MBA Education & Careers The Orwellian State of North Korea A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.* BHARAT C. JAIN I n February 2012‚ in a piece published in this space‚ this Kim Il-sung had led North Korea since the Korean peninsula author had written about how precious little was known was split in half by the Korean War (1950-53). Although the two sides signed a ceasefire in 1953 they remain technically at war. about Kim Jong-un‚ who had just then become the leader
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Mass Incarceration In 1983 the nation’s largest private prison corporation the Corrections Corporation of America was founded. The Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) controls more than 47% of all private prison and jail beds nationwide and produces a 13% to 15% return annually on investment. This company is the nation’s largest owner and operator of privatized correctional and detention facilities and one of the largest prison operators in the United States‚ behind only the federal government
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The End of the Affair by P.J. O’Rourke The phrase “bankrupt General Motors‚” which we expect to hear uttered on Monday‚ leaves Americans my age in economic shock. The words are as melodramatic as “Mom’s nude photos.” And‚ indeed‚ if we want to understand what doomed the American automobile‚ we should give up on economics and turn to melodrama. Politicians‚ journalists‚ financial analysts and other purveyors of banality have been looking at cars as if a convertible were a business. Fire the MBAs
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George Orwells 1984 is one of the most important pieces of political fiction; it is a timeless political satire that demands to be read to be truly appreciated. Published in 1948‚ and set 36 years into the future‚ 1984 eerily depicts where the world is going‚ where the truth is shunted and lies are promoted by all mainstream media. Perhaps one of the most powerful science fiction novels of the twentieth century‚ this apocalyptic satire shows with grim conviction how the protagonist Winston Smiths
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Why was there tension between Stalin and his people between 1928-1941? After Lenin’s death in 1924‚ the two leading candidates for his successor were Stalin and Trotsky-both with opposing ideologies in the manner in which the country should be run. Despite being a brilliant speaker and writer‚ Trotsky’s policy on a ‘permanent revolution’ worried people in the fear that the USSR would get involved with more conflicts while Stalin’s proposition of ‘Socialism in One Country’ was far more comforting
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A History of 19th and 20th Century Russia A society’s understanding of its history is crucial to a society’s perception and definition of itself. During the 1980s the Soviet Union underwent a cultural revival‚ whereby the Russian people‚ prompted by Mikhail Gorbachev’s invitation to glasnost (more openness)‚ began critically re-examining Soviet and pre-revolutionary history. As the nation engaged in oral discussions and literary readings to study their past‚ they started to reassess the Soviet
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56 The Most Human Art: 10 reasons why we’ll always need good stories By Scott Russell Sanders‚ The Georgia Review‚ September/October 1997 We have been telling stories to one another for a long time‚ perhaps for as long as we have been using language‚ and we have been using language‚ I suspect‚ for as long as we have been human. In all its guises‚ from words spoken and written to pictures and musical notes and mathematical symbols‚ language is our distinguishing gift‚ our hallmark as a species
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TERRESTRIAL THINGS Poems Ingrid de Kok Kwela/Snailpress Acknowledgements I would like to thank the Rockefeller Foundation for granting me a residency in 1999 at the Bellagio Study and Conference Centre in Italy. The period spent there was invaluable. Thanks are also due to the University of Cape Town which awarded me four months of study and research leave in 2001 to complete the book. Acknowledgements are due to the following journals and books‚ in which some of these poems originally appeared:
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The events which unfolded within Russia throughout the early 20 th Century led not only to political and economic change‚ but also social upheaval which similarly ran parallel to the international crisis of the time. From the moment of the Tsar’s abdication in March 1917 the Bolshevik party had sought to strengthen its control within Russia alongside promoting the spread of socialism and world revolution by the peasantry. Yet‚ with Lenin’s death and Stalin’s rise to power‚ there seemed to be
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What Is Dictatorship? Dictatorship * A form of government in which absolute and total power is concentrated in a dictator (usually one person be it military or otherwise or one political party). * Defined as an autocratic form of government in which the government is ruled by an individual. * A government controlled by one person‚ or a small group of people. In this form of government the power rests entirely on the person or group of people‚ and can be obtained by force or by inheritance
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