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    "The communism of Karl Marx would probably be actually the best for everybody as a whole. But what he didn't figure into was human nature, and that's what corrupts it." This quote sums up exactly what went wrong with the revolution on Animal Farm, as Old Major provided the animals with a picture of a utopian world where every animal was to work to his capability, and still never go hungry, and enjoy luxuries that were never even thought of with Jones on the farm. But when the revolution became a…

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    The play created by the political events that took place in Gujarat in 1974. After Chimanbhai Patel became the chief minister of Gujarat in 1973, he drew dispute from students and teachers over widespread corruption prevalent in the state. Student protests grew owing to high mess bills and poor quality of food in hostels, sparking off agitation in Ahmedabad in December 1973. The clashes between the police and students led to the formation of a students’ committee known as’ the…

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    Derek's Case Study

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    Derek is a 10 year old, third grade student, who will be entering the fourth grade next school year. Derek’s results from standardized test indicate that he has above average general intelligence and is reading on a second grade reading level. Derek is able to apply a phonetic decoding strategy when attempting to decode words. Derek writes with a cursive writing style, typical of students his age. According to recent achievement testing, Derek has a below average scores for word identification…

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    Though Leo Tolstoy and Fyodor Dostoevsky, two of Russia’s greatest authors, differ greatly, many of the themes that show up throughout their writings are strikingly similar. Perhaps the most notable of these shared themes is the concept of lust, strong sexual desire. This idea can be traced throughout many, if not all, of both authors’ works, large novels and short stories alike. Both authors seem to agree that, under many circumstances, lustful feelings and actions are terribly sinful and lead…

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    The Romanov Dynasty

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    The cause of the fall of the Romanov Dynasty has been said to have many different causes by different people like Rasputin, Tsar Nicholas II and even fate has been blamed. The aim of this investigation is to find out to what extent Tsarina Alexandra can be held responsible for the fall of the Romanov dynasty. By doing this we need to dive into her life and find out the way she acted, lived and what she did and the reasons she did them. This investigation is not to say that the fall of the…

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    AD Patient Case Study

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    Our case study of the AD patient speech shows the specific verbal behavior of the person, who suffers AD for 6 years. The specifity reflects the differencies in the lexical retrieval and selection during recitation of the poems and in the everyday conversation. The strategies to recollect the target word in the poem are based on the text features first of all; when the semantics of the line, rhythm and rhyme fail to facilitate the search for the target word, the patient switched to her real-life…

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    Internecine Wars

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    Five countries went into a room, only one came out victorious. Supposedly, impartial Britain suggested that the only way peace could be achieved was“ by balancing the relative strengths of the various attending nations and making major territorial adjustments( Encyclopedia), but Britain was wrong and in no means impartial. The only way peace would be found in Europe was if the leaders could “preserve it from two of its chronic problems: hegemonic adventures (so there would never again be a…

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    What Nijinsky did on May 1913 was very much unexpected by the audience at that time. Everyone who was watching the performance at that time was probably shocked of what was happening on that stage. After around 70 years, after the American stage revived Nijinsky’s ballet, his became acceptable and very well recognized as a master piece. The reason why at the first preformunce of Le Sacre du Printemps the audience raged was because they were not prepared for watching that. Perhaps to them…

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    The author of Catherine The Great Empress of Russia Zu Vincent it was illustrated by Xnr productions.It is a nonfiction book about Wicked History.I chose this book use it looked interesting i also chose it because it is about Wicked History.It was interesting to read how they would fight and kill for the crown.That is what i have learned about the book Catherine The Great Empress of Russia. In the beginning of the book the setting took place in Anhalt-Zerbst in center of present day…

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    The two themes that significantly link the three Russian folktales are sin and survival. The first theme is the sin because each main characters of the folktale did something bad and unrighteous. In the folktale, the Shemiaka Judgement, the poor brother tries to commit suicide and manipulate the judge to make everyone pay the poor brother in rubies. After winning the trial, the poor brother said, “Yes, it is for the judge. I would have never killed him if he hadn’t tried me to my advantage (452)…

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