Lithuania’s President Antanas Smetona fled from his country while nearly 150‚000 troops from the Soviet Union invaded into Lithuania in 1940(Soviet Occupation). This selfish act left families like Lina Vilkas’s to be captured helplessly a year later. Ruta Sepetys’s book‚ Between Shades of Gray relates the journey and survival of Lina’s family during over a year and half of being in captivity by the Soviets. As I read Between Shades of Gray‚ I learned that people will show great fortitude in circumstances
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Russia’s coat of arms for centuries. Trotsky led the Soviet delegation during the peace negotiations in Brest-Litovsk from 22 December 1917 to 10 February 1918. At that time the Soviet government was split on the issue. Left Communists‚ led by Nikolai Bukharin‚ continued to believe that there could be no peace between a Soviet republic and a capitalist country and that only a revolutionary war leading to a pan-European Soviet republic would bring a durable peace. They cited the successes of the
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25th Hour Summary The movie takes place in New York City where we get to follow the main character Monty Brogan. It all starts with a scene in which Monty and his companion Kostya saves an abandoned and hurt dog. The dog survives and follows him throughout the film as ”Doyle”. The film then cuts to present time where Monty meets an old friend now working as a teacher in their old school‚ at this point we hear about ”the party” when Monty invites this friend called Jacob Elinsky. Through a serie
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Everyone in the world has grown up on Disney. Whether a person is a toddler or an elderly person‚ they have‚ at least heard of Disney. One thing that Disney is known for is having family friendly movies with phenomenal musical scores. A movie that will possibly stick out to older people would be Fantasia. This movie is famous for adding a motion picture storyline to classical music. Disney spared no expense in utilizing music from the best composers of all time. Some compositions were written by
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Nothing has as profound influence on one’s identity as name. That is‚ one is constantly recognized by the people and by oneself with his name‚ and the name consciously and unconsciously keeps influencing one’s identity as the name directly relates to how one perceives the world and oneself. In a novel‚ The Namesake‚ by Jhumpa Lahiri‚ this power of name is well depicted through the identity crisis of the son of an Indian immigrants family‚ the Ganguli. Gogol Ganguli‚ the son of Ashima and Ashoke Ganguli
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The Terror did not stop until Stalin’s death‚ but its foundations were laid by Lenin. A new society was to be created‚ a new human being was to emerge. But the New Men and Women lived in paralysing fear and the consequences were devastating. For Nikolai Bukharin‚ himself condemned and shot during the last of the three show trials held in Moscow‚ the worst aspect of the collectivisation of agriculture was not the privations suffered by the peasants but "the profound psychological change in those communists
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discovered the electric arc[4] and subsequently proposed its possible practical applications‚ including welding. In 1881–82 a Russian inventor Nikolai Benardos created the first electric arc welding method known as carbon arc welding‚ using carbon electrodes. The advances in arc welding continued with the invention of metal electrodes in the late 1800s by a Russian‚ Nikolai Slavyanov (1888)‚ and an American‚ C. L. Coffin (1890). Around 1900‚ A. P. Strohmenger released a coated metal electrode in Britain‚ which
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New economic crisis looming from unrest in Libya as petrol rises Bulgaria is starting to feel the economic impact from Muammar Gaddafi’s attempt to stay in power. Prices of basic foodstuffs have begun to sky rocket in Libya‚ as fighting between supporters and opponents of the dictator continue‚ but Libya is not the only country affected. The price of petrol is reaching nearly 116 dollars a barrel‚ which is a 20 per cent rise in less than a week‚ Bulgarian National Television (BNT) reported
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most fundamental issues of his time. His works are formed in the context of a religious consciousness that hold criticisms in direct relation to Russia’s affiliation with the West‚ as well as the analysis of Orthodox culture. Enlisting the views of Nikolaĭ Berd︠i︡aev and John Moran‚ this essay will provide a partial moral and historical evaluation of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s parable The Grand Inquisitor within his book The Brother’s Karamazov‚ but will primarily provide an analysis
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Patroclus — Achilles’ closest companion. Nestor — King of Pylos‚ and trusted advisor to Agamemnon. [edit]Achilles and Patroclus Main article: Achilles and Patroclus Achilles Lamenting the Death of Patroclus (1855) by the Russian realist Nikolai Ge Much debate has surrounded the nature of the relationship of Achilles and Patroclus‚ as to whether it can be described as a homoerotic one or not. Classical and Hellenistic Athenian scholars perceived it as pederastic‚[2] while others perceived
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