Commentary Blog travel writing is written at a personal level‚ it engages the reader using more common humour and relation to everyday tasks. The language is often informal and the writer uses small personal anecdotes throughout the writing‚ for example‚ ‘don’t worry mum‚ we scooped the ice out of every glass‚ just in case!’ as blogging sites are commonly used as a method of contact for relatives and friends while a person is travelling. A range of sentences are used throughout the writing‚ often
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Restless Americans In Alexis de Tocqueville’s excerpt “Why the Americans are so Restless in the Midst of Their Prosperity”‚ there is an examination of the American culture being unhappy despite the ideal situation they are living in. Tocqueville believes that this is due to the insatiable desires that Americans have for material possessions‚ wealth and expansion. Tocqueville’s view is that because Americans are constantly in search of acquiring more than they posses‚ they are unable to value
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The love of equality undermines freedom. Alexis de Tocqueville‚ has plenty to bring to the table with his cerebral perspective of liberty. His idea of freedom is to have equal opportunity but not equal outcome. Another word for that would be the ‘quality of condition’: the opposite of egalitarianism‚ in and of itself. Although Tocqueville does not believe that the American public can use their consumptive freedom properly‚ he states “the Americans entertain the same opinion with respect to the majority”
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APUSH: CHAPTER 8 VOCABULARY 1. Alexis De Tocqueville: a young French aristocrat who visited the United States in the 1830s‚ and was amazed by the informal manners and democratic attitudes of Americans. The most able men in the United States are very rarely placed at the head of affairs‚” Alexis de Tocqueville concluded in Democracy in America (1835). The reason‚ Tocqueville suggested‚ lay in the character of democracy itself. Most citizens ignored important policy issues‚ jealously refused to
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Bibliography: 1.Alexis de Tocqueville (1988). Democracy in America vol.2. New York: Harper and Row. 2.Moru John “Civil Society and Social Change in Nigeria” John.Moru@actionaid.org. 3.Sonubi‚A.Dele “Civil Society Organisations as Fourth Arm of Governance in Africa”. 4.Igwe
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they are making off of it and they do not care about human welfare. This is best put by Flora Tristan she wrote‚ “If you visit a factory‚ it is easy to see that the comfort and welfare of the workers have never entered the builders head” (Doc 7). Alexis de Tocqueville a French visitor said the civilized man is turned back into a savage (Doc 5). Since he is a visitor to the country he will say whatever he wants or thinks about the situation and it will not affect him. With these examples it shows
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COMPONENTS OF CIVIC EDUCATION The core meaning of civic education is that it is a subject that promotes civic knowledge‚ civic skills‚ civic values and civic dispositions. Civic knowledge is concerned with the content or what citizens out to know‚ it is thorough familiarization with what civic life constitutes. It is having an understanding about basic principles of democracy‚ politics‚ elections‚ institutions. Having the understanding of the rights and responsibilities‚ knowledge of what rights
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According to “Democracy in America‚” by Alexis de Tocqueville‚ democracy separates the generations to come with the present generation. This is because the bind that connects generations in aristocracy breaks in a democracy. For example‚ Tocqueville states that democracy hides a person’s descendents‚ while separating his contemporaries. He explains that in an aristocracy‚ a person always sees a man above himself and a man below him. Hence‚ why Tocqueville believes that aristocracy is better than
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Manchester is a city in England that experienced tremendous growth between the 1750’s and 1850’s. The population grew from 18‚000 in 1750 to over 300‚000 by the census of 1851. This growth called for more homes and factories to be built in order to support the growing population. With the constructing of more factories to support the rise in population came the growth of industry and manufacturing. The growth of the city‚ along with these factories‚ brought about several issues other than the manufacturing
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journey by Cohen himself. Cohen decided to retrace Tocqueville’s footsteps on roughly the same route to see what of Alexis de Tocqueville did back in 1831. Cohen went through the same course of the Frenchmen from New York to Flint‚ Michigan‚ down the Ohio Valley‚ through the Old south and finally to Washington‚ DC. Trying to find out what remains of the “American Dream” in which Alexis de Tocqueville described. This book’s central message comes from the citizens’ viewpoints of the “American Dream”
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