NOTES on Death of a Salesman (1949) by Arthur Miller (1915-2005) ***** GENRE: Example of modern tragedy and “selective realism” Refer to your study guide for the quote from Arthur Miller’s “Tragedy and the Common Man” Selective Realism: refer to your text‚ and consider the notes following the brief remarks on the play below…. ***** Notes on the play‚ with comparisons to others this semester. (feel free to disagree or elaborate): PLOT: Willy Loman loses his job‚ regains a relationship with
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jump to any predetermined actions but instead thought ahead and devised a plan to lure Napoleons troops away from their resources and introduced their secret weapon the Russian winter. “Welcoming new information”‚ Kutuzov knew that Napoleon wanted Moscow and he welcomed it. Using the pressing behavior of Napoleon‚ he was able to adjust and formulate a plan once Napoleon made it to the capital. Not knowing how his attacker would react to the city being in shambles‚ Kutuzov had to digest new information
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Tarr had fallen for the wife of a Moscow Centre intelligence officer‚ who had informed him that she knew of a Soviet mole‚ code-named “Gerald”‚ that held a high-ranking position in the Circus. When Tarr relayed this information to the Circus‚ his lover was abducted by her superiors‚ only
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International University of Switzerland for the 2013/2014 year. First of all I would like to present some background about myself. My name is Maria Fedorova‚ currently living in Moscow‚ Russia‚ originally from Yerevan‚ Armenia. After completing the Specialist (equals to Bachelor) in Sociology Programme at Lomonosov Moscow State University in 2012‚ I plan to continue my education and obtain a Graduate Certificate Degree in business studies. Through my courses‚ I have developed an analytical systematic
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Either way Tchaikovsky grew more popular‚ but with his First Symphony Rubinstein wouldn’t allow it to be played unless Tchaikovsky made some revisions. He made the revisions but was still not allowed to perform‚ so he took the original version to Moscow and it was performed
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Who was the man behind communism? Who was the man behind communism? Second only to Lenin‚ Joseph Stalin is the face most often associated with communism. He was the leader of the USSR during World War II‚ siding with the Allies against Germany. Stalin also participated in the Cold War‚ and was the leader of the USSR until the mid-seventies. ("World War 2"- 2) Joseph Stalin was born in Gori‚ Georgia on December 21‚1879. As a young man he won a scholarship to the Tiflis Theological Seminary
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areas within Russia (these areas were Leningrad‚ Moscow and Kiev). However‚ Operation Barbarossa was a failure as Hitler had underestimated both the resources and the determination of which the Soviet Union possessed. And‚ although the German Nazi Party succeeded in the capturing and conquering the city of Kiev they were unsuccessful in capturing Leningrad and Moscow. If the German Army had succeeded in conquering all three cities of Leningrad‚ Moscow and Kiev the fate of the European War as a whole
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Were the five-year plans successful? When Joseph Stalin took control of Russia in 1928‚ he saw that Russia was very industrially behind and with the World War II looming‚ the Soviet Union had no choice but to industrialise at the speed of light. Quoting from a speech he gave in 1931‚ he said: "The history of old Russia has consisted being beaten again and again because of our backwardness. It is our duty to the working class to increase the pace of production. We are 50 to 100 years behind the
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TO WHAT EXTENT DOES TSAR ALEXANDER II DESERVE THE TITLE “TSAR LIBERATOR”? Tsar of Russia from 1818 to 1881. Son of Nicholas I ascended the throne in 1855. Signed in Paris (1856) the peace that ended the Crimean War began the construction of a vast program of reforms. Open to ideas of social renewal‚ emancipated the serfs (1861) without satisfy the peasantry‚ which was granted in usufruct‚ with a strong payment of ransom‚ only a portion of the lands they occupied. Instituted the Zemstvo‚ provincial
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