Joseph

Joseph Stalin was born on the 18th of December in 1878. He was born into a poor Russian Empire peasant village in nowadays Georgia. His dad was a cobbler and his mom was a washerwoman. He had a rough childhood and was made fun of a lot by other kids. He was also Permanently scarred after having smallpox and his left arm was partially deformed from a wagon accident when he was eleven. His mom later on enrolled him into a Greek orthodox priesthood school. Afterwards he then attended the Tiflis…

There are many stories from the gospel of Luke that surprised me. One of the stories that stood out to me most was the story of Joseph and Mary. It is crazy to think how much trust Mary had for God’s plan. She was willing to do what he wanted her to do with little hesitation. One reason it stood out to me was because it should how faithful someone can be even at a young age. Often times, I find myself justifying my poor decisions on my age, such as not attending church regularly. Yet, Mary was…

Stalin was one of the most vicious tyrants of the 20th century. Despite his humble origin, the combination of his life experiences and personality help shaped him into a cruel yet effective leader. He rose to an unprecedented level of power as a result of his own capabilities and his understanding of the Communist Party. His rivals and other prominent Bolshevik leaders underestimated him due to the lack of charisma as well as his education and dysfunctional family background. Stalin managed to…

The intelligentsia, a bourgeois class in pre-Revolutionary Russia, were a group of people that acted as a leadership role in shaping Russian culture and politics. According to Sheila Fitzpatrick, author of The Cultural Front and Modern Russian Historian, states that "the old intelligentsia had 'real culture '…and being products of a prerevolutionary bourgeois upbringing…they knew how to behave in a cultured manner in good society." It was in the late thirties that Josef Stalin both declared…

more enjoyable life. To follow your bliss, you need to find what you love to do, your ‘calling’. This being accomplished, the journey to your future starts to make more sense. To be able to achieve one’s bliss, they must follow the steps acquired by Joseph Campbell in his monomyth. The monomyth is perfected by three steps which include: separation and departure, challenges and trials, and return and reintegration. My personal bliss would be to find genuine happiness in life. No matter what the…

the novel “Heart of Darkness” we are able to see how even though the imperialistic time had ended, the British empire still felt that imperialism was key to being prosperous and all other countries who were not under their control were “savages”. Joseph Conrad the author of the novel was born within a Polish family; he had no ties with the British Empire and was…

by Joseph Conrad. He was born in Poland on December 3, 1857. Much of the writing of Joseph Conrad was centered around adventures at sea and trips to exotic places. His writing often has messages that are deeper than most stories. He attacks issues that he thinks are important. Conrad, himself, spent much of his youth at sea. After mastering sailing, Conrad was given command of merchant ships in the Orient and on the Congo. He later left the boating business and began to write (“Joseph…

Joseph Maurice Ravel was a 20th century French composer who was regarded as France’s greatest living composter in the 1920’s and 30’s. He completed 85 works, although many were unfinished or abandoned. His works included pieces such as Daphnis et Chloe, Rapsodie espagnole and Bolero, his most famous composition, which was a one movement orchestral piece. He wrote pieces for piano, chamber music, two piano concerti, ballet music, opera and song cycles. His style of music was impressionism. He…

Cruelty in literary works always has a certain element that forms the work to turn into something much more complex than it seems. The novella, Heart of Darkness, by Joseph Conrad, Marlow, who is at first an innocent traveller, learns the dark truth about the corruption in a man’s heart through his journey to the center of Africa, while watching the cruelty of Europeans towards the African natives. The theme of cruelty in the novella, Heart of Darkness, serves to demonstrate society’s greed for…

Joseph Conrad’s “Heart of Darkness” is a novel with a plot immersed in social and political themes, allusions, and messages. Most notably, the novel can be interpreted as an exposition on British imperialism in Africa. At the time of its original publication, “Heart of Darkness” exposed a Western audience to African communities that, while fictitious, were quite representative. Most Western accounts of Africans in the late 19th century and early 20th century characterized Africans as being…