The Life Of Victor Zalsavsky

In reading Zenas Leonard’s account of his party’s interaction with the Shoshone and Paiute people, one gets the clear sense that the American fur trappers did not understand, nor trust the natives of the Great Basin. The native’s continued presence and persistence in interacting with the fur trappers is seen as a threat. The fur trapper’s stollen beaver traps further insight some of the American trappers to seek their own revenge and justice on the natives--death. Although, Captain Walker put an immediate stop to the “revenge” the trappers were committing, the effects of the trappers revenge proved to be detrimental to future interactions with the Indians. Now, the fur trappers saw any approach from the the natives as a hostile and aggressive stance against them in revenge for their murdered comrades.

After the Second World War ended, when Canada and her Allies were still celebrating victory over Germany, a young Russian cipher clerk named Igor Gouzenko walked out of the Soviet Embassy in Ottawa with secret papers stuffed under his shirt and headed straight for the offices of a city newspaper. His unprecedented action would awaken the people of North America to the magnitude and the danger of Soviet espionage and change the course of the twentieth century. Gouzenko was the beginning of the Cold War for public opinion and he did play a role in Canada’s involvement in the war, however, Canada became directly involved in the Cold War due to communist fears, nuclear choices, and ties to a superpower.

Palimony is financial support that results from a promise made by one unmarried person to provide support to another when a long-term relationship between the two people ends. Palimony is generally awarded to a party who, in reliance upon an express or implied promise that the partner would support him or her for the rest of his or her life, did not work during the relationship and was financially dependent on the other person. Palimony claims come before the New Jersey courts when the promise of support is broken, for example, when the party promising to pay the support for the other fails to do so.

On a day to day bases, men and women in prison or jail are dehumanized and terrorized by their superiors or even their inmates in the Criminal Justice System. The inmates that are in this situation are usually physically, emotionally, and mentally abused, they are often deprived of meals and are belittled. The inmates in this situation have no other choice but adapt to their best ability of the harsh situation they are founded in or be broken and taken over by the system they are forced to be a part of. Is it true that a person in difficult situations needs to be indifferent of their past because being nostalgic can only hurt them? Or does the harsh situation they become a custom to make it easier to forget their past life?. Solzhenitsyn uses Shukhov’s indifferent attitude towards his past to illustrate that a person cannot be nostalgic because it can lead to one’s self-destruction.

After Lenin's death in 1924, two conflicting schools of thought about the future of the Soviet Union arose in party debates. Trotsky, one of the primary proponents of the party's left wing, believed that a world revolution was essential for the survival of socialism in the economically backward Soviet Union. However, the left wing's domestic policy also advocated rapid development of the economy and the creation of a socialist society.

Trotsky’s overall role in the Soviet Union is indisputable as his strategic leadership skills enabled him to play a fundamental role in the organisation and implementation of the November 1917 Bolshevik seizure of power and the Civil War of 1918-21. However, the importance of Lenin’s role must also be taken into account to achieve a more balanced portrayal, as many of Trotsky’s successes were based on Lenin’s initiatives. Although Lenin held authority over the Bolshevik’s, it

Dr. Zygmunt Klukowski was the chief physician of a hospital in Szczebrzeszyn south of the city of Lublin. The doctor daily chronicled the Nazi occupation as events unfolded outside the windows of his residence at the hospital. Discovery of his observations would have meant instant death. Because of this, he carefully concealed his manuscripts changing their hiding place often, during five years of Nazi occupation. His extraordinary diary was published in Poland in 1959 shortly before his death and translated into English.

Perhaps, Prot’s findings can give a better explanation on why the character Vladek in Art Spiegelman’s The Complete Maus, has such a strong tone towards his son Artie but they still manage to come together and share oral history. This relationship reveals the importance of storytelling in the Jewish culture. Artie finds storytelling to be very crucial. This is why he calls his father a “murderer” when he finds out that he burned all of his mother’s diaries that she had written during the Holocaust. The most important thing to remember here is that the main source of Artie’s guilt is from of his mother, Anja. The feelings and stories of Anja are left untold and all Artie had left was the memory of his father Vladek. After finding

In comparison to John Gaddis, May’s book has more social and domestic view on the Cold War. Gaining statistics and knowledge of the individuals that lived

The last son of Fyodor Karamazov was a bastard, born from the town’s holy fool. Although it is not entirely known whether Fyodor was the true father of Smerdyakov, he was widely believed to be so. Smerdyakov was raised by Gregory and his wife after his mother died during childbirth and later worked as Fyodor’s personal cook. As a child, Smerdyakov “loved to hang cats and then bury them with great ceremony” (Dostoevsky, 1981). As an adult, he was unsociable, arrogant, and despised everyone. Smerdyakov had no use for religion and suffered from epilepsy from an early age. Despite all of these things, Fyodor considered Smerdyakov to be a completely honest man, whilst the townspeople considered him to be a fool like his mother.

While this may be the case for the more information-limited Soviet historians, the more modern, revisionist historians such as Edward Acton, Robert Service, Harold Shukman and Steven Smith have had great exposure to much of the confidential literature, kept secret by the many Soviet Purges and the prolific ‘Iron Curtain’. In the view of Acton “Russia’s workers were

The Canterbury Tales is a piece of literary work written by Geoffrey Chaucer that involves the stories of a group of pilgrims on their pilgrimage journey. Throughout the book, each pilgrim tells a story in order to win the best story telling contest. The Host, who thought that this contest would be a fun way to pass the time of the pilgrimage, created the contest. He told all of the other Pilgrims the rules of the contest, as well as the reward, which was free dinner in the tavern. According to the book, due to all the pilgrims agreeing to partake in the contest, the reward was an important one to them; many wanted to win, therefore told the best stories that they had.

Slavenka Drakulic lived during the heart of communism in Eastern Europe during the twentieth century. She wrote a book called How We Survived Communism and Even Laughed to describe what communism was like and how life changed after communism ended. Her book is very effective in analyzing communism and its effects because it tells what life was like during communism and how it even still affected people afterwards. The long-lasting effects compare to some of those that the Jewish people faced after liberation, and they were never able to quite get over the effects of communism even though it was over. This story hits some of the areas that historians might not be able to completely figure out because it gives exact thoughts about how bad communism was from actual people.

\There is a substantial amount of Americans today who have attained the American Dream, such as Oprah Winfrey, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and Steve Jobs, but does any American still have a chance at the American Dream? The authentic American Dream is known as owning land and having riches, opportunity and promise Today, Americans do not have a chance at the American Dream due to the lack of effort in the majority of America’s people, where an Americans' home is affecting that person’s chance for opportunity, and the large gap between a prosperous community and a distressed community in America.

The article I read was about marijuana legalization, and whether or not it should be legal in all states, and why it isn’t yet. It also explains how much the support for Marijuana legalization has skyrocketed in the past twenty years. The purpose that the article served, was to inform us, by using charts and showing the support for Marijuana legalization, in different groups. The first chart shows a general opinion on Marijuana legalization. The second shows support of legalization by political views which is liberals, moderates, and conservatives, followed by a survey of age groups and a body related issues group.