before the loins of China will lose virility; within a century China will have absorbed and civilized her conquerors, and will have learned all the technique of what transiently bears the name of modern industry; roads and communications will give her unity, economy and thrift will give her funds, and a strong government will give her order and peace (Durant, 1935). While delivering his ‘The Geographical Pivot of History’ speech to the Royal Geographical Society a few decades earlier, Sir Halford Mackinder
Introduction With the growing number of green charities and great effort on teaching people about the environmental conservation, we are now more familiar with this topic. Many scientists contribute the weird climate and frequent natural disasters to climate change or more precisely to global warming. To make improvement on this precarious situation, many nations have got meetings to discuss how to address this big problem and finally reach an agreement to cut down on the carbon dioxide emission
international opinion of a highly organised, Machiavellian and aggressive expansion in the Eastern Bloc by the Soviet Union , the reality was an arduous, slow and improvisatory process as the Soviet Union reacted and anticipated the Western Powers moves. This essay focuses on the period directly after the war in 1945 and attempts to dismantle the opinion that Stalin had a master plan to place the entire of Eastern Europe under total Soviet control and shows that the Soviet Union were firmly in a defensive state
Introduction Propaganda remains a relatively unformed concepts despite the fact that it was defined by many scientists with different ways. This is reflected in the uncertainty and absence of agreement between several ways used to explain the phenomenon. But still some aspects of propaganda can be studied without unconditional agreement in political and other sciences. Propaganda in many cases is associated with a distortion of the truth and such expressions as ‘brainwash’, ‘lie’, ‘manipulation’
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