Latvia

Sweden with my mother and niece. Right then I discovered that I love to travel and find out about other cultures and countries. After that I and three of my best friends took a trip to Europe. We went by a bus and visited many European Countries: Latvia, Lithuania, Czech Republic, Poland, Austria, Italy and Greece. We were riding condoles in Venice and climbed the hills in San Marino, visited Vatican City, saw the Pantheon in Athens, Greece and tried to climb the Colosseum ruins in Rome, until…

In the year of 1962, during the time of the Cold War, in which the Northern countries started falling to communism. Vietnam was in a difficult situation in which North Vietnam And South Vietnam had been divided from each other, due to their different economic stances. America had sent their military forces to South Vietnam to protect it from being over run by communism, and they called to Australia for assistance. Australia had a close relationship with the U.S. After dealing with the…

7. Name Theory Adam Smith Adam Smith, a Scot and a philosopher, after years of observing the world of business affairs came to the conclusion that, “Collectively the individuals in society, each acting in his or her own self-interest, manage to produce and purchase the goods and services that they as a society require.” His ideal of laissez faire economic later on sparked the idea of free market. Karl Marx Karl Marx believed that capitalism would bring about instability, struggle, and decline,…

enormously debatable assumption, that two questions arise immediately. Firstly, was the crisis of national identity suffered by all post-Soviet states? What about those, who was joined forcibly, e.g. Baltic? It is doubtful, that citizens of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, countries who considered themselves under the occupation of the Soviet Union and left it first, suffered a lot from fact that they are no longer Soviet people. Secondly, what is the evidence that the crisis of national identity…

Russia is in a strategic location and borders 14 other countries, which include but are not limited to China, Mongolia, North Korea, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Ukraine, Belarus, Latvia, Estonia, Finland, Norway, Lithuania, and Poland. There are many bodies of water that surround Russia, which include, Sea of Japan, Caspian Sea, Black Sea, Baltic Sea, Arctic Ocean, Barents Sea, Kara Sea, Laptev Sea, Siberian Sea, Chukchi Sea, Pacific Ocean, and Sea of Okhotsk. The Russian terrain consists…

World War II Should Have Never Happened 60 million people are the number of people who died during the Second World War. The fall of colonialism, rise of communism, development of nuclear weapons, and the Holocaust may all have never happened if WWII was prevented. WWI was the reason for WWII. Effects of WWI to Germany, Italy, and Japan include economic crisis, senses of betrayal, and uncertain futures were all reasons that led to the autocratic powers of the Axis (Germany, Japan, and Italy).…

I chose the book Holes by Louis Sachar, a beloved American children’s novel and winner of the 1999 Newbery Medal. The story centers around an unlucky adolescent boy named Stanley Yelnats. He is caught in the wrong place at the wrong time and is mistakenly arrested for stealing a pair of shoes although he is innocent. He is sent to the Camp Green Lake juvenile detention center where he is subjected to horrible conditions and forced to dig holes every day. The novel was an obvious choice for the…

Joseph Stalin, The Cold War, and the Positive Effects on the Modern World Oleksander Yaroslav was a member of the 80% of the population of Ukraine that owned farmland in the 1930’s. Oleksander had heard about the Russian grip tightening on his country in the mistaken fear that his fellow citizens of Ukraine were planning a secession from the USSR. Soon, men started coming to his door demanding that he remove himself from his property and turn his farmland over to the control of the Soviet…

camps were established.The six extermination camps were all situated in former Poland and had mass murder as their purpose. Outside Poland at least two camps existed that in many ways resembled the six extermination camps in Poland: Jungfernhof (in Latvia) and Maly Trostenets (in Byelorussia). All of the extermination camps were thoroughly organised and resembled industrial plants to an alarming degree. However, only Auschwitz-Birkenau, with its advanced gassing facilities and crematoria, was…

There is a saying stating that what must come up must come down and this is what happened to the red giant, the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union, the soviet giant that Ronald Regan referred to as the “evil empire” spanning across about a third of the world, was forged in the fires of revolution and ultimately going from the tyranny of the Czar system to the red communism that Vladimir Lenin introduced. Even with decades of the Soviet Union in a power struggle with America and capitalism, on…