Siberia

In today’s time, the government has its sticky hands on pretty much anything and everything. They have control over more than I believe they should. From, spying on their own citizens through phones to controlling how much taxes that should be paid on every item. They also think that they should get a certain amount of a person’s earnings even if it is through the lottery. Although I’m only 18 and don’t know much about the harsh reality called life, I feel like the government has gone…

earth. She was famous because of what she has done and of how many people she has helped. Her real name is Ganxhe Agnes Bojaxhiu but most people call her Agnes. She was born in August 26 1910. She was born and lived in Skopje, is it a small part of Siberia which is now a part of Yugoslavia. She is the third child of the Bojaxhiu family. She has 2 siblings which are her sister Aga and her brother Lazar. Agnes’ father, Kole Bojaxhiu was a wealthy merchant and a clever businessman. Her father sold…

Ronald Reagan: An Impactful President On a hot day in June, 1987, Ronald Reagan stood before a crowd of 10,000 people, Germans and Americans alike. He stood in front of the Brandenburg gate, but also in front of two panes of bulletproof glass. Behind that was the Berlin wall, designed to keep the West Germans out and the East Germans in. A panel sitting behind him was a group of diplomats and politicians, among them the West German President and the Chancellor. Although a large group sat…

The Life and Legacy of Genghis Khan Every civilization that had been found and developed, soon after they rose, would fall. But then a new one would rise not too far from there or become a whole new one out of the old rubble. Usually this was due to new settlers, an economic rise, or influences from other civilizations. Each civilization had a powerful figure, such as Alexander the Great from Macedonia or Julius Caesar in Rome. In the eastern parts of Asia, there are generals such as Cao Cao…

food and munitions. • August 18th: St. Petersburg is renamed Petrograd as 'Germanic' names are changed to sound more Russia, and hence more patriotic. • November 5th: Bolshevik members of the Duma are arrested; they are later tried and exiled to Siberia. 1915 • February 19: Great Britain and France accept Russia's claims to Istanbul and other Turkish lands. • June 5th: Strikers shot at in Kostromá; casualties. • July 9th: The Great Retreat begins, as Russian forces pull…

VIOLENCE AND THYRANY IN SOFI OKSANEN’S “PURGE” BÁNYAI BOTOND-PÉTER 11.12.2014 FINNISH LITERATURE SCANDINAVIAN STUDIES FACULTY OF HUMANITIES UNIVERSITY OF OULU Contents INTRODUCTION 3 THE PLOT(S) 3 TITLE 4 HYSTORICAL BACKGROUND 4 TORTURE AND FEAR 5 WHAT DOES BEING A SURVIVAR MEAN? 8 CONCLUSIONS 8 BIBLIOGRAPHY AND SOURCES 9 INTRODUCTION Purge is the third novel written by the famous Finnish author, Sofi Oksanen. In the beginning she had written this masterpiece as a play. It was…

The idea of trinity has been an ideological anomaly for many Christians around the world. It is not a Christian idea; Trinities of gods existed in other cultures as well, including, but not limited to, those of Siberia, Persia, Japan, Scandinavia, and Mexico. In Rome they were Jupiter, Neptune, and Pluto. In Babylonia and Assyria, they were Anos, lllinos, and Aos. Among Celtic nations they were called Kriosan, Biosena, and Siva, and in Germanic nations they were called Thor, Wodan, and Fricco.…

What is global warning? Our world faces an everlasting dangerous threat…… global warming. This is caused by the increase of the earth’s atmosphere temperature and by the moving levels of carbon dioxide. We know this because in the last 650,000 years the polar ice caps have gradually been reduced to water. The Polar ice caps melting. Other things have also been caused by this problem such as the ocean rising, heat rising, droughts, floods, storms and many more that will occur in the following…

who then was about 8 years old took action since the girls were apparently alone in the house. The older sister ran downstairs to make some holy water with salt, which she then sprinkled on her sister and in every corner of the house. When she was finished there were bruises around the little sister’s neck but the bruja was gone, having fled outside and up into a tree. It never bothered them again! Various prayers and “sound prayers” work. “Ya Baha’u’llah!” has cleansed many a home, and the…

The concept of nationalism was dealt with differently by many communist theorists and leaders during the 20th century, ranging from toleration, attempts to destroy the concept and the incorporation of nationalism into the Communist ideology. Early Communist thinkers such as Marx, Engels and Rosenberg shared similar views on the issue of nationalism in that it would become an irrelevance within a fully formed socialist state. Furthermore, Vladimir Lenin implemented these views of the Marxist…