As defined in Lexus and the Olive Tree by international business connoisseur Thomas Friedman, globalization is, "the inexorable integration of markets, nation-states, and technologies to a degree never witnessed before the spread of free-market capitalism to virtually every country in the world-(9). ... Globalization has shifted the world's focus from aggressiveness, isolation, and confrontation to free trade, democracy, and capitalism; what used to be "opponents- during the Cold War are now considered "global business partners- in the world economy. ... The worldwide web is the ideal p...

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Communism is not a political ideal that one should hold due to the fact that, I am a capitalist which means that I believe in business prospering and making money, even if it meant squashing a few of my competitors. ... Us as free people should not have every aspect of our lives dictated for us. ... People are free to purchase and own their own homes, cars, furniture, and other things like TV, video games, computers, or anything else you might desire. ...

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After guards at Soledad Prison killed George Jackson, his younger brother Jonathan, attempted to free another prisoner from a Marin County, California courthouse by taking hostages. ... Davis evaded the police for two weeks, and during this time signs went up in numerous homes and businesses that read, "Angela, you are welcome in this house". ... During her prison term, there was a worldwide outpouring of emotion and a call to "Free Angela" from prison. ... From the experience that she acquired from being a political prisoner, and the "Free Angela" movement, Angela Davis along with others went...

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One of the basics of the market is that individuals must be free to follow their interests. ... If the market system is left unregulated it may distribute the total product among the members of the society in an unsatisfactory manner, the government should be involved to achieve just distributions of income among individuals in the society. 4b) Capitalism - economic system based on competition between businesses Communism - socialistic ideal that aspires to economic equality and equal distribution of property. ... For example, the larger the population, the greater the demand for homes; ...

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The ways in which the government will help is creating a police force to protect individual rights at home, creating a military to protect citizen rights from foreign forces, and a court system to create contracts and to settle disputes between citizens. ... "Since they don't own the business, can't control the course of their own careers, and don't stand to gain or lose from their actions, the workers' predominant attitude is apathy" (Opinion Center, p.7). ... Besides the benefits of work, socialism is inferior socially because since the goal f socialism is to have a class...

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People who own small businesses compete with each other for customers and resources that will increase profit without regard for others. ... The United States, which has the power to make nearly every other country in the world do whatever we want, maintains an embargo against Cuba, where all citizens are given free medical treatment, citing "human rights violations". Meanwhile, Congress tries to establish free trade with China, a country that among many, many other things encourages throwing babies off cliffs if they are girls. ... After a war, enormous amounts of money and labor are used ...

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His grandfather was a rabbi and his father was a successful lawyer who had his entire family baptized for business and social reasons. ... Marx then went to England where he made his home in London for the remaining thirty-four years of his life. ... Hegel touches on a very crucial point; that is, if man believes less in what he cannot see, as opposed to that he can see, then Marx's theory about the creation of the commune, who would collect everyone's earning and enter it into a melting-pot, would anger citizens because incomes would be transferred directly and make man feel he is...

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