MATH TRIVIA When is a billion not a billion? Did you know that the American system for naming large numbers is not the same as the British system? What we call a billion‚ they call a thousand million. And what they call a billion‚ we call a trillion! And it continues from there. After a million‚ we do not agree on any of the names for large numbers. The chart below summarizes the differences. Number Power of 10 American Name British Name 1‚000 103 thousand thousand 1‚000‚000 106
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regulation and restriction of speech‚ mass surveillance‚ and widespread use of terror. * Ideas of communism (terms of communism) Equality (goal) No private property No market Utopia (eventually no government)! * Policies implemented by Mikhail Gorbachev * The Great Leap Forward (China) The Great Leap Forward (1958-61) Make steel!! Famine—30 millions (7 ~ 30 millions) Achieve utopia ! * The Great Cultural Revolution (China) * Structural adjustment programs (conditionalities)
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Theorising the structure of the Kremlin Factions: lessons learned from China Introduction Two decades after the end of communism‚ the ‘state of democracy’ in Russia remains a point of vivid debate within academic circles. There’s no lack of concepts to describe the nature of the current regime: ‘managed democracy’ (Lipman and McFaul‚ 2001)‚ ‘Potemkin democracy’ (Clarck‚ 2004)‚ ‘forms without substance’ (Brown‚ 2009)‚ ‘phony democracy’ (Sakwa‚ 2008b)‚ ‘facade democracy’ (Rutland‚ 2003)‚ ‘democracy’s
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THE ROMANTIC MOVEMENT IN ENGLISH LITERATURE Romanticism is a complex artistic‚ literary‚ and intellectual movement that originated in the second half of the 18th century in Europe‚ and gained strength in reaction to the Industrial Revolution. In part‚ it was a revolt against aristocratic social and political norms of the Age of Enlightenment and a reaction against the scientific rationalization of nature‚ and was embodied most strongly in the visual arts‚ music‚ and literature‚ but had a major impact
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Matryoshka Dolls By: Jen Morin September 20‚ 2010 Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for musc-199 The Glory of Arts in Russia Page # 1 Russian nesting dolls or Matryoshka “in Russian” can be described as little dolls made out of wood that decrease in size and stack within one another. One way to think of them is by comparing them to an onion‚ each layer becomes smaller as it goes. All these dolls vary in size; sometimes they are very large‚ while others quite small. They
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Response Paper 1 POLI 244 Why did Russia invade Georgia? In August 2008‚ Russia and Georgia went to a brief war over the control
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Critique of a Passage: Political Sociology of Composing William Matthew Stratton Western Kentucky University Abstract I intend on using “Political Sociology of Composing” thesis that is presented in that paper‚ which is why do composers compose‚ in a manner of expressing why tool writes the songs they write. “Political Sociology of Composing” explores six composers ranging from Mozart to Tchaikovsky. By observing the composers of different time frames and lifestyles‚ we can
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Cited: Babel‚ Isaac. The Collected Stories. Meridian : New American Library. 1955. Bulgakov‚ Mikhail. The Mater and Margarita. Penguin : Twentieth-Century Classics. 1997. Dostoevsky‚ Fyodor. Notes From the Underground. Bantam Classics. 1981. Erodeev‚ Venedikt. Moscow to the End of the Line. Northwestern University Press. 1980. Fitzpatrick‚ Sheila
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Annie Leibovitz When I think of a woman that has influenced my photography I turn to Portrait photographer Annie Leibovitz. Born in 1949 in Waterbury‚ Connecticut‚ Annie Leibovitz was moved around the country with her family because her father had re-enlisted in the military. She was two‚ and for the next continuing decade she was constantly moving and changing locations and finally settled not to far from M.I.C.A. in Silver Springs‚ Maryland where she attended high school. After graduation she
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The Importance of Carnivalesque in Twelfth Night The theory of Carnivalesque was presented by a Russia critic Mikhail Bakhtin‚ his theory proposed that the nature of Carnivalesque liberates the assumptions of the higher class through humour and chaos‚ in other words the nature of Carnivalesque mocks the behaviour of those higher in authority and presents them as an everyday fool whereas in reality they are regarded as far more intelligent than others and they rarely possess a foolish thought‚
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