First of all, we have to know what language is. ... But language is not the expression of cultural reality only; it is also a guide to cultural reality, which powerfully conditions all our thinking about social problems and processes. ... There will always be an unexpressed margin between language and thought, and this is always a potential source of misunderstanding. 1 Buddhism civilization of China is quite different from Christianity civilization of Western world. ... This thesis will analyze the reasons why there are so many misunderstandings caused by cultural factors in cross-cultu...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Along with many other Western countries on terrorism acts. ... For all the administrators that helped contribute to this horrible affair one distinct person is repeatedly overlooked. ... He was secretly known for laundering most of the money from small private bank accounts to the Contras. ... Sounds quite suspicious. ... It seems that the Reagan Administration=s body count would be superior to all three men=s body count, easily. ...

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Along with many other Western countries on terrorism acts. ... For all the administrators that helped contribute to this horrible affair one distinct person is repeatedly overlooked. ... He was secretly known for laundering most of the money from small private bank accounts to the Contras. ... Sounds quite suspicious. ... It seems that the Reagan Administration=s body count would be superior to all three men=s body count, easily. ...

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The United States has learned a couple of ideas over the years from issuing sanctions. ... Even though this is quite difficult to change, we need to change this idea and target the leaders of these countries and leave out the people. ... Other countries such as Canada, Japan and Western Europe may not have a problem with the sanctioned country or they may have trade relations they don't want to disrupt. We can see this today in the way we are trying to get support from other countries to go to war with Iraq. ... When we have all these steps in place, we will most likely see a higher s...

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• Grade Level: High School

Isolationism is the idea that we keep to ourselves and our own western hemisphere rather than venture into the affairs of the eastern world. ... Back when the United States was just breaking away from Britain and starting as a nation, President James Monroe came up with a declaration called the Monroe Doctrine. ... What Monroe didn't know was that he was establishing a beginning to a leadership responsibility in not only the western hemisphere, but in the entire world. ... This timid and wishful approach to foreign policy made some Americans quite upset; it is not like the United States n...

• Word Count: 1992
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His campaign strategies were to unite the Republican party and he appealing to voters in border, southern, and western states by enunciating conservative policies that distinguished the GOP from the liberalism of the Democrats and the more conservative views of the American Independent party. ... His goal was to get all US troops out of Vietnam. ... Nixon worked hard to promote peace and accomplished quite well. ... Nixon's administration went downhill from there. ... On a scale from 0-5, I would give Nixon a 3 1/2. ...

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(Dahl (1971) page 1) Dahl defines "Democracy " as a political system which has the characteristics of being completely or almost completely responsive to all its citizens. (Dahl (1971) Page 2) Since it is almost impossible for a government to be responsive to all of its citizens, Dahl calls our everyday conception of democracy Polyarchy. ... In spite of China's economic liberalization, its Communist party-state retains the essential organization structure that the Chinese communist party adopted from the Soviet Union. ... Each of these parties once again reflected its regional base in one...

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The old, traditional middle class (doctors, lawyers, teachers) added a new element from rising industry. ... A very significant contribution to the Progressive movement came from those of whom Theodore Roosevelt called the muckrakers. ... Another idea that gained prevalent acceptance among Progressives came from the practical studies of Frederick W. ... More influential than the nation's elected leaders, they formed an aristocracy of wealth in a land that had taken pride in the equal rights of all its citizens."" (2). ... The Newlands Reclamation Act in 1902 was also passed which provided...

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It had nothing to do with suddenly discovering that he was a gangster and a drug-peddler, we had known this all along. ... This time it was from a representative of the business opposition Guillermo Endara. ... In fact, there's one CIA-trained battalion in Honduras that all by it had carried out more atrocities than Noriega did. ... Suharto of Indonesia, arguably the worst killer of them all, remains a Washington-media "moderate."" ... It was imperative to the GOP to remove Saddam from power again. ...

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Theodore wanted to attend Harvard in the fall of 1876, but did not have all the preparation necessary. ... He also passed all of his preliminary exams. ... While he was away at college, his father died at the young age of 46 from stomach cancer. ... Yet despite all his work, he did not win. ... He quickly made headlines as he tried to clean the police department of all its corruption. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Theodore wanted to attend Harvard in the fall of 1876, but did not have all the preparation necessary. ... He also passed all of his preliminary exams. ... While he was away at college, his father died at the young age of 46 from stomach cancer. ... Yet despite all his work, he did not win. ... He quickly made headlines as he tried to clean the police department of all its corruption. ...

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• Grade Level: High School