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    1. Symbols • “Holy Fools” – Ch. 4- Sonia and Lizaveta‚ oxymoron of being righteous‚ saintly yet foolish; symbolize self-sacrifice‚ blind faith • “Sickness and Delirium”- Ch. 5 Raskolnikov’s guilt previously symbolized by blood‚ now is symbolized by sickness and delirium; Porfiry Petrovich indirectly accuses Raskolnikov of crime by accusing him of spreading his “illness” and of being “sick” and “delirious” • The Bible/Story of Lazarus- ties back to the “holy fools”;

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    Lenin And Robespierre

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    Revolutionary Thought When the individuals that comprise the governing institution of a society no longer represent the common will of the people‚ [often] those whose interests are set aside come together and fight for what they believe they are due. And in extreme instances‚ when the conflict spans years‚ drastic change is called for often resulting in a bloody laborious struggle. From the crowd leaders emerge‚ the intelligent‚ the most powerful‚ and the ones who can get the job done. In two of

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    life‚ when he fell more into his faith. Once he had started bringing his bad habits back‚ he could not be stopped. When he started drinking again‚ he went to more and more parties as an excuse to get drunk‚ and he got in major fights. Grand Duke Nikolai Nikolaevich‚ cousin of the tsar‚ had been trying to destroy Rasputin‚ and his title‚ by showing his cousin a police report of one of Rasputin’s drunken nights. I believe that because of his mistakes made in his drinking‚ this should have prevented

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    Nikolai Friedman Oct.5th‚2015 Oral communications Amy Cuddy Response David Cameron is an Ass Amy Cuddy is a social scientist and like many experts in their field has given a TED talk on the subject of her main work. In this TED talk she explores how our body language greatly affects who we become. Cuddy also shows how snubbing a handshake from your personal security after a visiting president shakes said guard’s hand‚ makes U.K Prime Minister David Cameron look like an ass. This 20 minute TED

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    Russian Gulag

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    The Gulags of the Soviet Union have been compared to the concentration camps of Nazi Germany‚ but in reality they were worse. The Gulags were isolated prison camps peppered across Siberia. Death‚ torture‚ and disease raged within their walls‚ while endless work went on outside. Gulag personnel were cruel and unfeeling‚ using terrible punishment methods and playing senseless games that cost prisoners their lives. Political enemies of the Bolshevik party made up a significant portion of the prisoner

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    Motion Picture History

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    Before World War I‚ films were being made mostly European countries and in Japan. When the war interrupted European filmmaking‚ however‚ the American film industry began to dominate the world market. In the years between 1917 and 1927 the silent film reached the peak of its development. United States had the largest film industry and American films dominated the international market. Germany and Japan still had some movie industries but mostly left to domestic. Many nations found film production

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    against opponents of Bolshevism‚ not against party members themselves. The first victims were Politburo members Leon Trotskii‚ Grigorii Zinov’ev‚ and Lev Kamenev‚ who were defeated and expelled from the party in late 1927. Stalin then turned against Nikolai Bukharin‚ who was denounced as a "right opposition‚" for opposing his policy of forced collectivization and rapid industrialization at the expense of the peasantry. Stalin had eliminated all likely potential opposition to his leadership by late 1934

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    Geometry in Daily Life

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    Geometry (Ancient Greek: γεωμετρία; geo- "earth"‚ -metron "measurement") is a branch of mathematics concerned with questions of shape‚ size‚ relative position of figures‚ and the properties of space. A mathematician who works in the field of geometry is called a geometer. Geometry arose independently in a number of early cultures as a body of practical knowledge concerning lengths‚ areas‚ and volumes‚ with elements of a formal mathematical science emerging in the West as early as Thales (6th Century

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    The rise of Joseph Stalin. Joseph Stalin was the authoritarian leader of the Soviet Union for 31 years between 1922 and his death in 1953. During this time‚ he revolutionised the Russian economy with a combination of rapid industrialisation and centralised economic collectivism‚ reforms that in some instances caused massive devastation in rural parts of the country (including the famine of 1932-1933‚ in which up to 6m people starved to death). A hugely controversial figure on the global political

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    Generally referred to as the ’Last Tsar’‚ his short but significant reign ushered in a revolutionary political system that would change the world. He claimed his throne unprepared after the sudden death of his father "Alexander III". His father rarely taught him the things necessary to control an empire as big as Russia and shortly after this‚ the country quickly fell into turmoil. Many unfortunate incidents occurred during his rule‚ the first one being at his corronation in Moscow (1895)

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