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2. The Doppelgänger in Gothic Fiction The term “doppelgänger” comes from German and can literally translated as “double-goer” (Strengell ....: n. pag.). According to The New International Webster’s Comprehensive Dictionary of the English Language, it is defined as either a “person exactly like another; a double” or a “wraith, especially of a person not yet dead” (1999: 378). The idea of the phantom double is an ancient belief included in various superstitions and folklore. Therefore, in the…

Justice. During the height of the Caporetto disaster, he was appointed Prime Minister. However, more favorably, his wartime leadership ended in triumph with the Italian victory at Vittorio Veneto in 1917. In 1917 he was an Italian Prime Minister, and in 1919 he resigned from office because he felt his political position was undermined by his apparent failure to secure Italian interests. Orlando’s unexpected negative treatment at Versailles led to the end of his political…

When the First World War came to an end, plans were made immediately for a peace conference, taking place in Paris in 1919. This conference produced six treaties, Versailles, Saint Germain, Neuilly, Trianon, Sèvres, and Lausanne, but the one that sparked the most debate was the Treaty of Versailles. The other treaties were not as important, but did affect peace in Europe in the years following the First World War. The Treaty of Versailles forced Germany to take full responsibility for the start…

In 1921, two Italian immigrants, Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, allegedly murdered a payroll guard and a paymaster during a payroll heist in Braintree, MA. Sacco, a thirty two year old shoemaker, and Vanzetti, a twenty nine year old fish peddler, both with immigrant backgrounds. The accusation of these two men seemed rather racist on the court's behalf due to the lack of evidence. People believed the men received unfair bias from the court due to where Sacco and Vanzetti came from.…

Irish Volunteers, Irish Citizen Group, and independent freedom fighters coalesced together to name themselves the IRA. (Hart, 1999) In 1919, after World War I, Irish rebels began organizing to gain independence. This effort culminated in the Anglo-Irish War where…

of the three major Allied powers of World War II: the Soviet Union, the United States, and the United Kingdom. The treaty of Versailles was signed June 28, 1919, and the dates lasted through January 21, 1920, these were the important dates for a treaty of Versailles. The treaty was drafted during the Paris Peace Conference in the spring of 1919, which was dominated by the national leaders known as the “Big Four”—David Lloyd George of Britain, Georges Clemenceau Of France, Woodrow Wilson of the…

riot began because of the blacks moving from the South and it lead to tensions between the whites for housing and employment. In all, there were twenty-five race riots, eighty African Americans lynched with eleven of those military veterans during 1919. President Eisenhower went into the White House in 1953 with a plan to commit to civil rights and he pushed for improvements to desegregate. Within his first three years in office (1953-1956), parks, playgrounds, libraries, restaurants, and…

on this).it was also widely thought of that he was the man to fixed the 1919 world series. “Meyer Wolfsheim? No, he’s a gambler.” Gatsby hesitated, then added coolly: “He’s the man who fixed the World’s Series back in 1919.” (Fitzgerald, 73). The inspiration for Wolfsheim comes from the real world man who was said to fix the 1919 world series. “ Of course, Arnold Rothstein will always be most famous as the man who fixed the 1919 World Series...Eight members of the heavily favored Chicago White…

Saint-Germain, for Austria; Trianon, for Hungary; Neuilly, for Bulgaria; and Sèvres, for Turkey. Signed on June 28, 1919, by Germany on the one hand and by the Allies on the other, the Treaty of Versailles embodied the results of the long and often bitter negotiations of the Paris Peace Conference of 1919. When writing the Treaty of Versailles they shouldn’t…

Marshall emphasized on small and medium enterprises and also added that both organizations has some important reasons to survive. But the large organizations get more opportunities than small scale industries. The large scale organization use much scientific methods, efficient workers and techniques and equipments as well as the productivity also higher than small industries. (Marshall 1897: 307) . Marshall criticized another deflection of scientific management that it stated that traditional…