One of the most interesting escapes came from two families who worked on a hot air balloon in their basement. ... There was noting that the Soviet Union could do to stop these people from moving to the west, and being in the state that the east was in, they needed these educated people badly to help re-build the country after the destruction of World War II. ... During the Cold War, the western countries used Berlin as a spy center to spy on the eastern block. ... This "spy war- was called the Silent War. ... Families finally reunited as the wall was taken down and the Berlin Wall came ...

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The weather was neither blazing hot or frightening cold. ... The sand was cold, but so thin that it would immediately slip out of your fingers, like the water falling from a waterfall. ... One of the guys kept a note of what the guy looked like and details of the car. ... In a matter of minutes police came rushing down to the beach. ... It was the first day that the police were spying on the mother. ...

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The whirling clouds show the confusion and disparity in his life, and the inability to tell whether the snow came from the sky or the ground shows his lack of direction in life. ... It is interesting to note how the various people who know Nasar give their account of the weather. ... The soot and rats are dirty things, and represent the "dirty" things that happen there - spying the happenings in the honeymoon cabin. ... Angela Vicario notes the bishop as "a man who cut off only the combs for the soup and threw the rest of the rooster into the garbage." ... In "He understood," the peasant P...

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Stalin was known as a very cold young man which many people feel was due to his childhood. ... Despite the efforts of the Seminary's administrators, Stalin and his classmates read many anti-establishment literature ranging from the romantic novels of Victor Hugo to the works of Charles Jean Marie Letourneau who was a Frenchman who attempted to analyze all of the world's history through the lens of his own radical political ideas. ... After Stalin began making his first speeches he took the name of Koba who was a famous Georgian bandit from books he read as a child. ... Before a se...

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Chapter Summaries with Notes Act One Scene 1: The Coin Spin Summary Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are two well-dressed Elizabethan men in the middle of a coin-spinning game. ... They don't know where to go now; Rosencrantz doesn't even remember where he came from. ... He tries to interest Rosencrantz, who is far too innocent to understand what is going on. ... Finally the Player stomps on the coin to prevent the bets from continuing. ... Then, with a shudder, he lets her go, backing away from her, out of sight. ...

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(Siberian exile, in Tsarist Russia, was notoriously easy to escape from.) ... At this point, Stalin began his rise to dominance by destroying his rival Trotsky, expelling him from the party in 1927 and exiling him from the Soviet Union in 1929. ... The Cold War had begun. ... Then, in August of 1936, Stalin engineered the first of what came to be known as the Show Trials, in which he accused Zinoviev, Kamenev and their associates of conspiring (with the exiled Trotsky) against Stalin and the government. ... (It is important to note that Stalin stood directly behind these trials--he delegat...

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In the sixties the "Cold War" was heating up. Before President Kennedy came into office, a U-2 plane was shot down in the Soviet Union while spying on the Soviet Union, thus cutting all Diplomatic ties between the Soviet Union and the United States. ... S. spy planes flying over Cuba photographed Soviet managed construction sites and spotted the first missile on October 14. ... The following day, before the United States could respond to the first note a second note was sent by Khrushchev to try and negotiate terms. ... Sadly his life came to an end by a bullet from his assign, James Earl Ray,...

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Chicago's lure beckoned dreamers from far and wide, mostly people like Carrie who wanted to escape the misery of the lives they had ever known, to pursue a more glamorous one that Chicago represented and had to offer. ... To add to her disappointments, she came to find out that Minnie and Hanson live on a meager income and practice frugality. ... To this and many other effects, Minnie and Hanson came to disapprove of Carrie's whimsical ways. ... Also worth noting in Sister Carrie is the fact that the women in Carrie's world have social standing only when the men want them to. ...

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She was the daughter of a bank manager who did not like Dickens's poverty. She herself also seems to have treated him rather coldly. ... His six-month trip bore literary fruit: the controversial and unflattering American Notes (1842) and the slyly devastating American episode in Martin Chuzzlewit (1843-44). ... She is a very tense and unforgiving woman who seeks revenge on the Evermonde family. ... One who never forgot the love of Lucie, was Sydney Carton, who starts off as a frustrated, immature alcoholic, but in the end, he made the ultimate sacrifice for a good friend. ...

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Near the place there are a few stairs, and the locals says that people who went down on them, came back after a few weeks, although they thought that they were missing just for a few seconds. From one of the trees, inside the cemetery, used to be hanged witches who were caught doing rituals of calling the Satan. ... Dozens of scientists came over the last 25 years in the town to find out the truth about "The Gateway to Hell-. "It is truth, there were registered a series of strange phenomenon's, like vanishing of things, seeing of some ghostly shapes, cold winds only over the cemetery. .....

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Chapter One: No Name Woman Summary Kingston learns from her mother that she once had an aunt who killed herself and her newborn baby by jumping into the family well in China. ... Kingston also notes that the baby was probably a girl, and as such would already have been considered practically useless to society "a theme that reappears throughout The Woman Warrior. ... In times of plenty, notes Kingston, adultery might have been "only a mistake"; when the villagers needed everyone to work together to provide food, however, it became a crime. ... (Note that for Kingston's moth...

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Later, he turns out to be the informer from the Party who turns Winston in and punishes him. ... He is extremely proud of his children who spy on others and report them to the Police. ... From the moment of their capture, their fate is doomed. ... Winston is shown to be leading a lonely life in what used to be known as London before the Party came to power following a revolution. ... The novel ends on a sad and cynical note. ...

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They all came to Packingtown, Chicago to share in the American dream of freedom and prosperity, but all they found were exploitation. ... Every week the managers of the trust got together and compared notes, and there was one scale for all the workers in the yards and one standard of efficiency. ... They came by the thousands every single morning, fighting with each other for a chance for life. Blizzards and cold made no difference to them, they were always on hand. ... Man to man is very unjust, who can you trust. ...

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Remove Man from the scene, and the root cause of hunger and overwork is abolished forever. ... All the animals consider him a spy and hate him; they say he tells lies about Sugarcandy Mountain and does no work. ... Mollie is the only animal who doesn't seem to fit in. ... This symbolizes the outcry of America and other Western nations during the beginning stages of the cold war. ... The pigs decide to prop the gun up, pointing it toward the gate from which Mr. ...

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In the 1st 50 years of the 20th Century, it came to pass that revolutionary turmoil in the name of social progress brought humanity to the gates of destruction. ... Eric also has a sister, Marjorie, who was five years older then Eric. In 1907 the family, minus Eric's father who stayed in India until he retired in 1912, moved back to England. ... ("Orwell- 1) He lived and worked in the civil service there from 1922 through 1927, and he began to work on his writing style. ... This short novel was rejected twice, mainly on the grounds that it was only 35,000 words and used only a mo...

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Among the 34 states in January 1861, seven Southern slave states individually declared their secession from the United States and formed the Confederate States of America. ... From the anti-slavery perspective, the issue was primarily about whether the system of slavery was an anachronistic evil that was incompatible with Republicanism in the United States. ... Northerners rejected that notion as opposed to the will of the Founding Fathers who said they were setting up a perpetual union. ... They took control of federal forts and other properties within their boundaries with little resistance...

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