The spark that triggered the war was the assassination of the Archduke Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary and his wife Sophie on June 24, 1914 by the hands of Gavrilo Princip, a member of the Black Hand in Serbia (Background Essay), but that wasn't one of the deeper causes of WWI. ... For example, "God Save the Tsar!... In summary, the assassination of the Archduke of Austria-Hungary had been the trigger of the Great War (Background Essay), but there were four main underlying causes that led to World War I. ... These four causes caused tension between the nations as well as within the nati...

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• Grade Level: High School

In his essay Avant Garde Theatre Sound, Adrian Curtin outlines exactly how this anarchistic avant-garde approach then impacted Futurist theatre fifteen years later, "these avant-gardists did not wish to maintain theatre as a rarefied space that keeps the world outside the darkened auditorium at a remove. ... The theatre, therefore, will provide the backdrop for this essay in order to understand the cross-disciplinary nature of the three key themes and their relative interpretations under anarchism and futurism. This essay will therefore make one overarching contention, supported by three arg...

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• Grade Level: Graduate

This essay will help show the similarities and differences of the ideological importance of sport under Mussolini and Hitler and there will be many examples to show this and there will also be examples of how the new consensus helps to answer this question and to show that for Hitler and Mussolini, to exploit sport was the exploit the masses. ... Sport would help both Mussolini and Hitler to enhance their ideologies to a great extent through the use of propaganda, nationalism, deception and many other ways, which will explained thoroughly throughout this essay. ...

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• Grade Level: Graduate

As such this essay will discuss different subsets of legitimacy judging whether they are mutually exclusive or complementary whilst avoiding the conflation of 'more legitimacy' with 'better government'. ... Yet a key question to ask when discussing the title of this essay is in whose eyes is the ruling regime legitimate? ... Should citizens be influenced unduly by a regime which represses dissenting speech and thought (as with the North Korean example), then although the processes of aggregate democracy may be respected, the outcome would not be democratically legitimate....

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It was these feelings that can be seen as one of the reasons for their aggressive foreign policy; the Kaiser wanted to gain for Germany her "place in the sun", an empire which would reflect her (ever increasing) industrial, financial and military might, on the other hand, Hitler's main aim was to overturn the Treaty of Versailles, especially those that limited the freedom of Germany in any way, for example, German re-militarization, and re-occupation of the Rhineland. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

This essay will attempt to prove that by the end of 1934 Adolf Hitler's Nazi party had begun a campaign, which could have ultimately turned Germany into a totalitarian state. ... He took as examples the severe mental illnesses in which the patients could only be kept lying on sand or sawdust, because they perpetually dirtied themselves, cases in which these patients put their own excrement in their mouths as if it was food or something similar- Trade Unions were subjected to an insurrection by the SA on the 2nd of May 1933 and were subsequently absorbed by the Roberts Ley's...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Were the Soviet authorities right in calling Zoschenko an anti-Soviet writer? Any good writer documents the social situation of their time and helps to project the future of their society, whether through political essays, poems, or short stories. Mikhail Zoschenko's short stories proved to be ...

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• Grade Level: High School

This essay will attempt to answer such a question by analysing three main areas of the Front: Firstly, we will look at its increasing popularity during election results since the party was founded in the Seventies . ... For example the RPR-UDF opposition in 1983 used the immigration issue to beat the Socialists with during elections. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

On the night of 17 July 1936, the Spanish army, inspired most of all by General Franco, started the Spanish Civil War by rebelling against the Second Republic. A central goal of the rebels was the destruction of left-wing organisations. Franco's fellow officer, General Queipo de Llano, instructed hi...

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While going into the background, history, and causes for the war is not necessary for this essay, it is important to realize that the systems in place during the pre-war period were essentially political "boiling pots" and these tensions carried over through the war into post war circumstances to shape new social movements. ... Take for example that while the original allied forces contained Tsarist Russia, Britain & France , the allies would later be split with the loss of Tsarist Russia to the Bolsheviks and the inclusion of the USA on the front. ...

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