Can Italy’s M5S recover from Rome shambles to oust Renzi? ROME‚ Italy - On December 4th‚ Italy’s anti-establishment party‚ the Five Star Movement (M5S)‚ can take a giant leap towards taking control of the country thanks to high-stakes referendum which threatens to topple the country’s Prime Minister‚ Matteo Renzi. Renzi has promised to step down as leader if his proposals to drastically reduce the power and influence of Italy’s upper house are rejected. Renzi says his proposals to slash the number
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Fascist Ideology By Evie Friedrich Question One. What were the ideologies of the Nazi Party and the Norsefire Party portrayed in V for Vendetta? Nazi ideology or Nazism was the ideology developed by Adolf Hitler and other prominent Nazis in Germany. There were many existing ideologies that influenced Nazism such as Fascism and Nationalism‚ however Nazism was a unique ideology in many ways. It combined many ideas‚ values and morals that were key to Hitler’s vision of Germany‚ such as Lebensraum
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The Loved and Hated Man In a Bedouin tent in Sirte‚ Libya‚ Gaddafi was born into a poor family who made a living by herding goats and camels. At the age of 19‚ Gaddafi joined a military college in Benghazi. As part of his curriculum he would receive four month of military training in the United Kingdom. When he graduated from military college‚ he joined the Libyan military and steadily rose through the ranks. At the time Libya had gained its sovereignty from Italy and King Idris had become the leader
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Often‚ imitations of movies are based on what is happening at the time‚ for instance the film‚ “The Great Dictator‚” that was created in the year 1940 by Charlie Chaplin. In the year 1940 there was a person named Adolf Hitler and he wanted to rule the world. Adolf Hitler was anti-semitism and this film was to basically satirize Adolf Hitler and to denounce the Nazi party. In the film‚ “The Great Dictator‚” Adenoid Hynkel represented Adolf Hitler. Charlie Chaplin directed‚ produced‚ starred in‚ and
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What goes through your head when you hear Greek Civil War? The language‚ Destruction‚ Athens or ancient artifacts. Greece is a country in southern eastern Europe consisting of 2 mainland peninsulas and thousands of islands that lie along the seas. It was the birthplace of the Western civilization and the ancient landmarks. During World War II‚ Greece had helped Albania in which they were being invaded by Italy. Once the Greek army held them back the Nazis had intervened during the war and had overthrown
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In Siena in the 1930s‚ Italian writer Arturo Vivante (born in 1923) encountered fascism during his school days. In this excerpt from his short story “The Sound of the Cicadas‚” Vivante shows how fascism affected every aspect of life in Italy under Mussolini’s rule. The government was trying to turn Italians into warlike people‚ and soon military training was added to our education‚ already burdened by two periods of gymnastics.As though this weren’t enough‚ the authorities tried to ingratiate themselves
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In the second decade of the twentieth century‚ a man named Charlie Chaplin achieved world fame through cinema. He did so even before the cinema had come of age. Chaplin ’s contribution to the development of cinema was nothing short of enormous. The time in which Chaplin ’s career was flourishing‚ was also a time when the world was experiencing many problems. Chaplin ’s personal beliefs‚ in combination with the events happening in the world at the time‚ were a driving force in what message one of
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Analysis on Charlie Chaplin’s Speech in “The Great Dictator” Charles Chaplin realized numerous films among which "The Gold Rush" in 1925‚ then "The Circus" in 1929 and "Modern Times" in 1974. It was an icon of cinema comedy. The Great Dictator was Charlie Chaplin’s first talking film. It was released in 1940 in New York but was censored in Europe where it was brought out later in 1945 at the end of the Second World War. This censorship was due to the caricature of the Nazis and the present fascists
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The emperors‚ Henry VII and Ludwig IV‚ had both dreamed of bringing about a renewal of imperial authority and the empire‚ in the mould of the Carolingians‚ or perhaps even‚ Rome itself‚ and it seemed at the beginning of the fourteenth-century that this might be plausible. Yet‚ this had not been the only envisioned ‘empire’ at the start of the fourteenth-century; there was the imagined papal monarchy‚ reigning supreme over all of Italy‚ or perhaps even all Christendom‚ the Plantagenet Empire dreamed
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Slovenia is the main individual from the European Union to have experienced every one of the three sorts of totalitarian administration in the past century. By ethicalness of the broad nonattendance of learning among both the Slovene and the broader European open‚ the authors in this article confer two or three more words to the last said. The west of present Slovenia‚ which in 1920 with the Treaty of Rapallo ended up being a bit of the Kingdom of Italy‚ was the key region confronted with the principle
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