Television news is yet another entertainment resource to influence the masses to carelessly spend their way to debt and to simplify historic events. ... There was more time given to a traffic accident, a police chase, and the weather than to the developments with the possible war with Iraq. ... To any teenage girl this commercial would siginify that the most important thing about a person is their looks, not their brains. ... Therefore, the goal of advertising and commercials are to take your mind off daily events and to get you to think about how you can possible make yourself better with pro...

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The novel was written using a sequential order of events. Two of the most important themes of the story are the working conditions and socialism. ... It"ll never end, 'til it gets so bad that the ink fills in our fingerprints and the silhouette of your own face becomes the black cloud of war and even in our dreams we're so afraid the way we'll offset who we are all those breaths that you took have now been canceled in your lungs." ...

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In short, mixed messages originate from observing globalisation and we need to ask whether it is a source of explanation of contemporary global events--or whether it is something that itself needs to be explained? ... Some kind of 'cost benefit analysis' is not so easy when globalisation is perhaps the most over used and under specified concept in the international policy sciences since the passing of the 'Cold War'. ...

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The political events of the 1990's make it clear that countries wanted a change from the set systems of capitalism, socialism and communism as they sought better systems and higher efficiency. ... It is important to understand that the economic system of a country is the summation of other political, environmental and social systems and the modern approach studies the impact of these other systems, which is definitely an improvement from solely studying the economic factors alone. ... Economic systems are characterized by many different attributes and it is important that we know all ...

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Assigned third-world economy status, dependent upon the world market, and caught amid social and political wars, Africa has not adapted well to the changes thrust upon it by colonial rule. But while historical events have played a significant role in condemning Africa to poverty and underdevelopment, African leaders themselves have also failed to own up to their leadership responsibilities. ... The economy's reliance on the world market is an important economic effect of colonialism, as are the new social and demographic changes effected by Africa's incorporation into the global eco...

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Assigned third-world economy status, dependent upon the world market, and caught amid social and political wars, Africa has not adapted well to the changes thrust upon it by colonial rule. But while historical events have played a significant role in condemning Africa to poverty and underdevelopment, African leaders themselves have also failed to own up to their leadership responsibilities. ... The economy's reliance on the world market is an important economic effect of colonialism, as are the new social and demographic changes effected by Africa's incorporation into the global eco...

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The forces of production (technology, capital, the infrastructure of society, etc.) are important for the simple fact of who ever controls them controls the society. ... Using history, logic and the dynamic nature of humankind as guidelines, Carl Marx attempts to map out a sequence of events which will eventually lead to utopia (anarchy). ... "the 'rise of the gentry' ... ideas concerning resistance to rulers ... nor even the narrowing financial base of the Tudor and Stuart monarchy ... determined the outbreak of the Civil War ... ... Having failed, the King traveled nort...

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Despite major conflicts, such as the Civil War, the United States still kept its perception as an equal and prosperous nation, which attracted many immigrants that were seeking freedom and opportunity from the hardships faced in their own countries. ... Although The Jungle was not recognized for this, the characters, themes, and styles of writing still depict how important Socialism was and how horrible Capitalism was at that time. ... "Jurgis could see all the truth now-could see himself through the whole long course of events, the victim of ravenous vultures that had torn into his vitals ...

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During the 1990s, literature on the international political economy was dominated by the idea of globalization. Dramatic decreases in transport costs and the rise of fast and cheap telecommunications technology have made geography less relevant and facilitated massive increases in global trade and new forms of multinational production. Whether or not such developments are good or bad is a topic of ongoing political debate. Some argue that an expanding global economy provides new opportunities for the developing world to integrate into global markets and to achieve rapid rises in living standar...

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