Ivan the Great- Centralized rule; married the niece of the last Byzantine emperor which gave him the chance to asset dominance over all orthodox churches whether in Russia or not. He insisted that Russia had exceeded Byzantine as a third Rome. He called himself “csar” after the Caesar, the :the autocrat of all the Russians.…
The Olmecs were considered to be the first pre-classic civilization in Mesoamerica that flourished in the year C. 1500 to 300 BCE who lived in the Tropical lowlands of south-central Mexico. The word Olmec comes from Aztec origin meaning “people of the rubber country”. The Olmecs were the first civilization to practice ritualistic bloodletting and played the Mesoamerican ballgame, Pok-A-Tok. Ivan van Sertima was born January 26, 1935 was a linguist, literary critic, an anthropologist and an Associate professor of African studies at Rutgers University. In 1977, he published, through Random House publishing, the book They Came Before Columbus: The African Presence in Ancient America, a detailed documentation of analogies between the Olmecs and the African culture before the time of Columbus. This topic has been much debated in the historical community, with some historians agreeing and disagreeing with his claim.…
who followed him thought that power was a divine right and should be the absolute…
Since the Great Depression was such a large aspect of life in the 1930’s, most photographer captured photos depicting social injustice and economic hardship. Photos from this period meant to create awareness for social issues usually depicted scenes that the photographer did not interfere with, but rather showed the raw devastation of a subject. Dorothea Lange and other FSA photographers would achieve this by traveling areas that were economically burdened and captured disheartening scenes that they encountered.…
In the novels, One Day in the life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn and The Sound of Waves by Yukio Mishima, the characters value their dignity and take many actions to preserve it. First of all, in One Day in the life of Ivan Denisovich, Shukhov attempts to maintain his human dignity in the face of oppression. As Shukhov begins his daily routine, he “quickly finished up the job. There’s work and work... If you’re working for human beings, then do a real job of it” (Solzhenitsyn 33). Shukhov is imprisoned in a gulag, one of the worst possible places to be, but he still maintains his human dignity by keeping a good work ethic. Shukhov knows that if he works well he will be treated well, but beyond that, the fact that he is working for another human being gives him reason to maintain a good work ethic, and his self-respect. Furthermore, Shukhov always preforms many small, but meaning full actions in order to maintain his dignity. While eating his rations, Shukhov “removed his cap from his shaven head—however cold it was, he wouldn’t let himself eat with his cap on” (16). Shukhov still maintains his manners, even when he is forcibly kept in a gulag prison. His manners are very important as they allow him a way to remain human and keep his dignity, rather than deteriorating to the state of an animal, like some of the other prisoners. While the characters in One Day in the life of Ivan Denisovich, attempt to maintain their dignity as a means of refuge in the gulags, the characters of The Sound of Waves, retain their dignity as a means of protecting their status in society. To begin, the characters in the Sound of Waves do not tolerate any embarrassment or loss of respect to their peers. When Shinji’s mother visits Terukichi Miyata’s home he ignores her visit and she replies, “[s]o you say you won’t see a poor widow…Well let me tell you something… never in life will I ever cross…
“The small waves were the same, chucking the rowboat under the chin as we fished at anchor, and the boat was the same boat, the same color green and the ribs broken in the same places, and under the floorboards the same fresh water leavings and debris- the dead hellgrammite, the wisps of moss, the rusty discarded fishhook, the dried blood from yesterday’s catch” (White 195-196).…
In the centuries following Ivan's death, historians developed different theories to better understand his reign, but independent of the perspective through which one chooses to approach this, it cannot be denied that Ivan the Terrible changed Russian history and continues to live on in popular imagination. His political legacy completely altered the Russian governmental structure; his economic policies ultimately contributed to the end of the Rurik Dynasty, and his social legacy lives on in unexpected places.…
There were very many influential people in the 1930s. One that stuck out the most was Dorothea Lange. She was a professional photographer, a very known professional photographer, during the Great Depression and even after that. She documented the struggle of migrant farm families. Lange photographed the pain and despair of women, men, and children living in dirty, miserable camps. She also photographed the unemployed men who wandered the streets of San Francisco (Migrants). Lange was an influential American documentary photographer and photojournalist, best known for her Depression-era work for the FSA or the Farm Security Administration. Lange's photographs humanized the consequences of the Great Depression and influenced the development…
Taking photographs may seem simple, but being a photographer is more than browsing through the viewfinder and pushing the exposure button. A photographer needs to know how to analyze the scene, speak in words that language cannot, and reach to the souls of people through a picture. During the Great Depression, many photographers captured the scenes of poverty and grief. However, there was only one photographer that truly captured the souls of Americans. According to Roy Stryker, Dorothea Lange "had the most sensitivity and the most rapport with people" (Stryker and Wood 41). Dorothea Lange was a phenomenal photographer that seized the hearts of people during the 1930s and beyond, and greatly affected the times of the Great Depression.…
In accessing the actual "greatness" attributed to Catherine the Great, Empress of Russia during the European Enlightenment, one must look at all aspects of her rule. Her outgoing personality left her to be described as anything from "terrible" to "great". She could be deceptive yet honest, humorous yet firm, and light-hearted yet wise. Thus the Enlightenment would not have been a part of Russian history if not for the determination of Catherine the Great. Catherine the Great's exceptional character and illuminating visions brought Russia into the age of enlightenment.…
“Like comets, they flashed across the sky of world politics; obsessed with power, they mobilized enormous masses of people for their ambitious goals ,” the three historic leaders - Napoleon, Stalin and Hitler - all greatly influenced the world till today. Despite the fact that Hitler led Nazi Germany to start WWII and Stalin transformed Soviet Union and started the Cold War, I believe that Napoleon had the greatest impact on modern European history, because he not only established a new order of Europe with his conquest, giving birth to nationalism and the idea of European unity, but also promoted Enlightenment ideas and scientific inquiry that paved the way for modern world, and promulgated a new Civil Code which was adopted as the basis of law system in many European nations.…
In this Essay i talk about Edward Weston and what i find about his images and what i like about his images i find in the composition of it and the emotions that they give me and i talk about his life.Edward Weston was one of the most successful Photographer and most influential in America of the 20th century . He is most known for his richly and detailed black and white photographs of abstract landscapes and organic form like for example vegetables, shells , and rocks. When he went on a trip to New York in 1922 , he had a encounter with the photographer named Alfred traveled to Mexico and and photographed Point Lobos in Carmel,California and developed the style that would distinguish his practice, favoring sharp contracts and a full tonal…
The depression which began in 1929 lead to Lange 's first documentary photograph titled, “White Angel Breadline”.…
The Great Depression, which began with the stock market crash of 1929 and lasted for the next decade, was a time of desperation and disorientation in America. In an effort to bring the country back on its feet, President Roosevelt initiated the Farm Security Administration (FSA) project. Photographers were hired and sent across the United States to document Americans living in poverty, and Dorothea Lange and Walker Evans were two of those photographers that were sent out. Along with their partners Paul S. Taylor and James Agee they started their projects which were approached through two different methods. Agee and Evans project Let Us Now Praise Famous Men and Lange and Taylor's project An American exodus: A Record of Human Erosion, are two similar, though different types of work. Both projects are of the poor tenant farmers in the south and the sharecroppers living during the Great Depression during the 1930s. The first difference I noticed is the way the pictures are presented in the two projects. By this I mean how they are taken and how Evans and Lange chose which ones that were to be included in the books. A second difference is that Agee and Taylor had two different writing techniques and these are the biggest differences between the two books.…
Although Ivan IV committed many heinous acts in his declining years, it does not diminish the lasting effects of his accomplishments. He expanded Russia’s borders and paved the way for others such as Peter the Great to continue the expansion of Russian territory. Ivan’s expansion of Russia allowed for the establishment of trade between Europe and Russia. He also left Russia more centralized, both administratively and culturally, then they were before and he encouraged the development of the Russian culture. He also created a system that led the restriction of peasants and paved the way for there to be serfdom in the…