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that took place in Germany. The Lithuanian Holocaust. The book, Between the Shades of Gray, by Ruta Sepetys talks about the Lithuanian Holocaust. Joseph Stalin,the leader of the Soviet Union, took over the Baltic States of Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia. These states lost a third of their populations. Citizens of those states were deported. Deportation could go all the way to Finland. The book tells the story of a mother, father, Lina and Jonas who were a nuclear family living in Lithuania.…

discussed by such scholars as Abdul Wali Yawari, Alice Ligoria, Azam Kazemiyan and Ryzki Indra Wicaksono. The researchers focused mainly on the image of Afghan women and their issues. Alexandra Andrews redefined Afghan women as modern archetypes. In Estonia, Laura Lobjakas from Tallinn University analysed the novel from an ecofeminist perspective. However, there have been no attempts to analyse the characters of this novel as female tricksters. The purpose of the present thesis is to contribute…

Mikhail Gorbachev. By December 31, the USSR was formally disassembled into 13 independent republics: Armenia , Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Lithuania, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan Turkmenistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan. Estonia and Latvia previously gained their independence in August 1991. Some historians argued that this radical change and end to the Cold War marked the ‘end of history’ as democracy became the predominant political system. Yet the question remains:…

A Look into the Global Health Care of Iceland, Belgium, Romania, and the United States The United States has no single nationwide system of health insurance. Health insurance is purchased in the private marketplace or provided by the government to certain groups. Private health insurance can be purchased from various for–profit commercial insurance companies or from non–profit insurers (Ridic, Gleason, & Ridic, 2012). About 70% of the population is covered by private health insurance. In…

16. Compare and Contrast the policies of the US and USSR during Cold War. Primary approaches to address are Containment - the Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan. Different perspectives which are not "strategies" but rather could be mulled over are: Truman's hard-line approach toward the USSR; his exclusion at Potsdam of advising Stalin about the nuclear bomb and the dropping of it at Hiroshima and Nagasaki; the German Question; the Berlin Airlift and NATO. Iron Curtain: Soviets refuse to…

In the past four decades, the United Stated have been in constant battle to stop the war on drugs, but they have not realized yet that drugs are the gateway of making America stronger again. We spent over a trillion dollars over the years, fighting against the war on drugs and we annually spend 51 billion in the United States. Imagine what we can do with all that money if drugs was legalized. My goal is to convince you all that legalizing drugs would benefit us more than harm us. Drugs are often…

Farmer Field Schools (FFSs) are a great tool in sustainable agricultural development programs because it is a participatory extension approach that includes a significant focus on group and individual capacity building of farmers. The longer-term empowerment goals of the farmer field school seek to enable extensionists to continue to expand their knowledge and to help others learn and to organize activities on their own within their farms to institutionalize practices of sustainable agricultural…

Latvia, Estonia, and Lithuania, the National Guard proposed a “sustaining partnership” model which laid the groundwork for the SPP structure. Having established a foundation for success through strategic planning and face-to-face contact with potential partner nations, the National Guard, with coordination with USEUCOM, established the first three state partnerships in April 1993. These state partnerships were between Latvia and Michigan, Lithuanian and Pennsylvania, and Maryland and Estonia.…

Liberalism is a convention or doctrine that rose up out of the European Enlightenment of the eighteenth century. It turned out to be especially strong in England, additionally in the U.S, France, and later, other Anglophone social orders like Australia. In each of these countries it expected marginally distinctive forms. The significant scholars of liberalism fit in with various groups of theorists. The first incorporates a few scholars or theorists of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries…

and job insecurity. For almost the majority of the interviewees, the socialist system provided better education, economic development and a more reliable health system. Economies in Eastern European countries such as Bulgaria, Romania, Slovakia, Estonia, Croatia, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary, and Slovenia are in fact considered in some cases to be growing slowly and ‘not converging with the pre-2004 EU members’. Soviet nostalgia in Eastern Europe can also be used as a tool to explain another…