuals held drastically different views about society as a whole‚ Democracy
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