To follow from that, what happened fifty- six years ago - the end of World War II. ... In the words of Dean Acheson "The great thing which creates purchasing power is people if the people can develop their own countries, they will become an increasing market for all goods including our own"2 Also Western Europe appeared open to influence by the USSR. ... The defense of Western Europe came to rest solely in NATO. By the terms of NATO, the USA took the lion's share of defending Western Europe against attack. ... Indeed the U.S leaped from one extreme to another, instead of going fro...

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The Western railroads had a few lines running North and South in California, far West of the wall of the Sierra Nevada Mountains. ... There were two railroad companies building the transcontinental railroad, the Union Pacific from the East, and the Central Pacific from the West. ... It was quite different for the Central Pacific, which had to fetch most of its materials, except timber, by sea, twelve thousand miles around the tip of South America. ... The Eastern work gangs were recruited from immigrant Irish, poor Southern whites, and poor Southern blacks, while the Western crews came...

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The natives of the Americas have no distinct "homeland" either; should families be displaced from their homes in order to create one for them? ... This forces Israelis to ask themselves the question: is Israel a western nation which recognizes human rights, or is Israel a primitive tribal society, based on race and religion? ... We take such laws for granted in modern western nations, but Israel is, at heart, an anachronistic throwback to an era of primitive racial and religious tribalism. ... The Western world bears special responsibility for Israel. ... It is quite simply ridiculous to po...

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The Germans had an idea that was quite similar to one that the Americans had in its early days. This idea was manifest destiny, or the idea that Germany should own all land from ocean to ocean and that they were superior people and were able to conquer everyone in their path. ... It was held from July 17 to August 2, 1945. ... In Western Germany, a new style of government was introduced to the people. ... It united the three Western zones of Germany together into one economic zone (Prittie 30). ...

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But not all countries of the camp of the winners were able to conduct this fight, since suffered serious losses in economic terms. ... This is primarily to assist in removing the United States from the theater of operations and the associated security investments. ... It was with these weapons the US administration has decided to pursue a policy of defending its national interests in the world, "the US military said this quite openly. ... However, by 1945 the country was far from the pre-war economic indicators. ... In addition, the Soviet troops were pushed forward away from its immediate bor...

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Hitler realized early on in his expansionist campaign that Western leaders were too busy dealing with their own domestic problems to pose any real opposition. ... Scholars on the subject have questioned when exactly, the Western world knew about the atrocities occurring in Europe. From July 1941 until the end of 1942, U.S. ... However British intelligence was the focal point of all news coming out of Occupied Europe. Early reports from aerial reconnaissance, returning soldiers, escaping citizens, prisoners of war, neutrals, as well as reports from Polish, Dutch, French and Czech int...

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At this point the Eastern Africans and Western Africans synergized. Ife was the first of all Yoruba cities. ... The name Yoruba was applied to all these linguistically and culturally related peoples by their northern neighbors, the Hausas. ... A common Yoruba belief system dominated the region from the Niger, where it flows in an easterly direction, all the way to the Gulf of Guinea in the south. ... (Source 1) Slavery in the United States was quite different from other colonized regions. ...

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It is believed that people from all over the world come to the United States and lose their cultural identity and "melt" into or assimilate into the American culture. ... The large majorities of the first immigrants from India were Punjabis, from a region called the Punjab. ... "In all cases, we may say the Oriental is at fault," declared the Asiatic Exclusion League, an organization whose goal was to keep Asian immigrants out of western states (Pavri 24). ... Furthermore members of American minorities had learned that assimilation is not an all-or-nothing process. ... Immigrants from India fe...

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In the beginning, people from England immigrated to America, and then other European countries followed. The American natives were treated as immigrants and forced to migrants into the western land due to Manifest Destiny in the 1860s. ... This is important because such discovery implies that the United States could use statistic to compute the optimal quota rate needed to maximize the GDP by examine immigration data from previous years. All three articles demonstrate that immigration can be used to control and expands the United States GDP. ... To his argument, Putnam points out that "Et...

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The first chapter of the book discusses the history of the slave trade in the western hemisphere. ... Slaves actually represented quite well in the skilled crafts. ... They found that the rates of return on a slave were quite high and that holding slaves was quite profitable. ... This was a blow to all the theories that slavery was unprofitable and that slaves had low rates of return. ... They found that slave diets were quite good and that it was highly nutritious. ...

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Since the September 11th terrorist attack in US soil, terror attempts have risen across the world and although a number have been thwarted, quite many have also been successful resulting in many casualties (Boyle, 2011). ... The Threat of Radical Islam in the Middle East Radical Islam in the Middle East poses a threat on peace not only in the region but to the Western world since jihadists view the West as enemies of their fundamentalist ideologies. Radical Islam poses a threat in that it facilitates the rise of violent jihadists who then spread to all corners of the earth and are willing to s...

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Only recently has acupuncture made its way into the western world. ... Many people stated how through the use of alternative medicine, such as acupuncture, their suffering and pain from illness or disease has been alieved. ... The population is also looking for new ways to cope with the increasing stress in their lives from various stimuli. ... Though western doctors and researchers do not quite understand the idea behind acupuncture, there has been some evidence that it can release chemicals within the body. ... " Though such alternative medicines lack adequate scientific proof of validi...

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Galatas of the History and Political Science Department at Georgia South Western State University The Era of Good Feelings: An Era of Idealism or Realism? The Era of Good Feelings was the national mood of the United States from 1815 to 1825, as first described by the Boston Columbian Centinel on July 12, 1817. ... With the decline of the Federalists the United States was, in practice if not in theory, a one-party state on the national level; heading the Democratic-Republicans, Monroe secured all but one electoral vote in 1820. ... All nations are tempted-and few have been able to r...

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The Cold War Tensions with the United States and Russia have been around for quite some time. ... They all would come to the aid of the one threatened from an outside attack. ... With these two different pacts, Europe was torn in half, Western Europe being with NATO and Eastern Europe with the Warsaw Pact. ... The Army stayed in Germany until 1994 when the Prince said during a speech on October 28th, 1994, concerning the disarmament of the army: "the momentous events in Russia, Central Europe and Germany have brought changes for us all in Western Europe, almost all for the be...

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While eugenics was often loosely based on scientific theory, social Darwinism was not at all. ... There was also a shift in immigration from western to eastern European many of whom would become the working class. The ardent question then became, what to do with the poor and how to deal with the new immigrants that were mostly seen as less civilized then western Europeans. ... " He presents quite a few examples of species working together for the benefit of the whole as a group. Some examples include ants, beetles, crabs, and flock birds, all cooperating for the better of the group. ...

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Somalia can be taken as a rare example that all abovementioned dimensions occurred at the same time. ... It refers to a situation where the structure, authority (legitimate power), law, and political order have fallen apart " (p.1) How a failed state should be defined has received considerable attention from different scholars and think tanks, although there has been no consensus on the definition of this term. Torres and Anderson (2004) have summarized some noticeable definitions from different sources as follows: 1) United States Agency for International Development (USAID): A failed state i...

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The bulk of the country's natural gas reserves under development and production are in the upper Western Siberia. ... Some of the most prolific fields in Siberia include Yamburg, Urengoy, and Medvezh'ye, all of which are licensed to Gazprom. ... A substantial amount of natural gas is also associated with oil deposits in the country's oil heartland in Western Siberia. ... Russia sends about 76% of its natural gas exports to customers in Western Europe, with Germany, Turkey, Italy, France, and the United Kingdom receiving the bulk of these volumes. ... In the modern United States ...

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The Hopewell culture was the better of the two at mound building, and created quite a reputation for this reason. ... The Europeans were gleaning the lands of all its game. ... One of the most tragic of all wars is civil war. ... "From whence come wars and fightings among you? ... Mountain folk invited all people in need to church services. ...

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It was an Age where women suffered from vapors. ... Most of the letters remaining from the Victorian Age are from women to women friends. ... Trains, steam ships, ticker tapes, telegraph, time zones, photography, motion pictures, the combustion engine, and automobiles all came to life in the 19th century. ... It also created the need for people to get away from industrialization. ... She may have included a lock of her own in the wreath, but quite possibly she did not, preferring instead to be present as the sum of its parts; the invisible weaver of family ties. ...

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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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Are gangs western societies way of introducing boys into emerging adults (manhood)? ... Gang violence and gang activities impact all of those around the gang members. ... These acts of crime are quite high. ... The wall is when the joiner stands facing a wall and is beaten by all or most of the strongest members of the gang. ... If you fall, during this process you will have to start all over again at the beginning of the line. ...

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They became isolated in their new "home" and were deprived of support from their shared customs and culture (Do 41). Unlike other groups who immigrated at will, the first-wave Vietnamese refugees were pushed out of their home country, fleeing from fear of persecution. ... For other longtime immigrants, Little Saigon helps them communicate with their More importantly, Little Saigon attracts young Vietnamese Americans through the newly built upscale Asian Garden Mall or Phước Lộc Thọ with fresh experiences and characteristics; quite different from the prevalent American mall. ...

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Even though this country lies on the western Atlantic they still maintain tempered climate due to the Gulf Stream being so close (Ember, 2001, p.2332). ... They have breakfast, lunch or sometimes-called dinner, and dinner, which is sometimes called supper or tea, this all, depends on the family background of the families. ... The Norman Conquest took part in 1066 and it made sure the Britain was safe from further attacks. ... In 1921, Ireland, with the exception of six northern counties, broke away from the United Kingdom. ... They are required to stay in school from age five till ...

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Ranging from th e times of the Chinese in California to the migration of Japanese and Korean workers on the sugar plantations in Hawaii, all faced various forms of racism and dealt with individual problems in their own fashions. ... To not be brought down by the fallacies of what was supposed to be their chance at a new and better life makes the Chinese all the more admirable. ... These jobs required the laborers to move from one place to another. ... The 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act, also known as "An Act to Execute Certain Treaty Stipulations Relating to Chinese, closed the door to all Chi...

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His view was that, "Lincoln adopted emancipation only after all other policies failed, that he resorted to it in an unhappy frame of mind, and that the Emancipation Proclamation "had all the moral grandeur of a bill of lading."" There are others who believe that this is not quite accurate. ... Paludan clearly believes that Lincoln opposed slavery for all of it evils not simply as a moral wrong but also as an unconstitutional situation and impractical political position. ... Another interesting thing I came across was a small fragment from presumably a letter. ... Perhaps the best way to think...

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