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By no accident, “Kyivproekt,” chose avant-garde style to reconstruct the city central street, Khreshchatyk, in 1954. The main building, a skyscraper, hotel “Moskva,” was built on the place of the first Kyiv’s skyscraper by Ginsburg (1912-1944) ruined in 1944. The reconstruction project was led by Anatol Dobrovolsky, who became the city architect four years before. In 1950, he received Stalin’s award of II range for “technology development, an organization of mass production and implication of…

out a lot. D-Day was an enormous battle that was fought in Normandy, France. It was a very large and amphibious battle which was fought between the Allied powers and Axis powers. On June 6, 1944, soldiers who fought for Allied power landed on beaches in Normandy, starting a battle which ended on July 24, 1944. D-Day was important because it allowed people to understand how to code and how to come up with codes with other people, it killed a lot of people, and it advanced their technological…

past the halfway point of this book, I am still reading back and forth from the perspectives of Marie-Laure LeBlanc and Werner Pfennig. I am currently at the seventh segment of the novel; each presenting a different time period of the story (1940, 1944, 1938, etc). Previously, both main characters were sheltered by their family and avoided the negative impacts brought by World War II. Now, each of them are being thrusted closer, and closer to the tragedies of war and begin to see the world…

After Adolf Hitler was appointed chancellor in 1933 and the Nazi Party took power in Germany lives of Jews, Gypsies, and many other racial groups changed drastically. The Holocaust would become one the the most infamous events today's world knows. The crimes committed under the Nazi regime would affect millions of people leaving a horrific impression on the world for its eternity. A major asset to the Nazis awful massacre of the non-Aryan race was Auschwitz concentration camp. Auschwitz is a 40…

Auschwitz : The Horrors of the Camps During WWII, the Nazi Regime acted upon pure animosity to the Jewish people. From 1940-1945, the most notable death camp, Auschwitz, served as a hell for the Jewish people of Europe. Forced out of their homes without any choice, the Jewish people were sent to Auschwitz. Living in detrimental conditions, the Jewish people clung onto their hopes, awaiting liberation and peace although many did not. Auschwitz continues to symbolize the horrors of intolerance…

Indian commissioners. A second report was the report by the Panama Canal Zone Military Investigation, 1993, which spanned the years 1916-1929. A Third and one of the most widely known investigations, was the LaGuardia Commission report published in 1944. The conclusion of these three reports was similar. Mayor LaGuardia’s Committee on Marijuana was created by the New York Academy of Medicine at the request of the then New York Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia. The study was second in scope to the…

“The work I have been writing all my life is about the struggle that is born of the crisis of our century, a crisis of faith.” Throughout his life and his compositions, Leonard Bernstein explored his observation of a lack of faith within humanity in the 20th century and ways it could be renewed. He explored and expressed this interest throughout many works beginning with his Symphony No. 1: Jeremiah. In the book of Lamentations, Jeremiah the prophet mourns the fall of Jerusalem by Babylon.…

United States formally entered World War II in 1941, Texas escorted war convoys across the Atlantic, and later shelled Axis-held beaches for the North African campaign and the Normandy Landings before being transferred to the Pacific Theater late in 1944 to provide naval gunfire support during the Battles of Iwo Jima and Okinawa. Texas was decommissioned in 1948, having…

Women in the United States have been entering the labor market in increasing number over the past century, but it wasn’t until the Second World War when changes started to be more noticeable. Between 1940 and 1944, the number of women in the labor force grew by over 5 million, when many of the men entered the Armed Forces. After the war ended, many of those women continued with their careers, and those who did not, eventually came back to them (Shank). TRANSITION. The wage gap is believed to be…

was, over the progression of Lomax’s career, the principal of their local high schools. After the U.S. entered World War II, he attended Paine College in Augusta. After finishing his Bachelor of Arts at Paine, Lomax received his Master of Arts in 1944 from American…