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Student movements have been part of revolutionary changes throughout history. This year another student movement took place which will be a part of the revolution. This revolution began on the second of November, which was an action day for all students in Canada, in a campaign to protest the rising of tuition fees called Fight the fees. Eight thousand students gathered around the country in major cities, in important political spaces to raise awareness about the high-rising tuition fees. A…

Marina Abramović was born in 1946 in Yugoslavia to two military parents with close ties to the communist regime. She attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Belgrade, initially wanting to be a painter, but, wanting to explore the creation of art without material objects, she eventually decided to focus on performance art. She has often used her body as her subject and medium throughout her career, testing the limits of the human body’s endurance and putting herself in extreme pain, exhaustion, and…

The Non-alignment movement was the collective voice of developing and third world countries since the first official meeting of its leaders in Belgrade in 1961. The policy of the Non-alignment has been being the issue of debate in international politics since its origin. In 1970’s, its importance and relevance had questioned, with the emergence of détente in international relations. The US and European…

Germany bombed the British cities of Warsaw, Rotterdam, Belgrade, and London from 1939 to 1941. Years later the British, lead under Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill, looked for revenge on Hitler and bombed Dresden, Berlin, and Hamburg. Casualties in Britain totalled about 60,000, while casualties in Germany…

E.B. Whites piece Once More to the Lake takes place on Belgrade Lakes in Maine. The story is told in a non-chronological sense, and White discusses the trips he took to the lake as a child and compares them to the trip he takes with his own son, many years later. The theme of the short personal essay is the passage of time and the changes that come with it. He uses sensory details abundantly to explain the passage of time and how it has affected the lake and its surroundings. He describes a…

footprints properly, just two undistinguished puddles.” Again, the rain inhibits him from seeing what he came here to see, much like the rain may deter him from making a decision between his wife and his lover. They had visited a mosque in Serbia Belgrade where they had to shelter themselves from the rain, and had to do the same in Croatia in a monastery. They had been unable to accomplish much of what was planned, and it was all thwarted by the rain. The bad weather was not limited to them…

The Fault Goes to… Before 1914, the world had many wars, from the Hundred Years War to the Franco-Prussian War, but those wars were usually between two major powers. World War I became the first major conflict to involve multiple world powers, which devastated Europe. This was the war to end all wars and many called it the Great War. Many scholars lay blame on one power, one incident, or one individual for causing World War I, but to no real avail. The answer is there is no one person, country,…

the necessity of non-violent resistance. On November 17th, the victory of the Zajedno or Togetherness for Serbia party, a centre-left social democratic political party, became the victor of the election. Unfortunately, the elections commission in Belgrade announced the results unofficial because of some non-uniformity in the information received from the poling stations.2 This prompted Serbians to band together during this time of injustice and march against the election fraud happening in their…

During NATO’s attacks on Yugoslavia, dubbed Operation Allied Force, the Chinese embassy in Belgrade was bombed. NATO’s attacks were air attacks targeting important Yugoslavian buildings in order to pressure Slobodan Milosevic to withdraw his Serbian forces from Kosovo. The Chinese embassy was not one of the locations that NATO intended on bombing. Regardless, according to Source B, the attacks “...killed three Chinese journalist and rendered the embassy building unusable…” and “...more than 20…

How Soccer Explains the World, written by Franklin Foer, is a 255 page novel that explains how the sport of soccer is integrated into everyday life around the world. Soccer is much more than a game. The author informs the reader of the sport’s involvement in political ideologies, social classes, as well as faith and religion. Foer takes the reader on a tour around the world of soccer, showing that globalization has revived tribalism rather than destroy the local cultures. The author is able to…