“It always takes about 10 years to have some distance. And distance allows you to laugh about yourself and things you wouldn’t dare laugh about when you’re right in the middle of it‚” director of Goodbye‚ Lenin!‚ Wolfgang Becker‚ stated in an interview discussing the movie. Goodbye‚ Lenin! focuses on the drastic shift in the lives of East Germans following the fall of the Berlin Wall. With the rise of communist nation‚ Russia‚ after World War II‚ came the conflict between communist and capitalist
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The Mastermind Artist and Poet After reading Vladimir Nabokov’s narrative‚ Lolita‚ most readers find themselves unwittingly accepting and even sharing the feelings of Humbert Humbert. Of course‚ the feelings they share are not those of becoming like Humbert but rather absentmindedly pitying and sympathizing with him‚ which are unusual outcomes felt towards a psychopath. As Mathew Winston‚ a critic‚ once stated‚ the novel “plays a very serious game with the relations between a work of art‚ the experiences
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“Lolita‚ light of my life‚ fire of my loins. My sin‚ my soul” The opening lines of ‘Lolita’ directly initiate the reader into the essence of Nabokov’s bewildering novel where an obviously pedophilic protagonist Humbert Humbert narrates his undying love/lust for the questionably innocent twelve year old Dolores Haze‚ better known as Lolita. Humbert‚ in his extravagant and flowery description of Lolita‚ implies the word "nymphet"‚ a term invented by Humbert himself and introduced to the English language
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The definition of being honorable is someone with high respect. My personal definition of being honorable is that you think of others and the well-being of the earth and you are respectful. Vladimir Vernadsky is honorable because of his numerous discoveries about nature and the earth. Vernadsky was born on March 12‚ 1863 in Saint Petersburg‚ Russia. His father was a professor that taught political economy at the Moscow University‚ and his mother was a noblewoman. He started developing an interest
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Goodbye‚ Lenin is a heart-warming film about a son’s attempt to make time stand still in order to keep his sick mother from knowing the truth about the political changes. His mother‚ Christiana‚ is a strong political activist in the Socialist party in East Germany. She becomes ill after she sees her son‚ Alex‚ protesting in the streets‚ she falls into a coma after suffering a heart attack. During the eight months she is in a coma‚ the Berlin Wall comes down and capitalism floods in from the west
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gain a higher status of living. Well‚ again‚ society dictates that the idea of living is always going up and achieving more. And so‚ as I was growing old‚ I was taught to compete and be the best of whatever there is. Indeed‚ I have earned many achievements during my schooling years. As I was growing in age and much more in height (I was almost 6 feet before college)‚ my idea of choosing a course is neither on what I feel like doing nor on what my heart tells me (Nah! What a thought) but on how I
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The Achievement of Desire by Richard Rodriguez In Richard Rodriguez The Achievement of desire‚ he had grown up in a minority group / family being a Mexican-American ‚ who on entering school was barely able to speak English ‚ but then mastered the art of speaking English that one day his teacher had remarked that he was losing all traces of a Spanish accent. He considered himself to be success even to become known as a “scholar boy” and additionally prized student‚ his earlier teachers the nuns
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support them (1). The citizens of Russia were desperately looking for help and the Bolshevik party‚ created with the help of Lenin and Trotsky in the year 1917‚ had the answer. Slowly‚ they had managed to become one of the most powerful parties ever created‚ but many factors were to cause the consolidation of power. In this essay I will be comparing the significance of Vladimir Lenin in the Bolshevik consolidation of power with another important factor; Leon Trotsky. In my opinion the
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Delatorre 1 Griselda Delatorre November 30‚ 2011 English 101 Boutry M W 11:10-12:35 Pedophilia Lolita‚ the novel by Vladimir Nabokov‚ tells the story of Humbert Humbert‚ who is a perfect example of a pedophile. Dolores "Lolita" Haze becomes the sexual object of a pedophile’s desires and is left unprotected with the sudden death of her mother. Although the character Humbert Humbert describes his feelings toward the twelve year old Lolita as love‚ in actuality‚ it is obsessive lust. Nabokov
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This research paper is about Vladimir Lenin’s early life‚ how it led him to communism‚ and his life as a communist. Communism is a political theory derived from Karl Marx‚ advocating class war and leading to a society in which all property is publicly owned and each person works and is paid according to their abilities and needs. Vladimir is known for his various efforts and contributions to the communist and socialist parties. One of his famous quotes is‚ “The goal of socialism is communism.” He
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