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    considered a ‘holocaust film‚’ a few things need to be changed. I think that the film needs to be more serious‚ since the holocaust is nothing to joke about. A better example of a holocaust film would be The Pianist‚ by Roman Polanski. In this film‚ Szpilman‚ a Polish Jewish pianist‚ escapes getting taken to the concentration camps and the plot is about his journey hiding in Warsaw to escape deportation. This film is actually realistic and shows what it may have been like for an individual to live during

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    Kant the Sublime

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    The Sublime In Lyotard’s reading Lessons on the Analytic of the Sublime‚ he explains how critical thought exists within an infinite amount of creativity with no principles but in search of them. Lyotard understands the Kantian sublime as a way to comply with the standards that critically analyze postmodernism using deconstruction. Kant differentiated the sublime between the vastness and greatness and the dynamic sublime. The vastness sublime is so great we can’t just use our senses like we normally

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    Why did the Soviet Union intervene in Hungary and not Poland in 1956? ‘Given the growing sense of national euphoria sweeping eastern Europe in 1955-1956‚ a full-scale decolonisation of the Soviet Empire was not considered beyond the bounds of geopolitical possibility’. The decision of the Soviet Union to invade Hungary in 1956‚ whilst acknowledging the need to control events in Poland‚ came about through a myriad of complex reasons as well as the collapse of the old Hegemony‚ following Krushchev’s

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    Experiences of Migration Peter C. Watson PEM American Military University Experiences of Migration For hundreds of years migration has been the topic of discussion as individuals or mass groups have migrated away from their homelands in search of alternate residency elsewhere throughout the world. Much like today‚ the 19th century migrators have been faced with a plethora of different types of reactions by their newfound territories including both positive and negative in nature.

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    Compare and Contrast Essay                                        By: Ayne Hassan    Jews suffered countless amounts of atrocities throughout the history of time. Both stories have themes in which man is evil to man‚ the will of the main character to survive and overcome evil is present‚ and the ability of some people to still be compassionate to each other during these times of evil. The book Maus‚ and the movie “The Pianist‚” share many thematic similarities. In Maus the main character

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    rock climbing

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    Rock Climbing 101 Increase your fitness level by learning basic rock climbing using the new Laurel College Gymnasium rock climbing wall. The Physical Education Department is offering Rock Climbing 101 as part of its Recreational Fitness Program. You will participate in a challenging class that will help you burn calories and increase your strength. Rock climbing results in an exciting and sometimes strenuous workout. The class will help you relieve stress‚ and you may notice increased

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    Stop Motion

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    was released‚ as was The Sculptor’s Nightmare‚ a film by Billy Bitzer. Italian animator Roméo Bossetti impressed audiences with his object animation tour-de-force‚ The Automatic Moving Company in 1912. The great European stop motion pioneer was Wladyslaw Starewicz (1892–1965)‚ who animated The Beautiful Lukanida (1910)‚ The Battle of the Stag Beetles (1910)‚ The Ant and the Grasshopper (1911). One of the earliest clay animation films was Modelling Extraordinary‚ which dazzled audiences in 1912

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    The Janissaries and the Millet System: Keystones of the Ottoman Empire Matteo McDonnell Atlantic Communities I Ms. Ford 5/20/13 The Ottoman Empire was a Muslim state spanning from Austria to the Persian Gulf‚ from Russia to Egypt. It was formed at the end of the thirteenth century by Osman I‚ expanded through the conquest of the Byzantine Empire‚ and lasted for over 600 years. It was dissolved after it lost (along with Germany and Austria-Hungary) to the western allies in the First World

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    The Viking Rus

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    Vikings in History Golden‚ Peter Benjamin (1982) The Question of the Rus ’ Qaganate. Archivum Eurasiae Medii Aevi Noonan‚ Thomas (2001) The Khazar Qaghanate and Its Impact On the Early Rus ’ State: The translatio imperii from Itil to Kiev Duczko‚ Wladyslaw (2004) Viking Rus: Studies on the Presence of Scandinavians in Eastern Europe. Janet Martin (1995) Medieval Russia‚ 980–1584 Somerville‚ Angus; McDonald ‚ R Franklin‚ Simon (1992) Greek in Kievan Rus ’.

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    International relations

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    traced back to thousands of years ago; Barry Buzan and Richard Little‚ for example‚ consider the interaction of ancient Sumerian city-states‚ starting in 3‚500 BC‚ as the first fully-fledged international system.[3] The official portraits of King Władysław IV dressed according to French‚ Spanish and Polish fashion reflects the complex politics of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth during the Thirty Years’ War The history of international relations based on sovereign states is often traced back to

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