Labor spies

against him sent to labor camps where they would be forced to undergo grueling work and physical torture. The majority of those that were sent to these labor camps, also knows as Gulags, were farmers who refused to work on the collective farms. The most severe consequence to refusal to work was immediate death. Both Stalin and Lenin ruled with having people fear the government by using totalitarianism. This expanded even further with the use of the secret police that would spy in schools and…

brokenness” (“Claiming Their Citizenship: African American from 1624-2009.”). The ability to legally marry and raise a family was just one benefit from their new citizenship. Free labor altered their status, giving both men and women the assumption of self-governance. Women especially fought for more control in their labor contracts to spend time with their families (Frankel). African American women still faced discrimination in both the North and South, regardless of the laws and amendments…

duties under the saying, “Give us a man, and we’ll make a case.” Regardless of innocence or guilt, all whom Stalin deemed as pests to the state were faced with the possibly of internment, forced labor, or death. This threat of terror included those individuals hindering the progress of the state. Spies and wreckers—those who were condemned for harming the industry or success of the Soviet Union—were hunted, imprisoned, and appeared in show trials where the verdict had often been…

America, the Mosaic Society The New Colossus poem became part of the Statue of Liberty, also known as Mother of Exiles, on Liberty Island in 1903. As the Statue of Liberty was essentially America’s welcome sign and beacon of hope for thousands of European immigrants arriving on Ellis Island, it was fitting for Emma Lazarus’s full poem to be engraved above the main entrance of the statue in 1945. Lazarus’s poem references and symbolizes freedom, opportunity, independence, and compassion to the…

War and Society, North and South - The War 's Economic Impact: The North - Some commercial ventures fared inadequately. - The loss of southern markets harmed the shoe business in Massachusetts, and a deficiency of crude cotton sent the cotton-material industry into a spiral. - Industries straightforwardly identified with the war exertion profited from colossal government contracts. - Federal government went into the railroad business by building up the United States Military Railroads…

states, “At Changi it is obvious that the Japanese behaved comparatively decently towards the POWs.” He argues that the popular perception of life in Japanese prisoner of war camps are often dominated by images of emaciated figures, engaged in slave labor, and badly treated by their captors. By focusing on a particular Japanese prisoner of war camp and the experiences of the internees, author Havers illustrates that although there may have in fact been areas that the Japanese engaged in harsh…

Organized crimes have been more complicated than ever to crack down, Organized crime has made an impact nearly $1 trillion dollars every year to the economy from illegal profits. This affects the labor union and effects the economy real badly, for normal tax paying americans. Than theres the white-collard crime where criminals and theives lie, cheat, and steal. Frauds are known by business and governmnet proffesional. These crimes can wipe out a…

knowledge, is power. If you can control information, you can control people. (Tom Clancy)” The Ministry for State Security or simply know as the Stasi had maintained a tight grip over the people of the German Democratic republic, or GDR, with the use of spies and constant surveillance over it’s people. The Stasi is still known today as one of the most effective intelligence agencies of all time compiling millions of surveillance files on the German people. In Timothy Garton Ash’s The File, he…

Why the Capitalist Brainwash Is Wrong A common more in society is to help your fellow man. Like most mores, it is not developed to help the individual, but to help society as a whole. The controversial ideology of socialism has been a topic of discussion for decades. America has been so passionately anti-socialism that they were in an arms race with Russia for decades because of it. The threat of no free market is such a terrifying notion that America and Russia threatened to blow up the whole…

Unsung Heroes of Psychiatric Wards The cliche phrase ‘don 't judge a book by its cover’ has been around for generations. Who would have guessed that one of America’s most loved movie stars and sex icons, Marilyn Monroe, had depression and a form of schizophrenia? In One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest, Ken Kesey proves that people with mental illness should not be frowned upon because they do not fit in with the rest of the cookie-cutter society. Kesey uses a realist approach to make people…