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    The Holocaust is the most known genocide in history. For some people, it is the only genocide they know about. Sadly, there are many more genocides that have been similar to the Holocaust. For example, The Armenian genocide occurred between 1915 and 1922 when the Turkish government feared the Christianity was being used against their Muslim religion. The Armenian Genocide has comparable qualities to the Holocaust such as tactics used to murder people, motives for hating other groups, and the…

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    Within the book he takes on the quiet and reasonable part of Fitzgerald's personality. A man who travels to New York in 1922 to learn about the bond business. He lives in the West Egg district of Long Island next door to Gatsby. Nick is a nice choice to narrate the novel, whilst narrating this novel serves as a personal memoir of his experiences with Gatsby in the summer of 1922. Nick is also a nice choice to narrate this novel because of the nature of his behavior. He says in chapter one that…

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    for public, Archbishop Vasily who was crucified and burned. A key strategy of the Bolsheviks was to split the clergy, which they did through introduction of the Living Church in 1922. Patriarche Tikhon was imprisoned and stripped of his title, his deputy exiled. At the All-Russian Church Council( April 29th-May 9th) of 1922, it was decreed that the Russian Orthodox Church was to be taken under the control of the Living Church, and the traditional…

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    teaching degree. He taught an elementary school in 1902-04. After that, King Victor Emmanuel III asked Mussolini to be in government and he accepted the invitation. In 1919 he created a Fascist party. Fascist means advocate or follower of Fascism. In 1922 made a march called The March on Rome and called his they called his people Black Shirts: Soldiers and believers of fascism.…

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    films that have negative stereotypes towards Latinos. The communities can look back at the 1922 Mexico boycott against Hollywood films. In 1922, Protests and boycotts in several major cities greeted the premiere of Daniel Petrie 's Fort Apache,…

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    did not agree with Mr. Vanderbilt, and he sold the house in 1906 to the Leeds family, who sold the house to James Duke in 1922. Mr. Duke was a very wealthy man who owned and founded the American Tobacco Company as well as Duke Energy. He and his wife had spent summers in Newport previously as renters. When Rough Point became available, he purchased it for $375,000. From 1922 to 1924, the house was renovated and substantially enlarged. In 1924,…

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    audience that Nick evaluated actions and placed them in a “good” or “bad” category. This, and several other characteristics of Nick root from his fundamental foundation, which was built in the Midwest were Nick resided until his move in the summer of 1922 taking place in his late 20s. During his two month exploration in New York City, more specifically, the West Egg, he finds himself in a plethora of situations that cause him to rely on his Midwestern value such as honesty, hard- work, modestly,…

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    the city. He writes down all his feelings and emotions together with his friend Billy Pilgrim. The novel’s protagonist Billy Pilgrim is stucked in time, so during the whole book the author is jumping back and forth in time. Billy Pilgrim is born 1922 in New York, went to High School, enrolled in the Ilium School of Optometry and went to war in Belgium. Right after his arriving he got arrested by German soldiers. The whole group got sent to Dresden, where they had to work and lived in a camp…

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    Diego Rivera was well-known for paintings that portrayed Mexican life, society and the history of Mexican People. No matter what, Rivera did not shift his art and that shaped him to be somewhat controversial artist. Rivera was a communist who fought for communist ideal. He is an ideal of socially dedicated artist. His art describes such issues as Mexican labor, and American worker and Revolutionary figures. Rivera experienced the work of great masters such as Cézanne, Gauguin, Renoir, and…

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    Stephen King is one of the most respected novelists in America. Aside from his horrifying novels King has a vast variety of short stories, which has inspired countless films. There is a certain selection of short stories that has revealed Stephen King’s view of Americans as a whole, a reoccurring theme that represents his view of Americans is that each individual has certain difficulties that causes great impact on their lives. For example, in King’s novella, The Body, each character, which are…

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