totalitarianism; collectivisation Key personalities: Vladimir Ilyich Lenin; Josef Stalin To what extent did Lenin and/or Stalin bring about social and economic change? (2011) How effective were the internal and external policies of Josef Stalin? (2010) How did dictators use propaganda and/or terror to maintain power? (2009) What did Lenin and Stalin contribute to communism in Russia? (2008) To what extent did Stalin transform the society and economy of the Soviet Union? (2006) How successful were Stalin
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Although very few stars are compelling enough to define the era in which they lived and in which they created their most outstanding work‚ Marilyn Monroe undoubtedly defined the 1950s. Marilyn Monroe‚ born Norma Jeane Mortenson was burdened with a difficult childhood. In 1926‚ she was born into a broken home with an unsuitable mother‚ Gladys Baker. Norma Jeane was put under the care of foster parents‚ and after many attempts‚ Gladys Baker got her daughter back in 1933. At this time‚ the young
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October 2008 The Gilded Age may have provided the United States with a period of growth and change after the tumultuous times of reconstruction and the Civil War‚ but the Progressive Era refined the country with political‚ social and economic reform. Four major sectors of such reform included theory and practice‚ regulating big business‚ organizing the working class‚ and civilizing the city. In the Progressive Era‚ reform Darwinism directly challenged the previous theory of social Darwinism and the inevitability
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essays‚ Self Reliance‚ Emerson further took that idea and espoused that the only way for a man to live was through non-conformity and remaining true only to ones nature- for good or ill. Beginning work on the essay as early as 1832‚ published for the first time in 1841‚ then revised and published again in 1847‚ Self Reliance was a work continuously updated based on the current cultural climate. The essay was written and influenced during the early mobilization of the Industrial
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Why did civil war break out in 1642? Why did civil war break out? Well for about 17 years parliament and king Charles 1 hadn’t been getting on well and it didn’t help that parliament hadn’t really got on with Charles’ dad James 1 or Charles’ close advisors. They mainly got on each other’s nerves about money‚ religion and power‚ as well as the short term causes and all the extra things! Soon it got too much and Charles declared war on the 22nd August 1642. Charles sort of started the civil
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The 35th U.S. President once said‚ “Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth”. John F. Kennedy led the country to believe in individuality and follow our paths outside of society. Conformity has been shown in many ways in history and most lead to substandard endings. When people do not follow society’s wishes‚ diversity is defeated and they‚ themselves‚ become successful. While conformity is the reason for some of America’s most devastating events found in our history books today
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Running Head: CONFORMITY AND OBEDIENCE Hitler’s silent advantage? – Control of people in a totalitarian regime Laura Frei In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for Psychology 130-001 January 21‚ 2015 Bev Lenihan‚ Instructor Camosun College Hitler’s silent advantage? – Control of people in a totalitarian regime People tend to follow social norms when eating and watching TV. It lies in the nature of a human being to focus on the actions of others and act in groups. This orientation on
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Conformity is a social psychological phenomenon that occurs in humans’ everyday lives‚ but oftentimes goes unrecognized. Through psychological studies such as Milgram’s prisoner experiment‚ psychologists even discovered that in some situations social pressures exert such strong pressures on conformity that people will go to extreme lengths when under its influence. Prominent examples of conformity include the pressure people have to wear similar types of clothing‚ language pressure that results in
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Conformity is a type of social influence involving a change in belief or behavior in order to fit in with a group. This change is in response to real (involving the physical presence of others) or imagined (involving the pressure of social norms / expectations) group pressure. Conformity can also be simply defined as “yielding to group pressures” (Crutchfield‚ 1955). Group pressure may take different forms‚ for example bullying‚ persuasion‚ teasing‚ criticism etc. Conformity is also known
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Social Cultural Environment The process of shedding the Soviet Union and starting anew as the democratic Republic of Kazakhstan is made difficult by the fact that a large percentage of Kazakhstan is not Kazakh. According to the 2009 census there are two dominant ethnical groups in Kazakhstan‚ they are ethnic Kazakhs (63.1%) and ethnic Russians (23.7%) with a wide array of other groups represented‚ including Ukrainians‚ Uzbeks‚ Germans‚ Chechens‚ Koreans‚ and Uyghurs - that is‚ virtually any group
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