...Case Study Assignment #1, Communist Prison Camps, Pages 84-85 What Specific techniques were used to bring about the destruction of self-awareness among the prisoners? Specific techniques that were used to bring about the destruction of self-awareness among the prisoners included, physical privation, prolonged interrogation, total isolation from former relationships, detailed regimentation of all daily activities, humiliation, degradation and social alienation by “thought reform” group (s). What opposite processes could be used to create the reverse process, that is, a strengthening of the self-concept? Strengthening of the self-concept could be brought on by using processes such as the five core aspects of self-awareness: 1. Core self-evaluation – Identifying the persons individual personality attributes 2. Values- Identifying the individuals personal standards and moral judgment 3. Cognitive style – Identifying information acquisition and evaluation 4. Attitudes towards change – Identifying adaptability and responsibility 5. Emotional intelligence – Identifying emotional awareness and control. These processes, as they are the very core of the self-concept can be used to work on the persons personality dimensions i.e. neuroticism, extroversion, conscientiousness, agreeableness and openness. Assume that you are charged with the orientation of a cohort of new managers in your organization. How would you help them understand their own strengths and...
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... C. I believe that most people have to experience something bad in their life to realize change is really good in for the better. For example like spending time in jail. II. Body A. First I’m gone to talk about when Michael Vick went to jail for running an illegal interstate dog fighting ring. B. Michael was sentenced to three years prison time in jail. Team members and football fan had no clue if he would be returning to the game again. C. So Michael decided to plead guilty to felony charges and will serve one year and eight months in prison. III. Next I will be talking about 50 Cent who is known for rapping and real name which is Curtis Jackson III who spends time in jail for drug-related charges. A. So the judge decides to sentence him 3 to 9 year’s prison time in 1994. 50 cent was still an aspiring rapper who was very determined to do something positive with his life once he was released from jail. B. 50 cent did his time and also earned six month boot camp instead of prison so he considered as an early release. C. While he was in boot camp he earned his GED. Right after 50 cent was release from jail, 50 Cent continue to rap and his popularity blew up with the release of his first album in the year of 2000. IV. Last I will talk about a woman who is best known as a business mogul and domestic diva, but of course her image really...
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...Siberia a part of Russia makes the largest region of the northern asia. Though its richness both in minerals and agriculture, Siberia was one of the most preferred place by the Europeans to be an exile place since it was considered a cheap system of purnishing the wrong doers in the society rather than building jails to hold them up. Siberia was declared an exile place by the Russians decades ago after their exploration to the land. In the 1800 most of the exiles in Siberia were war prisoners who were involved in the second world war. The uses of Siberia as an exile place for war prisoners later it became un economical due to the fact that it lacked moder prisons though it continued to catter for more and more war verterans due to the limited space that the Russians prison had and considering the fact that it was cheap to have people moved to the area and support them selves and also it made it possible to move people away from the capitol where if left there would cause some havoc bothe to the government and to the people. Through the leadership of Nicholas II, Siberia was viewed as a place of great interest booth to the locals and the people who came from far parts of the region. He encouraged the colonization of Siberia due to its richness in gold and also its agricultural potential. He also made a move in reducing rural over population in the country by moving people to Siberia not mentioning how the railway helped in the opening up of the region to the rest of the world....
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...We Live in a Democracy; What is Non-Democracy Like? Our great nation practices what is known around the world as a democratic system of government. That is a government intended to be for the people and run by the people; or in our case, by our elected officials; which are intended to act on our behalf. One question that comes to mind though; what else is out there and, what is it like? For a look at what might be considered the polar opposite of democracy let us look through the window of what government and law are like in the communist state of North Korea (more recent review of the Constitution of North Korea leads scholars to believe it is more of a racialist nationalism government system) (“Top 10 non-democratic countries in the world,” April 28, 2014). However, since this is only an opinion, the North Korean government is still considered that of a communist state. What are laws like in North Korea? What is the purpose of the laws and what is the effect? Do they compare to our laws? This writing would not be complete without some preface information regarding how the North Korean government works. At the head of every part of the Government is the “Great Leader” (Yop, H.J., N.D.); which would be the Supreme Leader (at this time it is Kim Jong-un). Essentially all things in North Korea revolve around the desires of Kim Jong-un. While there are different committees and bureaus; there power is limited to what commands are given to them from the top. Party secretaries...
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...The largest camps were in the northern part of Siberia which has extreme weather conditions. There were extremely high death rates in these camps due to many factors including the frigid cold, poor sanitation, hard labor, etc. Prisoners often worked 14 hours a day doing physically exhausting work. Work could be anything from cutting down trees to mining. The White Sea-Baltic Sea Canal was the first large construction done by the prisoners of the gulag. The one hundred forty-one mile long canal took only twenty months. Originally this was a great achievement but it was soon proved impractical since it was too shallow and too narrow for most ships. Over one-hundred thousand prisoners worked on the canal and many died in the construction of it. Women had it very hard in the gulag. Not only did the women in the camps have to worry about doing the work they were required to do, but they also had to be afraid of being attacked by one of the men. Quite often, male camp employees, guards, and even other prisoners raped and abused the women. If a woman was pregnant, she still had to do the strenuous labor as the other prisoners. When she gave birth to her child, the Gulag officials would take the baby and place him/her in a special orphanage...
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...Running Head: STALIN’S TERROR MACHINE Stalin’s Terror Machine There are a handful of names in modern history that are associated with the word “terror.” One of those names is Joseph Stalin. He served as the General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union for a period of 30 years from 1922 until 1952. During his reign, millions perished as the result of his totalitarian terror machine. He eliminated all those who he saw as a threat, whether they were actually a threat or not. Stalin’s uses of propaganda were crucial in maintaining power. The totalitarian state controlled education; making sure that the subjects were in line with what Stalin wanted. History books were rewritten to overplay Stalin’s part in the Revolution of 1917 and his relationship with Lenin, who was a father of the revolution. Many previously printed books were banned and the new ones were censored. Stalin, just like Hitler, developed a cult of personality. Many people blindly believed everything that Stalin and the Communist Party put out. This blind belief coupled with fear gave Stalin the ability to use state terror against his own people. Many were executed and many more sent to perish in the vast emptiness of Siberia. In order to better understand state terrorism in The Soviet Union, it is important to understand what lead up to it, how and why the state used terrorism, how the international community viewed the situation, as well as what was the final outcome...
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...took control of the press and the postal services, while women recruited members for the communist resistance. French soldiers were captivated and took to war prison camps, while women were risking their lives playing violin outside for them. Women transported weapons, distributed anti-Nazis leaflets, and scribbled “V” for victory in the walls of France. One of the actions that the Germans...
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...Treaty of Versailles, the Weimar constitution & democracy are all linked – helps explain why democracy is weak in Germany ▪ Terms of the Treaty – ▪ Germany has to pay REPARATIONS (fixed in 1921 as £6600 million) ▪ Germany loses all its COLONIES (overseas parts of their empire) ▪ German army limited to 100,000 men with no air force & a small navy with only 6 battleships and no submarines ▪ 13% of Germany is now transferred to neighbouring countries as the map is redrawn ▪ Germany loses land to France (Alsace-Lorraine), Belgium, Poland (Posen & West Prussia) & Denmark ▪ 15% of German coal mines are lost in map changes ▪ Many Germans blame the defeat in the war on “the stab in the back” (DOLCHSTOSS) – i.e. the Socialists / Communists / Jews betrayed Germany & the army was never defeated. This myth makes it harder to accept the Treaty ▪ Treaty weakened democracy in Germany and the German economy ▪ Friedrich Ebert appointed Chancellor in October 1918 2) The Weimar Constitution ▪ A National Assembly was elected to write this new constitution ▪ It met in Weimar because Berlin was not safe – so we call this whole period in German history the WEIMAR REPUBLIC, or WEIMAR GERMANY (or just WEIMAR!) ▪ Constitution ready by August 1919 ▪ Very democratic = everyone over the age of 20 gets the vote (men and women) ▪ Proportional representation is used in elections – so small, extremist parties find it easier to get into the Reichstag ▪ The President is the...
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...| How and why did the Nazi treatment of Jews change between the years 1933 and 1945? | Curran De Braganca | How and why did the Nazi treatment of Jews change between the years 1933 and 1945? Most of us have heard of the Nazi party’s horrific, genocidal regime on destroying the Jewish race, but what events led up to their dire judgement? In this study I aim to uncover the events, reasons and changes which led to the Holocaust and the further changes in the treatment of the Jewish race by Adolf Hitler and the Nazi party. In the aftermath of the First World War, Germany is under the Judgment of the Allies as a result of Allied victory Germany is being blamed for most of the war, The Treaty of Versailles stated that they: * Are to pay compensation to the Allies: £6.6 Million, which was well over Germany’s financial capacity at the time. * Portions of Germany’s land has been claimed and will distributed under Allied power to form new nations and also will be given to allied nations who lost land during the war. * Germany’s army will be reduced to only 100,000 men plus their naval vessels have been limited to 6 capital ships. The west of Rhineland had been Demilitarised and occupied by Allied forces. * Germany was not allowed to join with Austria to boost its economy. These were only just a few of the terms of the treaty. In Germany, many people were ‘pointing fingers’ and putting the blame on others, one group of people however, is taking...
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...their perceived. Other groups were persecuted on political, ideological, and behavioral grounds, among them Communists, Socialists, Jehovah's witnesses, and homosexuals. At least 200,000 mentally or physically disabled patients, mainly Germans, living in institutional settings, were murdered. In the early years of the nazi regime, the National Socialist government established concentration cmaps to detain real and imagined political and ideological opponents. Increasingly in the years before the outbreak of war, SS and police officials incarcerated Jews, Roma, and other victims of ethnic and racial hatred in these camps. To concentrate and monitor the Jewish population as well as to facilitate later deportation of the Jews, the Germans and their collaborators created ghettos transit camps, and forced-labor camps for Jews during the war years. The German authorities also established numerous forced-labor camps, both in the so-called Greater German Reich and in German-occupied territory, for non-Jews whose labor the Germans sought to exploit. to killing centers often called extermination camps, where they were murdered in specially developed gassing facilities. The day the German armed forces surrendered unconditionally to the Allies was the day they called victory day on may 8th. In the aftermath of the Holocaust, many of the survivors found shelter in displaced person camps...
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...comparison of how both Stalin and Hitler set out of the ideal utopian envisionment. Stalin's approach began with the removal of Ukrainian scholars, scientists, cultural and religious leaders, who were arrested on false accusations. Those arrested were either shot without a trial or deported to prison camps in remote areas of Russia. Stalin also imposed the Soviet system of land management known as collectivization. This resulted in the seizure of all privately owned farmlands and livestock. Kulaks, the farmers who owned these lands were believed by Stalin to be leading a rebellion and so he created a policy aimed at eliminating the Kulaks. Anyone refusing to participate in the compulsory collectivization system was simply denounced as a Kulak and deported. In Moscow, Stalin responded to their defiance by dictating a policy that would deliberately cause mass starvation and result in the deaths of millions. Ukrainian Communists appealed to Moscow for a reduction in the grain quotas and also asked for emergency food aid. Stalin denouncing them and then sealed off the borders of the Ukraine, preventing any food from entering, in effect turning the country into a gigantic concentration camp. Soviet police troops inside the Ukraine also went house to house seizing any stored up food. By the end of 1933, nearly 25 percent of the population of the Ukraine had perished. The Kulaks, as a class, were destroyed and an entire nation of village farmers had been laid low. With his immediate...
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...Rogue states under dictatorial rule threaten the fragile peace, which exists in our modern world. Constantly as a society Americans have always fought against these said foes. However all too often we pass a blind eye to the humanity of the enemies’ civilian populations. For more often than not, those who live within these systems are chronically oppressed. The nation of North Korea is no exception, with “Bing-brother always watching.” The government in North Korea pervades all aspects of life. Hunger is a problem worldwide. However with a quarter of North Korea’s population (six million people) starving or malnourished, with nearly one million of those cases being children under the age of five years old, the situation is especially dire (Cullinane 3). Throughout history the term “famine” has referred to a shortage of food caused by uncontrollable circumstances. Modern famines are relatively nonexistent because international aid, globalization, and modern domestic responses are all able to provide a safety net for those in need of assistance. In reality, mass-starvations today are caused by government decisions and improper food distribution. The North Korean government controls food delivery through a Public Distribution System (PDS), on which 62 percent of the population is entirely reliant upon for monthly or biweekly rations (Haggard et al. 17). To put this dependency in perspective, by the end of the 1990’s the PDS could barely support six percent of the population (Haggard...
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...In 1924, a man by the name of Joseph Stalin was the ultimate communist/ socialist leader from 1929 to 1953. He was mostly known for being the dictator of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics or the USSR. Under Stalin, the Soviet Union in Russia was dramatically changed from a peasant society to an industrial and military power. Stalin himself wanted to show that he would be able to carry on the goals and ideas of Lenin from the Revolution. Stalin used terror and fear as a tactic, which was really just a ridicule of the original ways that communism promised. The communists destroyed the thought of the noble people being at the top and the peasants at the bottom, but there was a catch. Instead of encouraging to create a society of equal...
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...of Pete’s use of it. (Miller and Shahriari 487). Charles Seeger was a political man and was involved with the union activism that took place in the university classical music department of all places. He promoted the radical Industrial Workers of the World at Berkley and was fired for his pacifism in 1918. (1). Pete would follow in his father’s footsteps with his political beliefs as well as his love for music. When Pete was a young boy, he would read about American Indians and how the members of the tribe would share everything so that everyone was taken care of and no one was left to fend for themselves. Pete’s early beliefs on how a country should be run was adopted by the books he read. He was a self-proclaimed communist and at 19 he joined the Young Communist League. Pete attended Harvard for a short time, but dropped out and went to New York City to work for Alan Lomax at the Archives of American Folk Music. (2). He would get an education on the history of folk music and various artist. It was during this time that Pete organized the Almanac Singers. The group included himself, Lee Hayes, Millard Lampell, Sis Cunningham, Sonny Terry, and Brownie McGhee. Woody Guthrie would often...
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...Kyle Andre March 21, 2013 20th-21st humanities 11:00-12:15am Response Paper War has proven to be a major cause for change in our society throughout history. During the time of World War I (1914) and World War II (1939), an era emerged for artists to express themselves through the wars’ heart wrenching stories which fueled their poems, novels, and short stories. During the First World War some of our history’s greatest writes emerged. American literature came about through writers’ emotions and responses to the war. Sentiments ranged widely. Some writers felt that the war kept peace within nations and believed dying for your country was a noble thing to do; while some became frustrated and felt that the war was a useless and evil cause. British officer Wilfred Owen is a great example of World War I poetry. He expressed his feelings of anger and towards the war though his poem called “Dulce Et Decorum Est”. His poem discussed the horrific acts of the war and the excitement as not pleasant, but merely cruel. In Owen’s words, war was a “senseless waste of human resources and a barbaric act of human behavior”. These men were the writers that experienced the firsthand accounts of the war through being on the frontlines and experiencing firsthand what the soldiers had to go through. Some writers were more fictional than others. Hathaway wrote the novel “farewell to arms” which expressed the physical and emotional heartaches that he and his fellow soldiers experienced at the...
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