BIOGRAPHICAL DATA Vladimir Putin was born on October 1‚ 1952‚ in Leningrad (now St. Petersburg)‚ Russia. He is an only child. His father‚ a decorated war veteran‚ was a foreman in a metal factory. Growing up in Leningrad‚ Putin lived with his parents in a communal apartment with two other families. Though religion was not permitted in the Soviet Union‚ his mother secretly had him baptized as an Orthodox Christian. He remains a practicing member of the Church to this day. After earning a law degree
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Cia Gonzales Mrs. Wilson Pre AP English 1 21 April 2012 Vladimir Lenin Vladimir Lenin‚ also known as Vladimir Lllych Ulyanov was a strong believer in equalism (Trueman 1).”Vladimir Lenin founded the Russian Communist Party‚ led the Bolshevik Revolution‚ and was the architect of the Soviet state ”(“Vladimir Lenin” 1). In a book titled Animal Farm by George Orwell there is a character named Old Major who resembles Vladimir Lenin. Vladimir Lenin was one of the first to encourage the idea of the rebellion
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/t-a-a/5340663023/ The Virgin of Vladimir Byzantine painting was not realistic in its representations of the divine and super natural. (Online Lectures) The final results were paintings and mosaics that had a blending of some naturalistic elements and abstractions. (Online Lectures) The unifying element was that the works were depictions of the Divine for the Church. (Online Lectures) The Virgin of Vladimir an image depicting a mother and child was given to the Russian
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Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin (Russian: Влади́мир Влади́мирович Пу́тин‚ IPA: [vɫɐˈdʲimʲɪr vɫɐˈdʲimʲɪrəvʲɪt͡ɕ ˈputʲɪn] born 7 October 1952) is the fourth and current President of Russia‚ incumbent since 7 May 2012. He previously served as the second President from 2000 to 2008‚ and as Prime Minister of Russia from 1999 to 2000 and again from 2008 to 2012. During that last stint (2008 to 2012) he was also the Chairman of the United Russia political party. For sixteen years Putin served as an officer
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The Mastermind Artist and Poet After reading Vladimir Nabokov’s narrative‚ Lolita‚ most readers find themselves unwittingly accepting and even sharing the feelings of Humbert Humbert. Of course‚ the feelings they share are not those of becoming like Humbert but rather absentmindedly pitying and sympathizing with him‚ which are unusual outcomes felt towards a psychopath. As Mathew Winston‚ a critic‚ once stated‚ the novel “plays a very serious game with the relations between a work of art‚ the experiences
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Vladimir Lenin Vladimir Ilich Lenin was born on May 4‚ 1870. In school‚ he was very bright‚ and enjoyed reading and writings of Goethe and Turgenev. Lenin’s father died of a cerebral hemorrhage and his brother was hung for plotting to assassinate Tsar Alexander III. Lenin was finally accepted to the Kazan University where he studied law. He was expelled‚ and later studied law on his own and passed the exam in first in a class of 124 people in 1891. In 1895‚ Lenin traveled to Switzerland
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Very few books are capable of eliciting the same notoriety than that of Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita. A story told solely through the mind of a pedophile in love‚ Lolita has become one of the most arduous books to read‚ which consequently made it one of the most talked about during the mid twentieth century. With a plot immensely difficult to ingest‚ and a protagonist with hauntingly low morals and an indisputable fondness of word play‚ Lolita was and still remains a landmark book with undisputable
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The narration In Vladimir Nobakov’s Lolita‚ seeks to compel the reader’s opinion of Humbert Humbert through its use of rhetoric to rationalize and romanticize Humbert’s wrong doings throughout the book. With Nabokov’s decision of letting Humbert narrate his and Lo’s despicable story‚ He’s able to draw attention to his own demise rather than Dolores’s which allows the readers to witness the vulnerable side of the antagonist. His failure to participate in normal relationships gains him sympathy as
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Lenin was the leader of the Bolshevik (meaning Majority) faction of the Russian Social and Democratic Labour Party and took power in the October Revolution of 1917. He was born in the city of Simbirsk in 1870 and studied Law at Kazan ’ university‚ where he was introduced to Marxist literature. His brother Alexandr was involved in a plot to assassinate Tsar Alexandr III and executed. He spent some time in internal exile in Siberia before being exiled from Russia. It was in London that he formed
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showing what the world would be like if he had not been there. If Vladimir Lenin had not been born‚ there would be no Cold War‚ no Soviet Union and Russia might still be ruled by a Tsar. However‚ Lenin was not simply a catalyst in the many changes Russia faced; he was a most volatile reactant in the chemistry of Russian and world politics. Breaking the barrier between attaining both economic success and political achievement‚ Vladimir Lenin almost singlehandedly ended the Tsardom and brought the socialist
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