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Quality is not important to me as an individual. Democracy presupposes relationships of political equality in which citizens equally share authority, but in today’s divided public square, democratic institutions are challenged by disagreement about how such institutions should be organized, and by antidemocratic politicians who exploit uncertainty.
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I hope this is correct and I hope this helps. My apologies if it's wrong.
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The author means that when people with power attempt to be fair they will be torn between two groups the people (critics) who feel that their choice is incorrect and the ones who feel that it is correct due to the situation. So kind of like the subject of bringing beheading back in the US many feel it is a horrible idea but many also feel it is correct. And for the second one, I am not sure because I have not read your article only the seventh paragraph.
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<span>The scene is meant to be funny and the seriousness of the human characters is the classic "straight man" to the chimpanzee's buffoonery. </span>
<span>If you analyze funny scenes / acts, you'll see that there is often a buffoon who says wild things and a "straight man" who doesn't get the joke. This makes the audience feel very clever and it laughs.</span>
After Hades steals Persephone, she eats a pomegranite and thus cant return to Olympus or the mortal world. Hades and Demeter (Persephone's mom) compromise and she only has to stay in the underworld for 1/3 of the year.
