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  1. Aug 2019
    1. In East Berlin, tribal communism has yielded to capitalism. In Marx-Engelsplatz, the stolid, overbearing statues of Marx and [Friedrich] Engels face east, as if seeking distant solace from Moscow: but now, circling them along the streets that surround the park that is their prison are chain eateries like T.G.I. Friday’s, international hotels like the Radisson, and a circle of neon billboards mocking them with brand names like Panasonic, Coke, and GoldStar.

      Explanation: After the fall of the Soviet Union the Western world came in and westernized it and with the reminants of the former communist era looming nearby via the statues they are trapped by the capitalistic western ideologies.

      Interpretation: In globalization we see things such as migration but this is bigger than people moving to another country this is a whole area being changed to assimilate western ideologies so all these capitalistic companies had migrated into new lands and overtook them from the former owners as we see when they compare the park home to statues of communist leaders to a prison

    1. While their invaders dream of lands they’ve left behind

      Explanation: No matter where they go the invaders will always think about where they are from and the good things that come from there

      Interpretation: Sometimes in globalization of the world people get moved into other countries without their consent or in ways that they may not have control or sometimes they want to have a better life but at the end of the day they always think back to their home and the things that make that place good.

    1. How can I save my little boy from Oppenheimer’s deadly toy There is no monopoly in common sense On either side of the political fence We share the same biology Regardless of ideology Believe me when I say to you I hope the Russians love their children too

      What is being said here is arguing against the Cold War. They state that we are very alike to our Russian counterpart and we hope that they feel the same way that we are in that this is senseless and avoid a nuclear war.

    1. But, the reasons which, for Europe, made this alliance a form of subordination are fading away day by day. Europe must assume its share of the responsibilities. Everything indicates, moreover, that this event would be in accordance with the interest of the United States, whatever may be its merit, its power and its good intentions, for the multiplicity and complexity of the tasks henceforth go beyond, and perhaps dangerously, its means and its capacity. That is why the United States declares that it wishes to see the old continent unite and organize itself while many among the Gallic, Germanic and Latin peoples cry out “Let us build Europe!”

      What this is really saying is that these smaller groups that want to build Germany back up in their own way are not going to be able to because of the agreement the European Union has and the views they share are the ones of the major Western powers and more specifically the United States.

    1. The subjection of peoples to alien subjugation, domination and exploitation constitutes a denial of fundamental human rights, is contrary to the Charter of the United Nations and is an impediment to the promotion of world peace and co-operation.

      We look at all of the colonies the European powers and the United States has taken over and it has all been for reasons like exploiting the resources that were there or For the location of the places and with doing this these powers were taking away from the people that had lived there originally and this declaration is putting an end to that.

    1. THE CONDITION of women in Ireland betrays most of the disadvantages suffered elsewhere in western Europe – only accentuated to a greater degree.

      We look at the treatment of women during this era and its not nearly where it should have been. We are about twenty some years into the feminist movement but women were still treated poorly we see this in this source as well as the teritary source.

    1. In a great number of countries, far from the Russian frontiers and throughout the world, Communist fifth columns are established and work in complete unity and absolute obedience to the directions they receive from the Communist center. Except in the British Commonwealth and in the United States where Communism is in its infancy, the Communist parties or fifth columns constitute a growing challenge and peril to Christian civilization.

      Churchill here is doing a couple of things, first and foremost he is calling out the Soviet Union for having established Communist setups all across the world. He is also acknowledging that there is communist setups within the United States and the United Kingdom even though they are not well established. This is a issue that he knows needs to get solved or else it could take over the entire world.

  2. Jul 2019
    1. The Allied and Associated Governments, however, require, and Germany undertakes, that she will make compensation for all damage done to the civilian population of the Allied and Associated Powers and to their property during the period of the belligerency of each as an Allied or Associated Power against Germany.

      This was the final piece of the puzzle in punishing Germany but with the other allied powers owing the United States a while lot of money why not make Germany pay war reparations so that the allied powers would not in reality have to pay the United States. This was the final tally the Treaty of Versailles punishing Germany.

    1. We’ve got the ships, we’ve got the men, and got the money too!We’ve fought the Bear before and while we’re Britons trueThe Russians shall not have Constantinople.

      Imperialism was spreading throughout the world and the big powers of the world were all fighting for this land that would be used for resources such as trade, slaves and other things that would benefit this country. For Great Britain they knew they may have to fight enemies for these lands and in this statement they are flexing their advantages they have over the other powers and how they will defeat them.

    1. Let me ask you, gentlemen: are you, the people of the United States, a nation, or not? Have you a national government, or not? You answer, yes: and yet you are not all of one blood, nor of one language. Millions of you speak English; others French, German, Italian, Spanish, Danish, and even several Indian dialects: yet you are a nation. Neither your central government, nor those of separate states, nor your municipalities, legislate or administer in every language spoken among you; yet you have a national government.

      What Kossuth is saying is that there is a difference between a nation and a state and we are clearly misuusing the term nation which is when a group of people share a common ethniciity etc... They are critisizing the United States for calling themselves a nation when clearly they are not

    1. As we do not mean to assert any thing but what we can prove to be true, we allow four men to be employed at each machine twelve hours, working night and day, will take eight men in twenty-four hours; so that, upon a moderate computation twelve men are thrown out of employ for every single machine used in scribbling; and as it may be supposed the number of machines in all the other quarters together, nearly equal those in the South-West, full four thousand men are left to shift for a living how they can, and must of course fall to the Parish, if not timely relieved. Allowing one boy to be bound apprentice from each family out of work, eight thousand hands are deprived of the opportunity of getting a livelihood.

      What this is saying is as great as the industrial revolution may be we have to look at the negative affects which were not really being look at. The workers are saying that the machines are directly costing 4,000 men jobs and indirectly costing 8,000 people jobs so they are pleading their case to prevent the use of these machines in the factories

    1. In a society whose members have equal rights, it is certain that no member can on his own make obligatory laws for the others. It is wrong, however, to say that society as a whole enjoys this faculty without restriction. The body of all citizens is sovereign. This is to say that no individual, no group, no faction, can assume sovereignty except by delegation from that body.

      What this is essentially saying is that no country can make laws for all of the other countries without the authority of all of those countries. This can all stem back from the French revolution where this once was not the case and they all had to revolt against one power that made laws over all of the others which is where we see the concert of Europe political system.

    1. Be it known, that we knowing the prosperity of these countries, and the welfare of their inhabitants depends principally on navigation and trade

      Explanation: All of these European countries main source of income came via trade with other countries via the seas. Interpretation: Traveling was such an important part of all of these countries and as time progressed the area they navigated grew which was needed for the overall future well being of its people via trade