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    The Magna Carta was a document created by the people in England who were struggling due to all the taxation demanded by the king. The poor, the clergy, and noble men united and forced King John to sign this constitution which gave the people certain rights, and privileges, which in turn limited the king 's power. This constitution would later on be considered the base for a new form of government in the new world. The Magna Carta emphasized a limit on the government’s power and gave the people more

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    of the economy even allowed J.P. Morgan to bail the United States government out of a debt crisis. During this era, individuals could create new methods to increase efficiency as Ford showed with the construction of the automobile. As Alexis de Tocqueville states in Democracy in America, “Death is often less dreaded by them than perseverance in continuous efforts to one end.” At heart, optimism is the ability to imagine better ways, methods, or products to forge the American identity. Arduous work

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    HIST 1301 Exam 2 08 August 2015 1) What relationships of power are featured in “Virginian Luxuries” (Document 1)? How are unequal power relationships reflected in Tocqueville’s distinctions between the three races (Document 2)? What future does Tocqueville predict for these groups of people and why? Based upon your own knowledge, how accurate do you believe Tocqueville’s observations and predictions were? In the painting, Virginian Luxuries (Unknown, 1800), it is possible to observe and describe

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    Hope Anchors the Soul! The hope is the expectation of sunlight in the amidst of darkness or it is desire of good in a problem. The French historian, Alexis de Tocqueville describes ‘The American Dream’ as the charm of anticipated success. This charm welcomed millions of immigrants to US and to its prosperity. America is the country where the people from all backgrounds, all races, all nations’ origins, all languages, all castes and religions, can expect a better standard of life and security. Thus

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    The United States’ federal government has accelerated substantially for the reason that 1960s,with spending having accelerated by using a aspect of six in over that time. The variety of federal personnel, but, has no longer similarly increased, with gift numbers close to those of the Reagan Administration and fewer than have been gift in the course of Kennedy’s term. John J (Brunjes, 2017). DiIulio Jr writes that the federal authorities has grow to be a Leviathan by way of Proxy, which offers billions

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    No matter how much a person desires to live according to their personal autonomy, he or she will never escape the influence of societal forces. Explicitly or subtlety, these forces shape our individuality. One intriguing manner that these societal forces manifests itself in is our name. As Ruth Graham writes, “It’s becoming increasingly clear today that names carry a wealth of information about the world around us, the family we arrived in, the moment we were born—and that they mark us as part

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    Alexis de Tocqueville once stated that “Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude.” In the bitingly satirical novel ‘Animal Farm’ by George Orwell, a motley crew of farm beasts free themselves from the oppressive constraints of their owner, Mr. Jones in order to create for themselves a fair and equal form of government which can be summed up under

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    After an agricultural revolution, England was on track for an Industrial Revolution. Out of the many industries in Britain, the Textile industry led to the prosperity of the nation. Now a major city in Britain, Manchester was as rich in industrial culture back in the eighteenth and nineteenth century as it is now. Britain being a supreme power in world trade led to them having an abundance of resources such as wool and coal. With the first mechanical cotton mill being built in 1780, Manchester led

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    The strongest barrier is wealth/property/class, then race, and then gender. To fully have equality in a society, all those barriers need to be broken, mostly in order. In Democracy In America (1831) by Alexis De Tocqueville, states that “...it was soon found that the soil of America was entirely opposed to a territorial aristocracy...Land is the basis of an aristocracy...for it is not by privileges alone, nor by birth, but by landed property handed down from generation

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    Feudalism was a very important aspect in developing the political organization in medieval England. It was one of dominant governments used by the nobles. Feudalism was when one of the king’s noblemen would give land to a man known as a fief and give the fief people to work the land for him. These people are known as serfs. The fief would then protect the serfs from being attacked as long, as long as the serfs worked the land to provide an income for the fief. If the fief accepted the nobles

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