In 1652‚ the Dutch built the Fort of Good Hope on the Western South African coast to supply fresh water and food to ships travelling around the Cape. Employees of the company grew wheat on small lots and bought cattle from the Khoikhoi‚ local cattle breeders. A couple of wealthy landowners imported the first batch of black slaves in 1658 from Dahomey to convert the original Dutch small holdings into larger wheat and grape plantations. Gradually‚ a culturally Dutch settler society emerged consisting
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Discrimination in South America One important labor law principle‚ non-discrimination in the workplace‚ has historically played a larger role in the US than in South America. Employment discrimination is an important legal theory in the United States‚ as it creates an exception to the general U.S. rule of employment. Under this rule‚ either party is free to terminate the labor relationship with no liability to the other. This is something that South America does not share. South American countries share
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Most countries today follow a capitalistic system‚ although we can still find those who practice the communist regime such as Cuba and North Korea. Communism and capitalism are 2 of the most well-known systems to have ever existed. By definition‚ capitalism is a social system in which a country’s trade and business is controlled by private owners. Communism on the other hand is a system in which there is equality in the economy and private businesses are eliminated. Both systems differ in several
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what communism is at its most basic level. Simply put‚ communism is the idea that everyone in a given society receives equal shares of the benefits derived from labor. Communism is designed to allow the poor to rise up and attain financial and social status equal to that of the middle-class landowners. In order for everyone to achieve equality‚ wealth is redistributed so that the members of the upper class are brought down to the same financial and social level as the middle class. Communism also
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The American involement in the Vietnam war is a conversial topic because many thing occured during that time that didn’t set well in many Americans souls. This war reveal many tragic losses to people livelihood. These losses made certain americans wonder how American involement participation was unjust. The solution to this gruesome war was not agreed on by many americans . Martin Luther King Jr builds his argument on the affect of the felllow americans and the ways american solves the problems in
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Why Did the USA Become Increasingly Involved in Vietnam? The Vietnam War- one of the bloodiest‚ grimmest‚ and most trying times of the Cold War. A war that many believed was fought in vain and without purpose and that “…produced no famous victories‚ no national heroes and no patriotic songs…” A war that threw the USA into public disdain for intervening where intervention was not needed; for causing bloodshed when none was called for- and all in the name of a failed policy of Containment and the
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consumer base of American media would be forgiven for internalising the the sensationalised images of America and the American Dream. However‚ like any dream‚ the perception that it is ‘real’ is always going to be stronger to the American who is experiences it as if it were ‘real’‚ than it is to the outside observer to which it is explained. Americans have been described as being ‘trained to accept simplistic myths as truth’ (Smith‚ 2013)‚ and thus‚ many non-American consumers of American media are acutely
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Potsdam to the fundamental conditions of the occupation of Germany. American nuclear bombs destroy Hiroshima and Nagasaki. 1947: The Truman Doctrine: The US offers assistance to countries threatened by communism -- especially Greece and Turkey. US Secretary of State George C. Marshall announces a massive aid program for the reconstruction of World War II-torn Europe that will become known as the Marshall Plan. 1948: The Communists take power in Czechoslovakia. 1948: The Soviet blockade of West Berlin
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Response to the Threat of Communism During the Vietnam War Period After WWII‚ Australia still faced a severe threat‚ the threat of communism. Communism was seen as a perfect government‚ a utopia‚ by communists‚ but in reality it’s riddled with corruption and power struggles and a lack social security and identity. The Australian government responded to this threat in many ways‚ they gave economic aid‚ made alliances‚ took military action and even tried to ban the Communist Party of Australia. Australians
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Korea has constantly been a battleground for conflicting ideologies and nations‚ the most prominent of all was the division of the Peninsula into half. Right from the beginning‚ Korea was under China’s sphere of influence. When the Japanese became greedy for more resources and land‚ its first target was Korea since it was the closest to Japan. They then gained control of Korea after the First Sino-Japanese war in 1895. Thereafter defeating Russian 1904‚ who wanted Korea to defend its interest in
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