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- 471: The Awakening 2
- ... and eventually kill her. Kate Chopin uses Creole Society in the 1890s as a basis for her novel and expresses it through Creole women, personal relationships, and etiquette. The Awakening is a book based on French Creoles and their lifestyle which is expressed throughout the novel. Creoles were French Creole Society descendents of French and Spanish Colonists of the 1700s. They had strong family ties because of Catholicism and were a tight community because they where considered outcasts of Anglo- American society. Clement Eaton says that the Creoles, ...
- 472: The Rise Of Communism In Russi
- ... to socialism. The class struggle of the future would be between the bourgeoisie, who were the capitalist employers, and the proletariat, who were the workers. The struggle would end, according to Marx, in the socialist revolution and the attainment of full communism (Groiler's Encyclopedia). Socialism, of which "Marxism-Leninism" is a takeoff, originated in the West. Designed in France and Germany, it was brought into Russia in the middle of the nineteenth century and promptly attracted support among the country's educated, public-minded elite, who at that time were called intelligentsia (Pipes, 21). After Revolution broke out over Europe in 1848 the modern working class appeared on the scene as a major historical force. However, Russia remained out of the changes that Europe was experiencing. As a socialist movement and ... of Lenin's long-time lieutenants, Zinovieiv and Kamenev, the Central Committee accepted Lenin's resolution which formally instructed the party organizations to prepare for the seizure of power. Finally, of October 25 the Bolshevik revolution took place to overthrow the provisional government. They did so through the agency of the Military-Revolutionary Committee of the Petrograd Soviet. They forcibly overthrew the provisional government by taking over all of the ...
- 473: Animal Farm - Compared To The
- All of the characters in Animal farm have counterparts in real life. This book was based on the Russian Revolution, and all the important populace of the revolution are symbolized. Some of the animals represent individuals in the Russian Revolution, and some types of animals represent different types of Russian citizens. The book carries out much like the actual revolution. It starts out with hopes of an empire where all are equal and the ...
- 474: The Rise of Communism in Russia
- ... to socialism. The class struggle of the future would be between the bourgeoisie, who were the capitalist employers, and the proletariat, who were the workers. The struggle would end, according to Marx, in the socialist revolution and the attainment of full communism (Groilers Encyclopedia). Socialism, of which Marxism-Leninism is a takeoff, originated in the West. Designed in France and Germany, it was brought into Russia in the middle of the nineteenth century and promptly attracted support among the country's educated, public-minded elite, who at that time were called intelligentsia (Pipes, 21). After Revolution broke out over Europe in 1848 the modern working class appeared on the scene as a major historical force. However, Russia remained out of the changes that Europe was experiencing. As a socialist movement and ... of Lenin's long-time lieutenants, Zinovieiv and Kamenev, the Central Committee accepted Lenin's resolution which formally instructed the party organizations to prepare for the seizure of power. Finally, of October 25 the Bolshevik revolution took place to overthrow the provisional government. They did so through the agency of the Military-Revolutionary Committee of the Petrograd Soviet. They forcibly overthrew the provisional government by taking over all of the ...
- 475: World Populations and Development
- ... 1.) The Neolithic and Industrial Revolutions The two changes in the use of the earth's resources that had the greatest effect on the world population were the neolithic and the industrial revolutions. The neolithic revolution (a.k.a. agricultural revolution) was a change in the way of life of our ancestors. It took place about 8000 years ago among various tribes in Asia and the Middle East. It included a transition from foraging and hunting ... specialization and ultimately to the stratification of these societies. Improved conditions of life led to somewhat longer life spans. Nevertheless population growth remained low due to high infant mortality rates. The impact of the neolithic revolution was not as much on immediate population growth (even though it did have a long term impact on population growth) as on the material and spiritual development of the human race. It is widely ...
- 476: Le Cid (french)
- (french essay on the book entitles "Le Cid") Le Cid Le Cid était l'oeuvre qui renda Corneille un des meilleurs écrivains de l'histoire de la littérature française. Ses pièces ont été écrites sous l'influence ...
- 477: French War
- ... of a death march, the sombre mood of the scene assisted by the music. The irony of this scene is obvious - the victorious English are miserably marching wet and weary down the road while the French are warm and dry inside their castles. The utter pointlessness of war that Branagh obviously feels is also shown through this, because although English men have been killed and they have won, they are still ...
- 478: Grapes of Wrath: Summary
- ... the 1930’s a terrible cluster of dust clouds collected over parts of the Midwestern United States, the area formed a triangle shape from Texas to South Dakota and up to the peek of Milwaukee (French 3). These dust clouds came to be none as the Dust Bowl of the 1930’s, a phenomenon which caused many farmers to lose everything they owned, and as a result they where forced to ... exact tale which John Steinbeck’s novel delineates. In the Novel the Joads family is exposed the wrath of the Dust bowl and forced to move southwest toward California in search of the “promised land” (French 5). The Dust bowl was a harsh time in the 1930’s, the United States was feeling the effects of the Great Depression, and farmers already had enough troubles dealing with the effects of industrial farming (French 200). The farmers described in the novel were sharecroppers whom had settled the land many generations before, the effects of the Dust bowl, and the forced migration were not at all beneficial to the ...
- 479: October Crisis/War Measures Act
- ... the early 1960s to the mid 1970s, Quebec was going through a very rough political era. Rising feelings of Quebec inhabitants was leading to disruption in political events, and many places of work for both French, and English Canadians. The feelings of inequality by the Francophones were obvious, through the outbreak of two legal and one underground separatist, political parties, though the act of terrorism and crime is never excused. The government of Quebec knew this, and for that reason issued the War Measures Act. These historical occurrences led to mounting frustration by French Quebeckers, actions by two legal parties and violent outbursts by a third party, and finally the need for the institution of the War Measures Act to regain control of the province. With the political issues ... present in Quebec, the pressure and frustration of separatism, had already began to mount. (Ben, 759) This appeared as the formation of, “independatiste” groups and parties. (Ben, 759) Their mission was to see an independent French nation within Quebec. Their were many causes for this frustration. The French Quebeckers viewed the English as in total control of the province, and saw them as the cause for the loss of so ...
- 480: The American Revolution
- ... of defeat and reprisals for rebellion and treason cast dark shadows over the land. It was the brave risk taking and decision making of the colonist that shaped the radical movement known as the American Revolution.
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