According to Berliner, Western civilization is the best in the world. ... I'm quite surprised that the idea has been with us since the early time. ... I find this quite similar to the early settlers where they also thought that they were the rightful owner of the land, America, and had the right to steal the land from the Indians. ... Besides, I think not all Americans are from Europe, some are from Africa, Asia, South American, and many more, which Takaki will agree with me since he himself is an Asian American. ... It all matters where everyone was born. ...

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Each wants honest dealings with honest representatives, but Western and Arab approaches to accomplishing these ends can be very different. ... Regardless of the nation, all visitors are expected to be punctual; tardiness is seen as insulting. ... Progress is slow even in those nations where there is any progress at all. ... It would be nearly impossible in Saudi Arabia, which retains all traditional taboos. ... Morality Arab and Western ideas of morality can differ sharply, and the Western visitor needs to be quite clear about what is considered proper in the nation he is visiting. ...

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During and after the Meiji Restoration, the Japanese were subjugated to racism on a global level and deemed inferior by their western counterparts and led to a reactionary anti-western stance. ... Its reasons were derived from the notion of enabling "all nations and races to assume their proper place in the world, and all people to be at peace in their own sphere." ... After stunning the Americans and British with a series of victories after Pearl Harbor, the image switched to an enemy that was quite a formidable opponent. ... These statements indicated an irrational fear and hatred of all...

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The escalations of force between the two states held the distinct possibility of an all-out nuclear weapons confrontation. ... The Soviets utilized the threat of nuclear war and their sheer power to force Mao to back down, but it's quite possible that Mao and Brezhnev used Sun Tzu's tactics to deal with their mutual adversary: the United States. In Sun Tzu's Art of War first chapter, entitled Laying Plans, the eighteenth rule is as follows: all warfare is based on deception (Cantrell, 2003). ... To Western powers, the threat from communism seems to have diminished, but th...

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Many scholars have argued over the true motives behind Columbus's eagerness to find a trade route to Asia through the Western corridor. ... He demanded, "10 percent of all riches brought back by everyone, not just by himself. ... Even so Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand granted him all he asked and even gave him their blessings. ... Throughout his writings in his personal journal and from his letter to the Royal Court, it's quite clear what Columbus intentions are when it came to the treatment of the Native Americans and give him information. ... The old adage, "money is ...

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Well, the Western Shoshone tribe has to deal with this in their neighborhood. ... Currently, the HLW from all the nuclear power plants are stored on site in giant pools of water. ... The government says quite simply: Yucca Mountain in Nevada, about 50 miles outside Las Vegas. ... The government considers that land theirs in all of their writing, but they know it belongs to the Western Shoshone tribe under the Treaty of Ruby Valley ("House- par. 6). ... In a major accident, these will become quite a problem. ...

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This are the tendency to show the Asian as witless, harmless beings emerged as the Western powers were consolidating in the Asia. ... and western disco. ... In contrast, Masculinity and all the positive characteristics were given to the Asian and this film seen to praise Asian sensitivity and passivity and condemn Western callousness and violence. ... All this can be seen from the conversation among the white, black and the Japanese. ... This story was developed all around Jess and her family. ...

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We propose the Baruch Plan, which in a paraphrase states that: All United Nations member nations would disclose all of their nuclear materials All United Nations member nations would disclose all of their nuclear research After these first two steps were complete, the U.S would destroy all of their Atomic bombs. ... Stalin would say that with western hostility growing, that holding eastern Europe was in fact a defensive move on his part. ... The western powers realized that in order to revitalize Europe under the Marshall plan, they would first have to rebuild Germany which was still s...

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It seems that the early United States were not quite "civilized" or "refined" enough for Trollope. ... Her experience with the country seemed to be quite negative, from the "muddy", and "desolate" banks of the Mississippi, to the hog filled streets of Cincinnati Frances Trollope had a horrible time. The words she chooses to describe all things hold very negative connotations; she goes from the "deep blue" of the Mexican Gulf, to the "murky stream" of the Mississippi by which she is received to the U.S. ... She speaks of her experience with a family of western settlers. ... The line: "It is...

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The main principal of N.A.T.O was that if the Soviet Union were to attack any one of the joined allies then it would be considered an attack on all of them. ... Much of this technology was retained through the use of western spies located with the government. America began a widespread hate to all Communists. ... Fidel Castro, since his taking to Communism, has been viewed by the United States as a threat to the western world and to Democracy. ... He stated that he would reduce or completely cut off America from his countries sugar export, which was a serious thing since 75% of Cuba's...

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Western society places a high value upon appearance. ... All of this pain and abuse, possibly sprouting from the media and the brain washing that we have subjected ourselves too. So how is all of this evil? ... The answer is quite simple, pure economics. ... Advocate for freedom from body hatred and fight the billion-dollar adverti...

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All of the models would be rated high on any physical attraction scale. ... The ads were quite racially diverse, including: Asians, Hispanics, African-Americans, Arab-Americans and Caucasians, across each gender. ... In every advertisement the women are posed in a sexy manner; ranging from lying down submissively on a bed to sucking on a strawberry in a bubble bath. ... Of the five ads I found, all are full of sexual innuendoes. ... In the past twenty years many Western nations have seen an increase in the accessibility of sexually explicit materials and a rise in reported rapes (Harris ...

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Because of these similarities, the two revolutions are often assumed to be essentially eastern and western versions of each other. ... They were a distant colony separating from the mother country. ... Second, the American colonists were comprised of immigrants not only from Great Britain, but from all European nations as well. The colonists of other nationalities, quite obviously, felt no loyalty whatsoever to King George the Third, Parliament, or Britain. ... The American and French revolutions both quite obviously created a need for a new form of governing and law making and e...

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The list of despot crimes and the declaration that the colonies are free and independent from the King, eventually leads to the modern United States of today as well as the expansion of similar governments throughout the western world. Although the colonies" rebellion and unique abolition of the imposing government was quite revolutionary, the idea of a liberal democratic state of free people was forged years before the Declaration of Independence was even signed. ... A tyrant holds all the power and is his own judge according to Locke. ... According to Locke, all unlabored land and resourc...

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As the beginning of the book progresses, however, we see that Cooper may not be in favor of busting stereotypes; in fact, he may be responsible for quite a few of them. ... That is not to say that the book is not exciting, quite the contrary in fact. ... An interesting tidbit that one can pick up from the book is a description of the lost art of psalmody. ... Yes, the romantic scenery, the overbearing descriptions of nature and the false promise of a new life in a new land are all products of authors like Cooper, and books like The Last of the Mohicans. Western myths, rodeos, and quick-draw du...

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John Cabot- John Cabot was an Italian navigator that hoped to find a western route to Asia. ... The Council advised the King and watched over all colonial activities. 23. ... The French individuals treated the Native Americans quite well. ... The French individuals, on the other hand, treated the Native Americans quite well. ... England's royal colonies were governed by a governor appointed from the King. ...

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During the Arab spring of 2011, armed Yemeni forces removed then President Saleh from power. ... First of all, America is one of Saudi Arabia's oldest allies and it also purchases about 13% of its oil from the Saudis ("How Much Petroleum Does the United States Import and from Where? ... From a geographical point of view, Yemen is crucial to that part of the world's economic situation. Its western boarder meets the Red Sea and its Southern coast is the Gulf of Aden which sits off the horn of Africa. ... The civilians are caught in the middle of a civil crisis with foreign involvement ...

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She is just one of the many that has learned the hard way that class is not easy at all to move up in this place we fondly call the "land of opportunity." ... In today's society, as well as many other industrialized nations, mobility between classes is based on the single idea that the "underclass", as Gans calls it, are the lowest of all the classes, and that all mobility goes upward from this low point. Because of this society makes upward mobility for the lower classes quite difficult, because they guarantee the status of those who are not poor. ... Studies have shown that Americ...

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At the time of the bombing all people seemed to take into consideration was the amount of destruction they saw and they amount of lives that had been lost because of those bombs. ... President Roosevelt had decided that keeping information from the Soviets about the development of the bomb was beneficial. ... For time after Western Europe would rely on the United States because even though the United States did not have ground troops there Europe would fall under the protection of the Atomic bomb and the power it held. ... As typical citizens we may never understand why something so destructiv...

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His education began at the Western Military Academy in Altm Illinois, where he learned such sports as Fly Weight Boxing . ... Since Benton was surrounded by this from his birth, he brings a first hand view of this to all generations following him. ... All this is pronounced by the only two full color paintings of the set. The triumphant launching of completed boats, after significant work contributions from all parties involved. ... The style of Thomas Benton Hart separates him from all other artists. ...

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Context Main cause of these changes were rushing development in North America which came out of ended Civil War and strengthened interest in Western migration. ... "vi Not all of them were supposed to have knowledge about agriculture, mostly because of their tribe structure. ... Fact that this act genuinely introduced by Coke is forgotten and all glories and disgraces are assigned to Dawesvii. ... Obviously every American Indian who will undergo the process of allotment will become American citizen with all the rights. ... Instead of newly assimilated and fully converted people the probl...

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That process is unjust and wrong and flies in the face of nearly a millennia of western laws. ... Kennedy gleaned most of his opinion from the "due process" clause of the Fifth Amendment. ... Quite the contrary, as what happened was an exercise of checks and balances of the highest order. ... That act put into place tribunals that would consider all cases of habeas corpus. ... Bush, he drew the majority's decision from the Fifth Amendment in striking down the act. ...

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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...

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Thankfully through the years of employing such chemically enhanced products, the death rate amongst those suffering from infectious ailments and diseases has greatly diminished. ... These organisms are the host of a large unfathomable variety of infectious diseases that are in fact resistant to almost all of the antibiotics currently within medicinal use. ... Everything from the deepest floors of the ocean to the polar icecaps are inhabited by varying species of bacterium. ... Medical professionals quickly learned that CRE has a unique cloaking ability which allows the bacteria to "show up as ...

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From conquering the country, to its independence, to the rise of the current totalitarian regime, all these major events have made the island what it is today. ... In Cuba, Castro's regime has created the most repressive police state apparatus in the Western Hemisphere. ... Agricultural cooperatives have limited independence from state oversight, but the state owns the land and all decisions must fall within parameters determined by the state. ... They can't hire employees and must purchase all materials from the state. ... Although Castro is quite proud of the way...

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