LEFT-WING EXTREMISM: The Current Threat Prepared for U.S. Department of Energy Office of Safeguards and Security Washington‚ DC Prepared by Karl A. Seger‚ Ph.D. Center for Human Reliability Studies Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education Oak Ridge‚ TN April 2001 ORISE 01-0439 i TABLE OF CONTENTS EXECUTIVE SUMMARY .............................................................................................ii I. LEFTIST EXTREMISM IS ALIVE AND WELL.............................
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A: Plan of investigation This paper investigates ’’to what extent did the left wing political opposition lead to the Spanish Civil War‚ 1936-1939?’’ In order to reach to a valid conclusion this investigation will be focusing on the comparison of different factors that took place before an during the Spanish Civil War‚ such as the role of the Spanish Army and the Church‚ the nature of the economy and the new left wing ideologies. The method of investigation will be a detailed research of primary
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remains one of the bloodiest conflicts of our modern era as well as one of the most consequential as resulted in a brutal dictatorship that lasted for almost forty years after. Aside from the dead‚ the war left thousands of citizens homeless and persecuted; no living Spanish citizens were left unaffected by the war. Aside from the consequences that came after the war‚ this essay will also cover the most significant causes of it that came beforehand. As Forrest (2000) tells us‚ the background narrative
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Institutional factors: Institutional factors relate to the type of the electoral system used in an election. Institutional factors that can influence the election include compulsory voting‚ the type of ballot‚ gerrymanders and malapportionment. Compulsory voting ensures 95 per cent of Western Australians participate in elections. However‚ it has been echoed by some academics that compulsory voting favors major parties. This is due to few people doing their own research into political parties and
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politicians and political advisors as an instrument to capture the attention of a particular segment of the public. Being able to reach voters on such a wide scale has had an astounding effect on politics in this country. The internet has allowed political extremism to flourish in the past decade. Those on the left side of the ideological spectrum as well as those on the right are able to access sites that share similar views‚ while simultaneously having the ability to block out opposing views. The impact
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side effects: vomiting‚ headache‚ soreness‚ etc. using the same pleasant voice. The negative aspects are deemphasized while viewers are still left with an overall positive impression. This form of propaganda uses distorted phrases which would be the quickness of the side effects of the drugs. Lastly‚ the propaganda and doublespeak techniques of politics. The wordplay of the political world has changed. Taxes has become known as revenue this doublespeak is a euphemism. Taxes has had a negative
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Right wing populism can be defined in a multitude of ways. Many scholars have their own complex definition of what it means to be a right-wing populist party. To get a full understanding of what a right-wing populist party is we must understand what is means to be “right wing” and what it means to be “populist”. According to Oxford dictionary right-wing parties are “conservative or reactionary section of a political party or system”
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The Left Digit Effect in Pricing Strategy: $19.99 Because $20 is Too Much! Have you ever come across price tags that have 9 endings? Have you ever bought those merchandise with 9 endings thinking that was the best deal and ended up with an enormous bill? Do you notice that the 9 endings are usually printed in a much smaller size than the digits on the left? This is a result of a psychological concept called “The Left Digit Effect” in which people tend to pay more attention to the left-most digits
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the movement to the New Left. The New Left is a political movement is often grouped in with the Hippie movement‚ meaning that it was a time period where America was challenged to widen their views and move away from the forms of the traditional thinking. The New Left movement changed America in significant ways. One way was the start of gay rights. In modern society‚ homosexuals are still fighting for the right to marry‚ but this all began during the movement of the New Left. A second way was the start
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forced to pay high reparations‚ deduction of land and population were after known as the “November Criminals. However factors such as nationalism‚ the democratic Constitution‚ lack of democratic tradition within Germany society‚ pushes from the extreme left‚ the army and pushes from the extreme right saw the German republic gradually weaken until it lost all credibility. The Treaty of Versailles in a Germans point of had been a harsh peace settlement‚ taking away their sovereign powers and freedoms
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