Cornell Notes Standards Review Notes Page: 1__/2____ Topic: what is economics? Name: Bartlett Shani Chapter: Date: 24/2/2014 Questions/ Main ideas Vocabulary Notes/ Answers/Definitions/ Examples/ Sentences Economics Both a social sience and a business sience. It is concerned with understanding what economies produce‚ how they produce and who they produce for. Two extream views Market-orientated economists and economists that favour hierarchical command and control. Market-orientated
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Throughout history‚ the role of Joseph Stalin on Russia’s success has always been questioned upon. This role can be show through the many positive and negative aspects of his reign. The positive side included the strengthening of Russia’s military but the negative side‚ at the expense of his countries people. If we were to look at Stalin’s accomplishment‚ we could see that there was a majority of positive achievements over negative ones. Of the many accomplishments‚ the most prominent one is Stalin’s
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Stalin was rising to power he killed everybody who was with Lenin and the consequences were severe‚ “ To make matters worse‚ the Great Purges depleted the Soviet Union army and government Leaderships to the point where both were dysfunctional” (Joseph Stalin’s Biography
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Joseph Stalin was born in 1870 in bitter poverty in Georgia‚ a region in Southern Russia. Unlike other well-educated and cultured leaders‚ he was very crude and rough. He was cold‚ hard‚ and impersonal. When he became part of Bolsheviks‚ he changed his name to Stalin‚ which means “man of steel” in Russian. There was a clear distinction between Stalin and Lenin‚ who were two of the most notable men during that time in Russia. Between 1922 and 1927‚ Stalin began his movements to seize control over
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The Brutality of Racism in the Heart of Darkness In the Heart of Darkness British Voyagers travel the Congo River in Africa on the ‘Nellie’ giving an insight of the ruthless actions of man. Joseph Conrad is able to portray this travel through his own alter ego Marlow. The travel itself is dark to begin with only to come that the people within the travel were darker. Throughout the Heart of Darkness readers can get an insight on the brutality of racism with the setting‚ imagery and symbolism used
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Darkness‚ in Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad‚ functions as a dynamic extension of Marlow’s altering values. Prevailing at its attempts in conveying the various phases of Marlow’s changing mindset‚ darkness provides a breeding ground for contention—mainly‚ the questioning of its inherent meaning as the plot and text unfold to form a myriad of clashing ideologies. Despite what many consider to represent solely the depths of human indecency‚ darkness pushes the bounds of that conclusion and takes
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Joseph Heller’s Catch 22‚ which depicts the ending stages of World War II‚ presents war in its most crude‚ uncensored form. The novel dissipates all thoughts of war as ideal and heroic‚ instead‚ the novel shows the true violence of war. Through his illustration of the war‚ Heller satirizes war and its establishments resulting in an underlying theme of death. Almost all of Yossarian’s friends end up dying in the chaotic war. For example‚ Yossarian’s comrade‚ Snowden‚ dies‚ but his death is only revealed
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assignment. Be sure to SAVE before exiting. Those of you who have finished the Harry Potter series will see how Rawlings used this pattern in writing her novel. Especially consider the last phase here. http://orias.berkeley.edu/hero/JourneyStages.pdf Joseph Campbell’s Mono myth (Hero With A Thousand Faces) The standard path of the mythological adventure of the hero is a magnification of the formula represented in the rites of passage: separation--initiation--return: which might be named the nuclear unit
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Interpretations of Joseph Campbell and the Hero’s Journey ____________________________________________________________ The Hero’s Journey: 1. Heroes are introduced in the ORDINARY WORLD‚ where 2. they receive the CALL TO ADVENTURE. 3. They are RELUCTANT at first or REFUSE THE CALL‚ but 4. are encouraged by a MENTOR to 5. CROSS THE FIRST THRESHOLD and enter the Special World‚ where 6. they encounter TESTS‚ ALLIES‚ AND ENEMIES. 7. They APPROACH THE INMOST CAVE‚ crossing a second threshold 8. where
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Almost every person has told a white lie to protect someone’s feelings. Yet‚ not every white lie can be interpreted in countless ways and demonstrates ulterior motives. Joseph Conrad’s novel Heart of Darkness follows Marlow’s journey deep into the Congo during an era of European Imperialism. Along his passage he encounters the horrors and immorality of European Imperialism and a deranged yet successful ivory agent named Kurtz‚ whom he watches achieve success but surrender to madness‚ disease‚ and
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