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- 2861: Stalin As A Continuation Of Le
- ... 165) Stalin thought the same, that to gain as much power as possible, one must exterminate all enemies. He also used a secret police to help him out. Stalin would stop at nothing to gain personal power. He became so hard that when Lenin found out that Stalin wanted Trotsky removed, he strongly requested that Stalin be taken out of any powerful position. This did not happen. Stalin got control over ... and "under Stalin the system expanded, first slowly, then with terrifying speed." (Johnson, pp. 274) Even though at first, the system was a bit disaterous, Stalin went on. He used the communist party as his personal instrument, forcing the peasantry into collective farms. The workers became slaves, which is more or less what Lenin wanted, and production increased greatly. Russia was especially productive in the tractor, steel, and coal industries. These ...
- 2862: Shakespeare
- ... fifty percent of Shakespeare’s plays were influenced from various groups of topics. Other things that influenced Shakespeare’s plays were his life experiences. As a young boy dramatic events that occurred led to his writing of Hamlet. The drowning of a girl named Katherine he knew was also a source of his playwriting. History affected his writing as well. One of Shakespeare’s most heralded plays was based on the life and demise of Julius Caesar. He gathered information about Caesar, and with his literary brilliance wrote about Caesar and his story ...
- 2863: A Speech Given By Frederick Do
- ... Rochester, New York, Douglass asks the question: What to the slave is the Fourth of July? This question is a bold one, and it demands attention. The effectiveness of his oration is derived from the personal appeals in which he engages the listener. At once in this speech, Douglass appeals to his listeners religious tendencies. He asks his audience, am I, therefore, called upon to bring our humble offering to the ... justified in denouncing the Fourth of July as a celebration of freedom, those that are free to enjoy the rights associated with Independence Day should also feel shameful that liberty is honored because the same personal freedom that the colonists fought for in the Revolutionary War are cruelly not permitted in the case of the slave. In this sense, the appeal is to those who are indifferent or opposed to slavery ...
- 2864: Pride And Prejudice (a Contemp
- ... a few surface differences, is what happened between Elizabeth and Darcy in Pride and Prejudice after the proposal scene. In all situations, manners were dictated by prejudices laid down by society and in turn altered personal perception, where good manners were untainted by society and bad ones were prejudiced. Therefore, good manners lead to friendly relationships and bad ones lead to conflict. At first, I did not see the same humor in You've Got Mail that had been used in Pride and Prejudice, primarily because I was looking for Jane Austen's personal "regulated hatred" instead of that of modern culture. It is undisputable that the same satire used in Pride and Prejudice is shown in the character of Patricia Eden, Joe's girlfriend. She represents materialism in ...
- 2865: Boys Life: Techniques Used to Develop Loss of Innocence
- Boys Life: Techniques Used to Develop Loss of Innocence In the novel "Boys Life," the author develops a coming of age (loss of innocence) theme through many different techniques in his writing. The author uses techniques such as setting, magical realism, irony, characterization, and symbolism to set the stage for the story to take place the way it does. The characters live through many experiences that end ... of freedom. The Lady stands as a big symbolic figure in the story. She is symbolic to Cory because she gives him power and courage to read his story at the award ceremony of the writing contest (Pg. 297). She is also symbolic to Tom because she pushes him to overcome his fears and nightmares. Snowdown is very symbolic in the story. While on a hunting trip with his father, Davy ...
- 2866: Cuban And Chinese Revolution C
- ... early 1960s, the economy became badly disorganized, and industrial production dropped by as much as 50 percent. As the Cold War ended, Soviet assistance also ceased. China deteriorated to the state it is in today. Personal freedom is taboo, and personal thought is unheard of. While the country may be unified under one government, the people have very little say in that government. Ideas are met with artillery, and protests with tanks. In March of 1952 ...
- 2867: Lyndon B. Johnson
- ... held for the next 6 years despite a serious heart attack in 1955. The Texan proved to be a shrewd, skillful Senate leader. A consistent opponent of civil rights legislation until 1957, he developed excellent personal relationships with powerful conservative Southerners. A hard worker, he impressed colleagues with his attention to the details of legislation and his willingness to compromise. In the late 1950s, Johnson began to think seriously of running ... Vietnam. American troop strength in Vietnam increased to more than 180,000 by the end of the year and to 500,000 by 1968. Many influences led Johnson to such a policy. Among them were personal factors such as his temperamental activism, faith in U.S. military power, and staunch anticommunism. These qualities also led him to intervene militarily in the Dominican Republic--allegedly to stop a Communist takeover--in April ...
- 2868: Herbert Hoover
- ... a dilemma central to American values: the conflict between the tradition of individualism and the impersonalism of large corporations and big cities. Hoover deeply believed in the traditional worth of the individual, the value of personal initiative, the rights of self-expression, and the legacy of freedom of opportunity. These beliefs were deeply rooted in American society and in Hoover's personal Quaker faith. But Hoover, as an engineer, was also profoundly impressed by the virtues of science. Rational principles could point the way to disinterested fairness in public policy, bring about greater efficiency in the economy ...
- 2869: Moral Development in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and The Great Gatsby
- ... spiritual morality. Huck's perception of human morality is that if Jim is human, and human's must be free, then Jim deserves the right to be free. Huck views the spiritual morality as something personal. He feels that if he doesn't allow Jim to be free, then he is going against the human cycle to be free and therefore be sentenced to hell. To some extent this morality has ... over his left shoulder a thousand times than handling snake skin." Huck is talking to himself, just listening and analyzing what Jim is saying. The fact that he has to go to hell, is something personal, and is believed that if he doesn't allow Jim to go, then this action would take place, and vice versa with Jim, if he doesn't get satisfaction from following good luck, and decides ...
- 2870: Charles Dickens Hard Times And
- ... believed in feelings, intuition, and imagination, the realists believed in a movement known as positivism, which applied the scientific method to the study of society. The authors of this period also changed their style of writing by dealing with cultural representation and life. They focused on "the here and now, with everyday events, with his own environment and with the movements (political, social etc.) of his time." Charles Dickens was an ... a serialization in this weekly publication. In Hard Times Dickens writes about the horrors of the industrial revolution and was sparked by what he had seen first hand in Manchester, England fifteen years prior to writing Hard Times and the present goings on of a labor strike in Preston, England while he was conceiving the novel. The novel is almost biblical in nature as it has three books sowing, reaping and ...
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