Joseph E. Brown

Nationalism was hardly a new phenomenon in the 20th century, stemming all the way back to the days of the Enlightenment. By the 1900s, though, it’s reach had captured the attention of the globe. By 1914, these feelings of superiority — while hardly new in Europe — were at a boiling point, with ethnic minorities demanding freedom from multinational empires, especially the Austro-Hungarian Empire; such demands culminated in the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, the immediate cause of the…

Canada and its Allies finally celebrated triumph over the loss of Germany in 1945, during the second world war. What Canada did not know the danger from the Nazis will soon be taken over by a threat to the U.S. and the USSR’s cold war. The Cold War happened between the western allies and the Soviet Union after the second world war due to having a very different political system and beliefs. Unfortunately, Canada geographically happened to be just in between the U.S. and the USSR. Thus, Canada…

depictions are the naive woman, the mysterious woman, and the wealthy and influential woman. The sparse mentionings of women reveal the way the writer views their significance. They are never given names and are briefly mentioned throughout his work. In Joseph Conrad’s novella Heart of Darkness, women are hardly mentioned but play a significant role in revealing the many different aspects of imperialistic Europe. One of the women that is mentioned by Conrad is the naive woman, who is called The…

On December 16, 1770 one of the world’s greatest pianist and composer was born. Ludwig van Beethoven creative pieces consolidated vocals and instruments, broadening the extent of sonata, orchestra, concerto and group of four. He is the urgent transitional figure interfacing the Classical and Romantic times of Western music. Beethoven's own life was set apart by a battle against deafness, and some of his most vital works were created amid the most recent 10 years of his life, when he was very…

Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad is a novella that explores the inhuman treatment of African people as they were brutally enslaved by European rulers under the umbrella of colonisation. Through this novella, contemporary audience are able to recognise immoral actions which largely practise corruption, discrimination and ultimately, imperialism. Joseph Conrad, has successfully illustrated to contemporary audience the Victorian era values on colonisation and civilisation being a productive force…

Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness is a novel that stays relevant in the 21st century, the initial 12 years which have seen a number of nations of the globe participated in battle or on the brink of battle. The book is still avidly studied by trainees in classrooms all over the world, as well as it remains a topic of discussion within popular culture as well as mainstream media. It was an unique that checked out issues that include imperialism, race, chaos and good versus evil, all especially…

rainfall and atmospheric pressure. Stalin had his own policy of stalinism. He made his county power. When he was 16, he made it into a magnificent school but was soon expelled. Within history Stalin made a stand against Hitler and the Nazi party. Despite Joseph Stalin's dictatorship, he lead his economy in a mass production and the defeat of the Nazi Party. Jewish captivity were often occurred by Nazi Germany. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum states,“Between 1933 and 1946, Nazi…

At the end of the second world war, the relations between the Soviet Union (also known as U.S.S.R.) and the United States of America, was at loss. The two powers were rivals and the tension only built between them as time went on. This era was then quickly known to and referred to as, The Cold War. An event that took place in 1954, only caused the tension to grow. It especially grew when the Allies of the United States during the second world war, (Britain & France) acted without acknowledging…

There were many great composers throughout the period of 1600-1750 A.D. which is known as the Baroque period. I am going to be researching specifically into the composer named Giovanni Battista Sammartini. Giovanni Sammartini was born sometime in the year 1700-1701 in Milan, Italy. Giovanni passed away January 15th, 1775 also in Milan. He spent most of his entire life in Milan, Italy. Giovanni was the son of a famous oboist of the time named Alexis Saint-Martin. Charles Burney, a British…

➢ Collectivization: introduced by Stalin which wiped out the Kulaks, those who opposed the First 5 Year Plan – this led to famine and the deaths of millions – it was required of peasants to sell a large portion of their food production at a cheap price but did let them sell the extra food - essentially, it destroyed the idea of private ownership and grouped together tinier farms privately owned by peasants and created larger farms, beginning in 1928. The belief behind this was that by grouping…