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World War II is a part of history that is often discussed, but not always in its entirety. Most, if not everyone, know of Adolf Hitler, his massacre of Jews, concentration camps, and so forth. Unfortunately, not as many people know about the horrors that Stalin ordered at the same time, and even before. Bloodlands, by Timothy Snyder, dives into shocking details about what happened during both regimes in the Bloodlands, the lands including Poland, Ukraine, Baltic States, Belarus, and Russia.…

Over the years and years spent on studying mythology, Joseph Campbell came up with the concept of The Hero’s Journey. The Hero’s Journey states that all hero’s travel in a similar path and go through many similar stages that’ll lead them to their reward. However, not every hero’s journey has to involve obstacles as in slaying a dragon or trying to save the world. In my case, I had to do nothing but trying to make it through sixth grade year. Sadly, sixth grade was the year that I faced the…

Racism is a difficult trait to define, and to recognize. It is often hard to decipher what is actually racist, and what just comes across as such. Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness is the story of one man’s account of being an ivory transporter, down the Congo River. During the voyage, there are many encounters with African Natives, and many of those encounters reflect negatively on the natives. The white men who dominate the storyline are demeaning towards the natives, and paint them as being…

Both Joseph Haydn and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart were the representative composers of the Classical music which had far-reaching influence of the future generation. The achievements of Haydn symphony are extremely high, and Mozart made outstanding contribution on opera and piano concertos. There are stylistic similarities and differences in these two composers. I will illustrate the life experience, form, and performance characteristics by using Haydn Keyboard Sonata Hob.50 in C major and Mozart…

Hello and welcome to Columbia University’s’ Pulitzer Prize Awards Night. Every year we gather here to acknowledge and celebrate America’s excellence in Journalism and Arts. The Pulitzer Prize has been around since 1917 and was founded by Joseph Pulitzer, a newspaper publisher with a keen eye for politics and journalism. Through his legacy and grant to Columbia University, Pulitzer was able to start up this internationally admired honour given annually to the best of the best. With twenty-one…

Paranoia is a frightening thing. It completely alters the way someone lives and thinks. Harsh judgments can be made when we suspect the worst is coming. A famous example of this was Senator Joseph McCarthy. During the late 1940’s and 1950’s, he believed over two hundred communists had hacked the United States Government System (McCarthyism). He desired to find and uncover the ‘communists” hiding in the United States. This was an ongoing subject of quandary and chaos for many years. Most…

The Second Red Scare The Second Red Scare was a time of hysteria in American history that impacted daily life in America and contributed to the tensions of the Cold War. Senator Joseph McCarthy took advantage of the fear of communism to defeat political rivals and personal enemies. Several famous actors, composers, and directors were blacklisted and their careers destroyed under suspicion of being communist. Loyalty oaths were implemented into the workplace, and people had to testify…

Heart of Darkness is a story about a captain’s journey through the jungles of Congo. Joseph Conrad based this subtly introspective tale on his own travels as a steamboat captain in the same locations in Africa. The physical danger and fear he experienced traveling through the Congo can be felt throughout the story and is represented by literal and metaphorical references to darkness. A concurrent theme of the story is the darkness of life and death, which is demonstrated through the narrator’s…

The hero’s journey as depicted by Joseph Campbell is used to “describe the underlying monomyth that links stories from every part of the world and every epoch in human history”(Richardson 220). In this case there is an interconnection between the Wachowski siblings film, The Matrix, and Campbell’s hero’s journey. While producing this film, the siblings used the hero’s journey as the backbone. It starts out with the call to adventure, then the road of trials, and later the apotheosis. The…

industrial industry and the expansion of capitalism and this was the time of reformation and solving these issues. Many historiographers such as George Mowry, Joseph Huthmacher, and Robert H. Wiebe, have different views on the Progressive Era. Each historiographer has published work containing different responses to the topic. I mostly agree with Joseph Huthmacher because of his relation to the common and poor man in society. In George Mowry’s, “Progressivism: Middle-Class Disillusionment,”…