gallery/shop L’Art Nouveau. 1897 Glasgow Brussels World’s Fair: Henry van de Velde and Victor Horta show designs. Charles Rennie Mackintosh and George Walton design Buchanan Street tearooms. 1898 Munich Vienna Josef Olbrich designs Secession Building. United Workshops for Art in Handicraft founded. Gustav Klimt paints Pallas Athene. Turin Exhibition of Italian decorative arts. European and American troops are sent to quell the
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By the time their settlements were more developed‚ the plundering of the Moros along the coast became intensified‚ and for their refuge‚ they built a stone-walled enclosure called "cuta” in the area of Buaya. In the course of time‚ Juanillo’s son Josef‚ married Calanao’s daughter‚ Sangod‚ and from the families of Juanillo Siengco and Calanao a tribe was formed which gave Tanauan its first tribal leaders. In 1710‚ the first town officials were appointed by the Spanish authorities during the Spanish
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More Equal Than Others George Orwell’s Animal Farm was a novel published in England in 1945. The novel portrays a group of farm animals rebelling against their oppressive leader‚ strongly alluding to the Soviet Russian revolution and the rise of Josef Stalin. Orwell uses the novel to voice his negative opinion of the Soviet Russian government at the time‚ as well as his disdain for Marxist ideology. This novel created controversy in Britain at the time‚ as Soviet Russia and Britain were allied during
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In 1910 Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili renamed himself ’Josef Stalin’‚ the man of steel‚ a foreshadowing of the iron hand he would rule the Soviet Union with a mere 15 years later. Lenin knew that Stalin was dangerous and sought to get rid of him: " I propose to find a way to remove Stalin" (Stalinism Chronology)‚ but died before accomplishing this‚ leaving Stalin free to ascend to absolute power in both the Communist Party and the country. This absolute power enabled Stalin to unleash a reign
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Why were the Nazis successful in keeping the support of most of the German people between 1933-39? By 1933‚ Hitler and the Nazi Party had already had number of great achievements‚ one of them being the fact that Hitler had gone from operating the Munich Putsch‚ to becoming Chancellor. Also‚ he hosted the Berlin Olympics in 1936‚ which proved to be a huge success after a large number of the medals went to the German Athletes. Also‚ it was an opportunity to show the world how much Germany had improved
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By: Lee A. Zito Death is an experience that I hardly think about. Whether it concerns my family‚ friends‚ or myself‚ death is something in which I have ultimately no thought of in my day to day life. For Elie Wiesel‚ during his stay in a Nazi Concentration Camp‚ death was everywhere. Death was upon his family‚ friends‚ and lingered heavily upon him throughout his time spent as a prisoner at various concentration camps. In his world death was reality‚ death was everyday life. Death was even in the
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Josef Stalin was one of the most important members of the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union succeed the Russian empire in 1922 and lasted until 1991. Stalin shaped the country in the 1930s and continued to help it thrive to victory helping to win the Second World War against Nazi Germany. I am going to concentrate on the myths surrounding Stalin during the Stalin era (1928-1941) and after his death in 1953. After Stalin’s death in 1953 there was no clear successor for his role in the Soviet Union
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Farm”‚ there are plenty of superb examples of dictatorship leading to the downfall of entire communities. Brutus and Caesar from “Julius Caesar” and Napoleon from “Animal Farm” are three great examples of dictatorship causing problems. The name Josef Stalin is very often brought up when talking about dictatorship. In George Orwell’s “Animal Farm”‚ Napoleon is meant to be an allegory for Stalin. He shows the natural desire for power present in people. Firstly‚ he kicks out Snowball. Right off the
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represents the messages intended for the audience. Frequently used throughout Wiesel’s work is conflict and irony‚ which convey his messages to the reader. Irony is recurring throughout the concentration camps‚ as a “doctor” is someone such as Dr. Mengele‚ who selects people for death rather than saving them from it. “A son can kill‚ rather than respect‚ his father” (Dougherty). The irony in this idea is that it is meaningless to save someone from something that is bound to happen to them.
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1. Nicholas II Nicholas II was the last Czar of Russia from 1894 until 1917 when he was forced to abdicate. He was the leader of Russia during a turbulent time when the Russian society was ready for the changes he was not willing to make. Nicholas II would lead Russia into War World I as the commander of the Russian army despite his qualifications to do so. He wouldn’t back down from war and let his country slide into worsening circumstances which would eventually lead to his abdication and the
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