Yale Political Union

The Cold War was a state of political antagonism between countries categorized by intimidations, propaganda, and other processes that don’t include violence and open warfare. A rivalry between the US and the USSR was created through their race to spread their ideas and influence to other countries across the globe with the US being the Capitalist superpower and the USSR being the contending communist power. Policies of America during the time of the Cold War reflect the time when communism was…

In class we discussed the four articles, which gave an overview of South Africa from social and political viewpoints along with the role of the church and some history of the apartheid. One of the main points of class I found interesting is the idea of what race is and what it means. The idea of race is not a biological factor, instead it is socially…

perfected this in the United States was British textile manufacturer (Boorstin, 2010). As a result, workers advocated unions to solve their workplace issues. The deterioration of the workplace status changed as the country approached its last years of the century. Considering the above facts, this paper will discuss workers working conditions during the century as well as the approached the unions used to curb the problems or the workers. In the century, mechanization had started machines had…

The Vygotsky Approach Vygotsky is considered one of the fathers of developmental psychology, and often compared to Piaget, who was a contemporary. His most popular theories include the “Sociocultural Theory” and the “Zone of Proximal Development.” These theories still have relevance in today’s world. Lev Semyonovich Vygotsky was born in Western Russia on November 17, 1896 to a prominent Jewish family. He was one of eight children and went to school at Moscow State University, gaining a law…

at the time: the U.S. and the Soviet Union. The U.S. wanted to contain communism while the Soviet Union wanted to spread it, causing conflict. The cold war lasted from “Roughly from the end of World War II in 1945 to 1991” (Cubanmisslecrisis.org). The Cuban missile crisis began when Fidel Castro began a revolution to overthrow the Cuban government. Eventually he was successful and now he had a choice; he could side with America or the Soviet Union. Castro began nationalizing U.S.…

Second, the Germans aimed at establishing a battleline running approximately from Archangel on the Arctic Ocean in the north to the northern shore of the Caspian Sea in the south (McKale , 2002, p. 176).” This plan that the Germans had for the Soviet Union would mark a war of annihilation against the USSR. Throughout the war, the Germans participated in a method of war called the Holocaust by bullets. The Holocaust by bullets assisted in the annihilation against the USSR in that this was when…

It could be argued that the conclusion of scholars pertaining to the positive influence of entrepreneurial activities on countries’ economies induce knowledge about entrepreneurial activities in todays’ fluid economy to become subjects of interest to all stakeholders (government, scholars, policy makers, consumers and so on). This entrepreneurial activities being talked about is as a result of increased entrepreneurial intention that is, the inclination towards not being dependent on current…

The unskilled laborers have families, bills, and invest money in the local and national economy. Labor Unions fight for the rights of these employees who need their jobs to bring food to their tables. Robotics could revolutionize manufacturing but at the cost of millions of employees. The common blue collar worker would be out of an income while the white…

The United States in the 1960’s was an era of development and revision. The Cold War was alive and well along with the uproar of Civil Rights movements, feminism, and the Vietnam War. However these transformative events did not over shadow one of the most drastic scientific goals of the century, landing a man on the moon, space exploration. This not only fascinated the nation but served as well as a challenge to the USSR. It was referred to as the Space Race, a part of the Cold War between…

A powerful dictator named Joseph Stalin established a regime that focused to modernize the Soviet Union and destroy the Nazi hierarchy. Shortly after the death of Vladmir Lenin in December of 1879, Stalin gained control of the Communist Party, by assuming the role of General Secretary. Due to his decision to control the agriculture, famine swept across the land killing millions in its path. The few exceptions were innocents captured and taken to camps. Leader of the Red Army, Stalin led his men…