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denounced Stalin in order to gain power and although he argued for a form of “peaceful co-existence” between the most powerful two nation, Khrushchev instigated the Cuban Missile Crisis by putting nuclear weapons close to Florida. Khrushchev criticized Joseph Stalin in this “secret speech” in 1956 on many of his actions. He reprehended Stalin for his abuse of power and the execution of not only enemies, but also of collective party

In the year 1912 a ship named Titanic set out on her first voyage, but she never made it back. The word was that this ship was “unsinkable” but that was proven wrong when she capsized along an iceberg. The ship had many people aboard; some like Ruth Elizabeth Becker survived while others died trapped in the water. Thousands of individuals believe that the Titanic sank due to the large iceberg that it hit, but that’s not the major factor in why so many lives were lost that day. There were many contributors

Why Beethoven is considered a transitional composer When we talk about Beethoven people often recall him as one that was great. When you think of Beethoven you can consider him a transitional composer and that is mainly because he is the crucial transitional figure linking the Classical and Romantic eras of musical history. Beethoven's innovation was the ability to briskly establish imperishability in bringing together different keys and unexpected notes to join them. Beethoven's music was correspondent

The two passages of Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness and T. S. Eliot’s “The Hollow Men” contain a lot of similar and contrasting ideas. The darkness controlling thoughts and actions of the people in the Congo parallels the shadow of fear and inevitable death that hangs over the Hollow men. The Hollow men’s fallacious gods has them trapped in a death without a white light at the end of the tunnel. Kurtz's ruthlessness from his passion for materialistic things and power consumes him with hopeless

In June 1906, 46-year-old Gustav Mahler was struck with inspiration unlike any he had ever had in his life. With this inspiration, he composed his Eighth Symphony in less than two months. Dedicated to “My dear wife, Alma Maria” and known as Mahler’s “search for redemption”, this symphony was the first of Mahler’s works to be an overwhelming success. Mahler’s Eighth Symphony connected two choral pieces, Veni, Creator Spiritus (early 9th century) and Goethe’s Faust, Part II (1830-1831). These two

Freedom is wanted by all, as well as security, and due to this people are willing to work and fight to get either one. In Marvel Comic’s Civil War this battle is shown in the form of superheroes wanting their freedom from registering with the government, and the government wanting to have them registered as a way to keep the public secure following an accident in which hundreds of civilians were killed in the midst of a superhero battle. When people are lacking in either freedom or security, especially

“Ought Does Not Equate to Is” (A Comparison of Political Thought from Plato, Marcus Aurelius and Machiavelli) Many great leaders have ruled throughout history, but what made them great? Throughout the ages many very intelligent men have sought to enlighten the world on how to best govern their people. Many of these ideas were written down in great literary works, including: Plato’s “The Republic”, Marcus Aurelius “Meditations” and Machiavelli’s “The Prince”. Plato Sculpted his ideal society with

national press corps, they pressed them to implicate others in Hollywood and name names. Ten of those interviewed refused based on the unconstitutional nature of and violation of the First Amendment for this many of them were blacklisted from Hollywood. Joseph McCarthy despite his renown for anticommunism, he was not part of the HUAC. Later he held his own committees based on his secrete list of 205 plus names that were communists or communist sympathizers in the US government. Communism was not and has

“I have here in my hand a list of 205 people that were known to the Secretary of State as being members of the Communist Party and who nevertheless are still working and shaping the policy of the State Department” (Joseph McCarthy). Joseph R. Mccarthy was junior senator of Wisconsin from 1947-1957. He quickly took it upon himself to “rid” the United States of all communists that had any association with the Soviet Union in the midst of the Cold War. McCarthy accused thousands of people as being

After World War II in the 20th century, the United States and the Soviet Union were the new “Superpowers”. These two major nations had two conflicting political ideologies which were stated as Capitalism and Communism, and this had Australia right in the middle of the story. Since Australia has very strong ties with the US, making it even stronger after involving in the Vietnam War and also grew strong with the ‘SEATO’ and ‘ANZUS’ with the fear of the so called ‘domino theory’ and the foreign policies