In recent years (2012-2013), China refocused and has tried to increase its geographic boundaries militarily. ... Should the United States prepare for a disaster that may never happen and potentially cause a political disaster? ... China's reason for wanting these islands almost seems childish on today's political stage. ... Many nations protested the claim and said how some of their territory seemed to fall within the boundary of the dashed line. ...

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The United States chose this line as the boundary so that they could control as much of Korea as they possibly could, including Seoul. ... The North especially suffered as it had been " economically, politically, and socially the marginal part of Korea for centuries" (Armstrong 2003:13). ... It also was a period of political organization; Korean leftists emerged from the underground and began to rebuild their communist parties. ... The entity that emerged became the political basis for the ROK regime in 1948 (Cumings 1983:15). ... He quickly became one of the main leaders of the North, and...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

But these religious persecutions gradually faded as most people in Europe became more politically sensitive with strong political affiliations and tenacious resistance to their new revolutionary style governments. ... Their attempts at radically revolutionize their various countries led to the emergence of new kind of political upheaval that produced political refugees of the 19th century. ... Also, the inordinate ambition for violent territorial expansion of nation states which replaced the collapsed empires in these regions meant that political opposition alliances to such ideals were crush...

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E.E. Cummings and His Works Two women walk past him, conversing with their noses pointed to the sky, in glistening attire, with fur scarves slung around their necks and ornate designs engraved into their dresses. His eyes shift from the gossiping women to a cluster of businessmen laughing while they smoked cigars inside a restaurant. The men dressed in black, colorless business suites, with fashionable ties, fashionable outfits, and with any accessory that could compliment their fashionable lives. People in the town were black and white, and they hadn't aspired for their lives to...

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Stalin's first political pseudonym was "Koba" (a fictitious hero in Georgian literature). Such pseudonyms were quite common among the Russian revolutionaries of that period; Lenin often published under the name "Tulin" (note that even the names "Lenin" and "Stalin" were political pseudonyms). ... It was during this period that Stalin ordered his first executions (mostly of captured Whites and other various political prisoners). ...

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Roosevelt had hesitated to discuss the Polish issue in detail for political reasons. ... Some members of the exile government in London to be integrated into the communist Lublin government Stalin promised to hold free elections at the end of hostilities The main issue surrounding this provisional Polish government at the Yalta Conference was its status in determining the country's political future The Soviet Union had occupied parts of Poland ever since 1944. ... These terms recognized the government that Soviet occupants had imposed upon Poland, as legitimate and left no basis for h...

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Yossarian is not the only example of this throughout history; many political leaders have demonstrated the same. ... Yossarian is an example for the political minds throughout history; he represents the hidden agenda and what is kept from public knowledge. ... A country is a piece of land surrounded on all sides by boundaries, usually unnatural. ...

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The Soviet Union placed a military and also political barrier between the east and the west. ... Finally the boundary line between North and South Korea was drawn at the 38th parallel . ... In the south, the U.S. backed right-wing political leaders while the Soviets supported the left-wing side. ... Political conflicts spilled over into a war that was a fight to determine Asia's future. ...

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Shlaim throughout the Berlin Crisis was preoccupied with domestic politics. ... The blockade remained in existence so long because of Truman's tough political race and his uncertainty of reelection. ... Truman was overtly aware that the people of the United States rallied behind his doctrine, and wanted any and every nation to have a choice in their political happenings; however, he was also aware that the people of the United States were tired of war, and especially war for European benefit. The Berlin Crisis would not be resolved until Truman was sure of his political future. ... Ot...

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I quickly learned I was researching something that spanned political, historical and religious backgrounds and tapped into the heart of the American attitude most recently seen in Obama's election victory speech of "yes we can".1 Despite this, the president recently appeared to be hesitant to proclaim views of support for 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.... I shall then move onto the Cold War itself, identifying the...

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At the close of World War II, the Allied Powers (The United States of America, England, France, and The Soviet Union) were faced with the dilemma of how to deal with the vanquished Axis military and political regime which had committed horrific crimes in its pursuit of world dominance. ... A war crime, using the definition adopted since World War II can fall into any of three categories: crimes against peace involving initiation of war; war crimes including murder, torture, or deportation of civilian populations and crimes against humanity including political, racial, or religious persecution ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Wilson advanced rapidly as a conservative young professor of political science and became president of Princeton in 1902. ... Wilson went before Congress in January 1918, to pronounce American war aims through a a series of ideas he had known as the Fourteen Points, this would establish a general association of nations indubitably guaranteeing political independence and territorial integrity to great and small states alike. ... The treaty also fixed the boundaries of the new nation. ... Wilson used every political tactic he knew to bring Hughes down. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

The Soviet Union used the Warsaw Pact to erect a facade of collective decisions and actions around the reality of its political domination and military intervention in the internal affairs of its allies. ... The parallel was not intended to be a boundary. Since the parallel became a boundary, the country was divided with the Communist North and the non-communist South. ...

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Through much of history, the strength of a nation has been determined by the strength of its leader. Despite the appearance of holding power, leader's often are undermined by their own subjects as the case of Emperor Hirohito of Japan. It is true that during his reign Japan has seen a territorial expansion in Asia not unlike that of Genghis Khan's Mongolia or Julius Caesar's Rome but the question remains whether Hirohito played an active role in that expansion. Though often regarded as the people's emperor, Hirohito has proven to be less of a leader in times of war and ...

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This essay seeks to examine the political relations between the leaders of Britain, the United States of America and the Soviet Union during and immediately following World War II. ... He was unsuccessful however, as the Poles refused to negotiate with the Soviets on several key issues, most importantly, on changes to Polands boundaries. ...

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As a result of the desolation a common consensus was becoming apparent amid the general public, which was that, there were no clear societal gains from the war and the obvious economic, and political decline of the country showed no gains in that sector either. ...

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