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Forced To Work Members Of The Family
1,888 words
In the Book The Jungle by Upton Sinclair the
extreme horrors of the meat packing industry in
the 1900 s were exposed to all. He vividly
displayed the hardships that new immigrants had
faced upon their arrival to this great nation.
Also I found that this book was a huge promoter of
socialism, and it was believed that this method of
economy would be the end of poverty in America.
The book goes through the life a Lithuanian family
that just moved to America in pursuit of wealth
and prosperity. They...
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Revolution Of 1905 Workers Of The World
1,041 words
... e workers' revolutionary apprenticeship. The
growing number of strikes, their extension and
increasing duration pointed towards a possible '
General Strike, that is, to the impending social
revolution. Each particular strike was a facsimile
in reduced scale of the General Strike, and a
preparation for the final insurrection. The
increasing revolutionary will would not be
measured by the success or failure of political
parties, but by the frequency and vehemence of the
strikes. The revolution...
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Detroit Michigan Gale Michigan Gale Research
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Carl August Sandburg was born in Galesburg,
Illinois on January 6, 1878. His parents, August
and Clara Johnson, were immigrants from Sweden.
After he encountered many August Johnsons in his
job with the railroad, Carl's father decided to
rename the family. The Sandburg's were poor and as
a result, Carl had to quit school at the age of
thirteen to drive a milk truck and deliver milk to
help support the family. At seventeen, Carl
Sandburg went to Kansas as a hobo. During the
eight months that he s...
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Fascist Party Socialist Party
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Bentio Mussolini, (18833 - 1945) was the Fascist
dictator of Italy from 1922 to 1943. He
centralized all power in himself as the leader (il
duce) of the Fascist party and attempted to create
an Italian empire, ultimately in alliance with
Hitlers Germany. The defeat of Italian arms in
World War II brought an end to his imperial dream
and led to his down fall. Mussolini was born in
Predappio, near Forli, in Romagna, on July 29,
1883. His father, Alejandro, was a Blacksmith, and
his mother, Rosa wa...
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Ideologies Of The Democracy Movement In China
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... the intellectuals were beginning to doubt the
Chinese Communist Party, but no political action
was taken to overthrow the Maoist regime because
of Chinese cultural respect towards the system of
government. However, in 1978, after Mao's death,
Deng Xiaoping obtained leadership of the Chinese
Communist Party. Deng's initial objective was to
retain a "socialist democracy" within China. As in
other issues in Chinese history, scholars have
attempted to define the purpose of Deng's reign.
One comm...
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Standard Of Living Upper And Lower
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Although the trend followed by most nations
nowadays tend to favor mixed economies, the
question about planning versus free market still
resurfaces every now and then. Throughout history,
people have established different types of
economic systems that best represent the cultural
and social values of the society as a whole. By
definition, an effective economic system is
believed to be the kind of system that will meet
the entire society's needs and wants. It is also
the system that will solve ma...
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One Child Policy Feng Shui
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... economy and development of the country. The
government is divided into three branches; the
executive, legislative, and judicial. The
executive branch consists of the president and
other head of government that are elected by the
National People's Congress every five years. The
Legislative Branch is a unicameral branch that
makes up the National People's Congress. Unlike
the U. S. government that is made up of the House
of Representatives and the Senate, there is only
one governing body in Ch...
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Social Democratic Party Lieutenant Colonel
1,504 words
French Political Parties Between the 1890 s and
1920 s Between the Dreyfus Affair in the 1890 s
and the formation of the French Communist Party
(PCF) in 1920, French workers and their
representatives were repeatedly confronted with
choices - socialism, republicanism, syndicalism,
and communism - which involved political goals and
tactics. The Dreyfus affair was the result of many
unfortunate circumstances, not the planned
premeditated intervention of the French Army. It
was the outcome of reason...
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Eastern European Countries Communist Regime
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German History For a period more then 70 years
Germany had been living a life full of political
changes. After the finishing of the II World War
and the defeating of Germany, it became the main
battlefield between the USSR and western
countries. During the War the leaders of Big Three
(the USSR, England and the USA) met three times.
The last meeting began in Potsdam on July 17,
1945. It had been lasted for 17 days. The question
arisen in Potsdam was about the compensation to
the countries, victi...
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The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
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The Jungle by Upton Sinclair Upton Sinclair was
born in Baltimore on September 20, 1878. Although
his family roots can be traced back to a wealthy
southern aristocracy, by the time Sinclair was
born family could barely meet ends. Sinclair
started to write in his early years, while in
college, in order to support himself, yet his
writings never gained any popularity. During his
years in college, Sinclair becomes an adherent of
Socialist philosophy, which was gaining momentum
at the time. In 1906 ...
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Washington D C People Who Live
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Capitalism and Socialism Capitalism if explained
in brief means private ownership of the means of
production. Private ownership means that
individuals control their own persons, their own
energies, and the products of their energies. It
prevails to the extent that individuals do not
restrain or interfere with one another as they
use, exchange (sell) or give away what they find
unclaimed or abandoned, what they make, and what
they get from other persons by gift or exchange
(purchase). Capitalism ...
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Secretary Of Labor Put In Place
2,428 words
Analysis of the Red Scare " The tumult and
the shouting dies, The captains and the kings
depart. " -Kipling, The Recessional Mr.
Kipling was wrong. War does not always end with
the last cry on the battlefield. World War I
certainly did not. After the war formally ended on
November 18, 1918, there was an ideological war
still going on in the US. An ideological war which
prompted mass paranoia and caused, among many
other things, what would be known as the Red
Scare, which began in 1919 ...
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Upton Sinclair Socialist Party
1,210 words
There are many characters in The Jungle by Upton
Sinclair. These characters vary widely in their
professions, social status, and economic status.
The main character in the novel is a Lithuanian
named Jurgis Radius. His wife is Ona Lukoszaite,
also a Lithuanian. Their son is named Antanas.
Mike Scully is a powerful political leader in
Packingtown. Phil Connor is a foreman in
Packingtown, politically connected (through
Scully), and a man who causes much trouble for
Jurgis. Jack Duane is an experie...
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Detroit Michigan Gale Michigan Gale Research
1,429 words
Carl Radical Sandburg Radical Sandburg Carl August
Sandburg was born in Galesburg, Illinois on
January 6, 1878. His parents, August and Clara
Johnson, were immigrants from Sweden. After he
encountered many August Johnsons in his job with
the railroad, Carl? s father decided to rename the
family. The Sandburg's were poor and as a result,
Carl had to quit school at the age of thirteen to
drive a milk truck and deliver milk to help
support the family. At seventeen, Carl Sandburg
went to Kansas as a...
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Chinese Communist Party Freedom Of Speech
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After Deng Xiaoping gained power in 1978, a new
political atmosphere was promised for the Chinese
people. A promise of a free land with a modern
economic state was made by Deng in order to gain
public support. During Deng's reign, a series of
economic reforms were made. These reforms had
major impacts on both the economy and the society
of China. Although it has been argued that Deng
was leading a totalitarian regime, historians tend
to overlook the idea that the Chinese have
different ideologie...
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Soviet Socialist Republics Five Year Plans
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Images Of Control Progaganda In Nazi Germany
Images Of Control Progaganda In Nazi Germany And
Soviet Russia One of the greatest revolutions in
the twentieth century was not political in nature.
It however aided in many different political
revolutions. This revolution was the
communications revolution. The twentieth century
has experienced one of the greatest changes in
mean of communication including technologies such
as radio, television, motion pictures, advanced
telecommunications and the Int...
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Revolutions Of 1848 20 Th Century
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Over the course of his active life, Karl Marx
philosophy concerning the revolutionary process
naturally evolved and developed. His work must
therefore be considered in its entirety to
adequately understand his perceptions and views.
It would be inaccurate to characterize Marx
analysis of the revolutionary process strictly on
the basis of his early writing such works as The
German Ideology (1845 - 46) and The Economic and
Philosophical Manuscripts (1844). In order to
acquire a better understandin...
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Nazi Ideology Third Reich
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Nazi Germany regulated and controlled the art
produced between 1933 and 1945 to ensure they
embodied the values they wished to indoctrinate
into the German people. The notion of? volk?
(people) and? blut und boden? (soil and blood) was
championed in paintings to glorify an idealized
rural Germany and instill a sense of? superiority?
in the Nordic physicality. Highly veristic and
asthetisized works romanticized everyday subjects
and reiterated redundant stereotyped Nazi ideals
of the human body a...
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Chiang Kai Shek Mao Tse Tung
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Mao, Maoism and the Evolution of The Chinese
Communist Party: An Historical Commentary Isolated
from its neighbours by the vast windswept deserts
of central Asia and the mighty Tibetan plateaus to
the west, by the Jungles of the south, and by the
Pacific Ocean to the east, China developed a
civilization and cultural tradition independent
from the rest of the world, even though it
accepted many inventions and ideas created
elsewhere. Because of this isolated evolution, the
social institutions wit...
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Nineteen Eighty Four Percent Of The Population
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Eric Blair, known to his readers under the English
pen name of George Orwell (1903 - 1950), was a man
familiar with the roles of government. He served
with the British government in Burma under the
Indian Imperial Police. Returning to his European
roots, Orwell also sided with the Spanish
government as he fought with the Loyalists in
their civil war. It wasn t until he wrote
professionally as a political writer that Orwell s
ideas of government were fully expressed. Orwell,
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