running around the world today than there was a decade ago. But there are also more rich people. Way more. And in rich countries‚ there are less middle class. So even as poverty is shrinking‚ inequality is rising among income levels as the new global plutocracy takes shape. Today‚ 43% live on less than $2 per day. Thirty years ago‚ around 75% of the developing world was living on that. Extreme poverty—those living on less than $1.25 per day —has declined even more. The share of those living hand-to-mouth
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Although some historians believe that the late 19th century was a golden age in American history‚ to many living during the time it was an era filled with corruption and hardship and thus was coined by the author Mark Twain‚ the Gilded Age. “The term Gilded Age represented the view of many during the time period and stood for a society that appears magnificent on the outside but is quite brittle under the superficial golden layer” [1/26/11]. For example‚ the economy during this time was called
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Island.[2] Before Magellan arrived‚ Negrito tribes inhabited the isles‚ who were subsequently joined and largely supplanted by migrating groups of Austronesians. This population had stratified into hunter-gatherer tribes‚ warrior societies‚ petty plutocracies and maritime-oriented harbor principalities which eventually grew into kingdoms‚ rajahnates‚ principalities‚ confederations and sultanates. Iron Age finds in Philippines also point to the existence of trade between Tamil Nadu and the Philippine
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Brandon Vanwert 11/6/12 Eng101LecR5 Soma Feldmar Imagination and Reality Rhetorical Analysis The essay "Imagination and Reality" was written by Jeanette Winterson. Winterson is a British writer who was born in Manchester‚ England. After moving to London‚ her first novel‚ Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit‚ won the 1985 Whitbread Prize for a First Novel‚ and was adapted for television by Winterson in 1990. This in turn won the BAFTA Award for Best Drama. She won the 1987 John Llewellyn Rhys Prize
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relationships with the south‚ in the hopes of a mutually beneficial agreement that would keep in power for longer. close relations with ruling families of the south began to weaken as the Persian plutocracy began to feel alienated from the Abbasids. Future generations of the Abbasids were unable to sustain the magnitude of their empire and were forced to accelerate the breakup of their empire by conceding territories to better placed royal families like the Fatmadids of Egypt8. In the south‚ Abbasid
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Liberal democracy is a form of government in which representative democracy operates under the principles of liberalism‚ i.e. protecting the rights of the individual‚ which are generally enshrined in law. It is characterised by fair‚ free‚ and competitive elections between multiple distinct political parties‚ a separation of powers into different branches of government‚ the rule of law in everyday life as part of an open society‚ and the equal protection of human rights‚ civil rights‚ civil liberties
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JOURNAL (GOVERNMENT) A government is the system by which a state or community is governed. In the case of its broad definition‚ government normally consists of legisatory‚ administrators‚ and arbitrators. Government is the means by which state policy is enforced‚ as well as the mechanism for determining the policy of the state. A form of government‚ or form of state governance‚ refers to the set of political systems and institutions that make up the organisation of a specific government
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According to Colin Crouch‚ since the 1970s democracy and modernization has not moved progressively nor in recurrent ways within advanced countries instead has displayed a parallel movement to each other. This shows us the manner in which politics has been democratized to an extent of introducing the rights to voting‚ emergence of regular elections and governments taking turns to lead the country thus having different ideological inducement. The post democracy’s parallel stature outlines the proneness
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Aspartame “Diet Coke does not contain nasty chemicals. It contains lovely and delicious carbonation‚ caffeine‚ and aspartame. What’s unnatural about that?” Meg Cabot. This chapter was based on Power and Wealth. The article that I did my paper was about Aspartame. These two subjects connect because the individuals who drink the Diet Coke are getting fooled by the big companies that are selling it to them. The power elite are selling false hopes and false products‚ so people will buy their inventory
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liberalism: protecting the rights of minorities and the individual. -illiberal: A governing system in which citizens are cut off from knowledge about the activities of those who exercise real power because of the lack of civil liberties. Plutocracy: A society ruled by a small minority of the top wealthiest people. Aristocracy: The rule of nobles and royalty; rule is based on heredity. Theocracy: Rule based off of religious ideals and beliefs. Kleptocracy: A government that steals money
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