For many years, China remained where it was, focusing more on its internal problems and economic reform within its own country; therefore, China was not worrying about what was going on in the rest of the world. ... Be it from the fact that China is still considered a Communist country or that almost every country in one way or another is currently in China's debt financially, some people do not put much faith into China. As Ai Zhong-Guo, a writer for AsiaPacificDefenceReporter.com, explains the precipitous edge that China currently stands on in terms with the rest of the world, "Internat...

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Department of State's Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs focuses on establishing and maintaining beneficial U.S.... For the past forty years, the People's Republic of China, the Republic of China (Taiwan), and Japan have been fighting over a territory dispute for five uninhabited islands and three rocks in the East China Sea, of which Japan currently has "administrative control". ... Currently, Japanese and Chinese residents are banned from landing on the Senkakus or exploring the disputed waters around the islands. ... The United States is inextricably involved in th...

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Currently, more and more teenagers are being exposed to and experiencing the negative aspects of the modern world such as the concept of stereotypes and emotional instability. ... Booth mainly focuses on the relationship between humans and the environment and humanity's capacity to create and destroy the earth. ... Suzuki's artworks mainly focus on the theme of gender roles and society's portrayal and misconception of women. ... Suzuki utilizes photography as her medium and focuses on visual manipulation where she alters photos and adds her own face to them, which is highly effe...

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Truman and others were not only focusing on the end of WWII but also on the future relations with the Soviet Union. ... This is very promising but if larger nuclear powers do not do their jobs at monitoring one another, the current trend could reverse itself. ...

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Currently there are no international laws banning nuclear weapons, but there are restrictions on testing these weapons. ... The CTBT focuses too much on the big nuclear powers of the world. ... The U.S. government point of view has been that the new ABM system will be focused on shooting down limited attacks from "rogue- nuclear states, considered to be North Korea, Iran#. ...

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It is currently ineffective in solving international disputes; however, humanity cannot afford to abandon a valuable institution for its imperfections. ... Indeed, we are currently spending $750 billion a year on the instruments of death, and in the process opening up a new battlefield of social neglect. ...

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France and Britain were also repudiating Italy out of its due gains by not handing over the extra land they had offered leading the current Italian Government to look "ignored" and "inconsequent". ... With the current environment and situation of Italy and Europe of this time, help could be found within Communists and slowly people began to support Communism and it's popular ideals. Now at this time, Mussolini, seeing the situation he found his homeland in and the weakened state of the current government, grabbed at his Fortuna when he could. ... Through this common source he quickly be...

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1. In "Homo Loquens"," Marshall Poe describes his theories on speech communication. Within his ideas, he points out disadvantages in speech, and how society tends to interpret it. One disadvantage that Poe pointed out was the idea of privacy, and how with speech, nothing can ever be private. "You have to be pretty good with masks, makeup, or false mustaches to fool anyone looking right at you, and most of us aren't (Poe 39). ...

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He accomplished this by focusing on the policies and their effects not on the motives of the policy makers. ... The Germans focused more on stimulating private industry through subsidies and tax rebate, they encouraged consumer spending through marriage loans, they also implemented public works programs including the autobahn, housing, railroads, and navigation projects. ...

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During the early 20th century, Britain began to see the spread of education, across all levels of society, molding the public to be more literate. In the 1930's, Britain saw a boom in literature publications with poets writing about and during the war. The horrors of World War 1 created an immense m...

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INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS OF ASIA "This is the only region in the world where so many combinations and permutations of two- three and four- and even two plus four or three plus three- power games can be played on the regional chessboard with all their complexities and variations." introduction T...

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The past decade witnessed many conflicts which focused around the issues of sovereignty. States have invaded other sovereign states for reasons that seem to be dubious by the international community. National separatist movements have intensified and are associated with the rise of the doctrine of s...

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The past decade witnessed many conflicts which focused around the issues of sovereignty. States have invaded other sovereign states for reasons that seem to be dubious by the international community. National separatist movements have intensified and are associated with the rise of the doctrine of s...

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The next chapter labeled "Tactics" and the next six that follow focus on putting ones army in a position to succeed. ... Even some current definitions of intelligence are based on statements made in this chapter. ...

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For decades, people have engaged in wars as a motive to bring about peace. However it has proven to do nothing but disturb and hurt the lives of millions of civilians around the world. It is an unjust and necessary evil into our society. Civil wars exist to end disputes over land, over throw religio...

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The region of Southeast Asia was chocked full of natural resources. Some of these natural resources included coffee, tea and spices. These resources are what originally brought western countries to the area. Many of the top countries in Europe and Asia wanted to conquer parts of this region. Lockard describes the perspective of colonialism from a world view; he states "it served primarily to link Southeast Asia more firmly to a world dominated by the West and to introduce Western ideas and technologies". 1 As Lockard is right in that instance, the conquest that came along with coloni...

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Joseph Stalin was the soviet communist leader who's passing molded an era, and whose iron rule determined the lives of millions of people. Considering that he shaped the direction of post-World War II Europe, we may regard him as the most powerful person to live during the 20th century. Joseph Stalin was born Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili on December 21, 1879, in Gori, Georgia . Both his parents were peasants. His father, Vissarion Dzhugashvili, was a cobbler, hopping that one day his son will be apprenticed in the same trade; his mother, Yekaterina ...

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In his article "Domestic Causes of the First World War", Arno Mayer detached his analysis from the usual multi-factor explanatory model, and focused instead on the role of domestic policies in igniting the war. ...

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Background and During the Cooling of Relations The Second World War drastically changed the political map of the world, and especially the European continent. The basic premises of the new alignment of the world developed in the final stages of the war. The anti-Hitler coalition, the main role which played the great powers - the US, the USSR, England, and at the last stage of the war France - increasingly reflect the new balance of power in the world. Neither Britain nor France, nor even, defeated Germany could not play in the post-war period of the previous role of the guarantor of balance a...

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From 1965 until 1973, the United States of America was at war with the communist nation of North Vietnam. One of the darkest and most controversial time periods in American History, the involvement of the United States in Vietnam caused drastic cultural changes within the American nation.1 Americans commonly regard the war in Vietnam as a gruesome and brutal war that was a complete failure for the United States armed forces. The media's impact on American culture caused a rapid decrease in the approval of the war and resulted in a political and military defeat for the United States. One o...

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It may be argued however, that recruitment posters really weren't needed, that men would join up anyway, from a variety of reasons from boredom, hope that conditions in the army were better than their current situation et cetera. ...

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