... do they reflect the cultures (Hollywood, Revolutionary Soviet Union) from which they come? During the early days of film, few filmmakers stood out more for their unique styles and views of editing in film than D.W. Griffith, Sergi Eisenstein, and Dziga Vertov. These men were well ahead of their time. Each was a storyteller with an exclusive view on how a story should be told, and each ... , Griffith utilizes cross cutting near the final scene. As the town becomes riotous and Stoneman and his daughter are under siege, Griffith repeatedly flashes from the town to the gathering of the clan....

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... Europe was in fact a defensive move on his part. A very ugly relationship was forming out the old relationship between these two super-powers. In march of 1947 president Harry Truman produced the Truman Doctrine. This can be labeled as the "official"start of containment. The Truman Doctrine was concerning the communist insurgent movements in Greece. Since Great Britain had lost the ... didn't effect the U.S. effort of containment seeing as how most of these truths were not dug up until after the fall of the Soviet Union. A big initiative of containment happened in 1947. The National Secu...

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... enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals. He sets them to work, he gives back to them the bare minimum that will prevent them from starving, and the rest he keeps for himself."(7) and "All men are enemies. All animals are comrades." (9). From Old Major's speech, he ignited the spark of revolution. This was the psychological basis - the first ... instance of talk about rebellion. Similarly, this foundation also occurred in Russian Revolution. As mentioned with the allegory ... just hung over from drinking the night before. The main ironic theme, which takes place throu...

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... his guerrilla warriors overthrew the old government dictated by Batista. During the next couple of weeks, Castro established a new government and on February 16, he was officially declared premier (Finkelstein, Norman H. 127). The United States accepted this new regime as a relief from the harsh, corrupt, and unpopular government of Batista. Soon after everything settled down, Castro and his men made a rapid move to change ... in Latin American countries with officers who had served in Fulgencio Batista's army. These officers were said to be 'thugs? who had been part of the former dicta...

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... capitalist countries" and the only way to do it was "socialism in one country to ensure global domination, "Stalin said. At the completion of two of the five year plans the USSR was turned into a modern state, able to resist Hitler's invasion. There was genuine communist enthusiasm among the ... young "pioneers" or soviets. There were huge achievements in the building of new cities, built wholly around industry, bringing new life to previously derelict areas. Dams and hydroelectric power plants were built all around the ... people. It seemed as though Stalin placed no importance on the...

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... defend himself, and his father was much too old to fight off dysentery. While the Jews were of no military standing, many of the prisoners of Auschwitz had been captured as prisoners of war. The lower ranking soldiers were thrown into the mud with the rest of the Jews, while the higher ranking officers were ... young boys who were molested were kept well fed, as well as the younger, more attractive women of the camp. Considering the fact that the German soldiers were usually surrounded by men, anyone who could satisfy their sexual urges were made sure not to die. In the illustrated boo...

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... Mexico would receive him or someone else as permanent minister. Instead Polk made Slidell permanent minister and instructed him to open negotiations for the sale of California. Mexicans thought that if they made Slidell a permanent minister, they would never be paid for Texas. Polk had backed up Slidell ... . The United States dominated Mexico throughout the entire war. The war lasted almost 2 years. Although the U.S. gained about 1.2 million square miles of land as well as having the Wilmot Proviso outlaw slavery other than where it already was, nearly 13,000 Americans lost their lives ...

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... seemed as if all of them guessed their fate, but not one of them uttered a single sound. At this moment eleven men entered the room: Yurovsky (an Old Bolshevik), his assistant, two members of the Extraordinary Commission.The execution had taken place, all the members of the Tsar's family ... were lying on the floor with many wounds in their bodies. The blood was running in streams...An entire family was killed due to opposing political views. But was it worth it to finish with the rule of ... , 1917, making his brother, Grand Duke Mikhail, the new Tsar. The grand duke wisely declined the...

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... and when to take it easy, defining his acute character. The meaning in life through the eyes of Ivan Denisovich was to live a life of integrity and honesty, utilizing an optimistic attitude in all situations, while maintaining his upholding status. Ivan Denisovich is an old-timer in the prison camp and although he does odd jobs here and there to earn food or ... own actions. He exemplifies these honorable morals in his actions throughout the entire day, which consisted of pitiful meals and harsh working conditions. He demonstrated his strict morality while eating dinner in the mess hall...

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... and Hannah Milhous prohibited him and his four brothers from dancing and drinking alcohol. "His mother's religious views and emotional restraint countered with of his father's combative and volatile nature: as an adult Nixon exhibited both characteristics" (Garraty 458). Richard Nixon and his wife Thelma " ... he ran for Senate. It was here that he was given the name Tricky Dick. In 1952, Dwight D. Eisenhower chose thirty nine year old Richard Nixon to be his Vice President. During his time as Vice President he managed important foreign and domestic issues. "Nixon's successes ... the...

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... elections for a Chechen president, which are scheduled for October 5. A big event which recently happened was the arrest and jailing of one of Russia's wealthiest men Mikhail Khodorkovsky, head of oil giant Yukos. Special Forces at a Siberian airport seized Khodorkovsky on October 25, 2003 sent him to Moscow and charged him ... For the past 1,000 years the Orthodox Church has been the dominant faith of the Russian people. There are other Christian denominations as well, though none as large as the Orthodox. These include the Old Believers, which was a movement that stemmed from Orthodoxy ...

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... for his first book, Down and Out in London and Paris, when he moved to England and France in 1930. He bought some old clothes and set off to discover the roots of poverty among the city's vast number of unemployed, and soon gathered enough information for his novel. For a later book, he reminisced on his awful days at the Saint Cyprian's School ... effect, a mixture of fantasy and harshness, of mysterious dangers happily overcome by some characters and terrible punishments falling on the heads of others. The subject animals exist in a comic world, their goodness and simplicity magically...

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... long time, Short term causes which develop shortly before an event and immediate causes or triggers that act as a spark to start things happening. 84% of the Russian population lived as peasants. They were by far the largest group in the country but they were also the poorest. These peasants were also very ... was land as there was simply not enough to go around. Many peasants were given loans by the government to buy some land off of previous employers. However the size of land that they received was often insufficient to survive on. Also the loan that was given to them had to be paid o...

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... US government to conduct a recruitment exercise. With such a high demand for servicemen, the US government had to siphon them from the members of the community to make up civil soldiers. The inductee had to be trained to be army men and women, which included construed civil freedom they enjoyed before joining the armed forces. After the training sessions, they were incorporated into ... the battalions ready to be deployed. The men registration for the draft were those within the age bracket of 18-64. This attracted more than 35 million men. There were over 6000 boards that ... would as...

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... , attempted to reduce it. The Russian's also used humour to cope with the reality of a socialist existence. The following is an example of typical (black) Russian humour: Two men joined a queue in front of a bakery after a hard days work. After waiting several hours one man declares to the other, "I'm sick of this! I'm going to go and shoot the President."" He storms off, yelling and ... grew as the new policy of openness allowed the failure of his policies to become apparent. Gorbachev's economic reforms were not successful. In fact the situation worsened. By the late 1980s industrial ...

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... , heavy guns and automatic weapons for Russia. Stalingrad is located in the south-western region of Russia, between Ukraine and Kazakstan. The battle of Stalingrad began on the 23rd of August 1942, and lasted until surrounded German forces surrendered on the 2nd of February 1943. The battle involved over 2 million men, over 2,000 tanks, 2,000 aircraft, and more than 26,000 guns and mortars. On ... 14th the railway station was captured and more Axis troops reached the Volga. German General Friedrich Paulus had concentrated 300,000 men to the west of Stalingrad, and his north-west flanks h...

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... led by Vladimir Lenin, overthrew the existing Russian government. The socialist Bolshevik regime believed in all men being equal, although democracy certainly wasn't part of their intentions. The western powers looked on with horror at the Bolshevik Revolution. Winston Churchill, British secretary of state for war wrote that, "civilisation is being completely extinguished over gigantic areas, while Bolsheviks hop ... the Russians backed down and opened up the route to the city." (Shlaim, University of California Press, 1984) German unity was now impossible. "Stalin, through his speeches,...

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... move west, northwest, up the coast and meet with the troops at Playa Larga in the middle of the bay. A small group of men were then to be sent north to the town of Jaguey Grande to secure it as well. When looking at a modern map of Cuba it is obvious that the troops would have problems in the area that was chosen for them ... as prisoners in Cuban cells. Others were to live out twenty years or more in those cells as men plotting to topple the government of Castro. The 1500 men of the invading force never had a chance for success from almost the first days in the planning stage of the op...

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... Labor Party. It wasn't that easy at all though. There were a lot of things that happened during the revolution. The revollution grew out of a wave of food strikes in Petrograd (Saint Petersburg) during February. On February 23 meetings and demonstrations occured asking the government for the right for bread. 90,000 men and women were on strike in the national capitol. The police tried ... to put an end to it but the people would not give up. Tension increased but there were no casualties yet. Excitement grew the following day until it involved about half of the workers of Petrograd. The...

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... its own national election in order to create a new, independent government. Yugoslavia was given its own government as well, which consisted of mostly old members under a new system. In both cases, Nazi and Fascist leaders were specifically prohibited. Secondly, the Yalta Conference agreed to divide Germany into ... zones controlled by each of the three nations present. With the immense size of Stalin's army, Russia would take Berlin and control the eastern half of Germany upon ... Nations. He also felt that Russia needed to be appeased in order to gain their support in the war against ...

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... and scaring people into following them. One prime example is Joseph Stalin. Stalin used any means necessary, including death, to achieve his goals of becoming a leader. Joseph Stalin considered himself God, and believed that all the people were inferior to him, just as God himself is reflected ... cried on the streets, and the whole country was in mourning. Such is a power of a charismatic, cunning man. Stalin, though unimpressive physically and a man of unpredictable temper, had projected an air of stability. He was surrounded by men far more brilliant them him, yet he was still able to...

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... Moscow and Smolensk and they began their attack with a massive artillery bombardment which caught the Russians by surprise and within the first 48 hours of the campaign the Luftwaffe had destroyed 2000 Russian aircraft, handing air superiority over to the Germans. Three Army Groups were put in place. ... the central infantry to continue their push for Moscow with the addition of the 2nd Panzer army. This, their final advance for the campaigning season, was codenamed Operation Typhoon. Although victory seemed so close the strain on men and vehicles was beginning to tell. Supplies were scar...

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... began to worry Iran would ask for help from the Soviet Union in case the situation against the United Kingdom got too serious. Regardless of this, President Truman refused to get involved, as much as the British and the Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, pleaded. President Truman refused to ... Stalin could possibly invade Iran. The Eisenhower government saw the Iranian government as too heavily influenced by the Soviets, and acknowledged the spread of communism even more possible in the near future. During this time, communism was the greatest known threat to America, and this definite...

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... in the world--the former Soviet Union. My life there was happy, and I have many nice memories. One special day was when was I was three years old, and my parents gave me a gift that I will never forget; a large, grey teddy bear which made a low bear-like growling sound. That bear meant ... to hold my interest. My entire family was busy and productive. We had a vegetable garden and raised chickens and rabbits. We ate healthy from the fruit of our labor; eating homegrown vegetables and meat. My parents instilled in me a love for all living things, and I am grateful to them for that. At .....

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... that Churchill too is like Hitler in that he is striving for a fully valuable nation through his racial theory. His ideas of a superior race might lead to devastating numbers of people loosing their lives as the many did during the German invasion. Harry S. Truman (1884- 1972) succeeded President Franklin ... like Stalin and Churchill was a prominent character during the Cold War. In 1947 the Truman Doctrine was enunciated and it characterized the U.S. perception of a world divided between free and enslaved peoples. The doctrine was partly developed in response to crises in Greece and Tur...

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