Iron Curtain

There have been several movies made about this time; they always feature three things. Communism, nuclear fallout, and high tensions are the three things that are always in movies. This is the Cold War and the place is the infamous Communist Bloc. The Communist Bloc is a collection of Eastern European countries that were either “persuaded” or simply influenced by the Communist Soviet Union. The Communist Bloc was all because of what happened in World War II. What happened in World War II was the…

Lenin were able to take advantage of the corruption in the monarchy and instituted a coup d’etat (History.com Staff). The consequent, communist government in Russia was known as the Soviet Union. The harsh reality of what was happening behind the Iron Curtain was discussed in a figurative sense in George Orwell’s novel, 1984. Throughout the plot, Winston, the protagonist, is able to recall a world that existed prior to the oppressive government that he knows. Eventually, Winston receives a book…

“Anybody home? Mum? Amareis? Peanut?” my seven-year-old sister, Ella, yelled. It was just past six, and the sun was starting to set. She must have had a Sunshine Scouts meeting, I thought. I was sitting in the family room, watching reruns of Britain’s Got Talent, although it was a beautiful mid-spring evening and I should be outside, not watching people do armpit farts that sound astonishingly like people’s voices. Ella walks into the room, plopping down on the couch next to me. “Hey Ella, why…

Fallout Shelter (Scott Peters, 1961) In the beginning of the cold war, it seems that some Americans had a sense of confidence about the war, as can be seen in this excerpt from the song; “I’m not scared/I’m prepared/I’ll be spared” (Peters.) Many people purchased fallout shelters as a means of defense against the possible nuclear war they thought Russia would start, they were designed to protect people from nuclear fallout and have enough supplies in them to typically last a few weeks. While the…

Cynicism is the inclination to believe that people are motivated purely by self-interest; skepticism. Cynicism has its roots as a pessimistic outlook on life, which Szymborska regularly conveys through the use of symbolism in her poems. She portrays cynicism in many of her works such as in the poems “Parable” and “Cat in an empty apartment”, and more specifically her use of symbolism to convey her cynical belief that people are intrinsically motivated by self-interest and a sense of…

On April 4 1949, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, or also known as NATO, was established under the North Atlantic Treaty by Belgium, Canada, Great Britain, France, Iceland, Italy, Denmark, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, and the United States. Then as time has moved on, NATO still continues to be in intact today with twenty-eight countries and with the headquarters being in Brussels, Belgium. The North Atlantic Treaty was ultimately negotiated as a Western countermeasure…

into four parts, the USSR and the US started the political, economical and military “race” known as the Cold War from 1945 to 1989. The division of Europe from the Baltic Sea in the north to the Balkan Peninsula in the South is famously called the Iron Curtain, and it exemplifies the political differences between France, Great Britain and the US had with the USSR before the Berlin Wall was raised; although the territory…

The beginning of the Cold War created a new era of division, power, and communist ideals. During this fight for control, one of the biggest construction endeavors in history took place, known as the Berlin Wall. This blockade was built by the Soviet Union and East Berlin soldiers in order to cease the flow of emigrants into the West. The formulation of the Berlin Wall led to a separation of the people, a fight for freedom in government, a struggle for survival, and a political battle between…

Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill formally known as Winston Churchill was born into a wealthy family on November 30th 1874. He had a life full of events to put him in a place in every history book, he was a writer/journalist served in the British military and later in life being in the life of politics he eventually became the Prime Minister of Great Britain during World War 2. He lived a long life until his death at 90 in 1965. The early life of…

How effectively have the texts you have studied convey aspects of power? The composers Stephen Spender, Robert Browning and Margaret Atwood of the texts My Parents Kept Me from Children Who Were Rough, ¬¬¬My Last Duchess and The Handmaid’s Tale, all convey various aspects of power in their corresponding texts through the use of a variety of language techniques embedded in their writing. The poems My Parents Kept Me from Children Who Were Rough, and My Last Duchess both explore aspects of…