On a planet overcrowded with dreadful occurrences prior to the Cold War, a cipher clerk for the Soviet Union. Igor Gouzenko, shed light on the existence of a Soviet embassy spy ring. This resulted in a massive investigation which changed his life, and shaped the future of Canada. Igor Gouzenko’s actions throughout his life had a profound effect on Canadian Identity. He took action and revealed the Soviet spy ring to the Canadian government, which forced Canada to become involved in military decisions, and allowed Gouzenko the opportunity to gain political asylum in Canada. His actions changed Canada’s place in the global Cold War conversation.…
Jasmin Darznik is the most affected by state-led nationalism by having to renounce her citizenship to the United States government. Tan Le is the most affected by state-seeking nationalism by serving as a representative for immigration rights in Australia. When Darznik arrived in the United States, her parents had bought a house and owned a small hotel business in California. After leaving the U.S. for a summer to visit Iranian relatives in Germany, the family would soon return to find that they were no longer welcomed in America. “As the officer questioned their nationality, she retreated to a back room. A few minutes later, she returned to inform the family that their applications for re-entry back into the U.S. had been denied. They would…
Aron Ralston is the bravest person I know. Aron was an American outdoorsman, who loved canyoneering. In a canyon of Utah, Ralston was hiking all alone, when something deadly happened. An enormous boulder became dislodged and landed right onto Aron's arm. Aron Ralston suffered tremendously, but he was brave enough to get through this tough situation.…
Ivan IV (or Ivan the Terrible) was the ruler of Russia from 1533-1584. Ivan IV is credited for creating an absolute monarchy in Russia. He gained Mongol land for Russia and expanded the Russian economy on a small scale. Although Ivan IV accomplished these goals for Russia, he does deserve his nickname, Ivan the Terrible. Ivan IV was a very intelligent man, but many people believed that he was mentally ill. This would explain his violent outbursts and his infamous behavior. His troubled childhood might be a possible explanation for his outburst issues.Both of his parents died before he was 8 years old. After his parents death he was faced with constant danger and neglect, which led to him hating the boyar class and torturing small animals as…
August Alsina is a 24 year old, R&B artist originally from New Orleans. August endured a home life filled with drugs, violence, and struggle. At age 14, he got word from New Orleans that his father, August Sr., lost his battle with substance abuse. Without a male role model, August found peace in music. He was inspired to sing after watching Lauren Hill’s cover of “His Eyes on a Sparrow” in ‘Sister Act 2.’…
Candice Ivan IV, Tsar of Russia is better known as Ivan the terrible. In the following paragraphs I will depict major events in his life and the role he played in Russia. I will also exhibit the many positive things that he did. As well as the negative things that he did to Russian society during his reign of thirty-seven years. I will debate the fact that Ivan IV was nick named Ivan the terrible.…
Serial killers are hard to catch because many of them don a guise of sanity. Andrei Chikatilo, while having some red flags such as accusations of inappropriate behavior towards minors, necessitating several moves and career changes, also had normal facets to his life: he was married with two children. Most serial murderers also operate with repeated motions, aka modus operandi (“MO”) when they commit their crimes—Chikatilo would often eviscerate, mutilate, sexually defile, and even engaged in cannibalizing his victims.…
Beginning the second part of the article with “The Corporate Model of Developing Art”, Steinberg compares modern artists to engineers and research technicians because they are often presented tasks or problems that require solutions. The strength of an artist is…
Nikita Khrushchev was born on April 15, 1894 in Kalinovka, Russia. Khrushchev was the politician who led the Soviet Union in part of the Cold War era. Khrushchev joined the Communist Party and fought in the Red Army during the Russian Revolution in 1918. He quickly rose up the party ranks, becoming a member of the Central Committee in 1934. On September 14, 1953, Khrushchev succeeded Joesph Stalin after his death in the beginning of the year. In a 1956 “secret speech,” Khrushchev talked about Stalin's crimes for the first time, starting a process called “de-Stalinization. Khrushchev was known to be a talkative, sociable, tough, shrewd and a man with great self-confidence. He was open to and established a reformed version…
At the time, Stalin seemed like he was the greatest person on Earth. He made himself seem as if he was above everybody, both physically and mentally. After all of the revolts that were occurring in Russia, he just took over. He went into power right after Lenin had died and took his place, over Trotsky who also wanted to rule over Russia. Well he didn’t and we can’t change that. All we can do is remember Stalin and remember all of the things he did to make people support him and his cause to industrialize Russia.…
Joseph Stalin is one of the most well known dictators. He is known to be the savior of Russia. He was also known to be a cruel leader that didn’t let anyone get in his way. This lead Stalin to be feared by many people in Russia. Stalin was the dictator that ruled over communist Russia in 1928. In his time of leading this totalitarian country, he accomplished many good and terrible things.…
Joseph Stalin was one of key figures in 20th century history. He transformed Russia during his time in power. In this essay, I will be discussing the violence Joseph Stalin had imposed against the Soviet Union and the world. Stalin had a long life and a long political career too. Stalin started off studying the marxist revolution and later spent his time and attention towards the revolutionary movement against the Russian monarchy (Gellately, 2013). Stalin later became an activist for fifteen years. Finally, he was a dictator of Soviet Russia from 1929 right up until his death in 1953 (Gellately, 2013). He transformed Russia from a minor rural country into a great and powerful industrial nation. Stalin was the most vicious politician…
The Twittering Machine has long been regarded as one of the most fascinating Paul Klee’s painting. As a representative member of German Expressionist, Klee believed art was to “make visible” rather than “reproduce visible”, challenging the former notion of art as the representation of the real world. Influenced by Cubism, Fauvism and Der Blaue Reiter, Klee is similar to Wassily Kandinsky regarding the abstract art style and Bauhaus teaching experience. Whereas, instead of a pure geometric composition that Kandinsky convinced in, most of Klee’s paintings are abstract but figurative.…
Joseph Stalin was a ruthless leader, capable of engendering near-fanatic loyalty in his followers. Nikita Khrushchev, who followed Stalin to power, characterized Stalin 's leadership as creating a cult of personality. Like many leaders who abuse their power, Stalin was the most brutal, who had a huge impact on the Russian Revolution.…
One Family might change the way of playing violin in the United States. Markov family, a Russian musician family, emigrated from the Soviet Union in 1976 to United States. Albert Markov, the father, is a violin player and teacher. The mother is violin player in New York City Opera (1982). In addition, their son Alexander Markov is extraordinary violin soloist, who won the Paganini international violin competition in 1981. They lived in the Soviet Union which had Communist Party government and the government has controlled everything even music. Albert Markov approached a new violin method mixture of Russian and German Traditional Violin methods. The Russian Method used and played by famous violinist like Elman and Zimbalist. It has positive…