Kazan

A Streetcar Named Desire starts with Blanche arriving at her sisters, Stella’s apartment in New Orleans. She had arrived with all her belongs and some bad news. She had lost the Belle Reve, which was their families’ mansion. When Stanley and Blanche meet, it’s an automatic unsettling relationship between the two. Stanley thinks that she cheated Stella with the share of Bella Reve. Their relationship gets worse when Stanley gets too drunk while playing poker and beats Stella. This same night,…

When reading the play, A Streetcar named Desire, written by Tennessee Williams, and when watching the film directed by Elia Kazan, there seemed to be differences between the two. This story follows a middle-aged woman by the name of Blanche, played by Vivien Leigh in the film, who has lost all of her family’s fortune and moves in with her sister Stella, played by Kim Hunter. Stella’s husband, Stanley, played by Marlon Brando, is not too fond of Blanche and throughout the plot, he and Blanche…

Malcom X and Vladimir Lenin, Human Rights defenders To begin with this contrast between authors we need to understand their background and were it took place in history, in order to have a paronamic view of their life. Vladimir Illich Uylanov (Vladimir Lenin) was born on April 22, 1870, in Simbirsk, Russian Empire; Governed by Absolute Monarchy and ruled under the Russian Ortodox Church and he Pauline laws, Lenin was raised by a mid-class but well educated family, who`s Father died when…

The House Committee on Un- American Activities (HUAC) was an investigating committee of the United State House of Representatives that operated during the 1930s to 1970s. Martin Dies was the first chairman of the Un-American Activities, which was established in 1938. At first, the role of the HUAC was to investigate a variety of political groups as well as subversive activities. Due to the Red Scare of the 1950, many hearings were structured towards investigating whether a person is a communist…

Eugenia Ginzburg’s was an active communist member who found herself struggling to preserve her physical being and dignity while caught on the wrong side of the Great Terror. Her “counter political” correspondence would lead to arrest, as authorities twisted and exaggerated a few counter political articles into proof of Trotskyist terrorism. These claims immediately thrust her into a spiral of events that dramatically altered the course of her life would challenge the base of her moral ideology…

“When Miller was summoned before Senator McCarthy’s House Un-American Activities Committee, he, contrary to Kazan, did not name any names. His experience led him to write his play about the Salem witch trials, … He considers that the play is still of alarming relevance, speaking directly about religious fanaticism… What happened in Salem in 1692 should be seen in the context of the puritan dream of recovering a lost paradise, even if in an austere and vain way. The devil appears precisely in…

These include semi-subterraneous house structures and stone caches (Pickering 2012:208-227). Friesen and Stewart (2013:95) opened 20 stone caches at Thirty Mile Lake along the Kazan River in Nunavut. This site is a caribou crossing, and is associated with habitation sites. Friesen and Stewart (2013:91-92) think the caches at Thirty Mile Lake were made by Inuit based on proximity to Inuit sites and links to oral traditions. They…

Upon first glance the films Pinky (1949) and Lost Boundaries (1949) appear to be progressive. They portray controversial ideas such as miscegenation and equality between whites and blacks. But are these films really trying to make a statement of equality? While on the surface Pinky and Lost Boundaries, make a contentious political statement; in actuality they make a mockery of the idea of egalitarianism. The film Pinky addresses the questionable idea of a mixed race couple and of a black…

uncle’s barn. He would say later on it was a motorcycle accident. In 1950 One of James Dean first gigs was for a Pepsi cola. James Dean only starred in three movies. In 1954 Dean caught his big break with he got the gig from John Steinbeck’s approval, Kazan cast Dean in a screen adaptation of Steinbeck’s epic novel “East of Eden.” After that his next film was Rebel without a cause, only movie he was really notice for and was top billing. There were more moves in the making before Dean shortly…

enable hi resist the Mongols attack and also to increase the borders of Russia so that he can be able to create an empire that is more centralized. As Ivan was trying to increase the borders of Russia, he was able to defeat the Kazan army. When Ivan was able to defeat the Kazan, he decides to commission the construction of a Catholic church called St. Basil’s Cathedral in Moscow. Ivan was also able to expand the Russian Empire to Siberia. Siberia was reached in the natural resources like…