... away city in China on a business trip, however an earthquake strikes and Tong Guhan is injured. He suffers amnesia, and cannot recall a single thing, leaving his whole family behind. Tong's loss of place, memory and hope are put in to represent the homesickness and pain Ha Jin felt leaving his family to join the army. While the character does eventually make ... Jin's experience away from home and losing the connection and relationships had with his family is humanized into Tong's amnesia. The loss of Tongs family could also be viewed as a reference to China's Cultural Revolution, compa...

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... deficit rose from 3% in 1985 to 14% in 1989. (29) Inflation increased to over 5%. (30) Prices failed to reflect the high cost of production and many companies were working at a loss. This economic failure of communism meant that support for the system fell and that it was becoming increasingly more difficult for the communist party to convince the people that this ... the trigger. The situation was like a fuse, Gorbachev merely provided the matches and refused to stop the fire. The final factor which this essay will examine, is that of the loss of elite party confidence. With his reform...

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... deficit rose from 3% in 1985 to 14% in 1989. (29) Inflation increased to over 5%. (30) Prices failed to reflect the high cost of production and many companies were working at a loss. This economic failure of communism meant that support for the system fell and that it was becoming increasingly more difficult for the communist party to convince the people that this ... the trigger. The situation was like a fuse, Gorbachev merely provided the matches and refused to stop the fire. The final factor which this essay will examine, is that of the loss of elite party confidence. With his reform...

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... deficit rose from 3% in 1985 to 14% in 1989. (29) Inflation increased to over 5%. (30) Prices failed to reflect the high cost of production and many companies were working at a loss. This economic failure of communism meant that support for the system fell and that it was becoming increasingly more difficult for the communist party to convince the people that this ... the trigger. The situation was like a fuse, Gorbachev merely provided the matches and refused to stop the fire. The final factor which this essay will examine, is that of the loss of elite party confidence. With his reform...

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... .historyguide.org/intellect/marx.html). It wasn't until 1838 he converted his whole family to Christianity due to the fear of the loss of his practice in the Prussian state. It wasn't an easy change for him. It took the loss of his mother in order for him to sever all ties with their native beliefs. Despite his parent's dispute with their ... ...

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... as a "virus ". McCarthy was the one to help spread this great fear in the nation it was not only a threat for America but for it's people. People feared tremendously the loss of their jobs. Laws would hold no meanings and innocent people would so easily be accused. Many put on a black list causing the ... loss of their jobs and the refusal of being accepted to work for any other companies , for McCarthy communists were everywhere. According to McCarthy there were over 200 communists in the ... ...

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... fighting for communist revolution in Bolivia. Only possible solution for many politics at that time was to fight it, like in Korea or stand firm as in Cuban missile crisis. Loss of a single battle, as it has been much feared in 1950's and 1960's, could result in even greater spread of communism around the globe, thus United States cannot afford to ... abandon even smallest one. "Whether we decide to abandon Southeast Asia or to try to draw another line outside Vietnam, the loss of Vietnam will result in dozen more Vietnams in different parts of the world. If we cannot cope with this typ...

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... , that number grew to 16,300, and to 536,000 in 1968. Around that time, the U.S. elected a new president. This president started pulling troops out of Vietnam. This left a big weight on Southern Vietnam's back. In 1973, Southern Vietnam surrendered and Vietnam reunited. In the end, there were 60,000 American death's and around 2 million Vietnamese deaths. One poet from the ... ...

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... . "If just one fifth of the people who bitterly oppose Communism and actively oppose it, in such a coordinated manner and under such unified direction that their efforst have full cumulative weight, the Communists will not have even a chance of success- (Welch 179). First he told his listeners they needed to establish nationwide reading rooms manned by John Birch Society members. With ... ...

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... the country of China. From what I have gathered from the writings of Meisner and Fitzgerald regarding Mao's policies during the 1950's, it was the politics involved that carried the most weight. The political effects of Mao's early regime were what caused the economic and social reforms, and therefore their consequences. We can see the beginnings of this with Mao's implementation of ... ...

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... weren't executed, will attempt to regain power. It is through this confrontation that the war begins. The side of the communists pulls out victorious however it didn't come without a great loss. 14 million people died during the war and Lenin attempts to restore order within Russia. He begins pulling people back through brutality and enforces his rule on the people with ... ...

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... that controlled people's lives by violating their rights that are so well written in the Bill of Rights. People like David and Ruth Merrill faced terms in prison, suffered the loss of friends and possessions and were denied the right to earn a living. These were the heroes who either did not wish to testify against their friends and family or chose ... ...

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... be distributed to the workers supporting the previous chapter in its intent to overthrow the bourgeois. The workers deserved their land, it was hard won, self-acquired, self-earned. The loss of class in mentioned again, showing how it would destroy the hostility between the nations. The chapter ends with ten points, ten commandments of a communist. Marx and Engels are conveying ... ...

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... more than the destruction of America when the freedoms promised by the Bill of Rights are denied (Feuerlicht, 154). McCarthy installed a fear in the people. But people feared tremendously the loss of their jobs. They feared that their political afflictions would reflect on their job status (Reeves, 99). By trying to keep America from becoming a Communist nation, McCarthy and his followers ... ...

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... September 11th, 2001, Americans began to once again display their nationalism. Flags hung everywhere, citizens proudly wore symbols of their country on their clothing; all to show remorse for the loss of life, and their support for President George W. Bush, his government and his policies. America has always been a very nationalistic country. People from all over the world left their homeland ... ...

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... 1855 the Russians first lost the Crimean war (because of the lack of proper training of the huge Russian army), made Russia ripe for a change in its political ideas. The loss caused great economic depression that lasted for more then a half of a century (Bales James 138). During this depression many ideologies about how to govern developed. The greatest, was the idea ... ...

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... the solution to the problem. Forced sterilization and abortions were becoming commonplace in the regions where pressure was put on the officials to take action. Threats of violence and the loss of assets of a family were gorilla tactics used on the offenders of non-compliance. The self-esteem of Chinese women and girls was all but crushed with being looked at ... ...

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... in its place. Karl Marx's theory of alienated labor is integral to Upton Sinclair's story, The Jungle. Due to specialization, one worker has one task and that results in a worker's loss of independence, resulting in alienation. Jurgis feels alienated from his labor throughout the novel. He is working in a slaughterhouse when he says: "It was all highly specialized labor, each man ... ...

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... Washington, D.C. The names of 57,692 Americans who were killed in Vietnam are listed on the wall. The wall itself is simple and elegant. It does not realistically depict any loss, emotion, brutality, or victory, as many other war themed works of art do. It simply presents names and lets the viewer draw upon their own images and memories of the ... ...

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... 352). None of the social classes were fighting each other because there were no classes left. What Russia got working was to make the people think that the prospect of loss of potential improvements in conditions of life of the here and now, could only be attained by stimulating labor to unprecedented efforts. The last event that was similar in the ... ...

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... the major cities, from Beijing in the north to Canton in the south. Through such brutality the Chinese lost their best troops in the first weeks of the war. The loss of the cities was a major disaster for Chiang, whose economic lifeline was the cities. However, because of the Japanese occupation, many conservative local leaders fled, removing the direct influence and ... ...

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... and suffer as it got more involved. I think the middle class people in American society were effected the most, because it was usually them that had to mourn over the loss of their dad, brother, or son. "In the spring of 1967, huge antiwar protests occurred in major cities such as New York City and San Francisco"(Alterman 11 ). Every kind ... ...

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... 352). None of the social classes were fighting each other because there were no classes left. What Russia got working was to make the people think that the prospect of loss of potential improvements in conditions of life of the here and now, could only be attained by stimulating labor to unprecedented efforts. The last event that was similar in the ... ...

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... in its place. Karl Marx's theory of alienated labor is integral to Upton Sinclair's story, The Jungle. Due to specialization, one worker has one task and that results in a worker's loss of independence, resulting in alienation. Jurgis feels alienated from his labor throughout the novel. He is working in a slaughterhouse when he says: "It was all highly specialized labor, each man ... ...

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... their roadside bombs. This may have been a politically motivated war, but it wasn't for nothing like Vietnam. We have accomplished the eradication of the sadist Hussein. Iraq will never be a "loss." Maybe we didn't find his weapons of mass destruction, we did free so many people from his harsh rule. For all those who oppose my position I say this; war has ... ...

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