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There are many who believe that a true, freedom-loving democracy consists of a government that stays out of the business of its citizens as much as possible. This paper questions whether a government that does not govern much at all can really be an effective government. Even more importantly, it questions whether a government that does not govern much can protect and preserve the very democracy and freedom that created it in the first place. This paper looks at the writings of Alex de Tocqueville, specifically, his book, "Democracy in America", in order to determine if the government that governs least really is best.

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"For most of the history of the United States, the idea that the government should not be very strong and should leave the people mainly to themselves has been a common theme of opinion among both the people and the politicians. It was certainly the common idea of the day when the Articles of Confederation were installed as our first constitution. The Articles of Confederation created a weak, loose league of friendship between the states, but established no real sort of federal government. The federal government it did create had no power beyond what the states gave it. As a result, nothing much ever got done, and the government and the states soon found out that the United States as a whole was not able to pay its bills, regulate its commerce, or ensure domestic tranquility."

Tags:Congress, House, of, Representatives, Thomas, Jefferson

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In this paper, the sequential structure of speeches and themes of love is best described by Socrates' Diotima within The Symposium by Plato. By understanding the three agons in the dialogues, one can realize how the various precepts of love through varying opinions in society are related to a cohesive whole, but more so, through Socrates' godly form of love in the Diotima. In effect, all societal views of love are not right or wrong, since both mortal man and god are unified through love, which Socrates imparts through the wisdom of Diotima.

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Tags:love, plato, wisdom

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In Plato's Symposium we are presented with a range of perspectives on love as expressed by a number of speakers. In this context, Plato's perspective on love may best be identified with that of Socrates who, in turn, credits the wise woman Diotima for teaching him the true nature of romantic love. As will be seen, this view of romantic love contends that love is actually directed not at individuals but at the acquisition of wisdom.

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Romantic Love in Plato and Solomon In Plato's Symposium we are presented with a range of perspectives on love as expressed by a number of speakers. In this context, Plato's perspective on love may best be identified with that of Socrates who, in turn, credits the wise woman Diotima for teaching him the true nature of romantic love. As will be seen, this view of romantic love contends that love is actually directed not at individuals but at the acquisition of wisdom. In outlining the Plato's position in this regard, it is interesting to note how this theory of love is "romantic" in the sense that Socrates' telling of Diotima's account can be seen to echo Aristophanes' earlier

Tags:love, plato, beauty

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This paper shall provide a critical analysis to the statement: "Love and marriage go together like a horse and carriage". This shall be accomplished through addressing Hollywood films from the modern period that concern a fairly idealized impression of both love and marriage. Three modern films shall be examined in order to demonstrate this thesis and these films are commonly referred to as "romantic comedies" and are "The Runaway Bride", "Sense and Sensibility", and "My Best Friend's Wedding".

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In this article, the writer first looks at the artist William Shakespeare and then studies his work "A Midsummer Night's Dream". The writer discusses the play and notes that while the situations portrayed in 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' are hilarious to the point of being absurd, ultimately the play serves a higher purpose - that is, to affirm the value of love and pleasure in an often hostile universe. The writer concludes that whatever way one chooses to interpret 'A Midsummer Night's Dream', the play's goofy characters, outrageous situations, and rich language have ensured the play's status as a classic work of English literature.

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William Shakespeare the Artist
A Midsummer Night's Dream

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"A Midsummer Night's Dream is one of Shakespeare's most beloved romantic comedies. It consists of three plots that are chaotically interwoven in order to elicit an atmosphere of magic and the absurd, as well as love and the unknown. Throughout the course of the play, people from all different class backgrounds interact, and against the setting of a magical night forest, they come into contact with a band of mischievous fairies whose pranks will temporarily transform some of the characters, while making others' dreams come true.
"At the center of A Midsummer Night's Dream is the wedding of Duke Theseus of Athens to the Amazonian Queen Hippolyta. Egeus has chosen Demetrius to marry his daughter Hermia - and Hermia is unhappy with the decision. To rebel, she runs away from Athens into the magical forests surrounding the city alongside her lover Lysander, with whom she hopes to elope. Hermia tells her best friend Helena of her plans."

Tags:King, Oberon, Hermia, Hippolyta, Puck

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This paper describes the life, career, and accomplishments of Gioacchino Rossini. The paper explores his lifestyle, tastes, unique talents, and technical abilities, as well as the influence he had on French opera composition as opposed to Italian opera.

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"Gioacchino Antonio Rossini was born in Pesaro, Italy on February 29, 1792. He received some training at the harpsichord and in singing before entering the Bologna Conservatory at fifteen, but financial difficulties in his family compelled him to leave the Conservatory before completing the course of study. In 1810, his first work for the stage, an opera buffa known as La Cambiale di matrimonio, was produced in Venice and several more of his operas were given before he achieved resounding success as a composer and musician. This came in Venice in 1813 with a serious opera called Tancredi and another opera buffa L'Italiana in Algeri."

Tags:the, barber, of, seville, william, tell, performance, vienna, london, paris, retire, musical

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In William Shakespeare's classic play of "Romeo and Juliet", the themes of love and loss demonstrate that the play has a greater significance than that of chronicling the tale of two lovers. This paper explores the themes of love and loss in respect to this play in order to show how Shakespeare's "tragedy" was actually the best example of a love story as there was no prolonged suffering for the two main characters. Personal reflections are also used to direct this argument.

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This paper examines the qualities of love in fiction and non- fiction. Love serves as a connection between characters in both the fictitious short story "The Best Girlfriend You Never Had", by Pam Houston and "Born on the Fourth of July" by Ron Kovic.

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In this article, the writer discusses that the driving philosophy of Tyack's book, "The One Best System: A History of American Urban Education", is that, although American rhetoric has proclaimed liberty, equality, and justice for all, when it comes to education, this is not the case. The racial makeup of a district, geography, and social background of residents can conspire to create vast discrepancies within the educational system for students. The writer looks at Tyack's book and notes that one of the reasons for the discrepancy between whites and blacks' education, rich and poor, urban and rural, is that the modern school system took shape around the time of the industrial revolution, when slavery was still an extant institution within America, when immigration was at its height and when there was a flood of people to the nation's cities. The writer presents Tyack's belief that American education seems to exist in a tension between standardization and America's love of corporate efficiency and an American belief in the individual.

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"According to one view of the American failure to provide the same education for all students, regardless of race and class, the discrepancies in the quality of education of African-Americans and other historically socially disadvantaged groups versus white Americans is idiosyncratic, rather than systemic. In other words, there are good schools and there are bad schools. The greater rates of illiteracy, the drop-out rate, and other problems which blacks and other groups face to a greater extent than whites are due to the fact that certain schools are poorer and have inferior teachers, not systemic racism or other failures of the school system. Illiteracy is caused by a failure of schools to adhere to the 'one best' system, not endemic of flaws in the educational bureaucracy."

Tags:illiteracy, equality, teachers, public, students

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This paper discusses the qualities required by T. S. Eliot, F. R. Leavis and Matthew Arnold, among others, for literary texts to be included in "The New Critical Canon", which they claimed represented 'the backbone of literary culture and tradition.' It compares and contrasts Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" with "Leisure" by W. H. Davies, exploring the extent to which the two poems fulfil the necessary criteria and whether or not Davies' exclusion from the "Canon" was justified, with reference to I. A. Richard's "Four Kinds of Meaning".

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"Richards describes 'tone' as the speaker's 'attitude to his listener... in automatic or deliberate recognition of his relation to them.' Throughout his piece, Davies speaks in third person plural, stating that 'We have no time' (l. 2, l. 14), including the reader in the guilt he feels in not making time to properly appreciate 'Beauty' (l. 9) and her 'dance' (l. 10). Interestingly, he points out that animals ['sheep and cows' (l. 4)] take the time to 'stand beneath the boughs, / And stare' (ll. 3-4), sharing his guilt solely with the human race, and using language accordingly. Eliot, however, is not as clear in addressing a specific audience - he never makes it clear who 'you and I' (l. 1) really are: it could be either Prufrock and his lady companion, or Eliot and the reader; the language remains ambiguous and, therefore, the 'recognition of his relation to them' is never truly fulfilled."

Tags:alfred, davies, eliot, evans, fr, ia, ifor, j, leavis, leisure, love, poem, poet, poetry, popularity, prufrock, richards, sir, song, ts, wh