A totalitarian government is a "modern autocratic government in which the state involves itself in all facets of society, including the daily life of its citizens" (Bartleby). ... Despite the differences amid totalitarian states, there are several characteristics that they have in common, the two most significant being one ideology that addresses all parts of life and one party led by a dictator. ... There is also an ideology "that addresses all aspects of life and the means to attain the final goal" (Bartleby). ... The governing party is generally concerned with what goes on in the lives...

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The lives of the Aryan Race did improve but it still boils down to the rejection of the Principles of Liberalism. ... Their rights were not given, they were not allowed to pursue their interests and their lives were taken away from them. ... But just like Hitler the rejection of the Principles of Liberalism was not justified since millions of lives were taken away. ... The famine also violated their fundamental rights.Gaining power economically and even politically, and being able to transform a nation-state were improbable feats but the lives of those who were oppressed cannot be justified. ...

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Benito Mussolini's life started in a small house with his average family with three children and an opinionated wife. ... Back at home their mother still does not like the publicity in her life and the life her family is leading; she just wanted a normal family life. ... Russian's smother the Italians; Victorio lives. ...

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Being Good foreshadows that something good will happen along the way, and that's how Georg gets to marry Cassie and live a good life. ... The mentally and physically handicapped, he considered unworthy of life, politicians and Jews were also eliminated. ... Jack is always smiling, Jack is extremely determined to hunt down the one who took the lives of his love and took away his kids. ... He trades his own life for his childrens lives. ...

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Many of us have seen how animals react when others do not respect territory, whether it be in real life or on the Discovery Channel, which is exactly how the boys react in this novel. ... Yet in that process a few were coerced to give their lives because of rivalry. ...

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One such story, "The Adventures of an Ape," makes a strong statement about Zoschenko's Soviet life. ... This could be likened to life under a Communist or Socialist regime. Life with heavy governmental authority over all aspects of life equates to life in a cage. ... This is very controversial and revolutionary to the ideals of the socialist government, thus again satirizing the system Zoschenko lives under. ... The following passage from Alesha illustrates that he is willing to adapt, to learn the ways of the ape, and make both their lives better by tolerating each other's differ...

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Martyred Village by Sarah Farmer In the book Martyred Village, the author Sarah Farmer recounts a massacre in France and it's effect on the collective memory of the French people. Martyred Village recounts a massacre, which took place in Oradour on June 10th 1944. The Ruins were preserved just as...

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Everyone displayed their loyalty to the nation, its leader and each other and put the national interest above self-interest; people saw their own lives as less important than their contribution to Germany itself. ... This meant that people often had lives based on the individual rather than on social groups with a shared interest. ... "The role of women was confined to the role of family life and mother hood."" ...

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Some of the features of industrialism were of workers who suffered through poverty, long work hours with no pay or benefits, and degradation of human life. ... From there, socialist activists fought for improvement of working conditions and sought regulations to improve the lives of these workers. ... Hitler denounces making economics the sole content of people's lives and the State's main focus. ...

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- Every man is a maker of history; in fact, some man not only left a mark on those they knew through life, but they left a lasting impression on the entire world. ... Each soldier carried his own four-day ration, but unfortunally, these rations were all consumed during the first day due to lack of discipline; therefore, out of the 500,000 troops that Napoleon brought, only 20,000 of these man managed and straggled to save their lives. ... According to Mussolini's oratory all aspects of life had to be systematically directed by the military. ...

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The nation wanted to break the youths from early framework of their lives and was thus encouraged to distance themselves from families, schools and churches. ... There was no space for anguish in the middle of the allegedly joyous sacrifice and life after death committed to redeem the Volk. ... The trivialization of battle as well as its imitation in daily life made its terrors more common and less frightening to most people. ... Additionally, the way soldiers react to Hitler's speech make it look like Germany is the best state and they would rather depart this life than have anything hap...

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The holocaust The Holocaust was a catastrophic, cataclysmic event in history that took place over 55 years ago, but why is it still so important to us today? One of the many reasons it is still widely discussed today, is because of the many rights it violated for the Jews as human beings. The ma...

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This will be explained in four ways; firstly, by introducing the idea of the theatre as the most appropriate intersection between the realms of art and life. ... Rather than 'art for art's sake', it appears that theatre is most effective when understood as an amalgamation of 'art' and 'life'. From this, McConachie ultimately makes the overarching contention that "the differences between fact and fiction [life and art] for humans can only ever be normative [relative], never absolute"8. ... Whilst the French anarchist movement often struggled to fully articula...

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He directed the movie Mephisto in 1981, a movie about the life of a German actor during Nazi's rule pre-World War II. ... The Nazis offered him a glorious artistic life and he in turn would be their public propaganda tool in the artistic world. ... From the ancient time, art had been an inseparable part of human life. ... Yet, there was nothing he could do to escape from it without putting his life and career in jeopardy. ... Faust was described as an intelligent, talented man who was unsatisfied with his life. ...

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A belief in the value of a strong and unified nation: the willing and eager sacrifice of individual goals and lives to strengthen the national purpose, with war and expansion as tests of strength and arenas for heroic sacrifice. ...

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Some leaders change the lives of people drastically and go down in history, whereas other leaders cause little change and fade into history and are forgotten forever. ... Adolf Hitler's originally goal for life was to be a successful artist. After several family problems and his rejection from art school he decided to take a different path in life. ...

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Due to the immense amount of German lives lost in World War I as well as the economic downward spiral civilians were left traumatized after the war. ... Hitler promised the people of Germany a better life in which they would be proud to call themselves German. ...

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It would be easy to accept the popular notion that only representative democratic regimes can be legitimate, after all, that is what is familiar to citizens of the modern Western world and humans, being creatures of habit, will often accept the status quo as that which is right. However, it is neces...

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Gleischaltung was the policy of turning Germany into a totalitarian state, where all aspects of life where controlled/manipulated by the Fuhrer. ... "He regarded it as a right that the worthless lives of seriously ill mental patients should be eradicated. ...

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Italy was on the winning side, but the war had cost nearly 700,000 Italian lives and over $15 billion. ... Nationhood was the highest form of society, with a life and a soul of its own, transcending the individuals who composed it. ...

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Under Fascism, the definition of the Italian nationality rested on a militarist foundation and the Fascist's "new man" ideal in which loyal Italians would rid themselves of individualism and autonomy and see themselves as a component of the Italian state and be willing to sacrifice their lives for it.6 Mussolini would emphasize if you were not a Fascist you were not a 'true Italian' and membership to the Fascist Party was necessary for people to gain 'Complete Citizenship' and those who did not swear allegiance were banned from public life and could not gain employme...

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Introduction The genesis of World War One was controversial and was shrouded on confusion. Pinpointing exactly the political origins of the war is a still discordant issue even after all these years, however no one can deny that the facts are still there. While going into the background, history, and causes for the war is not necessary for this essay, it is important to realize that the systems in place during the pre-war period were essentially political "boiling pots" and these tensions carried over through the war into post war circumstances to shape new social movements. Many new politica...

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