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  • Russian for Hello

    Russian for Hello

    Posted Monday, May 16, 1949 In a fourth-floor office of the State Department this week, busy aides thumbed diligently through top-secret policy papers on German-Austrian affairs. George Kennan, expert on U.S.-Soviet policies, slipped off to a secret sanctum where he could think things through beyond the reach of visitors and telephones. In other offices, other State Department experts put their heads together and seriously pretended that they were Russians. If they were, what would they

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    Submitted: February 8, 2010 By: Jon
  • Russian Historic Cinema

    Russian Historic Cinema

    Film Clip #2 Analysis I choose clip #2 from the three given. This clip is from the movie Leviathan and the director is Andrey Zvyagintsev. The character shown in the scene is Vadim, who is the mayor of the town. This clip is near the end of the film and is important because he is looking for guidance because he is lost. This film fit into the social context in the Russain Federation at the

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    Submitted: October 4, 2016 By: aajj1166
  • Russian Mafia

    Russian Mafia

    One of the most famous types of organized crime in the past and present is the "Russian Mafia". This article entails the rational choice theory model with how it justifies being able to join the Russian Mafia and the business that they conduct. A rational theorist would argue that we as people are rational human beings who carefully calculated the consequences of our behaviour. We make choices based on the cost benefit analysis. The concept

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    Submitted: December 8, 2009 By: Mike
  • Russian Opposition to the War in Iraq

    Russian Opposition to the War in Iraq

    Introduction The events of September 11 2001 were major events in the world. The United States ruled by George W. Bush decided to take revenge and launched what would be known as the war on terror. Russia has also declared the struggle against international terrorism as one of its top foreign policy priorities. Just one month after the collapse of the twin towers, the United States attacks Afghanistan to remove al-Qaeda forces and oust the

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    Submitted: November 23, 2009 By: Tommy
  • Russian Privitization

    Russian Privitization

    Russian Privatization As with most major changes, the liberalization of the Russian economy has suffered setbacks in its continued course toward privatization. It is worthwhile to note that the path toward capitalism from a controlled economy has been rapid given the size of the economy and accompanying political and legal changes. This paper discusses the changes in the legal, political, and economic systems that culminated in the privatization of the oil industry and the subsequent

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    Submitted: February 4, 2010 By: David
  • Russian Revolution

    Russian Revolution

    Milk Analysis Lab Purpose: the purpose of this lab was to test three different types of milk to find the percentage of protein, water and carbohydrates present in each milk. Materials: 1% milk, whole milk, skim milk, filter paper, oven, dropper, acetic acid, ring stand, funnel, 50ml beaker, 100ml beaker, 150ml beaker, graduated cylinder, and scale. Data: Whole Milk Mass (g) Percent in milk Percent Efficiency Protein .91 7.4% 217.2% Carbs 2.25 18.34% 226.6% Water

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    Submitted: December 10, 2009 By: David
  • Russian Revolution

    Russian Revolution

    Russian at begging of twentieth century was one of the great powers of Europe. However, in comparison with Britain, Germany, and France, Russia was late in industrialization and economic development. As the out come of the world war one Russian, 900,000 to 2,500,000 Russians were kill. Economically Russia was devastated. 8,000,000,000 rubles in war debts were outstanding. Society was deeply divided and the political structure was fragile and overstrained. The raise of Vladimir Ilyitch Lenin

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    Submitted: December 13, 2009 By: Mike
  • Russian Revolution

    Russian Revolution

    Russia went to war with Japan with the idea of taking parts of China and Korea under their rule. Specifically, the territories were Manchuria and Korea, and the war was formally known as the Russo-Japanese War. The Russians lost the war because of the distance the army had to travel and Japan and more industrialization. The Russian revolution of 1905 could have been avoided if Russian troops did not attack innocent strikers, if the timing

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    Submitted: February 28, 2010 By: Jessica
  • Russian Revolution

    Russian Revolution

    Bloody Sunday - January 9, 1905; peaceful marchers in St. Petersburg carried a petition to Tsar Nicholas II asking for higher wages, a shorter work day, better working conditions, a legislative assembly, and universal manhood suffrage, hoping reform would come from above. In reaction, Nicholas II hastily ordered his guard to fire into the unarmed crowd; when news of one hundred dead and hundreds more wounded escaped, public opinion almost universally turned against the old

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    Submitted: March 25, 2010 By: Monika
  • Russian Revolution Essay

    Russian Revolution Essay

    Firstly, Lenin’s ideology was not based off Karl Marx’s ideology of Communism. Karl Marx proposed the idea that the worker-class would rise up and overthrow the middle-class. But in Lenin’s sight they needed a leader to guide them to accomplish it. This makes a great deal of problems as Communism is based off equality and if you have a leader it does not make everyone equal. Another problem you have is that in Lenin’s view,

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    Submitted: October 31, 2018 By: hefman4
  • Russian Science and Technology 1700

    Russian Science and Technology 1700

    Russia had to overcome a huge obstacles in order to industrialize, its immature transportation system. The poor system slowed down the spread of ideas, people, and materials thus barring Russian development. With the advancements made to the transportation system, Russia prevailed and began the road to industrialization (Ellis). Due to Russia's large land area, transportation had been a major problem for its people (Fink). The government built a system of waterways hoping to link the

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    Submitted: June 14, 2010 By: Yan
  • Russias Involvement in Ww1 Rather Than the Revolutioary Parties Caused the Collapse of Tsarism

    Russias Involvement in Ww1 Rather Than the Revolutioary Parties Caused the Collapse of Tsarism

    2. Russia's involvement in World War 1, rather than the revolutionary parties, caused the collapse of Tsarism in February 1917.' Discuss. Russia's involvement in the Great War is accepted as a major factor in the collapse of the Tsarist system but whether it takes precedence in importance over the influence of the revolutionary parties is debateable. Historians are split between those who believe that the revolution was an inevitability, which was just hastened by war

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    Submitted: December 23, 2009 By: Yan
  • Russia’s Population

    Russia’s Population

    Russian Population Research Project By Tom O'Donnell 1. Natural Characteristics affecting population Distribution (Arizona 07) Population distribution is heavily affected by natural characteristics such as rivers, mountains, lakes and forests. A lot of people tend to live where there are pleasant living conditions and/or conditions that suit themselves. Flat, easy accessible, build-able and agricultural friendly land always attracts people. To establish towns and cities there is a number of geographical and natural factors. Cities are

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    Submitted: December 3, 2009 By: Tommy
  • Rwanda

    Rwanda

    A stench like you've just woken up the day after a night on the town and found your best friend dead and half rotten under the bed. Nakedness, starvation and war is everywhere. Little children with swollen bellies and missing limbs pointing AK47's at you, staring with hollow eyes. I'm in Rwanda. And I ask myself why. Why would anyone want to go here? It's fucking hell here. A place where it takes 800 000

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    Submitted: February 13, 2010 By: Venidikt
  • Rwandan Civil War

    Rwandan Civil War

    English Argumentative/Persuasive Essay Rwandan Civil War On July 16, 1994, the world watched the Rwandan Civil War finally end, 800, 000 lives later and after devastating a nation socially, economically and politically. It seemed as if the whole world watched, yet did nothing. Many Rwandans lives are very thankful to the UN's efforts but it wasn't nearly enough. Canada, among many other countries, should have been involved in the Rwandan Civil war. Canada should have

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    Submitted: March 19, 2010 By: Jessica
  • Rwandan Genocide

    Rwandan Genocide

    One of the genocides that has been in the 1900s is the genocide of Rwanda, a small, poor, central African country. The Rwandan genocide was the systematic extermination of over eight hundred thousand Tutsi, an ethnic group in Rwanda, by the Hutu, another ethnic group in Rwanda. In this essay I will tell you the history of the conflict of the Hutu and Tutsi, the 100 days of genocide in 1994, and what happened on

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    Submitted: February 21, 2010 By: Wendy
  • Sacco and Vanzetti

    Sacco and Vanzetti

    Sacco and Vanzetti None of the seven eyewitnesses was at all times certain of his or her identification. Andrews and Pelser had told a defense investigator that they could not make identification. Splaine and Devlin only briefly saw a man leaning out of automobile from a distance of over 70 feet. None of the witnesses identified Sacco until well after his arrest. The witnesses were not required to pick Sacco out a line-up. Several of

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    Submitted: February 4, 2010 By: David
  • Sacco and Vanzetti Trials

    Sacco and Vanzetti Trials

    SACCO & VANZETTI The Sacco and Vanzetti Case was an extremely controversial murder trial held in Massachusetts from 1921-1927. The two defendants were Nicola Sacco who was a shoemaker, and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, a self-employed fish-peddler. While both men did want to earn a living, neither of them seem to have been overly preoccupied with achieving wealth. They were generous, and just wanted, as Vanzetti said, "a little land to grow, a roof, some books." Neither

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    Submitted: March 17, 2009 By: David
  • Sacco and Vanzetti Trials

    Sacco and Vanzetti Trials

    SACCO & VANZETTI The Sacco and Vanzetti Case was an extremely controversial murder trial held in Massachusetts from 1921-1927. The two defendants were Nicola Sacco who was a shoemaker, and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, a self-employed fish-peddler. While both men did want to earn a living, neither of them seem to have been overly preoccupied with achieving wealth. They were generous, and just wanted, as Vanzetti said, "a little land to grow, a roof, some books." Neither

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    Submitted: February 28, 2010 By: Steve
  • Sacco and Venzetti

    Sacco and Venzetti

    Sacco & Vanzetti Innocent or guilty? In the 1920's, everyone's question was, are Sacco and Vanzetti murderers? But for today's world, everyone's question is, who Sacco and Vanzetti?; and what do you mean innocent or guilty? What they do? Well, Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were two Italian men that were accuse of the murder and robbery of Frederick Parmenter and Alessandro Berardelli in Braintree, Massachusetts. On Thursday, April 15, 1920, it was pay day

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    Submitted: January 6, 2010 By: Stenly
  • Saddam Hussein

    Saddam Hussein

    Throughout the last thirty years, many of the people of Iraq have been tortured, forced to relocate their families numerous times, arrested and murdered. Those who stood against Saddam Hussein were punished, in most cases by death. All of this happened under the control of Suddam and we have neither found, nor has he offered a sound explanation for his actions. By the early 80's, hundreds of thousands of citizens were deported to Iran. And

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    Submitted: March 17, 2009 By: Anna
  • Saddam Hussein

    Saddam Hussein

    Throughout the last thirty years, many of the people of Iraq have been tortured, forced to relocate their families numerous times, arrested and murdered. Those who stood against Saddam Hussein were punished, in most cases by death. All of this happened under the control of Suddam and we have neither found, nor has he offered a sound explanation for his actions. By the early 80's, hundreds of thousands of citizens were deported to Iran. And

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    Submitted: April 5, 2010 By: Steve
  • Saddam Hussein Bio

    Saddam Hussein Bio

    Saddam Hussein was a prominent and influential leader for Iraq and rose to power from humble beginnings, this is his story. Saddam, which means "he who confronts," was born in a village called al-Auja in April 28, 1937 in northern Iraq. Saddam decided at the age of ten to live with his recently imprisoned uncle instead of living with his mother and abusive step father. Saddam didn't start primary school until he moved in with

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    Submitted: June 19, 2015 By: awsomea
  • Saddam Vs. Stalin

    Saddam Vs. Stalin

    Ethan Listenberger Y103 Extra Credit 04/29/2002 Saddam vs. Stalin Since the beginning of the world, there has been an ongoing cycle of tyrannical leaders that have ruled their lands with an evil hand. Since the beginning of the twentieth century we have seen perhaps the deadliest dictators of them all. Stalin's regime in the 1930's and 1940's in the Soviet Union and Saddam's regime in the present day Iraq share an exceptionally strong similarity. In

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    Submitted: April 28, 2010 By: Mike
  • Saddam, Iraq, and the Gulf War

    Saddam, Iraq, and the Gulf War

    War, justifiable or not, is complete madness. It is hell. No matter what the cause, or what the reason is, war remains mankind's greatest source of tragedy, the plague of mankind, and the plague of this country. Our country has existed for only 200 years, a relatively short time, and already we have been involved in over eleven major wars. Four have been fought this last fifty years. We are a nation of freedom, but

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    Submitted: March 16, 2009 By: Tommy
  • Saigo Takamori

    Saigo Takamori

    Saigo Takamori's life's achievements and struggles to accept or deny western influences is a perfect vessel in which to display the reforms and their effects on a feudal society now modeling itself after western methods and technologies. Saigo Takamori is deemed the last of the samurai class. His status is uplifted as a die hard warrior and hero among his people. He is renowned both in Japanese and Western cultures but especially in the south

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    Submitted: February 8, 2010 By: regina
  • Sailing with Christopher Columbus

    Sailing with Christopher Columbus

    Sailing with Christopher Columbus Christopher Columbus was an extraordinary navigator. He was one of the first Europeans to discover America. A native of Genoa he explored the world and established many cultures that made up this new world. In his early life, Columbus received very little education that we know of, but the real education he received was at sea. By the age of ten he was exploring the waters and began learning the ways

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    Submitted: December 27, 2009 By: Mike
  • Saint Francis of Assisi

    Saint Francis of Assisi

    Throughout history, there have been many people who have been fortunate to obtain title of "saint" from the church. However one such saint, despite his death centuries ago, continues to influence people today through his prayers, good deeds, and notably his establishment of the largest religious orders today, the Franciscans and the Franciscan Nuns, or Poor Clares. This man is St. Francis of Assisi. A mystic as well as a preacher, St. Francis, "lover of

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    Submitted: December 19, 2009 By: Mikki
  • Saladin

    Saladin

    Saladin was born in 1137 in Tikr'it, Iraq. Saladin was of Kurdish Heritage, and at the age of 14 he started in the service of the Syrian ruler, Nuru d-Din. He started to show his qualities under 3 campaigns against the Crusaders who were established in Palestine. The first was in 1164 and the last in 1169. 1169 Saladin served as second to the commander in chief of the Syrian army, his uncle Shirkuh. Shirkuh

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    Submitted: March 16, 2009 By: Wendy
  • Saladin

    Saladin

    Saladin was born in 1137 in Tikr'it, Iraq. Saladin was of Kurdish Heritage, and at the age of 14 he started in the service of the Syrian ruler, Nuru d-Din. He started to show his qualities under 3 campaigns against the Crusaders who were established in Palestine. The first was in 1164 and the last in 1169. 1169 Saladin served as second to the commander in chief of the Syrian army, his uncle Shirkuh. Shirkuh

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    Essay Length: 293 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: March 2, 2010 By: Mike
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