An amusing story‚ The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is ahead of its times being about young boy and a runaway slave. By the start up of the story a young mischievous boy named Huckleberry Finn makes plan to escape his Pap’s visit. Cunningly enough‚ Huckleberry escapes his Pap’s clutches and makes a straight shot to Jackson’s island where Jim‚ his slave friend‚ also is. Down the road aways the wanted posters spread‚ a $400 reward for Jim for the murder of Huckleberry Finn. Even though Huck is “dead”
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plan. Romeo does not get the message and thinks Juliet really is dead. When he arrives and finds her in a tomb‚ he commits suicide. Eventually Juliet wakes up and finds Romeo lying beside her‚ dead. She stabs herself. The families then arrive‚ see what has happened‚ and agree to stop fighting. There are three main themes in the play; one of them being love. When Romeo first meets Juliet at the Capulet party‚ he instantly falls in love with her and says: ‘Did my heart love till now? Forswear it
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Comp. of 1850: The significance of this compromise was that it‚ like a number of other actions‚ was an attempt to refuse the tensions that were leading to the Civil War. It is also significant to write that the Compromise failed to do this to any great extent. The Compromise of 1850 was meant to be like the Missouri Compromise. It was meant to calm sectional tensions. However‚ it was not able to do this. It failed to calm the tensions largely because of the inclusion of the Fugitive Slave Act
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1894-2005‚ Lenin has been the most significant leader of Russia and the USSR. How valid is this statement? It can be argued that Lenin was the most significant leader of Russia and the USSR due to his revolutionary ideas‚ such as the implementation of socialist reforms‚ his New Economic Policy in 1921 and the transformation of the Bolshevik faction to the Communist Part of the Soviet Union leading to a huge Marxist-Leninist movement in the USSR. However‚ when assessing the ‘significance’ of a leader
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What was the short term significance of the Dam buster’s raid of 16th May 1943? The bouncing bomb was the first bomb in the War that could bounce across water and blow up the enemy dams. It was specifically designed to destroy the dams which were heavily protected by anti-aircraft guns and flak‚ as well as a special netting to prevent attacks from submarines. At first Barnes Wallis kept his new idea a secret and was testing it at home with his children using small bouncing balls and a bucket full
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to the war played a key role in setting the stage for revolution in Russia. Lenin‚ the leader of the radical Bolsheviks‚ was an outlaw and actually lived in Galicia and Switzerland at the beginning of World War I. He carried on a lively debate with the more moderate wing of the Russian Social Democrats called Mensheviks. The key issue was the relationship of revolution to war. Unlike the other socialist‚ Lenin actually was in favor of war at this time‚ because he thought it would weaken capitalism
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At 5:00 am‚ October 26‚ the manifesto legitimizing the creation of a revolutionary government was voted on and passed by an overwhelming margin. The Russian revolution of 1917 saw the overthrow of the tsarist autocracy in February and the seizure of power by the Bolshevik party in October.The Bolsheviks proceeded to establish the world’s first Communist state on a territory covering one-sixth of the globe. A series of events and ideas led to the October revolution‚ each significant in its own
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contributions to the communist and socialist parties. One of his famous quotes is‚ “The goal of socialism is communism.” He was difficult to satisfy which made him a strong political leader‚ always pushing for what he wanted‚ during the Russian Revolution. Vladimir Ilich Ulyanov was born on April 10th‚ 1870 in Simbirsk (later named Ulyanovsk in his honor)‚ Russia. He later
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What is the significance of Inspector Goole in the play? The audience are first introduced to Inspector Goole half way through act 1. He is a mysterious character from the very beginning‚ but we see that he is confident and has an air of authority about him and he is determined to make the family face their guilt. He claims that he has seen the dead body of Eva Smith who died earlier that day after she had ‘swallowed a lot of strong disinfectant’. He is of much significance throughout the play
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Explain why Trotsky did not become the leader of the USSR After Lenin’s death in 1924 the Bolsheviks (although not out rightly stated) were in need of a new leader. The power struggle occurred from 1923-1929 and eventually Stalin effectively became the leader of the USSR due to many reasons‚ including the weaknesses of Trotsky. Trotsky had not been a Bolshevik initially – he converted from the Menshevik party in 1917. Therefore some of the party members doubted him as 100% trustworthy. Within
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