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    In Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad, the narrator’s ambivalent feelings about Kurtz indicates Marlow discovering Kurtz intentions. The literary elements such as point of view, tone, diction, and paradox assist the narrator in understanding Marlow’s feelings when learning about Kurtz. Having ambivalent feelings for Kurtz was an unexpected hit of reality the narrator did not expect. From the beginning of Marlow’s journey, there had been nothing except for uplifting remarks regarding what Kurtz…

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    Wisconsin Senator, Joseph McCarthy, led a campaign, known as McCarthyism, in the early 1950s against alleged communists in the United States government, who he claimed were the reason the United States was losing the Cold War. Even though most of these government officials had no real connection to the Communist Party, they were blacklisted. This showed that McCarthy was successful in his attempt to persuade the American people. This speech was delivered on February 12, 1950, to a Republican…

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    3. Explain in detail the different aspects of totalitarianism and describe how Stalin employed these policies and tactics to extend and maintain absolute control over Russian society. (Beck, Section 2) A totalitarian government is one that takes complete control over every aspect of a nation, including both the public and private lives of its citizens. Totalitarianism goes against the democratic values of reason, freedom, human dignity, and the worth of the individual. Leaders of totalitarian…

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    The Hero’s Journey was formulated by American scholar Joseph Campbell as a method of analyzing tales, legends, and other forms of storytelling. It consists of various stages that are often present in modern-day media. This popular analytical guide commonly structures many television shows and movies as it provides a linear manner of unfolding a plot in an easy and simple to follow style. Moreover, the hero’s journey supplies the viewing audience a medium and framework of evaluating a narrative…

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    Joseph Stalin (born Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili) was born on December 18, 1878, and died March 5, 1953. Stalin was the secretary general of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from April 3, 1922, up until October 16, 1953, and premier of the Soviet state from 1941 until the time of his death. (Hingley) Stalin was utterly obsessed with security and power Stalin did numerous things to ensure his safety, such as aligning with the United States during the Second World War, murdering and…

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    Entrepreneurship is the resource and process which result in innovative opportunities in the market that help in the creation of new business firms from conception to exit. Perhaps the most prominent entrepreneurship economist of the 20th Century was Joseph Schumpeter. In 1912, Schumpeter developed the foundations of his theory of entrepreneurship. His theory describes a dynamic process in…

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    On December eighteenth 1879 in Gori, Georgia, a small peasant village in Russia, Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili (more commonly known as Joseph Stalin) was born into a large family. Stalin had two brothers, Georgy Jughashvili, born one year before Stalin, and Mikhail Jughashvili, born three years before Stalin. However, none of Stalin's siblings survived through infancy. Stalin's father, Besarion Jughashvili, was a cobbler though later became an alcoholic and later becoming a vagrant.…

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    others have captured the hearts of many. A number of such stories can actually be found to possess parallel structures to each other. The 12 Stages of The Hero’s Journey is a form of structure commonly found in Romance Narratives and was introduced in Joseph Campbell’s Monomyth from his book The Hero with a Thousand Faces. Campbell shows that many journeys, either literal or metaphorical, follow a similar structure. The hero starts in an ordinary, known world but is called to adventure and…

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    Have you ever wondered what a Hero’s Journey was? The hero’s journey is a pattern of narrative by the American scholar Joseph Campbell that appears in drama, storytelling, myth, religious ritual, and psychological development. It describes the typical adventure of the hero figure, the person who goes out and achieves great deeds on behalf of a group or generation. The purpose of a hero’s journey is to show a sequence of events that the hero must overcome in order to answer his/her call to…

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    Joseph Stalin, to put it simply, is the biggest mass murderer in the history of the world. He is plain evil, and that is what makes him so intriguing. From Stalin’s harsh adolescent years, to his crime ridden young adult years, and finally the years of his dictatorship, the life of Joseph Stalin is one for the books. Josef Vissarionovich Djugashvili was born on December 18, 1879 in the Russian occupied country of Georgia. The Djugashvili family was desperately poor. Josef’s father was a…

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