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    the world of international relations, the first chapter does a great job of exploring what the book will cover. It covers the many viewpoints of international relations. There are many concepts and terms that the chapter covers which can help one understand politics. Some of these key concepts are cognitive dissonance, mirror images, and enduring rivalries. Many key terms that increase one’s knowledge of world politics that are covered in this chapter are actors, power, and sovereignty. World politics

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    Unnecessary World War

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    World War I was a long, hard war that resulted in a catastrophic death toll with no real change in the world as to what it was before the war, because of this many people refer to it as an “unnecessary war”. Without World War I most people, believe that the world would have been generally the same as to what it had always been and so the loss of millions of lives had essentially been for nothing. World War I or the Great War, as it used to be referred to as, seemed to have been caused because of

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    World Controllers design a society where jobs are assigned by caste/ intellectual ability, so all members enjoy and thrive in their job. All jobs are done to perfection in the World State as result from this system. Hypnopaedia or sleep-teaching plays as another form of dehumanization by building stability through implementing morals for each caste. Each caste learns to like their caste, and not interact with others. The World Controllers do this so opposing intellectual abilities do not disagree

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    technology breakthroughs of the 20th century improve mankind and advance society. From antibiotics and vaccines to the internet and the cell phone, engineers and scientist grind to enhance the quality of life not only of the United States but the world. However, in a planet inhabited by humans, power rears its tenacious head and disrupts the balance of good and evil and manipulates situations that cause havoc and do harm. Consequently, in an era where war exists in any country at any time, weapon

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    On July 28th of the year of 1914 Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia, thus marking the official start of World War I. Soon after alliances brought other countries into the war including France, Germany, Russia, Italy, and Great Britain. Austria charged into Serbia, Germany attacked Belgium and France, and Russia attacked Germany and Austria. The United States attempted to stay neutral in the war. However, due to acts of aggression against the United States, the country joined the war in April

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    The Reality Of Real World

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    reality, real life is now merging with a fictional world that can be created and manipulated. Another manner in which the real world is capable of joining a manufactured world is through the usage of comic books. Real world events have been and are continuously mixed up with the lives of superheroes such as when heroes were depicted fighting against Hitler and the Nazi’s in World War II. There are two main types of representations of real world events and that is through indirect representation using

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    World Wide Consortium

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    World Wide Consortium Tim Bernes-Lee in 1989 created the World Wide Web, and in 1994 he and a few others established the World Wide Consortium. (a) The World Wide Consortium’s mission is “to lead the world wide web to its full potential by developing protocols and guidelines that ensure long-term growth for the web (a).” This is an international organization with a variety of members making up the organization. They all have a common goal which is to make the web standardized with rules

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    World Events in The Chosen In the book “The Chosen” by Chaim Potok, two boys named Reuven Malter and Danny Saunders meet for the first time as rivals in a baseball game, taking place in Brooklyn, New York during the year of 1944. These boys live in an Orthodox community that is shaped by Jewish faith and culture. During the baseball game, Danny throws a strong violent pitch which hits Reuven in the eye causing him to be hospitalized. Despite Danny’s Hassidic Jewish religion, the boys soon begin

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    In “How the Snake Got Poison” and “How the world was made” The two texts provide mythological background to how things upon the Earth was created. With the two texts being similar in some aspects; therefore, having some type of differences. A thorough evaluation between how the World was created by multiple occasions, and how some Snakes got their Poison over time. Between these two texts, one similarity is due to them both incorporating Mythological Creation. For instance, “Wherever the wings of

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    The Playboy of the Western World by John Millington is a play that conveys the theme of social conventions in a village in Ireland around the 1900s. I had the pleasure of seeing the play The Playboy of the Western World in the Alley Theatre on October the 9th. The theme of The Playboy of the Western World was social conventions, all of the character had a certain criteria on who was accepted by their community. The play sends a message of the things people will do to be accepted in their society

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