Vissarion, Stalins father wanted this to be a permanent career for his son, but his mother intervened and succeeded in bringing her son home to Gori. ... He had a reputation for being distant toward his fellow students and had been in trouble with the school authorities a few times, but there were no other signs of the direction his career was to take. ... The intellectuals of the time opposed the strict control thrusted upon them by the ruling government and embraced violent ideologies to bring about political change. ... Many people believed that the communist manifesto provided the blue pri...

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Looking at the beginning, middle, and end of the war, displays three points in the war where American ethnic groups faced racial changes. Although all ethnic groups in America went through a transition period during the war, two minority groups went through major changes. ... Much like Jeanne, the bombing of Pearl Harbor changed Ira Hay's quiet life in Arizona. ... Jeanne's father struggled to find a new career. ...

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In this essay, I will examine the various ways in which terrorism has taken hold in the United States, and how the word has been used in a way that has changed our society. ... And I'm not supporting or rejecting the idea that more gun-control laws are needed; what's more important here is the desire to make changes to long-established practices in the name of terrorism. ... The concerns about terrorism are providing an argument to change Americans' relationships with their firearms. While anti-terrorism laws are extremely important, and they are broadening and becoming more re...

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Not only was the industry changing their focus on genres, but also technology including the conversion to color, widescreen shots, and 3-D multiple camera were now a factor. ... The band singer becomes a star while the mentor tries to deliberately sabotage apprentices career with violet dances as well as singing. ... The quick changes from Long shots to medium shots to close-medium shots gives the audience that eerie suspenseful feeling where they know something that the character doesn't. ...

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Across the whole population, and in the face of rapid economic and social changes, radical doubts about the stability of the existing order were expressed. ... Culturally too, increasing access to literacy, and to education in general, led to profound changes in the reading public. ... Some writers reacted to this situation by concentrating on a narrow, highly educated audience who would understand their alienation from this changing world. ... The First and Second World Wars (1914–18 and 1939–45 respectively) mark, in time and in their effects, momentous changes on a global scale:...

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The elder generation wanted to return to the feudal system but the younger generation, who had never experienced life without colonial rule, discovered that the feudal system would not work for the ever changing world of technology. ... He started his career in national politics by joining the nationalist organization 'Dobama Asiayone' in 1939 and became its secretary-general. ...

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Many new political pressures arose during the rise of the New Social Movements and the level of comfort that the world had gotten used to by living under the old world order would be drastically changed by new social reformatory ideas with radical and lively leaders steering them into the 21st century. ... Mussolini and the Fascists Of all the popular movements in Europe's changing political mesh one figure stands out in one country in particular, Benito Mussolini. ...

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Adolf Hitler was born and reared in Germany. He was just like any other man, de-voted to his country. Hitler served as a soldier and a statesman. He gained the trust of mil-lions that fought and died in his name. We must understand how he gained and abused power. We must know the life and impact of...

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After graduation from Princeton (then the College of New Jersey) and the University of Virginia Law School, Wilson earned his doctorate at Johns Hopkins University and entered upon an academic career. ...

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That this was accepted by many, was partly because the war was seen as an adventure, and perhaps because the last war where there was mass recruitment was almost one hundred years previous, the majority of those fighting in the interlude being well-trained career soldiers. ... The nature of the conflict also changed over the passing of time, changing from what was primarily a selfish war, fought by Britain against the growing ascendancy of the Central powers as a whole, and Germany especially, whom, by the eve of the war, were challenging Britain on virtually every front except finance, to th...

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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 Sta...

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Chapter One The narrator assures us that the book we are about to read is true, more or less. The parts dealing with World War II are most closely associated with actual events. Twenty-three years have passed since the end of the war, and for much of that time the narrator has been trying to write about the bombing of Dresden. He was never able to write the book. When he thinks about Dresden's place in his memory, he always recalls two things: a dirty limerick about a man whose penis has let him down, and "My Name is Yon Yonson," a song which has no ending. ...

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• Grade Level: High School