August Spies

On January 16th, 1979, a grieve and joy fell over Iran. It was the day that the shah of Iran left with the promise of coming back. He left while leaving millions of supporters wondering: is the shah really going to come back? That question was answered when an army officer fell down at the shah's feet and wept and begged the shah not to leave. The question was answered when he pushed back tears while going up the stairs that led to his plane. It was answered when shah's last step took forever…

Following World War II, many different countries were left in ruins and began to rebuild, especially in Europe. Iran specifically, was recovering from being invaded by Soviet and British troops after being a neutral country in the war. In the book titled All the Shah’s Men, we get a more focused glimpse on Iran and all the foreign powers influencing the nation. Iran was ruled as a monarchy until 1979, and each king or emperor is given the title of “shah”. Every Shah ruled until death or they…

At the time, pundits never expected him to add more than a few additional names to the first 24 co-sponsors. By mid-August 2003, however, Sanders had garnered more than 130 sponsors - Democrats and Republicans, liberals and conservatives alike - in support of his "Freedom to Read Protection Act," H.R. 1157, a bill that would exempt libraries and bookstores from section…

also one of the first steps in building your own home, how exciting!” Rose and I finally make it to the Italian gardens and lily pond. We take off our hosiery and sit on the decorative cement wall and dip our toes in the water to relax from the August heat as we continue our conversation. In the distance Rose sees a portion of the kitchen staff coming with our lunch and looks at me for direction. “Just stay here.” I…

Russia was the first person to put a man into orbit. They tried to use this as a way to put satellites into space and spy on America (Nazaryan para. 15 2017). Stalin was ahead of the United States at this point in the Cold War. Along with Stalin killing tens of millions of his own people, he was also a person that wanted to be ahead of everyone. He wanted to make sure…

Author’s Bio Joseph Conrad was a novelist born on December 3, 1857 in Berdychiv, Ukraine. He had a tragic childhood. His mother died of tuberculosis in 1865 and his father died after his imprisonment for his attempts to regain Polish independence from the Russian Empire. Conrad was taken in by his uncle and took an interest in geography, something that Marlow from Heart of Darkness takes a liking to as well with his interest in maps and unemployed territories. When he was just seventeen, he got…

"The world unfolds from but a glimmer lost in the halls of darkness. Crafted from the darkness into the light. The Commencement of the beginning of the end and to the end of the beginning shall the world finds its undoing." Cool and cloudless was the night. Stars flourished as scenes of mythology in the cosmos without a moon to outshine them. No boundary existed between the jagged land of the Norwegian Federation and the salty sea. Waves launched themselves into sprays as they crashed onto…

Kurt Vonnegut is one of the most influential American novelists of the twentieth century who has brought about a phenomenal distinction in literature. Most of the writers have written only in a particular concept or genre, but Kurt Vonnegut has imprinted his undeniable mark in science fiction with humor, social commentary with absurdity and so on. Kurt Vonnegut has written fourteen novels, three short story collections, five plays, and five works of non-fiction. His works are occupied with…

Between the two world wars in Europe a handful of dictators rose to power by the means of propaganda. Adolf Hitler, one of those dictators, became chancellor of Germany in 1933. His Final Solution for Germany was to annihilate the Jews and he convinced the ordinary Germans to agree with his Final Solution by utilizing propaganda. Hitler had a ministry of propaganda in his government run by Joseph Goebbels who oversaw all propaganda in the country. Hitler controlled the media of Germany and…

1. Introduction Adolf Hitler was appointed chancellor of Germany on January 30, 1933, bringing an end to German democracy. Guided by racist and authoritarian ideas, the Nazis abolished basic freedoms(3)The Third Reich quickly became a police state, where individuals were subject to arbitrary arrest and imprisonment. By mid-July 1933, the Nazi party was the only political party permitted in Germany German resistance to Nazism (“Widerstand”) was the opposition by individuals and groups in…