Politics were relatively insulated from business, political elites were able to discipline private sector, for example, a reward productive investment and penalize poor performance. ... Furthermore, the crisis resulted from the slackened discipline among all Korean people with the excitement that Korea was going into the line of developed country soon. ...
Consumer desires were ignored, tight labor discipline was enforced, and living standards were depressed, so that the largest possible share of Hungary's resources could be used to develop an industrial base. ... The highly centralize panning process often led to inefficiencies, while strict discipline and low living standards led to poor labor performance and popular discontent. ...
For example when Kurt Vonnegut writes, "It had most of the food and minerals and machinery, and it disciplined other countries by threatening to shoot big rockets at them or to drop things on them from airplanes," he means that America bullies the rest of the world by threatening them. ... He uses the word discipline as if America is the ruler and it punishes other countries for not doing what it wants. ...
The philosophy of parenting determines children's development and the parent-child relationship. Three popular parenting programs promoted on the internet today include: attachment parenting, homeschooling, and tiger parenting. These different approaches show how parents' behavior affects children. ...
Today we are going to be talking about the rise of militarism in 20th century Japan and also the Koda-ha and the Tosei-ha. Being the two rival factions of the military who fought for power of Japan during the 1920's and 30's. Well we are going to start with the rise of militarism. Japan over a perio...
The Dogs of War In his poem, "The Second Coming", William Butler Yeats uses strong, precise syntax to make the reader feel the intensity of his words while conveying a dark atmosphere that gives the reader an uncertain and seemingly hopeless sense of what is to come. Some would argue that "The ...
Each soldier carried his own four-day ration, but unfortunally, these rations were all consumed during the first day due to lack of discipline; therefore, out of the 500,000 troops that Napoleon brought, only 20,000 of these man managed and straggled to save their lives. ...
Fascism was forged in the crucible of post-World War I nationalism in Europe. The national aspirations of many European peoples nations without states, peoples arbitrarily assigned to political entities with little regard for custom or culture had been crushed after World War I. The humiliation impo...
What exactly is fascism? Where did it come from? What on earth is it good for? Nowadays, fascism is most popularly associated with Mussolini's Italy between the years 1922 to 1943, and Hitler's Nazi Germany between the years 1933 to 1945. However, making Nazism synonymous with fascism would be a...
In 1930 he announced to his followers: Aas long as I am its leader, It will never become a debating club for rootless intellectuals or chaotic parlor Bolsheviks, but will remain what it is today: an organization of discipline, which was not created for the doctrinaire foolishness of political dilettantes, but rather for the battle for a new Germany of the future in which class concepts will be destroyed and a new German people will determine its own fate. ...
Adolf Hitler is considered to be one of the most evil and manipulative leaders in history. History books often focus on Hitler's cruel treatment of Jews and eventual genocide during World War II. However, there are not many books that reflect how Adolf Hitler rose to power and became the deranged ma...
"Fascism" When and why? Italy had suffered badly during the war - 460,000 soldiers were killed and the country was heavily in debt. the Italian army had been heavily defeated and had only won its first major victory at Vittorio Veneto in October 1918. Italy had been promised extra land by B...
"Gays! Lesbians! YOU can join my military, receive benefits AND love the same sex!" Although homosexuality is still taboo, this is what homosexuals in the military get to feel today from "Uncle Sam". Allan Bérubé explains that, before 1940, there was no concern to screen for sexual orientation for...
The conduct of international politics in the last 50 years clearly shows us that it is states that are the heart of international relations. Discuss the accuracy of this statement using neo-realistic based international relation theories and highlight the problems that such an approach faces. The neo-realist theory in International Relations is often simplistically defined as a state-centric theory, specially if considered relatively to other theories. So, the assumption that I am going to focus on - that states are the heart of International Relations - is apparently the basis of th...
The Treaty of Versailles was proposed to be a peace settlement between the victorious Allies and the defeated Germans at the outcome of World War I. The post-war reparations imposed on Germany by the Treaty of Versailles at the Paris Peace Conference of 1919 and the subsequent economic disaster that Germany faced at the close of World War I, left the country vulnerable and looking for new leadership. The Treaty of Versailles was a culmination of hostility and revenge and provided the perfect environment for Hitler to rise to power, and set the stage for a second World War. World War I came ...
Georgi Konstantinovich Zhukov was born 1896 in a small village of Strelkova south of Moscow, Kaluga Province, and like an immense majority of the peasant population his family were desperately poor. He lived in an old house, in the middle of the village, with one room and two windows, he also was ab...
Authority: the sound of it brings back memories of the teacher that everyone had; this teacher constantly thought they were better than their students, since they had gone to college and the students obviously have not yet. In these experiments, authority figures took over and used their power for m...
Introduction Charlie Chaplin, the English comic actor, filmmaker and composer was one of the biggest stars of the silent film era. Appearing in short films just as the Great War was getting started, he would be one of the world's biggest stars by the time it ended. In the ensuing decades he starred ...
