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Swan Lake Four Years
1,251 wordsDancer and choreographer Anton Dolin has been called "one of the most colorful and vital figures in modern ballet. " As a member of internationally known ballet companies or as director of his own troupes, this British-born artist has toured Europe and America for the past twenty years. Anton Dolin, originally Patrick Healey-Kay, was born on July 27, 1904, in Slinfold, Sussex, England. He is one of the three sons of George Henry and Helen Maude (Healey) Kay. When he was ten years of age his pare...
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1,577 words"Ray Bradbury is one of the immortals among us, whose classic works of science fiction, fantasy and horror will be read a thousand years from now by our descendents and the relatives alike of the planets of a thousand distant stars. " (Dragon con, website). Hes won many awards for his writings and lectures, and I have no doubt in my mind that his writings will live on forever. "It was a special pleasure to see things eaten, to see things blackened and changed. With the brass nozzle in his fists,...
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1,196 wordsIt was a pleasure to burn. It was a special pleasure to see things eaten, to see things blackened and changed, begins Fahrenheit 451 (1). This opening of Bradbury's novel immediately evokes the consequences of the careless use of new technology and modern-mans refusal to recognize these consequences (de Koster 44). The book Fahrenheit 451 is one of only two novels that Ray Bradbury has written, the other being Something Wicked This Way Comes. (Many believe that Dandelion Wine and The Martian Chr...
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Million Metric Tons Five Year Plan
550 wordsStalin was born in 1879 and died 1953. He was the leader of Russia and wanted to industrialize it because they were behind most of the other countries. A quote that Stalin made was "We are 100 years behind the advanced countries. We must make good this lag in ten years. Either we do it, or they crush us!" In order to bring Russia up to the current level of industry he employed a variety of different ideas to help Russia. Stalin was a tyrannical leader and did what he had to do to keep Russia fro...
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Federal Emergency Relief Labor Relations Act
1,405 wordsDuring the 1930 's, America witnessed a breakdown of the Democratic and free enterprise system as the United States fell into the worst Depression in history. The effects of the depression were being felt everywhere in the United States. In 1933, sixteen million people were unemployed. Americans wanted and needed a change. They proved this by electing Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1932. This was the beginning of a new period in time for Americans, as Roosevelt would introduce his course of action wit...
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Soviet Union Red Army
1,008 wordsPoland In The Second World War Jozef Garlinski The Macmillan Press LTD, 1985 Poland had gained independence after the First World War but unification of Poland, which was apart for such a long time, created many problems. Weak economy, disrupted government, and the population being mostly minorities group. Also the Poland had to deal with two aggressive countries by her side, Germany and Russia. Hitler had known the situation Poland was under. He knew that Poland would not agree to his demands b...
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Holocaust The Destruction Process
1,055 wordsDuring the period from the early 1930 's to the mid 40 's, the Jews in Germany, Poland, and throughout Europe faced intense discrimination from the Nazis. Starting with boycotts and pogroms, the Nazis proceeded to institute legislation against the Jews with the Nuremberg Laws. Institution of ghettos began in the late 1930 's. A climate of hostility against Jews had been methodically and relentlessly established. The Holocaust was a systematic destruction process, which, in a very rational, burea...
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Concentration Camps Death Camps
1,870 wordsIntroduction page 1 Concentration Camps pages 2 - 5 Death Camps page 6 Buchenwald pages 7 - 11 Conclusion page 12 - 13 Endnotes pages 14 - 15 Bibliography horrifying crime against humanity of all times. "Hitler, in an attempt to establish the pure Aryan race, decided that all mentally ill, gypsies, non supporters of Nazism, and Jews were to be eliminated from the German population. He proceeded to reach his goal in a systematic scheme. " One of his main methods of "doing away" with these "undesi...
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Los Angeles California Ray Bradbury
571 wordsRay Bradbury was a great writer on many levels. He could write novels, short stories, essays, plays, screenplays, and poetry. An active imagination and a fascination with outer space combine in many of Ray Bradbury's stories. Ray Bradbury surpassed an unstable childhood to become a world renowned science fiction author. Ray Bradbury was born on August 22, 1920, in Waukegan, Illinois. He was the third child of Leonard Spaulding Bradbury and Esther Marie Modern Bradbury. In the fall of 1926, the B...
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Walt Disney Mickey Mouse
1,049 wordsThe story The Happy Island has a very interesting author who led a very interesting life, Dawn Powell. The story took place in the 1930 s which was an extremely important decade and it had a lot to do with advances in history. In order to gain a better understanding of the book, information about the author, the time period and about the actual book, must be talked about. The Happy Island depicted the 1930 s quite well, and the story compared a little with the authors life. Dawn Powell led a ver...
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Britain And France League Of Nations
504 wordsIn 1939 the Second World War started. It was led by a strong believer in God who had high hopes for his country, his name was Adolf Hitler. Many believed that there were four main reasons for the start of the war, these are: The Wall street Crash; League of Nations; Hitlers ambitions and Appeasement. The Wall Street Crash affected the whole world. It was where companies were selling lots of stock at low prices. The prices began to rise and they still had people buying them. On 3 rd September the...
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Beer Hall Putsch World War Ii
1,057 wordsThe Nazi party affected many people around the world through both the Holocaust and World War II. Hitler had a plan to exterminate all the Jews, and propelled this idea through the Holocaust putting Jews in concentration camps and killing them. Hitler's evil plan caused one of the world's biggest tragedies, World War II. Adolf Hitler, who was the leader of the Nazis, was born in Austria just across the border from German Bavaria. Hitler would begin to read his fathers history books about Native ...
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High School Students Library Of Congress
1,403 words... nternational, fundamentally, as a useful and well-organized book stack "encircled with work spaces. " It was designed by the Washington architectural organization of Pierson & Wilson with Alexander Buel Trowbridge as a consulting designer. The contract was completed by June 24, 1938, but the structure was not ready for use until December 2, 1938. The move of the Card Division started on December 12, and it opened its doors for production to the public in the new building on January 3, 1939. ...
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Href Web Web Decided To Invade Hitler
517 wordsThe Treaty of Versailles faltered to heal the bitter mess that formed between countries in World War I. It left Germany in a terrible position and gave them a desire for dictatorship. Germany had been ordered to disarm its military and put strict rules on when and how the Germans could rearm. In 1931, Adolf Hitler came to power in Germany. He later rejected the treaty and establish military conscription. Mussolini also became dictator of Italy, while this was occurring. He decided to invade Ethi...
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Works Of Literature Bradbury
2,469 wordsRay Bradbury? s Fahrenheit 451? It was a pleasure to burn. It was a special pleasure to see things eaten, to see things blackened and changed, ? begins Fahrenheit 451 (1). This opening of Bradbury? s novel immediately evokes the consequences of the careless use of new technology and modern-man? s refusal to recognize these consequences (de Koster 44). The book Fahrenheit 451 is one of only two novels that Ray Bradbury has written, the other being Something Wicked This Way Comes. (Many believe th...
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Standard Of Living Trade Unions
1,986 wordsFascist Italy Style over substance To what extent is this true of Italy 1924 - 39 Mussolini did not rule with hand of iron in Italy and he was much more into propaganda and his own popularity. Yet he did achieve some victories for Italy. The substance Vs style issue can be looked at in a number of places e. g. social policy, cult of Mussolini etc Mussolini came to power in 1922 without any clear ideas about foreign policy but in just under a few months he had established a general aim, to make I...
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Nineteen Eighty Four Spanish Civil War
2,218 wordsEric Arthur Blair was born in 1903 at Motihari in British-occupied India. While growing up, he attended private schools in Sussex, Wellington and Eton. He worked at the Imperial Indian Police untill 1927 when he went to London to study the poverty stricken. He then moved to Paris where he wrote two lost novels. After he moved back to England he wrote Down and Out in Paris and London, Burmese Days, A Clergyman? s Daughter and Keep the Apidistra Flying. He published all four under the pseudonym Ge...
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Concentration Camps Nuremberg Laws
810 words&# 038; The Hitler Hitler &# 038; The Concentration Camps Of all the examples of injustice against humanity in history, the Jewish Holocaust has to be one of the most prominent. In the period of 1933 to 1945, the Nazis waged a vicious war against Jews and other Lesser races. This war came to a head with the Final Solution in 1938. One of the end results of the Final Solution was the horrible Concentration and death camps of Germany, Poland, and other parts of Nazi-controlled Europe. In the after...
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German Workers Party World War Ii
2,034 wordsThe rise of Adolf Hitler to the position of dictator of Germany is the story of a frenzied ambition that plunged the world into the worst war in history. Only an army corporal in World War I, Hitler became Germany's chancellor 15 years later. He was born on April 20, 1889, in Braunau-am-Inn, Austria, of German descent. His father Alois was the illegitimate son of Maria Anna Schicklgruber. In middle age Alois took the name Hitler from his paternal grandfather. After two wives had died Alois marri...
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Academy Of Sciences Massachusetts Institute Of Technology
1,075 wordsBiography of Robert Burns Woodward Robert Burns Woodward was born in Boston on April 10 th, 1917, the only child of Margaret and Arthur Woodward, of English antecedents. Roberts father Arthur died in October of 1918, at an early age of only thirty-three years old. Robert Woodward was attracted to chemistry at a very early age, and indulged his taste for the science in private activities throughout the period of his primary and secondary education in the public schools of Quincy, a suburb of Bost...
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