Václav Havel

Vaclav Havel Imagine an unfair country where you are forced to abide by laws that destroy the ability to have basic freedom. You weren't able to have a say to whether this policy was fair or unfair and if you spoke your mind, you would get prosecuted or executed. This is what it was like in Czechoslovakia from 1948-1989 living in Totalitarian Regime and Communism. But in all of that fearful and unpredictable mess, was Vaclav Havel. In the future, he would become the last president of Czechoslovakia

communist regimes could be seen throughout with countries like Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria and Romania. These regimes where severely oppressive and violated basic human rights, hence a growing opposition was beginning to form. From the mid-1970’s Vaclav Havel, a former playwright would become the most prominent Czechoslovakian “dissident” and campaigner against the abuses of the Communist Regime by actively defending the rock group Plastic People of the Universe, being one of the three public spokespeople

Vaclav Havel’s poem, “Its Is I Who Must Begin,” talks about the eternal question of humanity. The eternal question is the acknowledgment and asking of the existence of a soul within a person. Havel thinks about how this question arises in every person, and how some religious ties can hold people back from attaining an answer. In the very beginning, Havel’s character in the story is alone, knowing that they must start a journey that they are reluctant to do. The character realizes that the voyage

Vaclav Havel was the last president of Czechoslovakia and the first of the Czech Republic, after communism ended in Czechoslovakia and the country split. He began his political career as a writer and a political dissident. When he was 40 years old, Havel was thrown into prison for leading a political movement called Charter 77, which gained much popularity among Czechs, as it was signed by hundreds of people. Charter 77 was a movement that criticized the government for human rights abuse. After he

Social Problems in America      Many of Americans today do not take the time to realize that our nation is little by little falling apart. Our leaders are corrupt, our environment is being destroyed, and there are thousands of children being born each day. The three major social problems facing the American citizens in the 21st century are births to unmarried woman, being able to trust or government and or leaders, and lastly destroying the environment.      The

vote for. Lastly, destroying our environment is another social problem facing Americans in the 21st century. In "The Divine Revolution" Havel writes, "We also know that we've been destroying the environment on which our existence depends and that we are headed for disaster by producing weapons of mass destruction and allowing them to proliferate."(254). Havel sees our world as a time bomb waiting to go off. Our world's 4 nations have been producing weapons off mass destruction for years. While

in The Memorandum     How one utilizes language to perpetuate certain images or perspectives can greatly influence the way people think. One can use language to manipulate the minds of others and bring them under some form of subjugation. In Vaclav Havel's The Memorandum certain characters use this tactic of manipulation through different means that involve language, and in the process, they gain the authority or recognition they are seeking. Ballas promotes the new creation of the synthetic

Sumpretation of “The Quiver of a Shrub in California” Vaclav Havel, the author of the speech “The Quiver of a Shrub in California”, is the former prime minister of the Czech Republic. Throughout the speech, he gives examples of how his country has been ruined by people whom have been caught up in trying to succeed and have forgotten that they are not superior to all living entities. Communist rulers have deceived the people of their countries into doing jobs in which are actually hurting themselves

Communism is system of government in which the state plans and controls the economy and a single, often authoritarian party holds power, claiming to make progress toward a higher social order in which all goods are equally shared by the people. In some countries, the communist government functioned well while in other countries, the government slowly collapsed on itself. Criticism rose from the masses of the population of each country and caused the people to question if communism was the most favorable

be demanded by the oppressed.” Havel was resonating the same ideologies that King was, that to break free from oppression there must be a voice to demand freedom. Freedom cannot be granted through silence. King spoke of civil disobedience as means of combatting an unjust system, he wanted those who followed him to speak out against these injustices. And while the means of obtaining these results can become murky between violent and non-violent actions, King and Havel could probably agree that perseverance