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During World War II, the United States and the Soviet Union had joined forces to fight against Germany. Soviet and American relations began to deteriorate due to disagreements over military plans in WWII. A fear of the spread of communism and an aggressive American foreign policy in response to that fear. By 1947, the United States and the Soviet Union would be involved in the Cold War. In March 1946, former British Minister Winston Churchill spoke of the dangers to basic liberties posted by…

Sisters of St Joseph today are a vigorous group of women working in Australia, New Zealand, East Timor, Ireland, Peru and Brazil and follow in Mary’s footsteps doing a wide variety of works, revealing to all the hospitable heart of God. The Sisters affirm the increasing…

Beethoven is a well-known composer for his great work and symphonies that are filled with intensity and emotion. “Some of Beethoven’s most famous works mirror this sense of struggle to overcome an adversity imposed by fate.”(Bonds) Like Beethoven, many other composers of this time began expressing intense feelings and emotion in music. Romantic music is an era of Western classical music that started during the Romantic period around the late 18th or early 19th century. During the Romantic period…

Heart of Darkess "The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy" (Luther). As Martin Luther said in his quote, man is gauged through how he acts in presence of challenge and controversy which, in Conrad's novel The Heart of Darkness, is exactly where Marlow is on his journey in the Congo. In Conrad's novel, he uses the literary elements of character development, symbolism, and conflict to…

Campbell suggests that heroes develop in stages and that individuals prepare themselves for heroism through a series of challenges that they overcome. Call to adventure, the hero given a task and is called into the unknown. The road of trails, the hero faces many tests of courage. Refusal of return, the hero is tempted to stay where he is and not return back to his main land. The hero is called upon to save the world. At first the hero is very skeptical about going on this adventure. The hero…

The Red Scare and Palmer Raids Between November 1919 and January 1920, at the height of the first Red Scare, the American Justice Department arrested thousands of people without warrants and federal authorities deported many arrested immigrants. Some of the prisoners were beaten and mistreated while in captivity. Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer determined that the “Reds” were a threat to America. Though not well defined, the term “Reds” generally meant those on the far political left,…

Keita: Heritage of the Griot is a historical fiction that takes place in the geographical location of Africa. The film focuses on a storyteller who aims to deliver ancestral heritage to Mabo Keita (the young boy). The storyteller, whose name is Djeliba captures Mabo’s attention by discussing the origins of his name and significance of the country's history (Kouyaté). The conflicts in this film were twofold; the rejection of non-western history by Africans and Mande King’s first wife whom has a…

Shakespeare and Beethoven were a huge deal in the Romantic period. Shakespeare was known for his dramas that many people, of the time, went to go watch. Beethoven was a musical prodigy of the time who many young composers looked up to. These two were especially influential and inspiring to Hector Berlioz. Berlioz was a composer of the Romantic period, as well. He is most famous for his program symphony that he composed, Symphonie Fantastique. A program symphony is a symphony that portrays…

and the revolution is the same, and common themes emerge in both events. One way Animal Farm shows similarities to the Russian Revolution is that many characters overlap. Napoleon, the leader in the story, shares many of the same characteristics as Joseph Stalin, who led the Russian Revolution. They both let power corrupt them and eventually consolidated all the power for themselves. Another character that has common characteristics is Snowball, who is quite similar to…

Prelude Frederic Chopin, famous 19th century composer, taught me that life is lived in preludes. Beginnings, fragments, moods-in- miniature, some less than a minute long. Introductions to larger works that don’t even exist. Lullabies overtaken by laments. “Why can’t you be more like Mozart?” I once asked him. “More…predictable, more full of pleasing pattern?” “Why can’t you?” he shot back. Ghosts can be very peevish. But Chopin didn’t like to be called a ghost. Or an imaginary friend.…