My life there was happy, and I have many nice memories. ... People tried to use all their knowledge and skills, acquired during the years of life, to get at least some work. This situation was a shock for the people who lived most of their lives in this mode and for people of advanced years. ... I have often thought about my dream, which I was not able to bring to life in my country. ... I realized that the main thing in life is not to fear anything. ...

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(p.20) What the guests didn't know was that when they registered, they were really signing their lives away. ... " We"re being deprived of the pleasures of life." ... It's amazing how the Sanitation Department could come into this town and completely take over everything including the people's lives. ... Millions of lives were taken because they were Jewish. This novel is an example of how one persons life can be stripped of all they have and turned over to into the hands of a killer....

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Not living the life of an addicted druggie though, but rather counseling others on how to clean up their acts and get on with their lives. ... lice would have made a really good life for herself. ... But other things occurred during this troublesome decade that would have affected and even re-molded many lives, including Alice. ... All of these events would have had a large impact on the life of Alice of "Go Ask Alice". ... A stable road to a stable life....

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By the end of it, tens of thousands of soldiers were dead, and almost one million civilians lost their lives in the conflict. ... It was the winter of 1979, Afghanistan was engulfed by a civil war because the Prime Minister, Hafizullah Amin, wanted to lead the country away from its traditional Muslim way of life and set up a more western, modernized country. ... His job, and his life depended on the fact that he had to keep Soviet Ideals in place, and that he allow the Russian military to support him and his government. ... Because they lived in Afghanistan their entire lives, they had a much...

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But as television has saturated our lives, has it always resulted toward our betterment or has it possibly led to the deprivation of American society? ... Now, students fear for their lives as our schools have turned into war zones, with school shootings becoming a national problem. ... Children have become desensitized concerning the value of human life by the many murders and violence viewed on the screen. ... This has led to children even acting out the violent scenes they have viewed on television in their own lives. ... Life is viewed by the interaction of family and friends, and no...

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One of these writings was "Stalin and State Terror"; written by Nadezhda Mandelstam a man who lived through the many years of the frightening daily life that Russia lived though during the beginning of the 20th century. ... This document shows how the people of Russia during Stalin's rule were scared into living the "perfect life" that Stalin believed they should. ... During a time where 15,000,000 people lost their lives for a crazy man who had an overwhelming untreated case of paranoia. ...

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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 characters have similar personalities as their real-life counterparts. ... His symbolism illustrates what life was like during the Russian Revolution. ... Stalin and Napoleon let religion into the lives of the animals and people for motivation and support. ... George Orwell expresses life of the Russian Revolution through his characters. ... Each character is very similar to its real-life counterpart. ...

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After this Sophie can no longer gain access to the DDR and though she is pregnant with Konrad's child tells him by letter that they must live their own lives. ... The Stasi and authority in general play a huge part throughout the film in terms of Konrad and Sophie's relationship and lives. ... For me it is always interesting to tell a story from the life of persons, then looking from the individual to the history." ... In conclusion the film is ultimately about two people living in painful isolation after being separated from the love of their lives due to the politics of the times....

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He had the power to control every aspect of life in the Soviet Union, and he took advantage of it. He obviously did not care for the lives of his people, because of his removal and collectivization policies. ...

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This War would last for six years, evolve more than two hundred countries, cost fifty million lives and have an effect on almost three quarters of the world's population. ... A very important argument in the book says how the Germans were, "At the time the overall undisputed bosses over life and death in Jedwabne and they were the only ones who could decide the fate of the Jews" (Neighbors, pg. 47). ...

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In "The Heart of a Dog" though, Sharik has a complicated conscious with ideas he has developed throughout his life as a stray. ... Even as just a dog, he understands not only his own life, but also human life. ... This continually shows up in Sharikov's life as a human. ... Even if every Soviet citizen lives how the Soviet man should, there will be individual instincts that will stay with each person. ...

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In "The Heart of a Dog" though, Sharik has a complicated conscious with ideas he has developed throughout his life as a stray. ... Even as just a dog, he understands not only his own life, but also human life. ... This continually shows up in Sharikov's life as a human. ... Even if every Soviet citizen lives how the Soviet man should, there will be individual instincts that will stay with each person. ...

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Public surveys taken in the 1970's, throughout the 80's indicated that most of the Russian citizenry had a favorable view of their life during the regime after Khrushchev, namely the Brezhnev era (1964-1982). ... Brezhnev even made some aspects of Russian life better than the way they were during either Stalin's or Khrushchev's reign. ... The KGB did not create "terror" in Russian lives. ... Brezhnev wanted once again to make the KGB a major part of Russian life, in which he succeeded in doing. ...

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Stalin also had a poster that said "Every day life is getting better. Stalin tried to make people think that the lives of the Russians were getting better every day even though they were not ("Propaganda Posters "). ... Joseph Stalin used propaganda to boost himself into power, as did Napoleon Similarly, Napoleon uses propaganda in Animal Farm to manipulate and control the lives of the animals. ...

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Most do the lives of the working class, but some do not. ... The life that was created by Lenin for the citizens of Russia were horrible as he promised. ... While Stalin was in power, citizen life was being harshly affected. Life was very hard for industrial workers. ... Overall, life did not improve for the working class under the Communist party until the party had fallen. ...

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This is where a government exercises absolute and centralized control over all aspects of life. ... Some citizens believe that he was too powerful with his policies to make the Soviet Union the largest world power and that he sacrificed and wasted too many lives in order to build a stronger economy. ...

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For 28 years of its existing, the situation occurring in the two sides of Berlin Wall provided an example of life under socialism and capitalism; the same population, the same ethnicity living under the umbrellas of two different political systems. Furthermore, for those who wanted to understand it, Berlin and its wall showed to the world the comparison and contrast in all fields of lives under the capitalistic system and that of socialism. ...

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Equal in work wages, home life. ... In Santa Mira, the town in which the movie took place, people would suddenly start ranting about someone they have known for their whole lives not really being themselves. ...

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The monstrosities of the camps forced them to reevaluate their lives, and more importantly what they would have to do to survive. Sturdy shoes, food, clothing, blankets, and safety were now the most essential components of life for the Jews. ... Life, security, 3 square meals a day, and shelter are all things we grew up with and never considered for a moment. Imagine life without knowing that you would wake up to see the next sunrise and with a modest ration of bread and soup to keep you barely alive until the next work day. ...

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Snowball was not only sympathetic to the needs of the animals to improve their lives, but he also understood the strategies of war. ... In 1922, the last stroke took his life. ... Like Trotsky, Snowball is a smart, young speaker who dreams of making life better for all animals. Furthermore, Trotsky truly believed in the communist movement, even after Lenin's death, he continued Lenin's legacy with Stalin to make life better for the people. ...

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Gandhi's principles of non-violence, if applied to the lives of more people would create a peaceful, more equal and safe society for everyone. ... Non-violence is the key to better society and making life more enjoyable. ... In turn non-violence would become way of life, "If we remain non-violent, hatred will die everything does, from disuse, I-263" (pg. 45), and society as we know it would become a utopia....

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Globalization improves the quality of life for citizens living in poverty-stricken regions of the world. ... By the simple expansion of a multimillion-dollar corporation, democracy can be instituted in countries operated by fascist dictators or iniquitous tyrants; instead of facing oppression, citizens' lives are dramatically improved by gaining the right to choose. ... Gone are the days that governments have the ability to isolate their people from the rest of the world and misinform them concerning life beyond their domestic borders. ...

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Adolf's mother, Klara, was his only living relative willing to support, and when she died in 1909, Adolf was forced to move to Vienna in search of a better way of life. ... People who were once happy with the unification with Austria were now scared that war was about to be a part of their lives for a second time. ...

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The Korean War ended on July 27, 1953, leaving a gruesome result: 5 million soldiers and civilians lost their lives during the war. ... While Nixon was a prominent and extremely active politician through his life, Kennedy was a fresh and young Senator who has been dormant with his activities for his entire serve as a Senate....

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