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    hands‚ and I am not sure whether he will always be capable of using that authority with sufficient caution’. Stalin managed to convince the politburo to ignore this and covered the testament up. Lenin praised Leon Trotsky in his testament. Stalin’s closest rival in the struggle power was Leon Trotsky. Trotsky unlike Stalin was not from a peasant background‚ this lost him votes as they felt he thought higher of himself he also was very arrogant which also lost him many votes. People

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    money in order to fund the Bolshevik party. However‚ he did this by several bank heists and different criminal activities. Being he did not get caught doing so he used this ability to look better for his faction. One of Stalin’s main competitors was Leon Trotsky which he was able to outmaneuver. He did this by appointing members or allies of himself to government positions. With a solid support base Stalin was able to move up on the political

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    Mr Jones was the owner of Manor Farm as Tsar Nicholas II was the ruler of Russia. The pigs who become the two main leaders of the farm‚ Snowball and Napoleon‚ represent Joseph Stalin and Leon Trotsky in the Russian Revolution. Both groups also become political rivals. “The animals listened first to Napoleon‚ then to Snowball‚ and could not make up their minds which was right… they always found themselves in agreement with the one who was

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    Effective Use of Pathos in Lies My Teacher Told Me James W. Loewen’s Lies My Teacher Told Me is a critically acclaimed work pertaining to the inaccuracies found in many history textbooks. Lies My Teacher Told Me notes that history is a school subject often disliked by students. Loewen contends that history is not appreciated because it may be considered intrinsically unappealing‚ but rather because history is taught in a poor manner. Although Loewen uses all three modes of persuasion in his book

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    even more brutal and fearful than the Revolution itself. Orwell satirically uses two pigs to represent the two most important leaders of Russia. Snowball was a faithful follower of Marx’ theory and was the leader of the Revolution. He is symbolic of Leon Trotsky who was a great leader of Russia and made the five-year plan for Russia that is symbolic of the

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    Hospital and the person says yes I would like to donate 20 dollars. What would your reaction be if you only donated 5 dollars and the women behind you donated 20 dollars? In my response paper‚ I will be explaining what the social comparison theory is. Leon Festinger‚ a psychologist‚ first proposed the theory of social comparison in 1954. Social comparison theory is the idea that we learn about our own abilities and attitudes by comparing ourselves to other people (Aronson‚ 137). He believed that we

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    of her paintings‚". She opted to tour despite medical issues to gallery openings on a stretcher‚ proving she gained a new found passion for art‚ with her new found romances. As she continued to tour Rivera sponsored historical communist figurehead Leon Trotsky and his wife for asylum in Mexico

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    An Era of Political Corruption: The Philosophy of Communism Reimagined In the 1945 classic‚ Animal Farm‚ George Orwell uses a simple fable-style tale to demonstrate how the shadow of tyranny that progressively engulfs an English farm relates to the timeline of the Russian Revolution and the Stalin Era. With the collective effort of the animals to successfully rebel against their oppressive farmer‚ they soon adopt the maxim: “All animals are equal” and aim to live in a classless society from that

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    Dwight Nichols Ms. Scannell Honors English III April 10‚ 2017 Communism in Animal Farm 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. George Orwell was a fierce critic of this political theory being used by states as a primary system of government. When Orwell wrote Animal Farm‚ he looked back on events that led up to the Russian

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    In the book Animal Farm‚ the character Napoleon builds up power as a leader and maintains it throughout the book using various schemes and techniques. This essay will explain how Napoleon creates and maintains his power from the turning point of the book. I shall start with his creation of power then the maintenance of power and I shall use quotations from the book to help explain my thoughts. The first obstacle Napoleon has to get rid of to obtain total power is Snowball. Snowball stand as his

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