Two years ago the writer found plenty of evidence. Red flags, censored newspapers, directed excursions, indoctrinated schools, motivated plays, didactic pictures, and continuous radio messages preach communism. Appeals to the need for security and class loyalty, dogmatic assertion of Marxian philosophy, the example of leaders, and calls to participation are used as incentives to action. The res...

Article history: Received 13 April 2016 Available online 28 December 2016 JEL classification: D83

Theoretical and empirical studies have shown that enemy-victim interactions in spatially homogenous environments can exhibit diverging oscillations which result in the extinction of one or both species. For enemy-victim models with overlapping generations, we investigate the dynamical implications of spatial heterogeneity created by enemy-free sinks or victimless sinks. An enemy-free sink is a ...

concepts to fully understand the propaganda they encounter every time they turn on their televisions or surf the Internet during an election year. If students are to make informed political decisions as adults, then they must learn to decipher ways politicians manipulate media. The good news is that access to presidential propaganda has never been easier. The Internet, in particular, is a wonde...

The essence of the art of propaganda is to influence people to believe and do things which they would not believe or do without the effect of propaganda. It is therefore a form of suggestion? suggestion, in its narrow sense, meaning a tendency for the human 'find to accept something communicated to it as a fact in the absence of any logical grounds for its acceptance.

Dedicated to Professor T.-D. Zhong on the occasion of his 80th birthday Abstract: The paper gives some characterization theorems for the compact composition operator on some function spaces. In particular, it gives a characterization for compact composition operators on BMOA(Bn) with Bn being the unit ball in C , which generalizes a result proved by Bourdon, Cima and Matheson for the case n = 1...