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    Joshua Bremer Foundations of American Expo. Prof. Stern May 3, 2015 Adam Smith and Karl Marx Modern political economic theory and philosophy can be greatly attributed to the works of two men who seemingly held polar opposite views on the subject. Adam Smith, a Scottish philosopher, published his most well-known work An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations in 1776 and is most often associated with the ideas and principles of the political economic system known as Capitalism

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    dogs’ conditioned reflex toward the tinkle of bells, people coincidentally react the same to a stereotyped image. Different people might endow the same symbols with various meanings. To Nazi, Ж presents their races’ power and superiority. The hammer and sickle to the Communist, the Crucifix to the Christens, and the Crescent to the Muslim all possess the unique

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    A Brief Look at Healthcare There are fewer hotter and polarizing topics in the United States of America than health care. Healthcare is a modern favorite for news networks and reporters. From the controversy involving Martin Shkreli and price gouging in the pharmaceutical industry, to reports that Americans pay much higher rates than those in other developed Western nations. Healthcare as a concept has been even had a large impact on politics in the country. Recently our current president, Barack

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    bucket of water up. It is then swung, or pivoted, around to the higher ground and emptied into a canal that went out to the field of crops. The fields were then reaped with that historically well known piece of farming technology, the ever-faithful sickle. (Kaplan, 2004) Another technology that we can attribute to the ancient Egyptians, and one that we take for granted in our current times, is paper and writing. The word “Paper” comes from the ancient Egyptian writing material called “papyrus”

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    Dear Comrade My cherished friend, I regret to inform you that our beloved Soviet society has ceased to exist. Our solid red flag with its magnificent gold emblem of the hammer and sickle flew above the Kremlin for the very last time on Christmas day, 1991. Prior to this gloomy day, eleven of the fifteenth Soviet republics that once made up the strong and prosperous Soviet Union, met in Alma-Ata, Kazakhstan, to announce that they would no longer partake in the Soviet Union, and had created a Commonwealth

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    Napoleon The power hungry pig that leads the animals as a totalitarian dictator into an oppression that stated “All animals are equal/ but some are more equal than others” While Jones' tyranny can be somewhat excused due to the fact that he is a dull-witted drunkard, Napoleon's can only be ascribed to his blatant lust for power. The very first description of Napoleon presents him as a "fierce-looking" boar "with a reputation for getting his own way." Throughout the novel, Napoleon's method of

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    and sexual exploration. People wanted to be delivered and they battled for a new avenue of expression and liberty. Though they yearned for this, there was one thing people wanted to suppress: Communism. In the 50’s, people were sick of the Hammer and Sickle. They wanted the bright red Commie flag to be crimson with Marxist-Leninist blood. Not a single virtue of the Communist theory was allowed into the

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    peasants. Though a true economy needs a multitude of interrelated skills and business flows to achieve efficiency, the Bolsheviks had simplified the masses into two major classes, the “Workers” and “Peasants” (this is well exemplified by the hammer and sickle on the Soviet flag). How did the Bolsheviks get organized It is clear that by not benefitting of capitalistic

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    Analysing the Factors That Prompted the Growth of Fascism in Italy by 1922 Fascism did not rise spontaneously nor was its growth prompted by one single event. Its roots grew from actions of people and groups over many years and of course one unique man, Benito Mussolini. Although Mussolini took power in 1922 the conditions allowing the germination of Fascism came from the years around 1914. Mussolini was quick to sense any political opportunity that came about over the following

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    over emerging and existing Communist countries. The influence wielded by the Soviet Republic was second only to the influence and power of the United States. This all ended with the fall of the Soviet Union, “On December 25, 1991, the Soviet hammer and sickle flag lowered for the last time over the Kremlin, thereafter replaced by the Russian tricolor. Earlier in the day, Mikhail Gorbachev resigned his post as president of the Soviet Union, leaving Boris Yeltsin as president of the newly independent

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