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    I believe strongly in optimism, because I know that there can ever be a revolutionary change in our society if we are pessimists, and have no hope for the world. I sincerely want for the world to change, and that is why I try to speak out about injustice that oppressed people endure whenever the time arises. I am a feminist and social justice advocate, because I think that supporting others and putting others first is the way to change our oppressive society. Fear is a component of ignorance…

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    gave the people hope to solve the foreign affairs and the domestic ones, too. Consequently, as Communist Party strengthened, the idea of communism was widely supported. Later, when the People’s Republic of China was established, communism took root in Chinese society. The Revolution of 1949 was an uprising demanding a switch of the government to a pro-communism government. The revolution, also known as Chinese Communist Revolution, has shown the culture of Chinese society that deeply inherited…

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    as two superpowers. This eventually lead to the Cold War because the two countries were both competing to advance ahead of each other. The Soviet Union took control of the communist countries and the United States did not tolerate the ideology of communism. On the other hand, the Soviet Union did not appreciate the United states occupying and taking control over European countries. From 1945 to 1991 the Cold War was exploding in the dispute of the two countries, some may say the disputes never…

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    it comes to truth, there is no categorized answer. Rather, they continue to be observed and changed throughout a human life. Whenever anything is a truth or not depends on the experience of the observer. This was a counterpunch to the ideology of Communism that was sparking at the time. Truths and facts were sketched out and every single individuals were forced to accept it. It ignored the fact that one’s experience is different from another. While not directly stated, Chekhov writing style is a…

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    Introduction: During the First World War Americans began to develop a fear communist subversion within American society, this fear became known as the Red Scare. This fear of communism was compounded during the Cold War because of the paranoid beliefs of Senator Joseph McCarthy, who developed a set of anit-communism ethos known as McCarthyism. The purpose of McCarthyism was to minimize the communist threat to America by accusing and detaining suspected communists by claiming that they were a…

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    United States restated an anti-Soviet posture in 1981, when Ronald Regan threatened the Soviet regime with intensive military spending. After 1985 a new Soviet leader, Mikhail Gorbachev, tried to save communism by introducing reforms. Gorbachev’s attempts to salvage communism failed and in 1989 after communism was replaced with solidarity the Berlin Wall fell, and in 1991 the Soviet Union disbanded. During the 1980 campaign, Republican Ronald Regan promised to restore American power and…

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    their mutual quest for a world dominated by Communism, but this is a stretch. The Soviet Union had been around for a while at this point, and its actions showed it was more worried about self-preservation, a protective buffer, and countering U.S. supremacy than spreading Communism for Communism’s sake. The Chinese on the other hand had just recently finished a revolution in which they beat back the nationalists forcing them into Taiwan, and Communism finally ruled all of mainland China. This…

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    started even before World War 2 ended. This war was a fight over spreading or containing communism. The Soviets wanted to spread communism and Great Britain and the Untied States wanted to contain communism in Korea and Latin America. By doing this the United States supported third world countries that were vulnerable to communism by aiding them with weapons and military coups. The Soviets wanted to spread communism to gain communist allies. Consequently America feared the Domino Theory, which…

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    side tried to gain the upper hand in preparation for the thermonuclear "hot war". The end of the Cold War was a greater historical transformation than 9/11. A greater portion of the cause belongs to Mikhail Gorbachev. Gorbachev wanted to reform communism. However, his reform snowballed into a revolution driven from below rather than controlled from above. When he first came to power in 1985, Gorbachev tried to discipline the Soviet people as a way to overcome the existing economic stagnation.…

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    Jack's communist side can also be seen quite a bit in the novel. In theory, communism works, however due to human greed, it does not. Often times, communism ends up becoming a militaristic ideology. Firstly, Jack promised all the people on the island that they will receive lots of meat, and have lots of fun and whatnot, if they joined his newly found tribe. Unbeknownst…

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