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    described in considerable detail and normally located in time and space that the author intended a contemporaneous reader to view as a criticism of utopianism or some particular eutopia” (3). Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World falls under this genre. It depicts a society in which throws conventional morals out the window and citizens finds happiness through drugs and constant entertainment. Huxley’s novel partially takes inspiration by current events (pre world war two) and problems, but, also satirizes of Plato’s Republic. The similarities between the two are obvious, the difference is Huxley over-exaggerates…

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    11 March 2016 A New Chapter Thirteen years ago at the age of five, I left everything behind in the Dominican Republic to start a new life with my parents in the United States. I was an only child at the time. It was a new beginning not only for my parents but for me as well. We had to adapt to a new society, and the fast moving pace of life in New York City. My life in this tremendous new city started off great; the schools, the protection of the law enforcement agencies, and the people were…

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    Public Religion in the New Republic As a whole, post- Revolution Americans believed that God had a special vocation in store for the country, which was expressed in both the country’s culture and government. At the time, a vast amount of the citizens were Christians; and as a result of their shared beliefs, religion in church coexisted with religion in the government. In this time period, most citizens belonged to a protestant religion. The largest were the Congregationalists,…

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    The moment you step into the exhibition “A New Republic” by Kehinde Wiley on the fifth floor of the Brooklyn museum, you are embraced with a sense of equality. You look around and all you see are black men and women captured in various mediums by the artist where you can clearly see the uniqueness. At the center of the exhibit are glass stain portraits; sculptures surround half the room and the other half has 22k gold leaf, oil on wood panel or oil on linen paintings. The paintings are large in…

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    The American Glass Scandal

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    ethical scandals which has been recently surrounding in New Republic. This is confirmed that one of our young reporter, Stephan Glass has been fabricated subsequently false, made up articles which is described even doesn’t existing people and companies, web sites in our journal New Republic. Stephan Glass manipulated to slip his stories past his editors and fact-checkers without being discovered. This is very serious mistake that reporter could possibly commit, and also Glass puts our…

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    colonies were ready to build a new government based on their ideals. Colonists created the Articles of Confederation as document of their new government, but articles was too weak to pay debts or fight other nations. So the delegates got together to construct a new constitution. This constitution changed the nation and is culture we all follow today. Everyone in America has the ability to vote for their president and their representatives instead of monarchy that single man can hold and pass…

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    since the changes in society (reforms) were not happening fast enough to assist the poor, this becomes one of the key features of the new society due to suffering from bread prices, food shortages and lack of action all whilst living in Paris which was under threat from foreign powers. When it became dangerous to be associated with anything counter revolutionary, people including even upper-middle class backgrounds adopted the clothing and label of the Sans Culottes, as a demonstration of the…

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    “A Republic is the last step in our journey of departure from our colonial origins. And it cannot be achieved as a truly significant step ─ a moment of re-funding ─ unless it also represents the end of the colonial experience for Aboriginal people.” (2004, p.20-21) This argument is at the heart of Mark McKenna’s book “This Country a Reconciled republic? “, that was published in 2004, only a few years after the failure of both the 1999 republic referendum and the reconciliation movement. This…

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    wether Australia should become a republic nation rather than being ruled by Britain monarchy. First of all what is the actual meaning of a republic, according to the oxford dictionaries a republic means “a state in which supreme power is held by the people and their elected representatives, and which has an elected or nominated president rather than a monarch” (Oxford dictionaries). So republic is an independent country chosen by the people and this is called referendum. So should Australia…

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    Xinji Citizens Rights

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    Since the beginning of new societies, many freedoms and duties have been imposed for the citizens of a country to understand the laws and fulfilling their responsibilities and advocating for their rights responsibly in order to protect their welfare, and their duty to the government as the citizens. A right is a privileged that is given to the people but, people also have responsibilities that demands their commitment, accountability, and an abstemious person. The government has a duty to…

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