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- 2521: History Of The Civil War
- Civil War The American Civil War The purpose of this paper is to illustrate the events surrounding the end of the American Civil War. This war was a war of epic proportion. Never before and not since have so many Americans died in battle. The American Civil War was truly tragic in terms of human life. In this document, I will speak mainly around those involved on the battlefield in the closing days of the conflict. Also, reference will be ...
- 2522: Stalin: Did his Rule Benefit Russian Society and the Russian People?
- ... for Lenin and the Bolshevik party. He was banished to Siberia six times between the years 1903 and 1917. Each time, he escaped easily, except the last, when he was released because of the February revolution (Lewis 19; Marrin 24). After the death of his first wife, Ekaterina Svanidze, Joseph became more cold and tough. He gave the child that his wife bore him to her parents and even chose a new name for himself, Stalin, the Man of Steel (Marrin 26). Then came the October Revolution and the rise of Lenin and the Bolsheviks. Stalin became general secretary of the Bolshevik party's Central Committee. He was also the commissar of the Workers' and Peasants' Inspectorate and the commissar of nationalities ... at last had gained complete control (McKay 927-928). One of the great achievements that Stalin made for the Soviet Union were the Five Year Plans in industry. Russia had not yet had their industrial revolution and were far behind the other powers of the world. Even Stalin said," We are fifty or a hundred years behind the advanced countries. We must make good this distance in ten years. Either ...
- 2523: Alice Walkers Everyday Use
- What s Your Background? Alice Walker s life as an African-American novelist and poet has led to many award winning short-stories and books. She was raised in the southern state of Georgia and her parents were sharecroppers. This taught her that being an African-American can have its rough times. After being shot by a BB gun when she was eight, Alice remained blinded in one eye. Her ailment caused her to seclude herself from other children her age. Alice ... to know that she can use the quilts and still preserve and continue her heritage by repairing the quilts with new scraps, which have their own meaning. Alice wanted to show the relation between African-American people who actually know and live their heritage, as opposed to just pretending for trend s sake. Dee s character in the story is a direct relation to the number of people in modern ...
- 2524: Tom Clancy's Genius
- ... mouse games with other submarines and surface ships. However some of these submarines were more dangerous then a whole army because they were fully loaded with nuclear missles. These facts were well know to the American public and made Red Storm Rising all the more real when it combined land and ocean warfare in a way that captivated millions of readers. The book begins as the Soviet Union’s ability to ... to present it (theme of U.S.S.R. attacking the U.S.) in a non-nuclear scenario. This is very intriguing to examine the possibilities which include all the new technological weapons in the American and Soviet arsenals. Red Storm Rising captivates audiences with its techno-wizardry of smart bombs and satellite guided cruise missles. “It was like an arcade game. Big, slow-moving blips denoted the aircraft. Smaller, quicker ... several “What if?” situations. This is the case with his latest novel Debt of Honor. This installment of the Jack Ryan saga, Clancy’s main character, was published in 1994. It takes place mostly on American soil with other parts in Japan and the Pacific Ocean. This piece of tecno-thiller centers around a possible trade war between the U.S. and Japan. This “What if?” outlook of Clancy’s ...
- 2525: Russia in 1910
- ... their survival rested. Their ruler, Czar Nicholas II, ruled of his disorganized nation. His government of appointed officials and men of inherited positions did not represent the people. All of Europe had experienced the industrial revolution, Russia had precious little machinery. To obtain more advanced machines, the government traded grains to other countries in exchange for machinery, though it meant more people would now starve. Compound this with the devastation and ... on shortly thereafter by the first world war, and there was no confidence left in the government. Liberal constitutionalists wanted to remove the Czar and form a republic; social revolutionists tried to promote a peasant revolution. Marxist promoted a revolution among the proletariat, or urban working class. The people were fed up with Russia’s state of affairs and ready for change. Change was presented in the form of Vladimir Lenin, a committed, persuasive ...
- 2526: German Unificatio
- ... After the Congress of Vienna, the four major powers began the first European Council where they would meet and discuss the keeping of peace in Europe, much like the current United Nations. Conservatism and the Revolution of 1848 In the period following the Congress of Vienna, the liberal ideas that had begun under Napoleon's rule were squelched under the Metternich system, a conservative reactionary system instated by Klemens von Metternich ... never accept the "crown from the gutter." While the princes recalled the concessions made to the liberals back in 1948-49, the armies of the monarchy quickly crushed the liberal movement in South Germany. The revolution went mostly the same in Austria. There were violent uprisings, and there was talk of parliaments and constitutions, but much remained as it had been in Austria.1 Germany Before Bismarck In 1834, Prussia, under ... high priced goods. A market like Austria's was at a disadvantage because it became cheaper for German countries to trade within the Confederation, and Austria was excluded from the entire German market. The Industrial Revolution hit Germany extra hard compared to other European areas. During the years 1850 to 1870, the German economy rapidly advanced. Along with new factories, textile and iron production, railroads, coal production, and record exports, ...
- 2527: Organic Molecules Challenge
- Organic Molecules Challenge Silicon's Reign as King of Semiconductors There is a revolution fomenting in the semiconductor industry. It may take 30 years or more to reach perfection, but when it does the advance may be so great that today's computers will be little more than calculators compared to what will come after. The revolution is called molecular electronics, and its goal is to depose silicon as king of the computer chip and put carbon in its place. The perpetrators are a few clever chemists trying to use pigment, proteins ... we're trying to do," said Phil Seiden, manager of molecular science, IBM, Yorkstown Heights, N.Y. Birge, who heads the Center for Molecular Electronics at Carnegie-Mellon, said two factors are driving this developing revolution, more speed and less space. "Semiconductor chip designers are always trying to cram more electronic components into a smaller space, mostly to make computers faster," he said. "And they've been quite good at ...
- 2528: T.S. Elliot's "Tradition and the Individual Talent" and Alain Locke's "The New Negro
- ... takes on the form of misconceptions that need to be abandoned and replaced with a realistic view of black Americans. In fact, they never have. The traditional view of African Americans came about through white American fear and prejudice. Because of the is prejudice Minstrel shows were able to gain popularity. Further, most of the depictions of Black people in literature up until this time were of ignorant savages and dim ... the slaves" was considered to be a problem that only concerned the South. Locke points out that that is no longer the case. The freed slaves and their descendents have diffused themselves throughout the white American population. As a result their problems and concerns affect the whole of America. For the most part white America was unaware of these facts, and that is one of the reasons that Locke chose to ... stereotypes as truth. They both, however, call their readers to re-evaluate their relationship to the past, which is never bad advice. Works Cited Elliot, T.S. "Tradition and the Individual Talent" Heath Anthology of American Literature. Ed. Paul Lauter. 3rd ed. New York: Houghton Mifflin 1998. 1405-1410 Locke, Alain "The New Negro" Heath Anthology of American Literature. Ed. Paul Lauter. 3rd ed. New York: Houghton Mifflin 1998. 1582-1592
- 2529: International Economic Policy: Book Review
- ... was to examine only some of them. The author, in some parts of his book, was to concentrate on the question of adjusting the US trade deficit against with Japan. He was to show the American point of view that argues that Japanese terms of trade are unfair (104). Also he was to refer to the North American Free Trade Agreement and reflect how it is beneficial for Mexico (as first developing country to join the US and Canada) which could not gain support from Europe to develop (as Europe was to concentrate ... the US (and Canada) as it would open a large market for the US as well as cheap labor (106). A good point made by him was to show the prospects of incorporating more Latin American countries in NAFTA (as this book was published in 1994) while saying that the Latin American market "remains too small to compensate US exports for any broader loss of markets in Europe, Japan, and ...
- 2530: A Good Man Is Hard To Find 2
- ... He probably didn't have any,' the grandmother explained. 'Little niggers in the country don't have things like we do. If I could paint that picture,' she said." (139) Anthony Di Renzo, author of American Gargoyles, suggests that the "grotesqueness of the passage above is also pleasing as a whole, in the delightful interaction of its mismatched parts. O'Connor's real achievement here is one of composition, or rather ... chinaberry trees and chattering monkeys form a single image and are perfect for one another. This helps the reader become more aware to O'Connor's complex cartoon martyrs. Di Renzo says in his book American Gargoyles that many critics have objections to "A good man is hard to find" because of O'Connor's elaborate comic depiction of the grandmother and her family. He goes on to say that because ... much a cartoon as the grandmother. Di Renzo says that many critics complain that the grandmother and her family do not behave nobly enough during their execution. (155) He quotes Martha Stephens in his book American Gargoyles expressing the opinion that "The family is shown in death to be as ordinary and ridiculous as before," (155).Nothing changes aboutthe characters, even in death, they are seen to be "flat," never ...
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