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    The black cat and the tell tale heart both had a very similar theme but they differed in many ways the black cat dealt with alcoholism would the tell tale heart delt with a misconception that drove him to a paranoid state that made him insane. In the black cat the the narirator gets drunk and ends up geting drunk and atacts the cat when the cat trys to fight back the the narirator grabes him by the trouat and cuts his eye out this show that achouhall can make you do terrible things and in the…

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    The concept of the hero’s journey was developed by Joseph Campbell. The journey is made up of a series of stages the hero has to endure and complete. Ender’s Game, a science fiction novel by Scott Orson Card, is about an alien species called the buggers attacking Earth twice and almost destroying the human species. To make certain that the incident would never happen again the world government has started to breed military geniuses and train them in the arts of war. The early training takes the…

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    Many times in the past history has repeated itself, and it will always repeat itself. In the 1950’s the Senator of Wisconsin, Joseph McCarthy began trials and investigations to expose communists in Hollywood. All hearings were a result of false accusations, just like in The Crucible when people who had no connection with witches or any association with witchcraft were being falsely accused of preforming it. The book and the history from the 1950’s have many parallels, John Proctor can be seen as…

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    Legions, myths, and fairy tales are all big parts of a places religion and culture. How are these a big part in Greek culture though. Legends are based on history but is embellished. Myths are are stories based on religion can include supernatural being and gods and demigods. Fairy tales are stories based on history and includes blatant mistruths but there are some truths. Legions entail history of their history nothing is false. Talls entail history but with a little bit of untruths. Finally…

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    land on the African continent. Conrad experienced both the rise and the fall of New Imperialism, and from it he drew inspiration and was able to create one of his more prolific pieces: “Heart of Darkness”. Published at the turn of the 20th Century, Joseph Conrad’s “Heart of Darkness” explores a British Sailor’s recount of his time spent in the Belgian Congo, and the horrors that he witnessed within. Additionally, Conrad has used this piece to express and…

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    Russian Secret Police From 1954 to its downfall in 1991, the Russian Police, or KGB was both an intelligence agency and a primary source security agency. Working for the Soviet Union it was later named the "secret police." George Orwell used the facts and force of this agency to tie it into a book he wrote known as ,Animal Farm, In this book Orwell portrays many people and events that happened in history around this time and put it into the perspective of animals. Using the KGB as a force of…

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    Kurtz Imperialism

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    Imperialism’s Imbalance of Id Insanity is a byproduct of imperialism. In Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, Kurtz is a high ranking employee of the Company, an imperialist Dutch organization exploiting the Congo for ivory. After gaining his position, Kurtz rapidly becomes consumed by greed, establishes himself as a veritable god among men, and leads natives in raids against other villages to steal their ivory. Kurtz is overwhelmingly dominated by his id, and his downfall stems from the imbalance…

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    1942, December 18, Moscow, Russia. The Soviet Union is at a critical point in the war, creating stress on its political leaders, to relieve the pressure Stalin issued a custom where citizens could invite them for an evening dinner. Numerous citizens fear the leaders of Russia, my parents too fear their leaders, and thanks to me they get to meet Stalin himself. That’s right even I; an eleven-year-old boy could invite a leader to dinner. Political pioneers hardly ever got invited, the fear of…

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    particular leader was one of the worst people in history. Well if you have then you might know the name Joseph Stalin. Joseph was born in Gori Georgia, December 21st 1879. His first leadership role was the Commissioner of Nationalities. He later makes a speech to grant freedom to the Russian people, and then got promoted to General Secretary of General Secretaries. Lenin tries to remove Joseph Stalin from power, because he believe that he is too power hungry, a year and three weeks later…

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    In the context of the years 1855 to 1964, to what extent was Stalin Russia’s most successful ruler? In the period 1855 to 1964 Russia had 7 different leaders. Of these 7 leaders 3 were members of the Romanov dynasty (1855-1917): Alexander II, Alexander III and Nicholas II. For a brief period after the collapse of the Tsarist rule, Russia was led by a provisional government headed by Prime ministers. The provisional government only ruled for a short period of time and from October 1917 till 1964…

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