de Tocqueville, Mill, and Smith on Freedom
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An eight page paper looking at these three seminal thinkers and their ideas on freedom. The paper compares and contrasts their views, concluding that de Tocqueville’s ideas hold the most hope for the individual in a democratic society. Bibliography lists two sources.
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Democracy in America Lives
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This 5 page paper supports the notion that democracy is still alive and well in America today. The view is supported through a discussion on Herbert Marcuse’s One Dimensional Man and Alexis De Tocqueville’s Democracy in America. The two works are compared and contrasted and discussed in light of today’s political climate. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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Meanings of Democracy
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This 5 page paper assesses meanings of democracy as determined by Plato as well as Alexis de Tocqueville. The two authors and their views are compared and contrasted. Democracy as it relates to tyranny is a focal point. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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Tocqueville and James: Views on Democracy
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7 pages in length. Examines two literary works on Democracy. Democracy in America by Alexis Tocqueville and American Civilization by C. L. R. James are discussed and compared. Different men, different centuries, and writing on the same subject: Democracy in the United States. Tocqueville’s two-volume treatise was written in the early 1800's and became a mainstay for future generations to read and discuss. Cyril Lionel Robert James modeled his book American Civilization on Tocqueville’s Democracy in America. JGAdemoc.doc
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“Romeo and Juliet” – Dance, Opera, and Orchestra
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This 4 page report discusses three different versions of Shakespeare’s classic “Romeo and Juliet.” Charles Gounod’s opera. Prokofiev’s ballet, and Tchaikovsky’s “Fantasy Overture on Romeo and Juliet” are compared in terms of their portrayal of two of the characters of the play. In this case, the couple chosen to be examined are also one of the most well-known literary couples in the world. No bibliography.
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Muriel Spark/Fascism in 'Prime of Miss Jean Brodie'
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A 12 page research paper that examines Muriel Spark's The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie. The writer argues that, ultimately, , the reader comes to see that Brodie is a romantic egotist who has a tendency to shape the world to fit her perceptions of how things ought to be. She is also a 'monster' because she endeavors to shape her students into appendages of her own personality, even leading their actions so she can live out experiences vicariously through them, experiences that express her own thwarted desires. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
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19th and 20th Century Russian Socialism in Theory and Practice
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A 3 page paper which examines the early socialists’ idealistic desire to create a society free of capitalist-industrial economic, social and political injustice and the reality of the 1917 Lenin communist government. Specifically examined are the relationship between the ideals and the reality and how the differences can be historically explained. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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