Although, she does admit even she was shocked when listening to the speech, as she explains “the line was not believable”. From this I can conclude that source one doesn’t wholly hold Churchill responsible for the 1945 election defeat, however the reliability of the source is questionable as it is bias towards the conservative party. Source two, an extract from Lord Butler’s memoirs, clearly shows opposition to not only Churchill but also the conservative party, Lord Butler for example describes Churchill’s speech as a “negative attack on the labour party” and believed that he should have instead focused on “post-war policies”. By describing Churchill’s use of the word “Gestapo” as a “strategic blunder” shows that Butler is blaming Churchill in having played a role in the defeat of the 1945 election. Although both members of the conservative party, Butler and Churchill were political enemies, this is evident when looking at the extract: “a poor third place to the concentrated exploitation of Churchill’s personality” – this is a personal attack on Churchill’s actions.
Parmet, wrote about life of Richard Nixon with a confidence that he actually knows the person. However, he’s credibility toward writing this book does not qualify him to be a good biographer. Parmet has conducted an interview several times with Nixon before, however he wasn’t with the President Nixon when events occurred during presidency. Also parmet quoted several sources from other biographer such as “’Sought applause as though it were a substitute for love’ biographer Fawn Brodie wrote” (3). Herber S. Parmet delineated the life story of Richard Nixon during his political career.
I think that because the book is from Sergei’s point of view it captures more feeling and is more in depth then if someone else had written the book for him. Sergei provides the reader a little glimpse of what living as a citizen in Russia was like. Sergei told us about his childhood struggles he faced as an orphan and how difficult it was to be “bounced” from home to home. He shared with us his triumphs as the Leader of the Youth and how involved with Communism he was. After reading this book I realized how difficult it really was to survive in Russia during the fifties and sixties.
The troubled southern boy matured into a wild and angry young man, and was convinced by others that The Citadel was the only college suited to handle his less than acceptable attitude. As a freshman, he soon discovered that his untamed spirit and mediocre approach towards academics make life extremely hard on him while attending a school that thrives on high performance and excellence. But after witnessing a Junior Sword Drill performance, he discovers his calling and decides to dedicate himself to joining their ranks. Yet he quickly realizes that his poor attitude and performance at the onset of his first semester has placed him in a nearly impossible position of obtaining the rank necessary to even qualify. What follows are endless months of sacrifice to make up for the sins of his
Steinbeck found this to be a turning point in the actions of Americans—to either join together and work through it as a whole, or take advantage of others and push yourself forward and not care about those you may leave behind. John Steinbeck’s works were heavily influenced by the depression and the impact it had in the current struggles of the common man; they were reflected in his works Of Mice and Men, and The Grapes of Wrath. John Steinbeck was born in 1902 in Salinas Valley, California. Once he completed high school, he went off to Stanford University for five years but never earned a degree. While he was off at college he was able to have a job on a farm.
As a teenager, Jackson had already suffered through the deaths of his mother, father, two brothers, and also spent time as a prisoner of the British during the Revolution (Hollitz, 194-95). It’s a miracle that Jackson even made it to his adulthood, let alone to lead a democratic movement to the top of American politics. Given the choice, we would never want anyone to go through a torturous childhood like Jackson did. Nevertheless, his childhood experiences helped him mold into exactly the type of person the democrats needed. In the 18th century, the common man of America needed someone in politics who they could relate to.
How far does Stalin’s position as General Secretary explain his success in defeating his rivals in the years 1924-29? Following Lenin’s death in 1924, the Communist Leadership in Russia was thrown into disarray. Months of ideological confusion, full of proposals of ideas for the future of socialism, bought about potential contenders for party leadership and amongst these was Joseph Stalin. Throughout the next 5 years, a great power struggle occurred between the contenders but Stalin eventually emerged successful as the new leader of the USSR. It was Stalin’s position as General Secretary and other factors that that contributed to his success.
Some of them were the Cold War with the Soviet Union, the gas shortage that was going on at the time, and President Carter coming into office under difficult circumstances. The movie Miracle shows all that was going on prior to and during the Olympic games in 1980. The movie is primarily about a coach, Herb Brooks taking over the U.S. Hockey team which had had its troubles over the past twenty years. He took over the team who for the first time was using college players for the Olympics. The team was mostly made up of players from Boston University and the University of Minnesota, which the players from those schools didn’t like each other at first because of a college rivalry.
His teachers would say he would go nowhere in life, his parents would fight continuously and he found it very difficult to make friends. Tim Burton dropped out of school when he was 15 years old. Despite all of Tim’s childhood problems, Tim has managed to incorporate them and his life values into his films, which is how he has had such a long term success as a movie director. One of Burton’s most successful films is the movie Edward Scissor hands. The movie is about a man named Edward who has scissors for hands and tries to fit into the ‘perfect society’.
Macroeconomics | Occupational Licensing | Regulations | | Karina Bueno | 12/14/2011 | Dr. Dearmon | Occupational Licensing Cosmetology has always been my preferred career choice. When I spoke to my father about being a cosmetologist, he opposed completely and handed me a list of business degrees to choose from. I spent my freshman and sophomore year of college completely hating the business school which my father had forced me to attend to. This past summer, I failed my first course, Microeconomics. So here I was, hating my future accounting degree, hating economics, hating management, failing classes, but most of all hating the fact that I was struggling with something I did not want to do at all much less for the rest of