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- 1141: Reasons For The Fall Of Socialism/Communism In Russia
- ... already impoverished standard of living. This caused strikes and public outcry against the administration which threatened the stability of the Soviet Union. The people were angry at the fact that the Communist Party had not lived up to what it had promised which was in return for their obedience they would receive employment, free health care, and a level of comfort. March 1985 marks a turning point in the Communist rule ... found it hard to find decent employment, and most women were expected to also take care of household duties as well. Women were also very scarce in government. Relations among the different ethic grouped which lived within the Soviet Union were very tense and sometimes openly hostile. The fact that the Russian language was the language in which all political transactions had to occur in and it was encouraged to be ...
- 1142: Technology Spontaneously Approaching `Humanity' With The Passage Of Time
- ... newly created T800 in Terminator 2 could easily be substituted with a newly created replicant. Likewise, Roy's poetic words in Blade Runner could very well be the T800's words, provided the T800 has lived long enough. Between the two films we have a consistent, continuous documentary of ‘human' technology from its infancy to its maturity. The process that causes ‘human' technology to assume a more true human ... to learn. Not less than thirty minutes later, just before the T800 lowers himself to die, he has learned enough to tell John, “ I understand why you cry now.” If he would have lived, his growth rate would continue on its trend, turning from small steps to leaps and bounds. Tyrell describes memories to be the very heart of emotions. Because replicants early in their life have no memories ...
- 1143: Developement Of Europe
- ... driven by human and animal power to work in factories driven by steam power. This change was by all means not lightning fast, and along with it came a change in the way the people lived their lives. The common workers were forced to move from the country into the cities where they could find work in the factories. This notion of the movement from country life to urban life epitomizes ... one’s own happiness. Another good example is the Dutch-born painter Vincent Van Gogh. Van Gogh’s lack of intense color when painting the bleak outskirts of industrialized cities where often the desperately poor lived showed his emotion and sympathy as opposed to the stark realities of the realism painters. This artistic movement all over Western Europe was the embodiment of “modernism” and its move away from petty materialism ...
- 1144: Gender
- ... importantly, inequality. It would be the values and traditions that both Alla and Helen believed in that allowed them to be successful and relatively unaffected by inequality. In the time period that the three women lived in the USSR, society was ruled by socialism (communists did exist, but were not the majority). Under this theory of government, everyone worked; it was believed to be a disgrace if a person simply sat ... was born in 1977. Once her daughter was born, Alla left the labor force to take care of her child. Alla's husband worked and was able to support the family. The three of them lived with Alla's parents, for a total of six people (including Alla's younger sister) living in a two bedroom apartment. Alla's life was also interrupted by their departure to America in 1979. Once ...
- 1145: Medieval Castles
- ... its citadel contracted into a smaller space. Castles were basically fortified locations. The word itself comes from the Latin castellum. Up to the 6th century fortifications were primarily communities in which most of the population lived. But in the middle of the 6th century, the armies of the Byzantine Empire began to build strong forts as defensive positions. For the next few centuries this castle building was confined to the Byzantine ... the castle compound. These gates were so large that they were rarely opened except on ceremonial occasions. A smaller door was built into one of them to provide easy entrance and exit for those who lived in the castle.. A person known as the chief porter was charged with the responsibility of making sure that only friends passed through. The outer walls of most castles were massively thick, sometimes as much ...
- 1146: Definition Of American Democra
- ... the north. The entire economy of the south was dependent on slavery. Anyone who wonders how any human being could ever defend something as ugly as slavery has to know that for these Americans who lived in the South, the food that they ate and the clothes that they wore on their backs came from the plantation fields that were maintained by the slaves. By 1860, slavery was very much in ... and housed at night in underground prisons. It took three years to crush a revolt of 70,000 slaves, and took an army of 17,000 Roman men to suppress it" (Spievogal 152). Many masters lived in fear of their slaves. Revolts were not uncommon especially when dealing with extremely cruel owners. The treatment of slaves became a frequent discussion amongst the Romans. There was those such as Cat the Elder ...
- 1147: Tupac Amaru And The Comunero Revolt
- ... important, for the success of this paper, that one make notice of the way it is organized in structure, starting with a well rounded description of the socio-economic and political landscape that each country lived previous to the their individual revolts, (Causes, goals and purpose) followed by a narrative of the revolt itself and culminating with the post-revolutionary views and changes, it is only in this way that we ... one cannot possibly been certain weather or not what the comuneros accomplished was worth the shed blood, or weather they accomplished anything at all. However one must also appreciate the immense scale the comunero revolt lived up to, by this I mean, this was no mere street riot. For at its peak, the movement controlled about one third of the entire New Granada. Tax officials on the other two thirds bore ...
- 1148: Macbeth - Soliloquy Analysis
- ... up with him. This may very well be why he has such a dreary outlook on life. Life is associated with light but Macbeth is at a state where he sees no significance in having lived. " Life's but a walking shadow." Macbeth is saying here that one's life is dark and dreary, and that the light of life only serves to cast a dark shadow . " [A] poor player that ... up with him. This may very well be why he has such a dreary outlook on life. Life is associated with light but Macbeth is at a state where he sees no significance in having lived. " Life's but a walking shadow." Macbeth is saying here that one's life is dark and dreary, and that the light of life only serves to cast a dark shadow . " [A] poor player that ...
- 1149: Philippine Annexation
- ... taking control, in my opinion, could civilize them. On the other hand Mason felt that these people were just like anyone else, and that they should be able to live the way they have always lived. Mason also felt that it was unfair to govern the people of the Philippines given that they lived ten thousand miles away. He felt that how could a senator set laws to people that he really did not know anything about. He also felt how can you govern them when in reality you ...
- 1150: The Moche Period
- ... been actually used in a religious ceremony to store various sacred liquids needed for the completion of such an act. The most important people, the priests and warriors, were members of the urban classes and lived closest to the large ceremonial pyramids and other temples. They were surrounded by a middle class of artisans and then, in descending order: farmers and fishermen, servants, slaves and beggars. The priests and warriors were ... was no written language, most of what we know about the Moche comes from this wealth of pottery. The pottery crafted by the Moche opened a window to the life and times in which they lived, giving future generations accounts of everyday and spiritual life similar to that of Ancient Egypt’s wall illustrations.
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