“Marigolds” by Eugenia W.Collier , has an inspiring theme ,one act can change your thinking towards the world . “I recall that devastating moment when I was suddenly more women than child “ (Collier 142) . In that moment, the main character made a bad decision which led her to become more mature and understood the actual reality that she was in . “ I gazed upon a kind of reality which is hidden to childhood” (Collier 148) . This action caused the character to realize how much of her innocence was truly taken away when she started to act more mature .
A Small Corner of Hell by Anna Politkovskaya provides a very detailed and gruesome account of the atrocities committed by the Russian military on the local Chechen people during the second Chechen war (1999-2009). The author wants to draw the attention of the world to Chechnya in the hope that people will support her cause which is to expose the brutalities undertaken by the mighty Russian army on the defenseless Chechens, thereby stopping a very small but cruel war. While working as a correspondent for Novaya Gazeta, the last major newspaper in Russia that sticks to the idea of promoting democracy and freedom, Politkovskaya was critical of the new Russian state, exposing their corruption scandals and fighting for justice and freedom from the new dictatorial regime of President Putin that had come to replace the communist party of the Soviet era. Politkovskaya was committed to telling the truth, she believed
Jackson Howard Mrs. Shulte 3/7/23 Is Lizzie Borden Innocent? Lizzie Borden, a cruel human being who could have gotten away with murder when she was guilty. The horrific murders of her parents occurred on August 11, 1892 in a small town in Massachusetts. These murders are important to discuss because if she was guilty, she got away with murder.
The Russian government treated the working class terribly, leading to several protests and boycotts. S.I. Somov was a Russian Soviet who shared his emotions on his overwhelming experience in the demanding Soviet working class. At a protest, he wrote that there was a “...mystical, religious ecstasy...” that peppered the angry workers who fought for their freedom from the exhausting chains of overwhelming labor and inhumane working conditions (Document 4). He added that the working class was deprived of a lively human soul, and their bitterness and dissatisfaction had “overflowed.” Somov was a worker himself, who first hand experienced the cruelty described and developed his own reasonable emotions towards the topic.
While we often blame the support of communists, especially high-level communists such as Rudolf Margolius, for the violence that is enacted by the Czech communist party, Kovaly explains that they are also just pawns in the Soviet system. She tells us her husband’s reaction to the arrests where he explains his strong support of communism: “I cannot give up my conviction that my ideal is essentially sound and good, just as I cannot explain why it has failed- as it apparently has…If you’re right, if it really is a fraud, then I’ve been an accomplice in a terrible crime. And if I had to believe that, I could not go on living”. This statement shows us how desperate Rudolf really was, as his communist party was showing its true colors as corrupt and unstable. In lectures, we often heard the terrors pushed by the communists, such as totalitarianism, which is the use of political terror to control every aspect of people’s lives and linked nazism and Soviet communism together.
In analysis of Vera Figner’s Memoirs of a Revolutionist, Figner expressed a few political goals that led her to assume violence as the only answer to the economic, political, and social injustices forced upon the peasants, by the government authority and Russian traditions. All of Figner’s energy was spent in effort to achieve these goals at any cost. These goals were to use influential propaganda, to educate the peasants1, and to kill the Tsar. All of which, were used to motivate a peasant uprising, to remove2 the suppressive Tsarist regime and to give birth to democratically3 free institutions4. To justify her violent means, she used her personal belief that there were no other peaceful ways, that they had not tried, to provide liberty and justice for the peasants.5
In the article Beate Zschaepe explains that she wasn’t involved in preparing or carrying out the crimes, but she felt guilty because she couldn’t do anything to stop them. She would play computer games and drink four glasses of wine to distract herself. This reminded me of Julia in “1984”, she acts like a zealous Party member but her true feelings are those of resentment towards the Party. Julia’s feelings are opposite of what Party members are supposed to feel, but she works as though she believes exactly like them.
Solitary, thinking of this event made my blood boil, for thousands of Lithuanians had died solely because of the Soviets and their ethnocentric views. Additionally, I also felt thankful that we live in much sophisticated time, a time where people from different identities belong. Cleary, we mustn’t come back to these absurd views, for humanity depends on it. “Between Shades of Gray” is brimming with these types of events. Constantly, leaving you increasingly mournful as you continue
The citizens believed that the arrested Communist party members were traitors and that they should suffer for what they had done. They definitely deserved it over the innocent people that were sentenced to death. Heda depicted that she was one of the few that believed the trial was false. In contrast, McDermott justifies that the reactions to the trial of the Czech citizens had mixed feelings. Instead of being in agreement with the trial, most of the people reacted with shock.
These are the only members of the unit whom I recall and I believe this to be a complete list”. This shows how the effect of being a communist made Kazan confess and tell all of these
The Innocent by David Baldacci is a murder mystery novel that follows the life of Robbie Will over a period of a couple of months. To evaluate the effectiveness of Baldacci’s writing, it is important to examine how Baldacci uses the hatred that other countries and citizens feel towards the United States to motivate characters to commit the murders, how the author weaves together the murders in the novel, and how the character Talal adds intrigue and confusion to Robbie discovering the truth about Talal’s true intentions. The Innocent written by David Baldacci, is a novel about a government assassin named Robbie, his job is to kill whoever he is told to kill, and he does this without question. That is until he was told to kill a woman named Jane Wind.
The author’s repeated use of word “clandestine” through phrases, such as a “clandestine decision”, serves to further denounce the Soviets in the eyes of the nation. The author
The Holocaust was a cruel and terrifying time, especially for the groups targeted. Before it began, the Wiesels had been a deeply religious Jewish family. Elie Wiesel was only a teenager when he and his family were torn from their home and sent to concentration camps. There, he faced many horrors including the deaths of his family and the distortion of the person he once was. Wiesel has recounted these horrific events in his memoir, Night.
This is first evidenced by Lev’s encounter with a cannibal who lures unsuspecting patrons into his apartment where they are then murdered and eaten. The act of cannibalisation in a normal functioning society would be condemned and punished swiftly, however in war torn Leningrad where any means of survival are necessary, when Lev informs the authorities of this heinous act he is met with disdain. The only response is, “there are cannibals in every building… welcome to Leningrad.” Benioff additionally includes scenes that depict the discriminatory persecution of Bolsheviks as less than human by the Germans. After being captured and placed into a forced procession of prisoners travelling to a local German camp, Lev witnesses the Einsatzkommando’s trick the literary men in the group to identify themselves.
The archetypes analysed in this essay will be Stalin as ‘the wise leader’, as ‘the father of all people’, and as ‘the generalissimo’. To answer the research question, several academic works including those of Jan Plamper and Anita Pisch will be investigated, and paintings by the prominent Socialist Realism artists Deineka, Laktionov, Gerasimov and Vladimirskiy will
