End of Cold War Summary 1. Why wasn’t the commie system working? 2. Gorby’s reforms 3. Fall of Soviet Union & Failure of Gorbachev Background info: Soviet Union was made up of 15 satellite states ruled by the Communist Party. Gorbachev: Leader of Soviet Union until 1991. S.U. broke up then‚ into smaller‚ separate republics. Played a part in breaking up USSR. Did not cover up S.U.’s mistakes and problems. Correct intentions but USSR had too many problems piled up since Stalin‚ so he couldn’t
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ethnicities and races‚ and countless cultural differences. Within our melting pot people have different lifestyles and ambitions in life. Some work hard for what they get‚ and others try to find a quick way of getting what they want. In the book‚ "In Cold Blood"‚ Truman Capote elaborates on those main concepts of the American way of living. He shows how two different types of people‚ collide‚ ending in tragedy and death. In the book‚ the Clutter family is the typical stereotype of 1950’s family. Herb Clutter
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In Cold Blood by Truman Capote is the first true crime novel to ever be written. A true crime novel is a non-fiction work that explores the events and details of an actual crime that has taken place. In Cold Blood looks into the murder of a family of four in the rural town of Holcomb‚ Kansas in 1959. The murders were not supposed to happen‚ but when the original plan to find the nonexistent safe failed‚ one of the murderers seemed to have a psychological breakdown which led to the family’s demise
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Cameron Geehr December 3‚ 2012 The Prosecution of Smith and Hickock Ladies and gentlemen of the jury‚ we are gathered here today not to assess whether these men‚ Richard Hickock and Perry Smith‚ are guilty of their crimes; they have confessed and there is overwhelming evidence against them. No‚ today we are here to determine how they will pay for taking the lives of four innocent people‚ the Clutter family. My role here is to argue that these men should pay for their crimes with their lives. This
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Ahanna Williams Ugorji December 5th 2013 The novel “In Cold Blood” by Truman Capote focuses on two main characters‚ Dick and Perry‚ that murder a family‚ try to escape and are eventually caught by the police. Throughout the story the author shows off both characters differently towards the reader‚ he displays Perry as a sympathetic character and displays Dick as being a dick. Truman Capote first came across the story of the murders by reading about it in newspaper‚ he then decided to article
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about something that meant a great deal to our friendship‚ who knows what other lies they must’ve spread? I begin to question who they are‚ and if they were ever my friend in the first place. It’s as if I am seeing them in a whole new light. The worst part is‚ no matter how hard I may try‚ I just can’t bring myself to talk to that person as comfortably as I had before. Now I have to think: do they have an ulterior motive‚ or are they honestly trying to regain the lost closeness of our friendship? I am
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democratisation. But once glasnost let people say what they thought‚ many people said: "We want out." By December 1991‚ the Soviet Union ceased to exist. Gorbachev’s foreign policy‚ which he called "new thinking"‚ also contributed to the Cold War’s end. Gorbachev said that security was a game from which all could benefit through co-operation. Rather than try to build as many nuclear weapons as possible‚ he proclaimed a doctrine of "sufficiency"‚ holding only a minimal number for protection.
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Khaqhovia Lee Ms.Bolle IB English November 18‚ 2012 The Clutter’s death fades as time disperses the clouds of darkness‚ revealing winds of prosperity. Within the frigid pages of In Cold Blood by Truman Capote‚ death haunts the living as time sways through the air. A reunion between Dewey and Susan Kidwell‚ portrays the endless chain of life and death‚ as the waves of turmoil of the Clutter family’s death to the execution the murderers. Fields of wheat wave to the dead and the blue sky protecting
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Pages 87-88 The townspeople’s reaction to the news of the killings is one of “amazement‚ shading into dismay; a shallow horror sensation that cold springs of personal fear swiftly deepened” (70). The Clutters’ demise has larger significance for this sheltered little part of western Kansas: it amounts to the infiltration of an “other” – a “poor‚ rootless‚ misbegotten” other – into their peaceable and prosperous little universe. The Clutter killings symbolize a collision of the two sides of America:
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Clutter is known to be a generous employer. Their life is disciplined‚ but pleasant and well provided for. The narration follows the Clutters through the events of November 14th‚ 1959‚ which is ominously referred to as the family’s “last.” In another part of Kansas‚ two men on parole from the Kansas State Penitentiary‚ Dick Hickock and Perry Smith‚ are planning a “score‚” which includes a 12-gauge shotgun‚ rubber gloves‚ rope‚ and black stockings. Over the course of the day‚ they make their way in the
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