Time is fluid, as are the actions of people, that’s what makes writing a piece about a decade that truly encompasses it impossible. There is always something before, something that inspired people, that challenged their thoughts and brought them to where they are. Therefore, I wanted to show through this decade that the world is made up of building blocks one thing leading to another. You’re about to read a microscopic look at the decade of the 70s, there is always more going on, beyond what I could ever provide you.
In my last decade report I wrote about the hippies, and their protests against war as a political tool. Most of their protests were peaceful, giving out flowers and encouraging people to love, not to fight. In the late 1960s and …show more content…
Alexander Solzhenitsyn was an acclaimed author in the Soviet Union and abroad, he was known best for his book One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich. He wrote it after having spent 8 years of his life in the Stalinist prison-camps, something that he and the main character of his book shared. However, this book which was originally touted as brilliant by the Soviets soon became a knife in his back. The book first came out during the leading of Nikita Krushchev, a more relaxed leader than those who would come after him. They believed that One Day in the Life was a critique of the Soviet system. This lead them to confiscate all of Solzhenitsyn’s papers including unpublished works, some of these works would be leaked to the west and published without his approval, they would then be used as further proof of his dissidence and reason to exile him. Solzhenitsyn believed in mother Russia, he believed that overall it was a good country and that with a few changes it could show the rest of the world that the soviet state was a good state one that he at least, never wanted to leave. However, not all Russians were so patriotic. Mikhail Baryshnikov preferred the west over the country that had brought him to fame, which would later lead him to defect. On June 29, 1974 in Toronto Canada Baryshnikov with his fellow dancers was being lead to a bus heading …show more content…
She was originally sent to Calcutta, India as a teacher, but after seeing the plight of the people she left, following her own calling and starting the Missionaries of Charity. She believed in living a simple life and helping others to do the same by teaching them to meet their own basic needs. In 1971 she was awarded the first Pope John XXIII peace prize, and then in 1979 she was awarded with the Nobel Peace Prize for her work on behalf of the world’s poorest
In my last decade report I wrote about the hippies, and their protests against war as a political tool. Most of their protests were peaceful, giving out flowers and encouraging people to love, not to fight. In the late 1960s and …show more content…
Alexander Solzhenitsyn was an acclaimed author in the Soviet Union and abroad, he was known best for his book One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich. He wrote it after having spent 8 years of his life in the Stalinist prison-camps, something that he and the main character of his book shared. However, this book which was originally touted as brilliant by the Soviets soon became a knife in his back. The book first came out during the leading of Nikita Krushchev, a more relaxed leader than those who would come after him. They believed that One Day in the Life was a critique of the Soviet system. This lead them to confiscate all of Solzhenitsyn’s papers including unpublished works, some of these works would be leaked to the west and published without his approval, they would then be used as further proof of his dissidence and reason to exile him. Solzhenitsyn believed in mother Russia, he believed that overall it was a good country and that with a few changes it could show the rest of the world that the soviet state was a good state one that he at least, never wanted to leave. However, not all Russians were so patriotic. Mikhail Baryshnikov preferred the west over the country that had brought him to fame, which would later lead him to defect. On June 29, 1974 in Toronto Canada Baryshnikov with his fellow dancers was being lead to a bus heading …show more content…
She was originally sent to Calcutta, India as a teacher, but after seeing the plight of the people she left, following her own calling and starting the Missionaries of Charity. She believed in living a simple life and helping others to do the same by teaching them to meet their own basic needs. In 1971 she was awarded the first Pope John XXIII peace prize, and then in 1979 she was awarded with the Nobel Peace Prize for her work on behalf of the world’s poorest