Sarmiento writes in Facundo, "Rosas invented nothing; his talent was only to copy his predecessors and turn the brutal instinct of the ignorant masses into a cold and calculated system." ... From exile he wrote "It is necessary to employ terror in war . ... Sarmiento felt that the techniques used by Rosas and other dictators were appropriate and effective when at war. ... Sarmiento points out the differences in politics and war. ... Treating political procedure like it is a war, filled with terror, is not an efficient way of running things but it can be justified. ...

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In both writings, Tillie Olsen's I Stand Here Ironing and Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman, the plots center around the problems of a child. In "I Stand Here Ironing", Emily is a young girl affected negatively by her mother's lack of care and the time of cold war. Like Emily, in "Death of a Sales...

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