Eastern Hemisphere

What was the Iron Curtain The term Iron Curtain became widely known during the cold war and was used to define the geopolitical, military, physical and ideological boundary that separated states that were members of the Warsaw Pact in Eastern Europe (Eastern Bloc) and those that were not, otherwise called The West. This boundary separated the two areas from World War II to the end of cold war and it represented the Soviet Union’s attempt to shield itself and allies from direct contact with…

In the early 1940s after World War II the United States, the Soviet Union, France, and Great Britain shared control of Germany. The occupiers also divided the capital city, Berlin, into four different territories. The most prominent countries, the Soviet Union and the United States, split Berlin into what is best known as East and West Germany. This time period is what we know as the cold war where there was great tension between the two territories. East Germany, allied with the Soviets, was…

1945 brought the end of the second world war in which ended the lives of nearly 60 million people. This war had led to changes in the economy, politics, geography and country relations and had also changed people’s sentiments and thoughts. This partly also one reason due to which many 21st century composers changed their approach towards composing music. One example of a composer who changed his attitude to composing music was Alberto Ginastera, an Argentine composer who changed his style of…

Kurt Vonnegut, wrote “Harrison Bergeron” wrote a story in 1961, but about the story place in 2081 predicting about how future could turn out to be during in that time, and how he felt worried about what was going with the conflict with America and Russia going against each other. This story is based on the events of the cold war and the civil rights movement to have a great idea to write Harrison Bergeron and its future theme. The Author is explaining about equality and how people don’t work…

Phenomenology and Existentialism September 28, 2017 Mark Joseph R. Cabahug Philosophy. Phenomenology and Marxism ‘Some treatises on Socio – Marxism ‘ Harper and Collins, New York 1987, P. 1 – 205. ISBN 978955783224 the main purpose of this book when it was written probably, after of the so called Cold War during the time that there is still a Soviet Union or the infamous USSR. Then a sizable chunk of Marxist state under several famous leaders…

In Heonik Kwon’s The Other Cold War, the author was not writing about the Cold War in the usual cookie-cutter version. Kwon brought the telling of the Cold War from an entirely different point of view; that is, he brought in the collective global perspective and impact to societies and not solely the Western (European-American) perspective. He also took it a step further and aimed at altering the popular beliefs people typically have due to other historical theorist’s claims. One of Kwon’s…

Chapter Ten called Servant Leadership and Chapter Eleven called Adaptive Leadership explains servant and adaptive leadership more comprehensively. There is a lot of facts and knowledge one must understand to know what adaptive and servant leadership is. Chapter Ten by Northouse discusses servant leadership in greater detail. As explained in the text, servant leadership semms contradictory and challenges our traditional beliefs about leadership, and is an approach that offers a unique…

Throughout history, it has been shown how political systems around the world differ from country to country. With that comes their own way of living, thinking and growing as a nation. How a country is shaped depends greatly on its views of absolute monarchy, Democracy, Communism, and fascism, which are only some systems helping to shape the nations we know today. All these political systems are formed in each region according on the needs of people, exposure they have, and their type of…

discusses a variety of feminist topics, some more universal and applicable globally, while others are uniquely Croatian or Eastern European. Using Drakulić’s text, as well as a secondary source by Rosalind Delmar, this paper will attempt to argue that How We Survived Communism and Even Laughed is an intersectional text – it highlights not only the differences in Western and Eastern European feminism, but also the similarities. It is vital to understand the ubiquitous, similar experiences of…

Corruption of Power in Catch 22 As an untraditional war novel, Joseph Heller’s Catch 22 portrays it’s protagonist, Yossarian, as an anti-hero in WWII, where he plays the role of an American air force bomber. Although it is a war novel, Catch 22 doesn’t focus on the aspect of the war’s combat or the protagonist’s newfound experiences in the war, but instead reflects a message about society by incorporating entities that represent societal issues that Heller wants acknowledged. Such themes in…