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    the base of the Brandenburg Gate. This speech contained a very powerful message for the General Secretary of East Germany at the time. It included, “General Secretary Gorbachev, if you seek peace, if you seek prosperity for the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, if you seek liberalization: Come here to this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!”(Hay,91) Large numbers of East Germans fled to West Germany by way of Poland, Czechoslovakia, and Hungary. The border…

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    Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev What: Prokofiev, a Russian composer, was born in 1891, in Sontsovka, Ukraine. Growing up, Prokofiev played piano and was taught by some of the most profound musicians of the classical era such as: Lyadov, Rimsky-Korsakov, and Nicolai Myaskovsky. Once he graduated he began performing in Moscow, his Alma Mater, and then all over Western Europe. Throughout this time he progressed as an artist and continued to compose more and more music. Prokofiev started on the…

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    the world as a whole, but the fall of the wall represented the end of a divided world, for the time being, and the long road to reunification between the Eastern and Western…

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    Liberality scores are most noteworthy in Latin America, parts of Africa, the Anglo world and Nordic Europe; limitation is generally found in East Asia, Eastern Europe and the Muslim world. The accompanying guidelines may be helpful, particularly on the off chance that you are new to the association:- 1. Be mindful of your individual predispositions, style, inclination, lens and centering. This is discriminatingly…

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    John F. Kennedy is very convincing in his speech as he has a strong ethos and pathos in his speech. This is for example due to his background. When the speech would have been held in the eastern part of berlin it would have been slightly different, it would for example probably have focussed more on giving people hope. When the speech would have been held after the fall of the wall it probably would have focussed more on the political aspect…

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    Comparing Individuality and Conformity in Fahrenheit 451 Individuality is celebrated in modern day society, but during the Cold War, the world seemed as though there was little hope for self-expression to live another day. In the novel, Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, there is a prominent theme of conformity found various times throughout the dystopian society. Conformity was a common theme in the real world during the Cold War, when this novel was written. In this society, books have all been…

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    On the 12th of June, 1987, President Ronald Reagan delivered a powerful and emotional speech in west Berlin, Germany. This speech was addressing the Berlin Wall, and all of the political issues that came with it. 26 years prior to Reagan’s speech, the Berlin wall was built to separate the communist East from the “Allied” west, this wall was extremely controversial and kept any people from leaving west Berlin without great difficulty. Reagan’s speech had immense impact on Berlin, 2 years after…

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    Within Truman’s first few weeks of presidency, Truman attended the Potsdam Conference in 1945. The Potsdam conference was a conference where Stalin, Churchill, and Truman nicknamed the Big Three, met in Potsdam, Germany to negotiate the end of World War II (The Potsdam Conference). The Potsdam Conference was a significant event mainly because it gave the all of the leaders a chance to discuss their plans so that there was no confusion amongst the allies regarding post-war plans in Germany and…

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    From 1945 – 1989, America and Russia were locked into the “Cold War.” (Cold War) This wasn’t like a normal war were two countries directly pitted their military strengths against each other. Instead, the Cold War was fought with politics, fear, spies, and proxy wars. This was extremely scary for the American public, creating national hatred for communism and any countries affected by it. Vietnam was one of these countries, having been divided into a southern, democratic half and a northern,…

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    Themes In Persepolis

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    The Seed of Western Values Prompt C The Eastern world is a mystical and fascinating world, the West has always viewed it differently throughout history showing the Eastern cultures as barbaric or uncivilized. Although our history classes show them in a different perspective the area is culturally rich and has deep roots of its ancestral past. In the graphic novel Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi, the reader dives into the mystical world and the modernization, regime changes, and religious revival…

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