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    power. The main sources for this investigation range from an Excerpt from The cold war: The United States and the Soviet union by Ronald Powaski who states facts about both the economic and political issues of the time. Excerpts from “New political thinking” from perestroika by Gorbachev which states how he believes new political

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    main points that would be different if Pablo Neruda would have written it in the Soviet Union. The first main point is diction. The second main point would be purpose and the final thing would be audience. I will be finding some article that knows about the Soviet Union in the time when Pablo Neruda was writing this poem in Chile. If Pablo Neruda would have written the System of Gloom in the country of the Soviet Union. There would have been some different interpretation in reference to the use of

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    Soviet Ideology and it’s Destined Collapse The Soviet Union was a strong global superpower rivaling the western nations and the strongest, the United States of America. It was proof that a strong world power could be formed under Communism; but it would not last, the differences of Democracy and Communism wouldn’t allow them to co-exist. The principles of Communism after many long arduous years was proven to not be able to work in the real world, and for the Soviet Union, there collapse was a slow

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    The photo of the US National Hockey team celebrating their victory over the Soviet Union in the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, NY, symbolizes a national triumph over a longstanding political rival. This photo is one of the most famous in sports history and is among the 100 Greatest Sports Photos of All-Time by the magazine Sports Illustrated, for which it was also a cover photo for March 3, 1980. The photo captures the pure emotion experienced not only by the team, but the fans as well, which

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    Russia, known by most as the Russian Federation, is a federal state in Eurasia. Russia is the largest country in the world at 17,075,200 square kilometres by surface area, covering more than one eighth of Earth 's inhabited land, and the ninth most populous, with over 146.6 million people as of end of March 2016. The European western part of the country is much more populated and urbanised than the East, with almost eight-tenths of the population living within the European region of Russia. Russia

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    FLVS: Lesson

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    Number 6 What is the question asking you to identify? This question is asking to clearly identify centripetal force. What is the correct response? The correct response is “National Flag” FLVS, Lesson 7.06). Why is this choice the best answer to the question? This is a correct response because the National Flag is a symbol uniting a nation showing nationalism or pride in one’s country. Read each distractor. What makes each distractor incorrect? The distractors are incorrect because they are

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    Rise of Nationalities A group of people tied to a place is a nationality. Ethnicity is similar to nationality. The American nationality includes any citizen, born or immigrated and became a citizen, of the United States. Immigrants consider ethnicity more important than nationality. Violate conflicts can be a result of confusion between nationality and ethnicity. Nation-States Ethnic groups have become nationalities because the want for self-rule is a common attitude for many of them. Ethnicities

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    1990 through December 25, 1991, an event happened that the world had been trying to cause for decades: the fall of the Soviet Union. Major steps had been taken the decade prior by Ronald Reagan that improved the US’s relationship with the USSR, even despite their frosty beginnings; after all, at the beginning of his presidency, Reagan called Konstantin Chernenko’s Soviet Union an ‘evil empire’ (Talbott 1). However, when George H.W Bush took office, he began by reevaluating his strategic policy to

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    United States and the Soviet Union--were in what seemed like a competition to determine who had the most advanced technology. This was because that country will be seen as the strongest and the biggest threat to the other. The space race really began officially on October 4, 1957, when the Soviet Union launched Sputnik I, which was the first artificial satellite ever to be launched in space. This was seen as a danger to the United States, because it meant that the Soviet Union was possible capable

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    Informative Speech

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    moon, flying dust and debris made the American Flag fall over. Transition: As far as the flag goes, many people believe that the flag isn’t even sitting on the moon. That this whole Space Race was just a show to make the Soviets believe that America is superior and can get to the moon. III. There have always been conspiracies about the First Lunar Landing. “That is was shot inside of a studio,” say many conspiracy theorists. i. The flag waving is one conspiracy, says Ken Than of NatGeo

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