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    Joseph Stalin was one of the greatest leaders in modern history, not only because he lead his country to pushing the German’s back from the USSR (The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics) into the heart of the Germany but also because he modernised a country that was a hundred years behind the rest of the world in very little time. Stalin had successfully implemented two five year plans between the years 1928 and 1938. BBC Believes that the first two five-year plans were concentrated on industry…

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    pot Salem built up itself as a religious group amidst malicious. In the pot there was young ladies who were whimsical and would make outlandish claims about the presence of witches in Salem, they wouldn't have any evidence of it. In the McCarthyism "Joseph McCarthy, U.S. Congressperson, made unverified cases that more than 200 "card conveying" individuals from the Communist party had penetrated…

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    Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness represents this overwhelming divide between what we namely think of as civilized people and those who are not encroached by rules and regulations. Surprisingly, the sailor retelling his journey in Africa, Charles Marlow, realizes that in fact, there is little that separates himself from the natives living within tribal territories in the jungle. Furthermore, Conrad ironically denotes this fear that we all have of being free from society’s chains placed upon us.…

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    Joseph McCarthy Few people in American history have ever plunged the country into panic as Joseph McCarthy did in the 1950s. He single-handedly fabricated a scandal he claimed reached into the highest branches of the US government. Lacking substantial evidence, he accused various senators, representatives, and officials of being communist spies. His infamous “list” of such people was comprised of information that was “either taken from other sources or misremembered or just made up” (Kelley).…

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    In the year 1954, U.S Senate made sure he had attention drawn to himself with his false accusations. Joseph McCarthy’s actual career started out as a circuit court judge later then served in the U.S. Marines as a ground officer, he then became a senate in 1946. When people realized he had serious issues he lost being chairman in November later died of acute hepatitis. Joseph McCarthy started out as a young boy very shy, but very smart; he then became a person that got his way through lying, but…

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    How are Macbeth and Joseph Stalin alike? Both Macbeth and Joseph Stalin can be described similarly in many ways. They can be defined similar based on their constant need for power and domination over others. Both Macbeth and Joseph Stalin are known for doing horrible acts in order to gain power or domination. Nevertheless, even though they have committed some horrible acts they never started off as the evil person everyone portrays them as. In the story called “The Tragedy of Macbeth”,…

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    unsupported by proof or based on slight, doubtful or wrong information. In 1950, Republican Joseph McCarthy charged that communists had entered The U.S. State Department. On February 9, Senator Joseph McCarthy sent a telegram to President Truman two days after claiming the fact that he had found "205 card-carrying" members of the Communist party working in the U.S. State Department (“Victims of McCarthyism”). Joseph McCarthy he never actually had names and he kept constantly changing the number…

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    Joseph Stalin was a very unjust leader, as all tyrants are. A trait that Stalin had that converges with Plato’s Republic is that Stalin was very paranoid of becoming one of his own, a slave. “Therefore, the real tyrant is, even if he doesn’t seem so to someone, in truth a real slave to the greatest fawning and slavery.” (Bloom, 579d). Stalin abused his power to reap benefits that others could not obtain. Being the devious man that he was, he forced his opposition to withdraw from competing,…

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    black shadows of disease and starvation, lying confusedly in the greenish gloom... and slowly the eyelids rose and the sunken eyes looked up at me, enormous and vacant, a kind of blind, white flicker in the depths of the orbs, which died out slowly." (Joseph Conrad, 25) This quotation represents that the individuals have been diseases…

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    Joseph Stalin was a terrible person. In his rise to power, Stalin ordered many people to be killed before he got his power, while he was in power, and Joseph Stalin killed many people in his purges or mass killings. Most people died in his purges because he was paranoid that they could take away his power. For instance one of his purges was on the Red Army where 30,000 people died. Some of them died because he was paranoid that they would start a revolution and take his power. Another example…

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