Fixed quotas were set at each collectivised farm and failure to meet these quotas led to imprisonment or eviction. ... This charter made it legal to re-grant to peasants a small private plot on which they could keep a small number of livestock and trade surplus produce grown on their private plots. The result was that yields from these small plots were much higher than yields from collectivised farms as the peasants spent entirely disproportionate amounts of time and energy on their own private plots compared to the collectivised farms. However dissatisfaction continued among the peasants as t...

• Word Count: 2410
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The plot of the story follows Candide, a young and naive man who discovers true happiness after he loses his true love, Cunegonde, and endures many hardships when he tries to find her again. ... By the end of his journey, Candide finds that the key to his true happiness is not his love for Cunegonde, but a busy life on a farm, kept occupied by literally cultivating a physical garden. ... Therefore, he would have never been able to buy his farm, the place where he found true happiness. ...

• Word Count: 887
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In the analyzation of short stories, the reader uses a brief imaginative narrative unfolding a single incident and a chief character by means of plot, the details so compressed and the whole treatment so organized, a single impression results. ... The lesson taught by the author through the actions of the protagonist in the plot either through what the protagonist does or does not do. ... Because Rip always chooses to do the chores of others, the dilapidated Van Winkle home never gets fixed and the fields, never farmed. ... Six other criteria plot, central idea, setting, tone, language and nar...

• Word Count: 1162
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In the novel, Hardy's already intricate plot is enhanced by irony which serves to create suspense and continually keep the reader engaged in the story. ... These abrupt and unforeseen changes, like the other many examples in the novel, provide the work with several narrative engines that continually change the direction of the plot. ... Another set of circumstances that expresses the prevailing attitudes towards women in the novel is the period in which Tess worked at Flintcomb-Ash Farm. ... On one hand there is Tess Durbyfield, a beautiful and simplistic farm girl who can affect a hig...

• Word Count: 2133
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Huckleberry Finn often returns to his unresolved moral dilemma about slavery, lifestyles, and honesty throughout his adventures including before he reaches the river, while he is on the river, and once he leaves the river due to the constant introduction of seemingly immoral situations into the plot. ... Soon after they land, the Duke sells Jim to a nearby farm, and forces Huck to confront his primary moral dilemma. ... Huck arrives at the farm and his old friend Tom agrees to help Huck steal Jim back from the owners of the farm. After days of preparation, they accomplish their task but are s...

• Word Count: 1504
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

One Flew over the Cuckoo Nest plot expresses themes of individuality and rebellion against conformity using the conflict between disciplinarian Nurse Ratched and insubordinate McMurphy. ... His life and experiences are included in the tone, theme, characters and overall plot of the story. ... In the story, Mc Murphy was sentenced to six months at a prison work farm, and when he was diagnosed as a psychopath in which he did not refuse being committed into the mental hospital because he thought the hospital would be more comfortable than the work farm. ...

• Word Count: 1796
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Farming was labour intensive, with small-size plots. ... The six steps are as follows: (1) raising the purchasing price of grain and other farm products by twenty percent for planned purchase and another twenty percent for the crops produced in excess of the amounts required (see table 3); (2) reducing the producer prices and sales prices of major agricultural used industrial products by ten to fifteen percent between 1979 and 1980; 93) reducing and exempting rural taxes -- this represented a 500 million Yuan reduction in rural industrial and commercial consolidated duties and somewhere betw...

• Word Count: 2348
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The New Economic Policy had created a spread of privately owned farms across Russia that were difficult to monitor. ... The scheme involved at first the encouragement of small private farmers to incorporate their lesser plots into larger collectives which would be publicly monitored in order to regulate food going into urban areas and food being exported. ... Looking at actual figures the percentage of farms collectivised came to 98% in 1941 and in 1939 the output of grain, milk and meat as much higher than in 1913. ...

• Word Count: 1086
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

However, the largest problem that contributes to the fact that there are still about 1 billion malnourished people is that "half the food in the world is produced by 1.5 billion farmers working small plots for which monocultures of any kind are unsustainable"" (Gimenez). Many of these farmers do not have enough resources to sustain a large farm, making their crop yield very low. ... Although these giant farms will have controversies of their own, it will be a step in the right direction in order to produce enough cheap food for the entire country. ...

• Word Count: 1476
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

During the first half of the 19th century, many tribes were subject to the Indian Removal Act of 1830 where they were kicked off their native land and forced to live on segregated plots of land assigned by the US government. ... Indians were commonly placed on rocky and hilly terrain which was extremely difficult to farm and irrigate. ...

• Word Count: 1404
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Joseph Stalin was the soviet communist leader who's passing molded an era, and whose iron rule determined the lives of millions of people. Considering that he shaped the direction of post-World War II Europe, we may regard him as the most powerful person to live during the 20th century. Joseph Stalin was born Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili on December 21, 1879, in Gori, Georgia . Both his parents were peasants. His father, Vissarion Dzhugashvili, was a cobbler, hopping that one day his son will be apprenticed in the same trade; his mother, Yekaterina ...

• Word Count: 7507
• Approx Pages: 30
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Farwell notes how "Feminist literary theory has been eager to recognize the possibility of disruptive plots and spaces that position women as subjects of their own stories." ... On the farm, he rarely leaves the kitchen; he inhabits women's space: "When grandmother and I went to the Shimerdas' house, we found the women-folk alone. ... Antonia takes part in activities and carries herself, as a male would do on the farm, in an unfeminine manner that Jim openly criticizes but is perhaps, on some level, jealous of because he inhabits feminine characteristics. ...

• Word Count: 2062
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Agricultural products such as crop plants, farm animals, and soil bacteria have been genetically engineered to breed only those with specific traits that are better than others. ... Through selective breeding, crops are able to be bred to grow in a low-till plot, and with the ongoing demand for meat, GMOs can help increase production in farm animals. ...

• Word Count: 2358
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

BASIC PLOT: Just as his father, the young Florentine boy examining his reflection in the mirror of his cramped bedroom, while most of Florence slept, was unfortunate enough to have been born at the wrong time. ... Since he was a small child living on the family farm in Settigano, near the rock quarries of the Topolinos, Michelangelo yearned to wield the hammer and chisel, to model shapeless and plain marble into models of beauty. ...

• Word Count: 1898
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Janine Basinger, author of The World War Two Combat Film: Anatomy Of Genre', reveals among other details how Hollywood invented the squad or other military team which was supposed to reflect American ethnic and regional diversity; the wise cracker from Brooklyn to drawling Southerner and the Midwestern farm boy, the Protestant, the Catholic and the Jewish American. ... A third criterion of realism is the logic or plausibility of the plot or characters that appear appropriate to the texts terms of reference. ...

• Word Count: 1821
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The Joads, as well as thousands of other families, were forced to leave the homes they lived in and the lands they farmed on for many generations (Hinton 1). ... The Grapes of Wrath not only has an interesting plot following the Joad family in the times of depression but is very accurate in bringing an understanding of what hardships were beard in the 1930's throughout the depression....

• Word Count: 1628
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The Winnipeg General Strike has been one of the most intensively studied episodes in Canadian History. It was an important development in the building of the democratic socialist movement in Canada. In the larger sense this seemingly isolated event had been building for many years and a wide set of circumstances contributed to the strike ranging from international stresses to local fustrations. Internationaly the European situation was a stressor, the Great War had only just ended and the revolution in Russia was still occurring. The situation at home had been altered by the war experie...

• Word Count: 2998
• Approx Pages: 12
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The Mexican Revolution demonstrates a clear form of a revolutionary movement caused by multiple factors. Throughout the years from 1910 to 1920, the revolution took place in order to bring awareness of the state's dissatisfactory. Profirio Diaz was the leader of Mexico for over thirty-five years. Du...

• Word Count: 3290
• Approx Pages: 13
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

It is mentioned in Irish History that St. Patrick banished all the snakes from Ireland. This seems an impressive feat and we seem to be able to confirm it as fact as Ireland is indeed a country without snakes. However, the more realistic, and more mundane reason why there are no snakes in Ireland is because the country is an island surrounded by the sea. It was separated from the land mass of Europe around 6700 BC before snakes and other varieties of plant life were common in the country. ...

• Word Count: 10019
• Approx Pages: 40
• Grade Level: Undergraduate