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Democracy in America:

  I don’t like Tocquevilles interpretation of  American democracy and I don’t believe he has any real argument. I understand he wrote this piece during a different time in America but people have always been able to have their own opinions(except African-Americans for a time). Even Women who didn’t have the right to vote, were still able to have their own opinion. They were never killed for saying, “oh i like this or i believe this.” Even now, our goverment has almost no control over our daily lives. Yes, they enforce laws but we can write whatever we want or say whatever we want without being persecuted for that, no matter your race, sex, skin color or sexual orientation. I also don’t think there ever will be or should be a tyranny of the majority in America, because we honestly have it better than any other country in the world.

Nobel Peace Prize:

 I like many other people in the world would love to have world peace, but I think we all need to realize this will never happen. There is always going to be hate or jealousy in the world. People are always not going to like someone, it’s just our nature. I can’t honestly say I like everyone i have met in my life, how are we suppose to have world peace if we can’t even get along with people who are jsut like us. I don’t think it’s fair that I live a better life than that 5 year old girl in Afghanistan, but honestly what can I, one person, do to change her life significantly? There is always going to be war, poverty, disease and hunger. Some of these things we might be able to change if we tried, others would be impossible to totally eradicate. I personally think one of the biggest reasons why Obama got elected is because people thought he could bring upon “world peace”, but it’s just not going to happen. I do have full admiration for people like Annan would devote their lives to this cost, because I don’t know if I could do it.

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