Joseph Stalin was one of the most influential figures of the 20th century, especially to the Soviet Union. By the time Vladimir Lenin passed away Stalin had almost complete control of the government. With his power over everyone, Stalin forced his biggest rivals out of the contention for leader. In doing this he had freedom to do as he pleased. Joseph Stalin was aware the Soviet Union was far from being where he wanted it to be, so he created the Five-Year Plans. Although, Stalin’s achievements…
Joseph Stalin was the leader of the Soviet Union from 1922 to 1952. He was a rough communist leader who spread fear, terror, and other horrid emotions to his people. Many hate Stalin for his brutal leadership and have even called him worse than Hitler in terms of authority and deaths among his people. Like many strong dictators, Stalin used many different forms of horror to keep a iron grip reserving his position of lead in his country. But how exactly did Joseph Stalin keep the Soviet Union…
Kylee Kerhulas Mr. Ousley Music Appreciation 2 February 2017 Franz Joseph Haydn Franz Joseph Haydn was an eighteenth century Austrian composer of the Classical period. Haydn was born March 31, 1732; in Rohrau, Austria to Mathias and Maria Haydn. Haydn displayed musical talent at an early age and his parent sent him to be an apprentice to Johann Matthias Franck, the schoolmaster and choirmaster in Hainburg, to train as a musician. He learned to play both harpsichord and violin and received…
Joseph Haydn was one of the composers from the eighteenth century whom worked mainly for courts, churches, teaching, performing and composing on commission or publication for a living. Haydn was known as the “Father of Symphony” for wide publication of his symphonies. Symphonies, instrumental sonatas and string quartets are the most well known works, which made him a prolific composer in the classical period. Haydn was born in Rohrau and started to learn music in singing, playing the harpsichord…
In the spring of 1732 in the quaint village of Rohrau, Austria, Franz Joseph Haydn was born. His father Mathias was a wheelwright like his father before him, and had a strong sense of ambition and pride which he also instilled in his children. Neither Haydn’s mother nor Mathias could read music. Even so, the large Haydn family was known to spend the time following their evening meal singing songs around the accompaniment of a harp. This musical family laid the framework for a boy that was…
Mac Pollard Instructor Will Dawkins Writing 121 19 October 2014 Joseph Conrad was born on December 3, 1857, in Berdichev, Ukraine. His parents, Apollo and Evelina were Polish patriots apart of the noble class who conspired against the oppressive Russian rule of the time. As a consequence, they were arrested and forced to live in the Russian province of Vologda with their 4-year-old son, Joseph Conrad. They Conrad's education was erratic. First, he started being tutored by his literary father.…
Therefore, the first head of the Soviet Union, the revolutionary Vladimir Lenin, who gave the workers what Marx had in his mind with changes of some crucial aspects of Marx 's in order to fit it into the Russian situation. After the Lenin Dead in 1924, Joseph Stalin took the power of the USSR. Some might argue that Stalin applied to the theory of Marx, but in fact he was in the opposite direction in several point include in the work condition. , social equality, and property rights. At first…
Senator Joseph McCarthy was born on November 15, 1908, in Grand Chute, Wisconsin. Joseph attended Marquette University after completing the Little Wolf High School’s 4 years in only nine months, an amazing feat. He practiced law while at Marquette University and he became the president of his law school class. After earning his law degree in 1935, he joined a firm and became partner in just 2 years, which is practically unheard of. McCarthy’s failed to gain the seat in his first attempt at…
accusers. “ A victim in the end of his own recklessness” (Joseph Mccarthy). This quote about the red scare shows that even though some people even though they may not have known any communist would accuse these people to get the attention off of them. In some cases many people got killed for being accused of communism even if they had no clue what communism was or is, and not only did this rumor affect these people on the list but it affected Joseph Mccarthy because in the end he was reckless,…
story. The storyteller, Marlow, recounts his time on his trip and the brutality that he saw conducted by the Europeans on the natives. Modern day readers are able to look at the past; however, recently people have begun to discuss if the author, Joseph Conrad, is a racist leading to many conversations. Upper classmen in high school should be required to read Heart of Darkness because it increases their awareness of global social issues and will add to a better understanding of complex…