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brother and I were adopted from Russia when we were toddlers. The reader of my essay is probably going to groan and ask themselves, “How is being adopted different?” For me being adopted is unique because I am able to embrace both my American and Russian Culture. My first memory of realizing I was “unique” was when I was in third grade. My teammates and I were watching a hockey game in Lake Placid, not in 1980 though. And all of a sudden in the small hotel room they started to yell at me,” Oooh…

the revolution the Duma and Tsar Nicholas started to lose power of the people and their own loyal soldiers and the revolution ended on the 27th with the abdication of Tsar Nicholas II. The working and living conditions were the main cause of the Russian Revolution in 1917. From research…

shortcomings in the newspaper speaks to what they choose to represent themselves as. In the article “A Powerful Russian Weapon: The Spread of False Stories” by Neil Macfarquhar, it explains the debate between whether Sweden should enter a partnership with NATO or not. However, it focuses on the fact that false stories surrounding this debate have been leaked, and it seems as if the Russians are to blame for this. The stories include saying that if Sweden agrees to this NATO partnership,…

The novel Animal Farm by George Orwell is an allegory to the Russian Revolution. There are many situations that allude to events that occurred in the revolution. One example of this is Napoleon's plan for the windmill representing Joseph Stalin's five year plans. Its representation in Animal Farm was well done, and while it was missing some aspects, it overall did a sufficient job at portraying this event in history. After Vladimir Lenin died, Joseph Stalin came to power, despite Leon Trotsky…

How the Russian Revolution and Animal Farm relate. George Orwell was born with the name of Eric Arthur Blair. He was born in Motihari, Bengal, India on June 25, 1903. His father was Richard Walmesley Blair, who was a British civil servant, and his mother was Ida Mabel Blair. She took Eric and his older sister, Marjorie, to England when Eric was just a year and a half old. Eric’s father stayed behind in India, because of this Eric and his father never had a strong bond. Blair grew up in a not…

dark during bedtime. I was asleep when I heard a very deep voice. The sound caused me to slightly open my eyes and find out where it came from. There was a large and moving, gray figure that passed me. I saw the figure as a fictional monster, in the Russian culture, called Baba Yaga. That night, it was hard for me to go back to sleep. I was deep in thought when another figure approached me. This time, it appeared to be my dad, who wanted to protect me from my “monster.” In this event, Baba Yaga…

The impact and legacy of the Mongol Empire carried both negative and positive impacts on the Russian empire. These impacts have shaped not only the history of Russian’s but even modern day Russia and its role in world history today. The Mongols ruled over Russia for over 200 years and within this time, they managed to acquire the largest land empire in history. Founded by Genghis Khan in 1206, the Mongols tactics were both ruthless and impressively successful. Seeing the Mongol empire as both…

Highlights PJSC Detsky Mir1 is a Russian company, which is engaged in the children products retail sector. The Company’s Detsky Mir chain comprises of over 570 stores located at the territory of the Russian Federation and Kazakhstan, as well as of more than 40 ELC stores. The average store size is 1.4 k sqm and has 20-30k SKUs2. Its product portfolio consists of toys, fashion products, newborns goods, stationary, large items and others. We initiate our coverage of Detsky Mir with BUY…

In Fyoder Dostoyevsky’s novel Crime and Punishment, many characters deal with internal conflict causing them to commit large and small crimes. Dostoevsky introduces a variety of characters, each of which has their own value that they contribute to the book’s theme. Each character has his or her own opinion which crimes are necessary and what deeds are evil. Some characters need to commit crimes just so they can survive in this harsh world, while others commit crimes because they think it will…

The time period between 1815 and 1914 was a time of uncertainty among the Great Powers in Europe. The center of the insecurity among the countries in Europe was the steady and fearful decline of the Ottoman empire. Due to this factor, conflicts among the Great Powers was caused by the fear of the collapse of the Ottoman Empire due to the fact that the fall of the Ottomans would unleash chaos upon Europe that has not been seen since the Napoleonic wars, and the since the establishment of the…