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    Africans People Union (ZAPU) and the Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU) were banned by the Rhodesian state, they fled to Zambia and Mozambique. There, they formed the insurgent organizations Zimbabwe People’s Revolutionary Army (ZIPRA) and the Zimbabwe African National Liberation Army (ZANLA), respectively. While the two parent political parties differed in their ideological views regarding the inclusion of Maoist philosophy in their Marxism, their military movements did not differ significantly in their

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    Assata Shakur is an African-American lady who had strong believes in defending her Black race amid the seventies. She is an amazing and motivating image of conquering a degenerate society's restrictions and racial fortresses. In 1971, Assata Shakur was blamed for robbing a bank in Queens, NY. This was the start of a considerable rundown of allegations and accusations that she would be encountering in her life. Life in the US in the 50s was extreme, if you weren't white and Assata experience this

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    The Land of the Rising Sun SGT Wagester, Macauley ADA ALC 006-17 The Land of the Rising Sun Home of 20 percent of the world’s population, China has a very unique and diverse culture. This research paper is going to introduce and educate the reader about the geography, economy, political party, and military that makes up the mysterious country to the East. Fourth largest country in the world, China makes up almost the entire East Asian Landmass. China’s 9,596,960

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    At a time of war and inequality, when Americans were divided through a different perspective, everyone had their own views on the war and inequality between races. Such events like the civil rights movement in full swing with leaders like Martin Luther King Jr., police using brutalization force against African Americans, and soldiers dying in the Vietnam War, were the major reasons behind the differences between the races. The Black Panther Party was a response to the injustice of equality against

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    Bejerot, a criminologist and psychiatrist, after he analyzed the victims’ brains. A year later in 1974 came another case of the syndrome; Patty Hearst, the granddaughter and heiress of William Randolph Hearst, was held captive by the Symbionese Liberation Army and brainwashed into accepting their ideas. In April she was caught robbing a bank in San Francisco via CCTV and was sentenced to 7 years of prison in

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    Conflicting views Under the Obama administration, the term rebalancing has been stated when it comes to the relationships in the South China Sea. The point of rebalancing has come up when speaking about the confrontation in the South China Sea. The idea is that the United States wants to restore the original agreement by UNCLOS in order to give its allies a fair piece of the South China Sea and its resources. China views this not as rebalancing, but as suppression. China has stated that the United

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    Assata: an Autobiography by Assata Shakur Assata Shakur was born on July 14, 1947 her real name is Joanne Deborah Byron, after she was born her parent divorced. She was living with her mother, aunt and her grandparents in Wilmington North Carolina. As a child she spent time working with her grandparents in a restaurant they own by the beach. Her grandparents instilled in her the love for written word, and she spent a great deal reading to satisfy her imagination. Her family tried to infuse in

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    The National Liberation Army (ELN) was established July, 4th 1964 by college students and a group of radical, Catholic clergy that were inspired by the revolution that took place in Cuba (Stanford, 2012). Since its inception, the ELN have had an ongoing rivalry with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Columbia (FARC), due to a constant power struggle between the two groups. The ELN operate in Columbia additionally, they have ties to Cuba, as well as other Latin American countries. The objective of

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    Campbell Hearst, a Berkeley undergraduate student, on February 4, 1974 at nineteen years of age was kidnapped by a group of men and women after leaving her beaten fiancé behind (Winter, 2005). This group of men and women formed the Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA), a radical group of domestic terrorists, led by Donald DeFreeze, with the mission to destroy the “capitalist state” (Hixson, 2005). The group was formed in Berkley, California with their main priorities being to end racism, monogamy, the

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    The relationship between the United States and the People’s Republic of China is perhaps the most important bilateral tie shaping the future of the world. China’s economy for the past 20 years has been riding a phenomenal wave of growth surging to become the world’s second largest economic power. This prospering economy has additionally generated the necessary resources for China to rapidly strengthen and modernize its military and capabilities. These additional resources and capabilities makes

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