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- 1351: Animal Farm Comparison
- Most directly one would say that Animal Farm is an allegory of Stalinism, growing out from the Russian Revolution in 1917. Because it is cast as an animal fable it gives the reader/viewer, some distance from the specific political events. The use of the fable form helps one to examine the certain elements ... animals, watching the violent quarrel which follows from outside the parlour window, are unable any longer to distinguish the pig s face from the man s. The final moral is of course, that the animals´ revolution has been betrayed by the selfishness and will to power of the pigs who, like the communist party in Russia, have controlled it from the beginning; and the living conditions of the animals are in ...
- 1352: The Rules of the Game: Andre’s Arrival at La Coliniere
- The Rules of the Game: Andre’s Arrival at La Coliniere In The Rules of the Game, Jean Renoir paints a satirical portrait of the decadent French aristocracy prior to World War II. The scene where Andre Jurieu (Roland Toutain) arrives at La Coliniere is of particular importance, for it is the first time he sees Christine (Nora Gregor) since his plane ... him, and she speaks uncertainly with thicker tongue than the others do. This slower method of speaking gives Christine more presence and hints at her Austrian background, reinforcing her “foreign” nature in the smooth talking French aristocracy. Their embrace is soft and peaceful, and Andre closes his eyes. When he opens them to look at her, his happy gaze shouts out his love for her. At this point Renoir cuts to ...
- 1353: Positivism
- Positivism is a system of philosophy based on experience and experimental knowledge of natural sensation, in which metaphysics and theology are regarded as inadequate and imperfect systems of knowledge. (www.eb.com) The 19th-century French mathematician and philosopher Auguste Comte first called the doctrine positivism, but some of the positivist concepts may be traced to the British philosopher David Hume, the French philosopher Duc de Saint-Simon, and the German philosopher Immanuel Kant. Comte chose the word positivism on the ground that it indicated the "reality" and "constructive tendency" that he claimed for the theory aspect of ...
- 1354: King Lear
- ... after being mistreated by his two other daughters. It was said that, "now and then an ample tear trilled down her delicate cheek."(IV,iii, ln 12-13). Cordelia then orders for some of the French soldiers to bring Lear to her so that she can look after him before the war between Britain and the French soldiers begins. Her love was further displayed when she says, "But love, dear love, and our aged father's right. Soon may I hear and see him!"(IV,iv, ln 28- 29). Because of all ...
- 1355: Blaise Pascal
- ... extremem right, 1 next to it, and 3 next to that again. To increase by one the number showing in any aperture, it was necessary to turn the appropriate frum forward 1/10th of a revolution. Tus in this sum, the drum on the extremem right of the machine would be given two turns, the drum immediately to its left would be moved on 7/10ths of a revolution, whilst the drum to its immediate left would be rotated forward by 1/10th. Tht total of 487 could then be read off in the appropriate slots. But, easy as thes operation was, a problem ...
- 1356: Drug Education
- ... money nowhere. The government needs to spend more money on realizing what they are doing wrong in educating students who only go off to use drugs anyways .There is a general theme of a Cultural Revolution of Drug Treatment programs seen in America. The revolution beings with the heroic phase where the problem begins and spreads rapidly and the use of drugs and alcohol increases. Next is the classical phase where the social problem reaches its peak and the use ...
- 1357: Bill Gates and Microsoft
- ... what lie in the personal computing future. Even IBM has made some major mistakes and had the not been such a large competitor in the industry they to may have fallen behind in this computer revolution. Microsoft’s strategy was to license their operating system to other computer manufacturers through a joint venture with IBM. This way they could be paid royalties on all personal computers sold with the MS-DOS ... computer in every household that Gates has always dreamed of. One major concern is how will all of these technologies affect our youth and their education? Initially many educators questioned whether or not the computer revolution would be good for our children’s overall education. Now educational facilities are seeing the benefits that computers bring to the table. The computers can give graphic examples with audio and also provide a consistant ...
- 1358: Relationships In King Lear
- ... after being mistreated by his two other daughters. It was said that, "now and then an ample tear trilled down her delicate cheek."(IV,iii, ln 12-13). Cordelia then orders for some of the French soldiers to bring Lear to her so that she can look after him before the war between Britain and the French soldiers begins. Her love was further displayed when she says, "But love, dear love, and our aged father's right. Soon may I hear and see him!"(IV,iv, ln 28-29). Because of all ...
- 1359: Historical Background To Anima
- ... change their ways. In other words, peaceful progess toward equality and socia justice was impossible. The only way to establish justice, he said, was for t workers to overthrow the capitalists by means of violent revolution. He urged workers around the world to revolt against their rulers. "Workers of the worl unite!" he wrote. "You have nothing to lose but your chains." Another thing Marx taught was that organized religion, the ... neglecting the count badly. Making conditions even more miserable for the people were the hardships the First World War and a particularly cold winter. By 1917, the Russian people were desperate enough to accept a revolution. fact, they got two for the price of one, the first in March when the Tsar was deposed and a provisional government was set up. Then in November a political called the Bolsheviks led a ...
- 1360: Russia
- ... the leader of the KGB and the Union. At age 54, Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev emerged to inherit the economically devastated Union and began establishing political reforms that the world had not encountered since the Bolshevik revolution of 1917. With radical ideologies such as Glasnost (Openess) and Perestroika (long-range capitalistic restructing), along with improved foreign trade and diplomatic association with the United States (elimination of most ballistic nuclear missiles), the reformist ... face of his dominion. Gorbachev's economical strategies had transformed the Soviet Union from a desolate oppressed wasteland to a socially liberated jungle. Such radical policies and reforms not only encouraged the development of a revolution, but the global transformation of Europe as we know it. As the hard-line coup was formed in early 1991, Gorbachev managed to hold on to power thanks in part to his liberal nemesis, Boris ...
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