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    a. Author George Orwell’s animal farm is an allegory because it propounds a symbolic society of farm animals. Certain farm animals represent specific historical characters in the rise of communism taking place at that time in history, for example, “Napoleon” as Stalin, “Snowball” as Trotsky, and “Old Major” showing as a sort of amalgam for Marx and Lenin in some parts. These characters were not created by Orwell to entertain, but to mold according to preexisting people from history, aiming to teach

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    The symbol of the sickle and the hammer within the star of David demonstrates the ideology linking Bolshevism as the radical arm of global Jewry. The Nazis asserted that Jews were ‘the enemy of the world…the collapse of humanity’ who had devised Bolshevism as an instrument to achieve

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    Ancient Gilbert Prequel

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    After a few hours and pass Germans checkpoints, arrived Gilbert's grandparents' farm, near Orléans. There emerge from our hiding place. Gilbert and his grandparents received us as the cousins who came spend the school vacation with them. Since Leah didn't wish to separate from me, Gilbert's grandmother prepared a room for the three of us and gave us to eat. Leah asked many times for mom and grandpa, tired; she fell asleep, and I did. The farm had an immense hen-house. In addition, they were geese

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    In the short novel Animal Farm the book helps a reader get a concept of the Russian revolution and the characters are all based on real people. The owner of the farm Mr Jones is supposed to represent Czar Nicholas II and Nicholas the II was removed from power in hopes of avoiding a full out civil war just like how the animals chased him away from the farm, which represents Russia. Another character that is familiar is Old Major who is the animal version of Lenin ( leader of the Bolsheviks party)

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    The problem with most of my forum posts is I spent way too much time researching the subject and reading different source that I find it interesting. While this is not a bad thing when it comes to learning, it is poor time management skills. This week I started off wanting to write about the Berlin Airlift. I researched material found a source I like. But then after an hour I decided that it did not meet the requirement of this week’s post as it relates to “mutually assured destruction”. Then I

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    “Crude, primitive, vulgar”; “muddle instead of music”; “a cacophonous and pornographic insult to the Soviet people”. Pravda, the Soviet government newspaper, made these comments after Joseph Stalin attended a 1936 performance of Dmitri Shostakovich’s opera. His second and final opera, Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, got it him into all sorts of trouble because it denounced sexism in Russia. After this intense criticism from the government and threats of arrest, Shostakovich was forced to withdraw the premiere

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    The February Revolution

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    War and World War 2. They also claimed that the United States and their allies played a role in weakening them. The Soviet Union also underestimated the extent to which the other ethnic groups would resist the communist education. Now, the hammer and sickle flag is replaced by the tricolor flag we see

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    Strategy is not easily defined and furthermore the term is not exclusively related to just the business world. We can confidently say strategy is key to survival, not only in business but also in the animal kingdom. All animals under go a process of constant change in their physical appearance and in their behaviour. These changes take place over millions of years and the species that survive, do so because throughout their evolution they have perfected certain strategies that have enabled them

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    Being born with a creativity is a grace of God, but utilizing the potential of it is the true face of mankind. It takes courage to present creativity and art has always required belief. Diego Rivera was the kind of person who had courage, belief and resources to become an Artist. Being born in Guanajuato City to a well-off family, Rivera claimed to be descended, on his mother's side, from Jews who converted to Roman Catholicism, and, on his father's side, from Spanish nobility. Rivera began drawing

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    Fall Of Communism Essay

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    v The fall of communism in Poland also inspired the fall of communism throughout Eastern Europe in 1989, in a period sometimes referred to as the “Autumn of Nations” (a play on the Springtime of Nations used to describe the 1848 revolutions). Lech Walesa stated in an interview that he and the Poles "lost many battles along the way, but [they] peacefully won the war" (qtd. in Morris). A similar, drawn-out process to defeat communism occurred in other Eastern Bloc countries around this time. Pope John

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