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Hitchcock/Psycho & Shadow of a Doubt

the nature of good and evil. In "Shadow," there are the two "Charlies," Uncle Charlie and his niece, Charlotte, who is known as "C...

Silent v. Sound/Art in Film

"at heart, I was always a silent movie man" (Twatio 14). One reason why early silent films appear odd or stilted to modern audie...

When A Man Loves A Woman

love for their children. However, it quickly becomes evident that there is trouble in this paradise, as Alice has a problem, as sh...

Independence Day/Film Review

in low Earth orbit would cause tidal waves, which is never mentioned, and one of the criticisms leveled at the film. There are oth...

Operation Barbarossa

Slavic populations, whom they considered inferior, and to repopulate the land with Germanic peoples" (Operation Barbarossa, 2006)....

Gorbachev’s Reforms

capitalism. However, taking a perceptive that considers the goals that Gorbachev hoped to accomplish, that is, to provide the "sal...

Peaceful Warrior, A Film Review

and shown how Dan could overcome his greatest fear-"how to live life when unable to one thing he does well: gymnastics" (Petruska)...

Expanding the North American Treaty Organization

opportunities were presented when the Berlin Wall fell in 1989 (NATO, April, 2009). The Warsaw Pact was dissolved and the USSR was...

Soviet Leaders

over from February 13, 1984 to March 10, 1985; Mikhail Gorbachev was the last Soviet leader; he was in office from March 11, 1985 ...

Overview of Perestroika from 1985 to 1991

understand Perestroika is by looking at it in retrospect, it is only with the developments that have occurred afterwards that the ...

Students and Using Credit Card Uses

a more accepting attitude of debt also indicates that this is resulting in the use of credit cards and higher than ever before cre...

Undermining the Kremlin by Gregory Mitrovich

this time, which includes the fears of policymakers regarding the Soviet threat, as well as their perspective on the ramifications...

Soviet Union's Downfall and Reports by American Intelligence

drop in performance indicators, might strengthen conservative opposition. Such trends, coupled with the continuing nationality tu...

Was the Cold War Caused by Nuclear Weapons?

A bomb could be launched and hot another country with no need for any military personal to step on foreign soil. The United Stat...

The Balkans

that have been conducive to even more terrorist activity. The twentieth century both began and ended with bloodshed in the ...

Stalinist Russia and Jewish Life

with jaw-breaking rolls? These were the difficulties growth. Someday soon, a new, modern just society would arise from the backwar...

Relations Between the US and Russia and the Influence of Mikhail Gorbachev

Gorbachev and Reagan developed a personal relationship based upon mutual admiration, and the humanization of the two men would mak...

France's King Louis the Fourteenth and His Absolutism

was an absolute ruler, he kept his nobles living at court and as such their power base was impotent as they lacked independence an...

'Counterintelligence State' Known as the Soviet Union

time "They found themselves, no doubt, with much more information than they could ever possibly use in the short span of time left...

Cold War and Soviet Intelligence Community Success

that something was being done, and they were actually given (leaked) disinformation so that it would seem that there were existing...

Not by Bread Alone by Melissa Caldwell

the society of post-socialist/communist Russia. One of her focuses involves a feud between a couple of the "regulars" at t...

Comparative Analysis of the CIA and the KGB

Stalin and subsequent leaders, going through many name changes, and ultimately becoming the KGB in 1954 (University of San Diego, ...

Expansion of the European Union

the membership of the CEECs as well as the internal reform of the which will be a precondition for the next enlargement" (2001). T...

Should the European Union Use a Two-Tiered Negotiation System?

few remedies proposed. One issue on the block is whether or not to treat all nations that same. When children grow up,they learn ...

1941 and 1942 German Occupied Soviet Union and Jews' Fate

specialized army groups within the SS, called the Einsatzgruppen. They were placed under the command of Reinhard Heydrich. Heydri...

1920s, 1930s, and Women's Issues Lack of Progress

seats, and more than half of those were filling mid-term vacancies (Harrison, 1997). In state legislatures, women didnt fare much...

'Tsarist' Approach to Soviet Foreign Policy

the revolutionaries and the new leaders and demonstrate its usefulness in terms of serving as a format for class organization as w...

Post World War and Cold War Economic and Political Impacts

(5). Therefore, when the wall dividing East and West Germany was finally torn down, it is clear why this was such a powerful symb...

Perspectives on the Cold War

Cold War possessed many instigators from American paranoia to a lack of mutual cooperation to the outright compromise of foreign p...

Communism, China, and the Paradox Represented by Chairman Mao

important to recognize their interaction with the West prior to the revolution was extremely limited. Indeed, even European merch...