July 4th Churchill Elangwe Sudden awakening All of us on this earth desire happiness and many of us go through great efforts to achieve that goal. Some look for happiness in material things‚ but are often disappointed because of the transitory nature of the material world. Others look to religion and spirituality for happiness‚ but too often their attempts fail because of the difficulties of most such paths and the lack of perseverance and discipline on part of the seekers. It has
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Democracy has become the most widespread political form of government during the past decade‚ after the fall of all its alternatives. During the second part of the 20th century‚ the 3 main enemies of democracy‚ namely communism‚ fascism and Nazism‚ lost most of their power and influence. However‚ democracy is still only to be found in less than half of this world’s countries. China with a fifth of the total population "had never experienced a democratic government" and Russia still doesn’t have a
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My Worst Birthday I was turning fifteen and I was so excited and looking forward to my birthday. A day before my mom had gone to the equestrian center and we were supposed to horse back ride on my birthday then get lunch and stop by Disney to meet this head who is my moms friend. Then we were supposed to have dinner. When I woke up it was quite and nice and there was balloons and cards. She said happy birthday and I opened up my cards. I didn’t have any presents but I didn’t expect them. She
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Democracy is a political form of government in which governing power is derived from the people‚ by consensus (consensus democracy)‚ by direct referendum (direct democracy)‚ or by means of elected representatives of the people (representative democracy). The term comes from the Greek word (dēmokratía) "rule of the people"‚ which was coined from (dêmos) "people" and (Kratos) "power". There is no universal definition of the term democracy‚ people like the late USA president ABRAHAM LINCOLN define
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By depicting the most horrific forms of dystopias‚ both George Orwell and Terry Gilliam successfully satirised the bureaucratic‚ totalitarian governments at their extreme. For this monumental task of lampooning the modern political system with references to past philosophers and authors‚ both Orwell and Gilliam incorporates very modest main characters. The protagonists Sam Lowry and Winston Smith both do not effectively fit into the classic ‘Hero’ type of behaviours‚ but are closer to an ordinary
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Throughout the play Hamlet‚ a bunch of different characters are seen‚ all with very different goals and different lives. With those goals comes a different stand on moral issues. While it is very hard to say who the "best" and "worst" characters are in this play‚ one can make his own personal interpretations of the characters and their actions. Starting off easy‚ the undeniable most morally bad character in the play is none other than King Claudius. The king was never even perceived as a good person
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Democracy in Pakistan Posted on January 24‚ 2012 by admin786| Leave a comment Anwar Syed We hear almost every day some commentators saying that democracy in Pakistan is in danger of being overthrown by hostile forces‚ and further that the democracy we do have is not the genuine article. These observations will bear scrutiny. It is not clear who the foes of democracy are and what they expect to gain from its demise. One explanation may be that the army chief and the DG ISI‚ who have traditionally
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character of this story is Winston. His role in the story is that he works as a writer. Winston works as a writer who tries to rewrite the past. Winston tries to escape the rules that he lives by‚ he feels like there are secrets to the government that he lives by. In the story‚ he meet this girl names Julia that later became his lover. They both end up secretly living together and they both try to find the outer way on how to find out more information about the government of Oceania. Afterwards‚
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(Acharya‚ ). For over 200 years‚ Nepal existed as a feudal monarchy that was well insulated from penetration by foreign democratic trends. A brief flirtation with democracy in 1959 culminated in a constitution that created the panchayat system of government‚ which shunned political parties in favor of royal paternalism. In 1990‚ a pro-democracy movement revived long-dormant political parties with the goal of creating a constitutional monarchy (Khadka‚ 1993 p. 45). Constitutional monarchy was modeled after
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ARE WELCOME. Powers behind control: An essay on democracy Peter L. Hupe Department of Public Administration Erasmus University Rotterdam hupe@fsw.eur.nl To be presented at the Annual Work Conference of the Netherlands Institute of Government‚ held at Erasmus University Rotterdam‚ October 29‚ 2004 Workshop 3: Institutional Rearrangement of the Public Domain 1 Abstract In contemporary Western democracies the role of government is not what it used to be. In the public discourse
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