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    In 1840s Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels wrote Communist Manifesto. Marx and Engels wrote this document due to being members of the "Communist Leagues." The Communist Manifesto was a very influential document after the Industrial Revolution. With the industrial class increasing this document was published to end class social. Because of the rise of industries, workers have to leave their previous work and work at industries, workers ' health will be affected when they live near the cities, their communities

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    as a political leader who tries to get support by making false claims and promises and using arguments based on emotion rather than reason. A demagogue always has an audience whose judgement he intends to influence. The significance they have in society is that most of the time they represent a specific group of people, whose believes are different from others; they are the voice of specific people. By understanding the strategies used by demagogues we can combat the negative influence these rhetors

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    topic of freedom in unique ways, but their messages are fundamentally the same and continue the ideas that we encountered in the esoteric texts as well as in The Matrix: . First, we have Karl Marx’s Capital: Critique of Political Economy and The Communist Manifesto, where we encounter the proletariat, or the working-class people regarded collectively. In these two texts, the latter of which was co-authored by Frederick Engels, we learn that the proletariat is enslaved just like the people in the matrix

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    The novel Paradise of the Blind is written by Duong Thu Huong and conveys the story of three Vietnamese women struggling to survive in a society where women are excessively submissive towards men and Communist corruption destroys every dream. The story is portrayed through the character Hang, a young woman who has grown up among the slums and occasional elegance of Hanoi. As land reform rips apart their village, the tragedy of her family is established. When her Uncle Chinh‘s political loyalties

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    The Interactive Oral on Paradise of the Blind by Duong Thu Huong enabled me to better understand the cultural contexts of Vietnam and how it tied into the distinct characteristics of the characters in the novel. Upon reading the novel, I did not fully understand how Confucianism and communism affected the character’s decisions, especially from a Western point of view. One significant aspect that I discovered is the importance of self-sacrifice within familial ideals. Hang ultimately rejects her

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    From 1929 to 1953, dictator Josef Stalin ruthlessly ruled over the Soviet Union. Even after his death, the Soviet Union remained a major world power with noticeable influence on world economics and government until its collapse on December 26 of 1991. After reading 1984 written by George Orwell in 1949, many similarities could be drawn between the fictional totalitarian government of Oceania and the real Soviet Union. Although both countries and governments arose similarly and shared many key

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    modern day society as well as the past is his theory of alienation. Marx’s feels that modern means of production under certain conditions could cause the collapse of the worker. They would ultimately loose control of their life as a result of losing control of their work. The four major works analyzed in class all seem to have a revolving major theme of alienation in some aspect that cripples man’s ability to be a productive and effective being in society. Candide by Voltaire, The Communist Manifesto

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    be able to spend so much of the taxpayers money on the cold war, the Government had to get the US citizens behind them. To do this the US government started a propaganda campaign to scare the public into thinking the communists were bad and very dangerous people. That the communist people, their way of thinking, and their type of government had to be contained. There were several things that happened to help in-force what the government was saying. First Czechoslovakia and China fell to communism

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    In the enthralling novel Child 44, wrote by Tom Rob Smith, the powerful and cold country of USSR, under the rule of Joseph Stalin, is undergoing significant changes; this new communist society enforces the strict policy that “there is no crime”. In the meantime, a war hero and MGB member, Leo Demidov, is set out by his superiors to cover up, what is known to be a railway accident; when in reality, it was a certain murder. Conversely, when more bodies are found dead and the same imprints are left;

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    arrived. As the Gypsies continued to travel they soon began to develop a bad reputation that preceded their arrival in new areas. As the Gypsies arrived in the Czech areas within the Holy Roman Empire they were regarded as an undesirable element in society. Over the next few hundred years the Gypsies were persecuted and efforts were made to destroy the Gypsy culture in the area of former Czechoslovakia. "In the seventeenth century, many Gypsies were hanged from trees along the border to discourage

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