Lithuania

What makes a bad leader? What makes a good leader? Is it really that black and white? There have been countless world leaders throughout history. Not all of these leaders have been great, and not all have been horrible, but no one remembers the mediocre leaders. Leaders are remembered for being really good at what they do or really bad. Sometimes a leader’s personality is remembered as much as their resume. Some leaders can be argued “good” or “bad”. Some leaders, everyone can agree are or were,…

socialist state, ended after 74 years, marked by the resignation of President Mikhail Gorbachev. By December 31, the USSR was formally disassembled into 13 independent republics: Armenia , Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Lithuania, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan Turkmenistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan. Estonia and Latvia previously gained their independence in August 1991. Some historians argued that this radical change and end to the Cold War marked the ‘end of history’ as…

The Jungle by author Upton Sinclair is a story about Jurgis Rudkus and his family who immigrated to America from Lithuania. Jurgis, his wife Ona and their relatives end up getting conned into buying a house with all of their savings near the stockyards and meat packing district in Chicago. Jurgis winds up working in the slaughterhouse where conditions are harsh and unsafe and the pay is low. All of the relatives including the women and the children have to go out and have to seek work to make…

significant roles. The main character is Jurgis Rudkus he is a Lithuanian immigrant. His wife is Ona Lukoszaite who is also from Lithuania. Their one child named Antanas but he died which I believed caused one of the major crossroads in Jurgis’s…

When one researches the Holocaust, they are often overwhelmed by the sheer magnitude of this tragedy. Numbers in the millions and low survival percentages show people just how devastating this time period was to the Jewish community. What the numbers do not show, however, is exactly how devastating the Holocaust was to each individual person. The way the lives of innocent people were forever altered is something that is hard to draw from a statistic. The victims of the Holocaust and their…

Telesforas Valius was the youngest of his family, born July 10, 1914 in Riga, Latvia. Being born in a Lithuanian family, the family returned to Lithuania in 1918. Telesforas entered the Kaunas Art School after being encouraged by his art teacher in grade school. Telesforas studied woodcuts in Japanese when he took his brief visit to Paris. Telesforas worked in art his whole life after school, beginning with his part time job as an artist at Kaunas Textile Company. Later in 1942 he became a…

States. This book led to the result of two major legislations being passed. The Jungle not only affected the United States domestically but also internationally. In The Jungle, Upton Sinclair wrote from the viewpoint of a teenage immigrant from Lithuania. Sinclair showed the extreme measures of how meat would be supplied to consumers no matter how old it was due to the fear of losing any amount of profit. Many times, the meat would be sitting on dirty floors and wouldn’t be cleaned. Many workers…

throughout the story sacrificed themselves and everything they had for their family. One character we will be talking about today is Jurgis Rudkus. Remember, it's time at last to speak the truth about poverty. Jurgis Rudkus is a young man from Lithuania. Jurgis fled to America after he found the girl of his life Ona. Jurgis and Ona fell in love immediately, the first time they saw another. After both decided to get married, they knew exactly what they wanted and that was to live the American…

Physicians’ knowledge of evidence-based safety practices was inconsistent, while Positive attitudes about patient safety were revealed by responses (14). Also in Attitudes related to patient safety issues are positive among health care professionals in Lithuania (15). Among Medical and paramedical students in Iran (2015), they were familiar with medical errors as an unavoidable barrier between ‘best care’ and what is actually provided. However, there was little knowledge about the…

The plan was to increasingly industrialize the Soviet Union in an unrealistically short period of time, using grain exports to pay for Western machinery. The major feature of the Five-Year plan was collectivization. Collectivization is the socialization of agriculture, ending private ownership of agricultural production. This meant that the class of private ownership, the Kulaks, no longer existed within the Soviet Union and would be liquidated as a class. In theory, collectivization would lead…