Lina Vilkas is an average 15 year old girl with a prestigious art school to look forward too‚ typical teenage problems‚ and a family who loves and supports her through her everyday life. Her life as she knows it is shattered before her when Soviet secret police unexpectedly barge into their elegant Lithuanian home one summers night in 1941‚ leaving nothing but broken shards of her life behind. Lina‚ her younger brother Jonas‚ and her head strong mother are separated from their father and
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“Why did détente develop between 1969 and 1979?” Détente developed between 1969 and 1979 due to improved relations between the USA and the USSR. The end of the Vietnam War improved relations between the USA‚ USSR and China. Leaders were in contact and numerous summits such as SALT 1 and the Helsinki Accords were held between leaders bringing reform across Europe. The arms race had slowed up as no country had progressed any further from the reality of Mutually Assured Destruction. On top of this
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authentic human relationships‚ Orwell’s darkly satirical novel 1984 (1949) and Lang’s silent German Expressionist film Metropolis (1927) challenge our faith in the future of humanity. An anticipation of the destructive industrial modalities of the Weimar Republic‚ Lang presents a world built on shameless exploitation and systematic oppression of the working class. Writing in shadow of World War II‚ Orwell projects a much more nightmarish vision wherein the human capacity for autonomy is quashed by a totalitarian
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What can be learned from the novel “The War Between the Classes” “The War Between the Classes” is a very interesting novel‚ I never imagine that I could finish the whole book within one week. Many active characters in this book are impressive‚ such as Amy‚ Juan‚ Hideo and Adam‚ actually Otero is the most interesting character in this book‚ he is the teacher of Social Studies‚ and designed the “Color Game”‚ which is an experiment intended to make students aware of class and racial prejudices
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Tonja Cox English 101 10/05/14 The role Nazis played in the Holocaust. The Holocaust was a unique event in 20th century history. It evolved slowly between 1933 and 1945. It began with discrimination; then the Jews were separated from their communities and persecuted; and finally they were treated as less than human beings and murdered. During the Second World War the Nazis sought to murder the entire Jewish population of Europe and to destroy its culture. In 1941 there were about 11 million Jews
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Why did Germany lose World War One? World War One was a war between several countries in Europe. It is called a world war because it was the first war which affected so many countries all over the world. It took place from July 1914 to November 1918. The war was mainly fought between two alliances‚ the Triple Entente (Britain‚ France and Russia) and the Triple Alliance (Germany‚ Austria-Hungary and Italy). The main reasons why Germany lost the war were: the German Army asking to end the war; The
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How Did He Survive? Cabeza De Vaca started out on a adventure and ended up on a doomed journey. De Vaca was a explorer on a Spanish expedition to the “New World” in the 1520’s. He was one of the only survivors. Cabeza lived through many circumstances for three reasons: his healing abilities‚ survival skills‚ and ability to befriend natives. These three reasons are what gave him the will to survive. Cabeza De Vaca had a unique set of wilderness skills. These skills allowed him to survive against all
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January 30‚ 1933‚ Hitler knew that only sudden death awaited him if he failed to restore pride and empire to post-Versailles Germany. His close friend and adjutant Julius Schaub recorded Hitler’s jubilant boast to his staff on that evening‚ as the last celebrating guests left the Berlin Chancellery building: "No power on earth will get me out of this building alive!" David Irving‚ Hitler’s War: An introduction to the new edition (1989). World War II in Europe could have been avoided. Why? How? Before
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prevented the development of a unified Germany state in the sixteenth seventeenth centuries. What were the three most important reasons that Germany did not become a state along the lines of France or Spain? Answer To Above Question The Holy Roman Empire (HRE) was the most powerful Kingdom during the middle Ages‚ but during the broken reign of the HRE‚ no strong centralized form of government existed. The kingdom was torn apart religiously and then the 30 Years’ War devastated the land‚ economy and
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Revolutions in the eighteenth century saw a drastic change for Europe‚ which had been mainly ruled by monarchies since the fall of the Roman Empire. One such revolution was the French Revolution and the subsequent Napoleonic Wars that followed. This drastic change in France spread to neighboring countries like Spain and Portugal‚ and in turn spread to their colonies in the Americas. The Napoleonic Wars enabled the citizens of Spanish America and Brazil to question their systems of governance‚ which
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