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Tocqueville and James: Views on Democracy
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7 pages in length. Examines two literary works on Democracy. Democracy in America by Alexis Tocqueville and American Civilization by C. L. R. James are discussed and compared. Different men, different centuries, and writing on the same subject: Democracy in the United States. Tocqueville’s two-volume treatise was written in the early 1800's and became a mainstay for future generations to read and discuss. Cyril Lionel Robert James modeled his book American Civilization on Tocqueville’s Democracy in America. JGAdemoc.doc
Filename: JGAdemoc.wps
“Romeo and Juliet” – Dance, Opera, and Orchestra
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This 4 page report discusses three different versions of Shakespeare’s classic “Romeo and Juliet.” Charles Gounod’s opera. Prokofiev’s ballet, and Tchaikovsky’s “Fantasy Overture on Romeo and Juliet” are compared in terms of their portrayal of two of the characters of the play. In this case, the couple chosen to be examined are also one of the most well-known literary couples in the world. No bibliography.
Filename: BWromeo.rtf
Muriel Spark/Fascism in 'Prime of Miss Jean Brodie'
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A 12 page research paper that examines Muriel Spark's The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie. The writer argues that, ultimately, , the reader comes to see that Brodie is a romantic egotist who has a tendency to shape the world to fit her perceptions of how things ought to be. She is also a 'monster' because she endeavors to shape her students into appendages of her own personality, even leading their actions so she can live out experiences vicariously through them, experiences that express her own thwarted desires. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
Filename: 99brodie.rtf
19th and 20th Century Russian Socialism in Theory and Practice
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A 3 page paper which examines the early socialists’ idealistic desire to create a society free of capitalist-industrial economic, social and political injustice and the reality of the 1917 Lenin communist government. Specifically examined are the relationship between the
ideals and the reality and how the differences can be historically explained. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
Filename: Russoc.wps
Rousseau’s "The Social Contract" as it Applies to Slavery
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16 pages in length. "The Social Contract", on the text that all men are born free and equal, regards the State as a contract in which individuals surrender none of their natural rights, but rather agree for the protection of them. Most remarkable in this projected republic was the provision to banish aliens to the state religion and to punish dissenters with death. The Social Contract became the textbook of the French Revolution, and Rousseau's theories as protests bore fruit in the frenzied bloody orgies of the Commune as well as in the rejuvenation of France and the history of the entire Western world. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
Filename: JGAjjrou.wps
Russian Border Guards
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An 18 page research paper that examines the past and present of the Russian border guard. The writer details the history of the guard and how they maintained the 'Iron curtain' for the former Soviet Union and then details how the guard has changed with the demise of the USSR. Bibliography lists 15 sources.
Filename: 90guard.rtf
Leon Trotsky's Role in Russia
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This five-page-paper discusses the role
Leon Trotsky played in the Russian Revolution and the Bolshevik Party.
It opens with a discussion about Trotsky's life accomplishments and then
moves into a brief biography of his entire life. It finishes with the
reason he did not win the bid to succeed Lenin when he died.
Bibliography lists five sources.
Filename: CWLeonTr.was
The Russian Revolution of 1917
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This 7 page report discusses the events of 1917 and the Russian Revolution. Russia suffered serious reverses in World War I at the hands of the Germans and Austrians. The country had become a backward country with a miserable peasantry on the verge of starvation, a thin veneer of
European civilization, and a seemingly unbridgeable gap between the privileged and the unprivileged. The Russian people turned to the Bolsheviks, almost by default, to implement the popular revolutionary program. Lenin and the Bolsheviks eventually implemented their own version of revolution instead. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
Filename: BWrusrev.wps
Use of Terror in the Russian Revolution of 1917
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A 7 page research paper that deals with how the Bolsheviks, led by Lenin, relied upon terror and violence to accomplish their political goals and solidify their power base after the Revolution of 1917. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
Filename: 99bolter.rtf