... decades. Since almost of all governors and politicians were from the military force, people was under control of them. Politics were relatively insulated from business, political elites were able to discipline private sector, for example, a reward productive investment and penalize poor performance. However, he accomplished the growth of administrative capacity, as showed by a remarkable rise in the tax revenue. The administrative ... factors, for instance, the stable inflation rate may have led both borrowers and lenders to underestimate the risk of Korea's foreign currency exposure. F...

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... agricultural land into an industrial-agricultural state. This transformation was carried out under a system of central planning patterned on that of the Soviet Union. 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. Investment in industry was encouraged by ... a tax and subsidy structure that overpriced consumer goods and underpriced the components of heavy industrial goods. The highly centralize panning process often led to ineff...

• Word Count: 1630
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... World War II, he said that he was acting under orders, when his actions were completely against the law. He said he had been trying to teach the POWs military discipline, and asserted that he had been acting under orders (Hillenbrand 393). The soldiers were given the power to take care of the POWs. Having the responsibility of another person's life ... ...

• Word Count: 1965
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... books. He describes bombings simply as "drop things on them from airplanes" to show that war is nothing more than bullying, that children do. He uses the word discipline as if America is the ruler and it punishes other countries for not doing what it wants. In Cat's Cradle, Vonnegut repeatedly refers to the nuclear bomb as the end ... ...

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... ;a constitutional psychopathic state" (14). They had to fight against the notion that they made "poor combat soldiers" and "their presence in units would threaten morale and discipline" (2). Some psychiatrists would not want to ruin the life of homosexual's and would still let them join the military. If they would dismiss the homosexuals that were honest from ... ...

• Word Count: 1395
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... that the ultimate objection of the squadron is to successfully complete the assigned missions. After arriving at the 918th squadron it was clear to Savage that the men had poor discipline. They would often be out of uniform or show up drunk. An Executive Officer Lieutenant Colonel Ben Gately was not at his place of duty. After discovering this, Savage condemned ... ...

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... -indulgence, hedonism, cowardice, and physical and moral softness, as well as rationalism, skepticism, atheism, humanitarianism, and democracy. Fascists striving to become the "new man" appealed to "spirituality," which generated self-discipline and virility, and allowed one to feel hate instead of pity for one's victims. The last defining feature of fascism was the scapegoating of groups such as Jews, leftists, and ... ...

• Word Count: 1719
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... the Soviet economic decline is the rigid command economy' imposed by Stalin in the early 1930s. It did not reward individual or collective effort; it absolved Soviet producers from the discipline of the market; and it gave power to officials who could not be held accountable by consumers. Consequently much of the investment that went into the civilian sector of the ... ...

• Word Count: 2365
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... writing. Part of this was he left out all extraneous verbiage and authorial intrusion. Instead he presented sharply focused images that stood out on their own. Hemingway also developed a writing discipline. He would write one thousand words a day and refine the copy back to around three hundred words. He did not want to bore the reader with a bunch of nonsense and ... ...

• Word Count: 1393
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... , it was every man for himself. Men no longer fought in columns, shoulder-to-shoulder with their comrades; it had become individualistic. When men fight as individuals, good order and discipline break down. All that remains is chaos and anarchy. The soldiers rebel against everything they have learned about unit integrity, killing as many as possible in order to survive. I believe ... ...

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... forever, and the wounded were left behind. 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. Finally, Napoleon's hunger for power and dominion ... ...

• Word Count: 1357
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... , Lieutenant General Mathew Ridgeway was appointed to command the UN ground force in Korea. General Ridgeway visited individual units and gave them pep talks, replacing useless officers, recognizing and rebuilding discipline. The troops began to respond. January 4, 1951, UN forces had to pull out of Seoul as the Chinese army approached. The South Korean capital was in enemy hands again. In ... ...

• Word Count: 2398
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... had never won the Nobel-Prize, but, many people working under him had It was once said that Oppenhimer could have actually won the Nobel Prize if he had "the discipline to do Nobel-Prize quality work-(Cohen 35). The brilliant staff also included the Nobel-Prize winner Enrico Fermi, who started work on the nuclear reactor; Richard Feynman, the practical ... ...

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... strengthen the national purpose, with war and expansion as tests of strength and arenas for heroic sacrifice. Coordination and propaganda: advertising, ceremonies, the ruling party as an enforer of social discipline and respect for the leader. A belief in at least some traditional hierarchies: the army, the family, sometimes the church. A hatred of socialists and liberals: socialists as opponents of national self ... ...

• Word Count: 1819
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... yielded a comparable reduction of Canadian tariffs- forty percent of Japanese, United States and EEC tariffs together helped along with comparable reduction of Canadian tariffs. Agreements were made to instate international discipline to government procurement policies. The biggest gain of the conference for Canada was with United States exchange of tariff concessions. A deal with the United States was made that stated that ... ...

• Word Count: 2464
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... . Such forces were themselves above the law. Special courts had the power to sentence people to death for treason while concentration camps and penal settlements were other means of enforcing discipline and uniformity of thought and action. In terms of both Italy and Germany, the use of violence or threats of violence to impose their views on others (fascism and Nazism ... ...

• Word Count: 1866
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... a strictly theoretical analysis of International affaires, and demands to interpret reality by locking outside the reality itself, that is, any type of variables. "It is an irony of the IR-discipline that it has combined a focus on states as the most important actors in the system with an astonishing absence of analysis of the state itself- (Søresen 2001: 21). This ... ...

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... friends from my school days, like virtually everyone else. It must have been during these months that my mother saw an S.A. parade in the streets of Heidelberg. The sight of discipline in a time of chaos, the impression of energy in an atmosphere of universal hopelessness, seems to have won her over (Sereny, 123). The Treaty of Versailles had weakened and utterly ... ...

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... room. In War Ministry circular the Japanese rationale for this is expressed: "It is not necessary to emphasize how much the environment influences troops" psychology and therefore the promotion of discipline. Thus care must be taken in regard to suitable living conditions and comfort facilities the psychological influence received from sexual comfort stations is most direct and profound and must be ... ...

• Word Count: 1708
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... the Hitler Youth (HJ) mandatory, driving up membership of the organisation to 8,870,000 at the beginning of 1939. The Hitler Youth indoctrinated young Germans with Nazi concepts of race, discipline and obedience. Summer camps were set up, in which political ideological teachings, physical fitness, rifle practice, endurance and team-building games were core activities. The aim was to breed a new ... ...

• Word Count: 1333
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... , Lieutenant General Mathew Ridgeway was appointed to command the UN ground force in Korea. General Ridgeway visited individual units and gave them pep talks, replacing useless officers, recognizing and rebuilding discipline. The troops began to respond. January 4, 1951, UN forces had to pull out of Seoul as the Chinese army approached. The South Korean capital was in enemy hands again. In ... ...

• Word Count: 2267
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• Grade Level: High School

... 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 ... ...

• Word Count: 1601
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... :12). Anyone who was not patriotic as possible was deemed a suspect. The President showed concern with the weakened civic fabric and declared time and time again, the need for self-discipline and personal responsibility. The Red Scare further influenced popular culture through religion. This saw in the rise of revival movements all over the nation. Protestant revivals opened up all over ... ...

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... -nationalist elements. The members of the Tosei-ha did not believe in direct actions against the government or the use of terrorist methods. They believed that such actions undermined the discipline favored by the army and so were dangerous. They believed that to achieve their aims they should work through legal means to not only gain power within the army but ... ...

• Word Count: 1437
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... small Austrian town of Braunau Am Inn to parents Alois Schicklgruber (who changed his last name to Hitler in 1877) and Klara PÖlzl. He was born into a life of discipline and their father often savagely beat him and his 3 siblings if they did not do as told. Whilst growing up, Hitler was surrounded by Catholicism, and being the devoted Christian ... ...

• Word Count: 1914
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• Grade Level: High School