The world is filled with a great diversity of people, and perhaps the most defining characteristic of the human community is the God-given gift of opinion. Capitalism, Socialism, Communism, and Mixed economies; all of these are born of different minds and desires. ... As I mentioned before, the most defining characteristic of humanity is the gift of opinion. ... His words are very true, though the defining lines between the various economies go well beyond what I've discussed. ...

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(Grimm, 2013) A big foundation was the Anti-Communism of Ronald Reagan administration's foreign policy. ... (Grimm, 2013) Through his speeches he repeated his anti-Communist policy that Soviets and Communism, as a whole, would fail. ... This complex arrangement's aim was to furtively fund Nicaraguan rebels' efforts to defeat the cruel Sandinista government, successfully stopping the spread of Communism. ... Reagan was not a fan of communism, he was an anti-communist. ... Despite these wins over communism, Reagan's authority was diminished and weakened in his second term ...

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According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, a crime is defined as an act or the commission of an act that is forbidden or the omission of a duty that is commanded by a public law and that makes the offender liable to punishment by that law. ... In the late 1920's, the fear of communism was present. Americans feared that communism would spread from Russia and Eastern Europe to the United States. ...

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Of course, affirmative action is pathetic; a waste of time and money, as well as part of the liberal agenda to bring America from the strong representative republic that it once was s into a weak socialistic utopia (a.k.a. communism). ... Colorado Governor Bill Owens got it right when he said, "I"m for affirmative action when it is defined as everyone gets to the starting line equally. ...

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McNeill, Herbert Feis, and Thomas Bailey blamed the start of the Cold War on the USSR's resolution to pursue a path of expanding the ideas of communism and a essentially wanting a socialist revolution come alive throughout Eastern Europe and eventually the world. ... Proactive steps to prevent such a take over from happening as propaganda would spread across America leading to a romanticized relationship between this fear of the spread of communism and at the same time, ensuring domestic support for support nuclear weapons testing and proliferation.9 But as the scare wore on, a new school...

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The key defining factor that compels the offensive realist argument over the liberalism one is the method of expansion and hegemonic stability that the US has and continues to utilize now. ... Because of the growing fad of communism and the USSR attempting to spread it across Europe to get closer to the US, America initiated their containment policy that was in the name of democracy in liberalist eyes but was really them just ensuring their hegemon. The containment policy was meant to expand the newly formed NATO and block the Soviet advancement of communism by giving foreign economic suppor...

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The third change in liberalism was represented by post war liberals who focused their energies on the struggle against international communism. The liberalists were highly concerned with overcoming the potential threat of communism. ... Johnson wanted to seek a rapprochement with the Soviet Union, and end the conflict by means of a peaceful settlement with communism, which eventually depreciated his credibility. ... I believe that his presidency will be defined by the contradictions of political liberalism which he used to better the country for a short time. ...

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Harry Truman perpetuated the feeling that communism was evil, and something that had to be nipped in the bud. ... This doctrine outlined a new stance being taken by the United States regarding eastern countries and the rise of communism. ... Avi Shlaim wrote a book about the United States and the Berlin blockade where he defines why he thought Truman was cautious about Berlin. ... Truman himself was worried that doing nothing to aide Berlin would be disaster because it would allow Communism to advance. ... When a conflict arose in Korea the United States chose once again to step in to stop...

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The society we live in today is defined by capitalism, the two are inseparable and work hand in hand. ... Capitalism is defined by two important aspects; that is, market exchange and private property. ...

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"3 My first task was to define exceptionalism. ... As James Ceaser states "It is probably a truism of political speech that if one has trouble defining immediately what a term means, someone else is using it a different way.... Contained within this unique document defined the conditions for free people with free rights, not from the government but from their creator.15 This was a unique structure, whereby the people uphold freedom from their creator, and they in turn pass and grant rights to the government. ... So when the USSR's spread of communism threatened these values, i...

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Power can be defined as the right to exert control over a certain group of people or objects (Merriam-Webster, 2014). ... This essay will begin by defining both hard and soft powers and examine the complex interaction between the two; it will then go on to prove that one cannot apply soft power without applying some form of hard power and vice versa. Hard power can be defined as a nation's ability to use military force or economic incentives in order to influence the choices and behaviours of other nations (public diplomacy, 2013). ... Soft power was defined as the capability to get what...

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"The only title in our democracy superior to that of president is citizen", said Supreme court justice Brandeis. Our democracy adapts to the needs of our citizens. The reason the United States is the world's greatest country is exactly that: its people. Our nation's climbing, ladies and gentlemen, ...

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"The only title in our democracy superior to that of president is citizen", said Supreme court justice Brandeis. Our democracy adapts to the needs of our citizens. The reason the United States is the world's greatest country is exactly that: its people. Our nation's climbing, ladies and gentlemen, ...

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"The only title in our democracy superior to that of president is citizen", said Supreme court justice Brandeis. Our democracy adapts to the needs of our citizens. The reason the United States is the world's greatest country is exactly that: its people. Our nation's climbing, ladies and gentlemen, ...

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"The only title in our democracy superior to that of president is citizen", said Supreme court justice Brandeis. Our democracy adapts to the needs of our citizens. The reason the United States is the world's greatest country is exactly that: its people. Our nation's climbing, ladies and gentlemen, ...

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Firstly, the nation of Canada' must be defined. ... Secondly the word Independent' must be defined, Webster's 10th Collegiate Dictionary defines it as: Not governed by a foreign power; self-governing. ... Finally and most importantly Foreign policy must be defined. Webster's 10th Collegiate Dictionary defines 'foreign policy' as "the policy of a sovereign state in its interaction with other sovereign states." ...

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The United States didn't put enough thought into their actions and used powerful words to define the anti-communist movement that would have severe blow back. The word in question is Jihad, the notion of Jihad was not limited to anti-communism but rather to anti-modernity and the ideas that the CIA were feeding to the Muslims were not limiting their hatred to Russia, but rather to all western countries. ... He states that during The Cold War, the United States lacked alliances to defend against communism, whether it was to go to war against the Soviet Union, or prevent war from happening,...

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American Foreign Policy: Where are We Today and How Did We Get Here? The typical American citizen knows very little about American foreign policy. I realize that is a very broad, general statement. Nevertheless, it is true. Its not that the typical American isn't capable of understanding A...

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Those ideologies were communism, fascism, and democracy. With the elimination of fascism in World War II, the world became divided along the lines of communism and democracy; when the Cold War era began, with expansive military build-up and rapid economic growth, the demise of communism also began. ... When it does, the times we will recall that inspired such 'Crusader Spirit' in America were days like December 7, 1941, and September 11, 2001; indeed, these were days when, as a people, we committed to a cause of action and, especially with the latter, was also "proof positive t...

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With this being the first scene the narrator (Charlie Sheen) should have begun by introducing the Vietnam War and how the feud between communism and capitalism begun with the "independence" of Vietnam. ... There were no defined battle lines and the combat scenes lead you to believe that the enemy was everywhere. ... Although, it did not tackle the bigger issues, it exposed American soldiers to the world and what they went through to try and defeat the North Vietnamese Soldiers and communism. ...

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Globalization is defined as a process that, based on international strategies, aims to expand business operations on a worldwide level, and was precipitated by the facilitation of global communications due to technological advancements, and socioeconomic, political and environmental developments [Nic12]. ... During the cold war Ethiopia was a reliable ally to the United States who were trying to stop the spread of communism in sub Saharan Africa (Shinn). ... Ethiopia needed to turn elsewhere for the military support that the United States would no longer provide them with, so the turned to the...

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The Vietnamese War, as defined to me in the New Standard Encyclopedia, was " an undeclared war for the control of South Vietnam, starting in 1957 and ending in 1975." ... The United States feared that Communism would spread, and President Eisenhower's Domino Theory was born. ...

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Therefore, this work will concentrate on the democracy of the United States (US) and the European Union (EU) and on the authoritarians leaderships of China and the Middle East. 2 Democratic Peace Theory The democratic peace theory can be defined by it's two main characteristics. ...

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After the 1990 collapse of communism and the seemingly triumph of capitalism, democracy and freedom that most of the western world is part of, there was the emergence of three possible trends across the Middle East. ... The Anglo-American-Israeli politicians who seek to define the Middle East for the rest of the world have simplistically framed this trajectory of violence as a straightforward war against terror that was triggered by the odious crime of 9/11....

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For the officially defined period of forty five years the US and the USSR have been in the state of war; however no direct confrontations ever emerged between them on either territory. ... However, the West saw Soviet occupation in the Eastern Europe as an act of aggression and feared that Russia would go on and invade the Western Europe, that argument can be proved by the "long telegram" send by the US diplomat from Moscow: he argued that Russia would always look for the opportunity to extend communism throughout the world and that America should be prepared to help "freedom fighters" and to ...

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