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    were needed in order to avenge the “deaths” of the American people by the Vietnamese. In the beginning, thousands of men signed up to be drafted because the war was supported. According to Howard Zinn, “over 200,000 American soldiers were sent to South Vietnam, and in 1966, 200,000 more.” The New York Times discovered that the American soldiers used an excuse of Vietcong to bomb many places in which the residents were mostly the innocent women and children. About five hundred deaths took place, and

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    Ho Chi Minh and The Vietnam War

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    concerning France’s success. By the time Kennedy took office the French had withdrawn and Eisenhower had poured millions of dollars of aid into South Vietnam. The U.S. policy had a chance to shift at this point, but once again, Kennedy picked up the mantle of taking a stand against communism in Vietnam. Though the commitment at this point to forces in South Vietnam was not one of full “soldiers on the ground”, Kennedy still inherited a dangerous situation. Kennedy made a decision that caused yet another

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    years to gain political rights and freedom for all people. These countries did not have many resources to help people in their poor conditions. One such country is South Africa, where many South Africans were treated unfairly under apartheid, a law, made in 1950, to separate the African minorities from the white population living in South Africa.1 The Whites banned interracial and intersexual relations between Blacks and non-Black people, and the Black people owned only about 20% of the land.2 Black

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    U.S Slavery History and North Korean Life

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    railroad. The North Korean Underground Railroad is a horrendous path across China that leads to South Korea. It is a treacherous path because China sends about 200 North Korean refugees back to North Korea each day. As soon as North Koreans are sent back, they either end up in jail, in a prison camp or are killed. Similar to white people helping African American slaves escape to freedom, many Chinese and South Korean people try and help North Koreans escape as well. China does not want refugees to

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    The Man I Killed, by Tim O'Brien

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    "We have to start treating Vietnam as a country and not a war. It'll take the old age and death of all veterans before it stops being our 51st state (Alvarez, 2013)." In the story "The Man I Killed", Tim O'Brien, who served in the U.S military in Vietnam, describes the guilt many American soldiers felt about the atrocities they committed in Vietnam. "Vietnam is not an appendage of America. That sort of thinking got us into the mess in the first place. Were bound together by some painful history,

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    The Bravery of Nelson Mandela

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    individual that divides them from other amateurs that cannot fit the recount. Not anything in life is free or arrives without trying. In alignment to be brave, a person should have courageous, persistent, and honest Nelson Mandela, the previous leader of South Africa, did not choose to take an easy walk to flexibility. Mandela

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    International Business

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    With a population of 48 million, South Africa represents 10 per cent of Africa’s population and 45 per cent of the continent’s gross domestic product (GDP). Its GDP is almost as big as the rest of sub-Saharan Africa’s 47 countries combined. As the engine of growth for Africa, South Africa recently has been growing at 5 per cent annually. It is the largest economy in Africa, and is among the top-ten emerging economies. Before 1994, South Africa had been ruled by a white minority government

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    Introduction This essay aims to analyze the representation of characters in the film Caché (French for “hidden”, 2005) and the racial issues between the colonizer and the colonized through the psychoanalysis of colonialism and post-colonialism. I will first give a synopsis of the film. Directed by Michael Haneke, Caché presents the story of a bourgeois, middle-aged French man, George, who receives anonymous tapes. This makes him recall his childhood memory of an Algerian boy, Majid. Majid’s parents

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    Introduction • VoC approach does not provide sufficient prototypes. • South Korea is SME • Turkey is also SME because it has similar characteristics. State policies are similar. • However, outcomes of these state policies are quite different (give figures) In the mid-1950 's, Turkey was a much richer country than Korea. With about the same population, Turkish GNP was about three times that of Korea, Turkish exports were fifteen times those of Korea, and the Turkish savings rate was much higher than

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    Cry, The Beloved Country

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    Alan Paton’s Cry, the Beloved Country takes place during the late 1940’s in Southern Africa. Specifically, in High Place, Ndotsheni, and Johannesburg. It takes place during a time of social change. There is racial inequality taking place during the late 1940’s. The novel shows what it was like to be living during this time. Cry, the Beloved Country has an urban and crowded feeling for most of the novel. This novel is written in past-tense, third-person omniscient point of view. Occasionally, the

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