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    The Cold War (1947 – 1991) was fought between the two powerful nations, United States and the Soviet Union. However, there was never any direct contact between the two nations. In these two wars, the United States fought for capitalism and the Soviet Union fought for communism. They are not participate in the war but incitement to war - the United States and the Soviet using the proxy war to fighting with each other. During the Cold War, the two examples of proxy wars are the Korean and Vietnam wars. The Korean War began in 1950, when North Korean surprise attack on South Korea. Although China supported North Korea who fought for communism, but the United States supports South Korea who is a non-communist country. Three years later, which was in 1953, a armistice was signed and it symbolize the ending of the Korean War. When President Johnson declared that the North Vietnamese attacked the Gulf of Tonkin, the United States was involved in the Vietnam War in 1964. He also believes that the Domino Theory - The theory is that if Vietnam fell to communism, and the rest…

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    Cold War Vs Proxy War

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    scale, and continue to occur in different centuries and different countries. In the 20th century, the conflict known as the Cold War affected the entire world as the US fought the USSR to gain allies and stop the spread of communism. Meanwhile in recent years, events in the Middle East have inspired uprisings and unrest in Middle Eastern countries. The events in the Middle East have many similarities with the Cold War, like the proxy wars between the US and USSR, the movements to overthrow…

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    A proxy war is a war that involves opposing powers fighting against each other indirectly through third parties in order to gain power (Cold War, 2). During what is known as the Cold War, the United States and the Soviet Union engage in a proxy war. Each power doesn 't actually fire upon the other, but they aid the third party countries to win the fight. They used these client states to fight for their beliefs. In this Cold War fight, the Soviet Union’s goal was to spread worldwide Communism,…

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    On July 9th, 1999, Michael Brus’s article titled “Proxy War: Liberals denounce racial profiling. Conservatives denounce affirmative action. What's the difference?” was printed in Slate Magazine (Brus). This brief article is just over one thousand words, but its theme is to determine and state the relationship between racial profiling and affirmative action. These terms are thrown around by liberals and conservative all the time, and Brus is curious whether or not these terms represent the same…

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    Proxy Voting refers to the process by which one person or entity votes on behalf of another. Since the majority of shareholders do not attend the annual and special meetings at which voting occurs, corporations provide shareholders with the option to cast a proxy vote. Davis Selected Advisers, L.P. (“DSA”) votes on behalf of its clients in matters of corporate governance through the proxy voting process, with a focus on the investment implications of each issue. DSA has established proxy…

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    Have You Ever Be Punished

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    Have you ever been punished? Warnings, Mutes, Bans No, I have never gotten punished. Explain some cases in which you would punish players. Perm-ban, temp-ban, perm-mute, temp-mute, warn This line means the permissions past it are for higher ranks ------------------------------ Server Drama: Required Permissions: Moderator + Commands: /ban {player} Server Drama/Hate /banip {player} Server Drama/Hate Example: A player comes on and just starts tension between OPCraft and another…

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    Web Analytics Challenges

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    As I understand web analytics, it means to collect data related to traffic to a particular site and the subsequent flow of traffic on that site so as to analyze consumer pattern in order to optimize the site to maximize productivity of that site. [1] Data can also be collected of the traffic to the site related to the prior sites visited and the subsequent sites visited so as to better understand the consumer pattern and with the prospects of collaboration with the other business sites to serve…

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    Lying, with the end goal of receiving medical attention and sympathy, is not a new concept. Although it was not until the mid-1800s that Factitious disorder was officially recognized, evidence shows instances of Malingering dating back as far as the Roman times; from Odysseus in the Trojan War, to the physician Galen (Rogers 19). Munchausen Syndrome was first described by Asher in 1951, with Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy first being in diagnosed in 1977 (Feldman 1). More recently, in the last…

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    Embarrassment and shame due to fear from war is a common struggle within many soldiers who get drafted into the military. As shown by O’Brien in his narrative, “On the Rainy River,” his personal experience creates an argument between the battle that soldiers face when the requests of their country and community clash with the demands of their inner voice and values. “Even now, I'll admit, the story makes me squirm. For more than twenty years I've had to live with it, feeling the shame, trying to…

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    Formal Essay: Tim O Brien

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    summer events 1968. June 17, 1968, it’s been a month since he has graduated Macalaster College. Tim O’ Brien receives his draft notice to for the Vietnam War. He was only twenty-one. The war seems kind of mistaken to him. Its causes and effects undefined. Before his draft notice arrived, Tim had taken a stand against the war in the form of campaigning for the presidential campaign of anti-war activist Eugene McCarthy and writing college newsprint perspectives against the war. The day of…

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