Explain why at the time of Lenin’s death there was no obvious successor to lead the USSR? (12) Although Lenin’s death was relatively expected‚ there was still a lot of confusion over who would succeed him to lead the USSR. There are a number of reasons to why this occurred but there are still disputes about who Lenin wanted to succeed him and why he didn’t leave someone who he thought would be best for the job in charge of his beloved USSR. Despite Lenin having preferences‚ nobody was aware of
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“Morals of the manufacturers” Why Martineau was concerned with the morals of the owner and how their lack of morals contradicted the principles of the American political consciousness Martineau was one historian who wanted to bring change and equality to society. It is obvious that she would be concerned to see women especially the poor being despised and denied their freedom. The factory owners denied them freedom to go to the dance school and wanted to monitor them closely in order to prevent them
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Living in a communist dungeon was like living in the Plato’s Cave In Plato’s book‚ the Republic‚ in a story that the ancient Greek philosopher shows to his student Glaucon‚ by using an allegory of peoples that are condemned to live in a cave for all their lives‚ the philosopher shows how people can be deceived by many images that they see from the distance and when they have not enough information to judge them. The life of the people who lived in the communist Eastern Europe during the second
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Explain how technology was a stimuli to the Age of Discovery? There were many technological advances in the Age of discovery. The development of the cannon‚ which was able shoot iron or stone balls. This device could take down city walls or fortresses. A western technician built 56 small cannon’s and gigantic gun that could hurl stone balls weighing 800 lbs. The gun could only be loaded and fired only by about a hundred men working together‚ and reloading took 2 hours. Although the cannon had serious
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What was life like for people living in Nazi Germany? In Nazi Germany life for the Germans was terrible. You had to know who you could trust‚ as trusting the wrong person may cause you to loose your life. The Nazis and mainly Hitler really disliked Jews and anyone else that was not their perfect ’Aryan’. Hitler and the Nazis came up with the Nazi Racial Policy‚ in 1933 to try and persuade Jews to emigrate there was the Boycott of Jewish shops. Shop windows got Jewish symbols painted on them‚ members
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The 1850’s can be described as a “prelude to the Civil War.” Three occurrences during that time that would support that conclusion are the Westward Movement‚ the Compromise of 1850‚ and the most significant prelude to the Civil War - the Kansas/Nebraska Act. After President Thomas Jefferson acquired the Louisiana Purchase in 1803‚ the United States doubled in size giving the United States control of vast lands west of the Mississippi. As Americans pushed west‚ the issue of slavery came to the forefront
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student. You go to school‚ and you work. You come home and you work some more. Work at home. Homework. it’s been given out and policed for so long that no one really questions it anymore. But now we are. Homework doesn’t help; it hurts. Middle schoolers in particular should not be assigned homework. First of all‚ most teachers give out homework because they believe the practice will help kids understand and learn more easily‚ and it makes them better‚ smarter students. However‚ according to
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immigrated to the United States between 1850 and 1930. Between 1881 and 1885 there was a peak of immigrating German people. These immigrants moved to the mid west. For over one hundred years millions immigrated to the United States. From 1820 to 1930 three and a half million British immigrants‚ and four and a half million Irish immigrated to the United States. Round 1840 due to The Great Hunger a horrible famine the Catholics showed up by the millions. America was beginning to populate. The era of
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Literary Analysis More Money‚ More Problems The Great Gatsby was written by F. Scott Fitzgerald. In this story‚ there are a lot of twists and turns with several characters. Two characters that stand out the most are Tom Buchanan and Jay Gatsby. Even though they are alike in some ways‚ in others they were completely different. The main areas that showed their greatest differences were the way that they obtained their wealth‚ their relationships with Daisy‚ and the way they treated Nick. Even
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The Trojan War The Trojan War was a very important part of the Greeks’ history. There are many myths and legends about the trojan War. In the Iliad‚ it describes certain events in the final year of the war. According to legend‚ the Trojan War lasted 10 years‚ until Greece defeated Troy. Many of ancient Greek stories talk about the Trojan War‚ particularly Homer’s Iliad and the Odyssey. Many scholars believe the legend is based on a real war of the mid-1200’s B.C.’s. People have
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