How Russian Culture Has Changed My Life

In the 7th grade I had a crush on my history and geography teacher, Ms. Nail. She was in her early to mid twenties, slim and attractive, I thought she could be Jackie Kennedy's sister.

Food is one of their main struggles. There is nothing much left to eat in Russia during that time because the government only has a limited supply of food so they can only give out a small number of ration cards to their people. This disturbs normal daily life and happiness like bread for example. Lev narrates “The entire city was starving, no one had enough to eat, and still, everyone cursed the bread, the sawdust. flavor, how hard it got in the cold. People broke their teeth trying to chew it” (Benioff, 11). The bakeries have to make bread with cottonseed, cellulose, and sawdust as the flour and grain grew scarce. This is not right because people can’t have real food. Meanwhile, the delicious tasting, beautiful sight, and good touch of actual food bring true happiness on people face. Yet, making bread is not the only thing that people can’t enjoy.

The first disappointment she encounters is the quality of the dog foods. Hodgman expected to open packages filled with real meat, as advertisers relentlessly remind buyers of a dog’s love for real meat. The Gaines burger could neither be described as poor beef, rich beef or even beef at all. It couldn’t be fried and did not have that “real beef smell”. Ann describes it as being very malleable, “something you could make at home if you had a Play-DOH Fun Factory.” (107). The Kal Kan pedigree meals were also amiss. Ann’s words to describe these are lumpy, purple, stringy and veiny.

Eating dog food may not be seen as the easiest thing to stomach because the smell, texture and by-products found within the mixture are thought of as awful and revolting. In Ann Hodgman’s “No Wonder They Call Me a Bitch”, although the title may suggest otherwise, different types of dog food are discussed. In this essay, Hodgman aims to inform her readers about the inequality in different types of dog food, as well as to entertain and amuse. Hodgman is writing to a broad audience, one of dog lovers and owners, as well as those that may be curious as to what is really in dog food, or more generally the packaging and processing of mass-produced food of any kind. Language, description and humor are

One country is comparable to the United States of America in terms of world power and prominence. Russia makes their name known beginning in World War 2 (WW2), later in the Korean War, Cold War, and today’s proxy war in the Syria. Russia’s culture, environment, politics, military, and economy do not just make Russia a regional powerhouse, but slowly becoming a region of influential power to surrounding countries with the end state of a global superpower. All the factors that make Russia the powerhouse that it is slowly becoming, highlights the impressive trend that supersedes the previous Soviet Union and past leaders.

Arriving at a foreign country at the age of eleven years old was and exiting and yet intimidating experience. High buildings, wide roads, newer and nicer cars on the streets were some of the first things I noticed when I arrived to the city of Los Angeles CA. Living in a country where you were not born in could be difficult some times. Although Spanish is spoken at a grand scale in CA, it was difficult to communicate with and understand the teachers from my classes at the elementary level since all they spoke was English. Los Angeles is a city of great diversity, therefore it is believed to be the perfect place for any person arriving from another country to not feel like a foreign, such believe

In Ann Hodgman’s essay, “No Wonder They Call Me a Bitch,” she elaborates in grand detail her experience eating dog food. Hodgman’s purpose is to inform her readers what it is like to eat food that is intended to be consumed by dogs. She uses as much detail as possible to get her point across as to how each of the foods looked and tasted.

Pierce took her diary entries and letters and created the book: Trapped in “Black Russia” , explains the side of the war about being American in the Soviet Union during the months of June to November of 1915. Pierce explained her horrors of seeing the death in the streets, the Jewish detention camp, and seeing the Governor of Kiev send his things away before his people, in the rush to get away from the advancing German lines. Peter, who was a significant other in Pierce's life, helped her during her time of her arrest. Pierce managed to keep her humanity, feeling sympathy to all no matter their religion or race, as her time in Kiev grew longer. When on the train going away fro Kiev, Pierce did not feel relief or joy, just contemp, knowing her

A: Her favorite type of food is called Oladyi and it is a type of kefir-filled pancake made in Russian.

The book was more propaganda than reality, but it still contains a unique perspective on how everyone viewed food in the Soviet Union for the simple fact that if anyone wanted to be considered culturally enlightened their culinary ideology had to align with that of the book.20 The Book of Tasty and Healthy Food gave a narrative version of the feast everyone thought they would be experiencing when in fact they were still

The environment, family, and community I have grown up in has shaped me as a person. So far, I grew up in the same house all seventeen years of my life. My personality has grown and molded over the years of middle school and high school based off the lessons I have learned and the things I’ve been through.

A country’s national culture dictates almost everything that is done on a daily basis within that specific country. Everything from the way people eat, the way they speak and the holidays they celebrate are all dictated by these established beliefs and traditions. Culture can be described as “the characteristic way of behaving and believing, that a group of people have developed over time and share in common” (Tarique). This can be easily

Russian Avant-Garde was born at the start of the 20th century out of intellectual and cultural turmoil. Through the analysis of artworks by Aleksandr Rodchenko and El Lissitzky this essay attempts to explore the freedom experienced by artists after the Russian Revolution in 1917. This avant-garde movement was among the boldest and most advanced in Europe. It signified for many artists an end to the past academic conventions as they began to experiment with the notions of space, following the basic elements of colour, shape and line. They strove for a utopian existence for all benefited by and inspired through the art they created. They worked with, for and alongside the politics of the time. The equality for all that they sought would

When we hear the term Russian culture many Americans tend to have negative thoughts like the cold war, their government ruling with an iron hand, and the Red Scare. These thoughts do not do the justice to the Russian people or to their long history as a people dating back to INSERT DATE. One of the major themes throughout Russian history and this course is the idea that the Russian people value intangible things more than the tangible. The Russian people have a long rich heritage, they are deep in there Christian faith, and they pride themselves on hospitality and value there community, families, and fellow Russian people. They have learned how to sacrifice from the constant invasions and being forced farther and

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