Bulgarians

American Author Project: Elizabeth Kostova Although there were many people who tried to re-create Bram Stoker’s Dracula, only Elizabeth Kostova was able to really capture the true essence – albeit 113 years after the original was written in the first place. Even though nobody can compare to the Bram Stoker original, Elizabeth Kostova did entirely get the ideas written down in such a way that it was easy to tell she paid attention to the tiniest of details. Elizabeth Kostova is important to…

Class Differentiation in Arms and the Man by Shaw: The Bulgarian society is pictured as feudal class structures that Europe slowly moving from it. During this period, George Bernard Shaw was writing his plays. In this period, the great changes occurred in advanced countries such as improvement of slums, factory condition, greater representation of lower classes in government gestured the dramatic reform, and working classes had gained the vote and right to education. It also was a time of rising…

The Global Aftermath of World War I There have been many political changes after World War I. The empire of Austria-Hungary and the Ottoman Empire had been demolished. The economy, at the time, had its share of change after World War I. It was subject to many reparations, in which the Deutsche had suffered a dramatic decrease resulting in an all-time low for Germany. However, Women were on the forefront of social status as more women of multiple countries took charge of local businesses and…

Culturally distinct groups resisted being added to a state and tried to break away. Greeks broke free from the Ottoman Empire. The Ottoman Empire ruled by the Turks controlled many ethnic groups such as Greeks, Arabs, Bulgarians, Armenians and Slavs. These different ethnic groups were underrepresented, where deprived from basic civil rights, and were oppressed. During the late eighteenth century, the French and the British pressured the Ottomans to grant equal rights to all people regardless of…

Voltaire’s magnum opus, Candide: All for the Best, also simply known as Candide, utilises the techniques of satire, imagery, symbolism and characterisation to convey some of the perils of the Age of Enlightenment through the thematic exploration of religion, war, optimism and philosophical speculation. Voltaire positions the reader to recognise the insincerity incumbent in organised religion as well as the futility of war at that time. He also positions the reader to comprehend the folly of…

Voice of America, both stations staff are mostly foreign nationals. Uttaro states “the staff is composed largely of emigres from the target countries. The idea is to achieve "empathy in communication" by having "Poles talking to Poles and Bulgarians to Bulgarians, not as a spokesman for some foreign government but as fellow countrymen concerned with the best interests of the country they and their listeners call home” (Uttaro). While Voice of America focused more on informing countries of…

Ellis Island was a destination and a dream for many immigrants who wanted to start a new life. But for some Ellis island was a bad place because they had had heard stories about people being deported because of their bad manifests or documents about their history that where bad, for example like being a thief. But what had concerned most people was and the long, hard enduring journey that they had to face. “Ellis island was where all the immigrants went to find a new life” (Sandler, 7-8)…

insisting the countrymen in question were Slavicized Germans, Turks, Albanians, or Greeks. In some instances Hitler did truly believe that certain Slavs were indeed what he claimed them to be. In one instance he stated “The idea that Bulgarians are Slavs is nonsense, Bulgarians are Turkoman” and also “The Croats are certainly more Germanic than Slav”. His regard to these peoples as racially pure, did not shake him from the position that their cultures had been tainted and they had become…

Social Ramifications of World War I 1. Women would awaken to their true potential due to World War I. During the war, women were needed to do factory jobs, farm work, and other local jobs. When the war was over, they lost these jobs to the returning veterans. I truly believe that women saw their abilities to operate like any man and this led to an increase in the Women's rights movement that would follow the war. 2. The people of Europe started World War I with the idea of war…

Wh-questions formation in English 1. Interrogatives in English According to Fromkin, Robert, Neil, & Harry (2001), one of the linguistic universals is that all languages have a system of asking questions. In English, there are two main kinds of interrogative sentences, close-ended sentences and open-ended sentences. Closed class interrogative sentences have yes/no answer while opened class interrogative sentences having many possible answers. 1.1. Yes/No questions Yes/no question in English is…