... newer materials and of newer design were being erected. With the impregnable shadow transposed by the iron curtain gone, Eastern Europe was quick to open her doors, once again, to Western businessmen. The result? Massive foreign business build up in an incredibly short time. In the architectural world, this meant that business parks needed to be constructed. More hotels and new ... office towers. Soon shimmering glass buildings began to fill the skyline and the Romania that we see today began to evolve. Modern Romanian architecture has a lot of Western influence in it. It is rather inte...

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... . More than anything, it was the war which spelled the end of Tsarism. By 1917, losses numbered in the millions, and the absence of food and ammunition on the home front created discontent. The Tsar was not able take care of these issues, and was soon ousted in a famous uprising. Because of the Tsar's judgement which was clouded by naive autocracy ... signed. Under the settlement, Russia lost Riga, Lithuania, Livonia, Estonia and some of White Russia. These regions had incredible economic significance, as they were the absolute most cultivating zones in Western Russia. Germany was allowe...

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... earlier than it actually was. This made Trotsky look bad because he did not show up at his leader's funeral. It also gave Stalin the chance to appear on the front of every newspaper. This made out that Stalin was a man of the people and lived up to his beliefs. Fifthly, Stalin wanted to be the successor of Lenin. This convinced ... hung, and he had been married and divorced. He had numerous children in different places. The final reason, which helped Stalin, was that Trotsky was seen as a "God" in the Western world. This made Trotsky look like a traitor to Russia helping Stalin's campai...

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... parking, gas and car wash weekly while there are people who spend 10-15 L.E weekly on transportation. The reason for this is that I own a car which needs 35 L.E parking in front of The American University in Cairo. Honestly I find this very high for just parking your car. Lower class people do not spend such amount because they use public transportation which ... but not very deep or not to the extent that it may determine differences between Arabs and non Arabs. I mean that I could not find any difference between Arab boys and western boys in the way they spend money on food, cigarette...

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