Assignment 03
Part 1 Stalin
What does the source tell us about the creation of myth surrounding Stalin?
Joseph Stalin was not just a figurehead of state but a man of many contrasts. Through propaganda and oppression he made himself he made his image to be the unquestionable and if he was questioned by anyone he could and would eradicate them to protect his persona that he created. Stalin succeeded Lenin after his death and needed to set himself aside from Lenin, he cold not just continue after Lenin died but he needed to be different. However extreme his actions where.
It was well known the distrust Lenin had for Stalin he often referred to him as a bully and he didn’t want him as a successor and was greatly in favor of Trotsky, Stalin was well aware of this and this may of pushed him to even his more extreme ways.
Myths surrounding Stalin in the most basic form where formed from both his propaganda where Stalin could be seen as a fatherly figure and that he was looking after his nation and by most part his controlling of external informations that he could alter.
The 17th Party congress voting was greatly altered by Stalin. The adjusted votes would of given a false verdict to what the Communist party actually wanted as a collective. Stalin was given numerous negative votes, unconfirmed over 100 but this was to be adjusted and the reported negative votes he had would later be confirmed to was 3 negative votes. Many party members where becoming more adverse to Stalin’s leadership and wanted change, this was overlooked and erased.
The Essay on Lenin Stalin Comparison Khrushchev Party People
Social Science 201 16. 10. 2000 A great luck for Russia was that at the times of hardships she was headed by such a genius and talented commander as Joseph Stalin. Stalin was a man of extraordinary energy, erudition and a powerful will. Him even I, a person taught by the Parliament, could not counter. W. Churchill "Stalin is the Lenin of today," said a popular propaganda slogan of the thirties and ...
In the 20th Party Congress Khrushchev denounced Stalin so vehemently in this speech that there where rumors of attendees having heart attacks and even cases of people dying at such shock and even revulsion of Stalin being to plainly laid out for his true actions. Where people in such great shock because the believed the hype, the incorrect votes that where showed as truth the propaganda that had been published for years as true, could so much in such a powerhouse of a national be myth was this man truly to blame alone? Or was it in fact shock because not only were people aware but they did not want to have it in front of them to have to accept what happened how many people where unnecessarily killed or lost because these myths grown around Stalin made people to believe he could in fact lead and lead them they way they believed they wanted to be lead.
The myths surrounding Stalin built him to be a great man, a man who was leading the nation of someone who was taking care of his nation and you could put your trust in his decisions as believed so many had. Where myth created out of fear of this man and his brutal ways or where people so greatly misjudging what where thought views of the communist party and nation? The passage I feel does make me feel one sided however much propaganda where Stalin is depicted as a father figure taking care of his nation even being referred to a “uncle joe” and altered documents from the era i look at as we have so much fact to go on from the creation of the gulag camps where millions of people where exiled to 2/3rd’s of the voters from the 17th congress be executed or simply go missing within the next 3 years after the 17th congress.
Comparison of two poems
The Oxen
Published near christmas time in the first word war a turbulent time in England’s history. It begins by setting a very cosy christmas scene of a tale being told to small children. A tale of a specific time of year where the symbolism of imagery to the Oxen is special because of the history of the manger in a stable for baby Jesus the Ox would know this every Christmas eve and kneel at midnight so the tale would tell.
The Essay on People Lie Lies Feel Lying
Oops, I just told a lie. It was a little white lie but still, I lied. Why did I lie What an interesting thought: Why After thinking about this most complex question I came up with a variety of reasons why people find justification in lying. Be mindful that most of my thoughts stem from books or articles I have read about the not so honest people living in society. I know someone who has made bad ...
Words such as “embers” “hearthside” “elders” are very cosy words to set this childhood scene of sitting around a fireplace being regaled these tales by elder folk.
The way this poem is written uses very simple language, it feels like a child is reading the first part of the poem.
The second paragraph feels of naiveness lost as a adult “nor did it occur too one of us there to doubt they were kneeling then” how could they believe this as a child. This section of the poem creates a bit of a sense of struggle because they want to believe but no longer can or maybe want to..
Delving into Hardy’s life and other works suggest his point in life where he started to take a different spiritual path and no longer believe in God or possibly in humanity due to the war
“so fair a fancy few would weave in these years!” suggest his loss of faith or the nations loss of faith in traditions that happened at a time when a war was on.The pattern of the poem had also shifted in the part from it’s upbeat sing-song to something more abrupt.
At the end of the poem i am split between optimistic view and pessimistic because of the line “I should go with him in the gloom, hoping it might be so”, I “should” go with him implying he may not want to, “into the gloom” into the war? and hoping it might be so, hope that it will be ok?.
Cow in Calf
Cow in Calf is a sonnet,a simply lovely poem that feels very natural and maternal very easy to follow and more of a rural family, very maternal feeling than reading The Oxen. A farmer’s son Heaney describes the scene perfectly as a part of life raising cattle would of been for him. This sonnet doesnt have a sing song rhtym like The Oxen did but it is easy to follow.
The use of emotive words to describe the heavily pregnant cow as “it seems she has swallowed a barrel” and “her belly hung low like a hammock” they are also quiet similar words and a paired for more emphasise. She was very close to giving birth, and there’s a bond between the person looking after her and the cow.
The Term Paper on Poetry Fragmentation Cummings Poems Words
On Tulips & Chimneys, which contains "Thy fingers make early flowers of,"in Just-,"O sweet spontaneous," and "Buffalo Bill's" Slater Brown (1924) Modern art gets much less explanation than it deserves. The artist is too busy pioneering, the intransigent critic too busy fighting his own battles. Nor does any explanation come from the critics of the older school. They have a fear of tasting ...
I felt heartache when he had to strike her and repeatedly for when he says “heard the blows like a depth charge” this was another nod i felt to a war the WWII and the depth charge takes on another whole meaning.
His choice of words used telling a tale of a very natural part of life, birth and the ending line
“Her cud and her milk her heats and her calfs keep coming and going” referring to the loop in the their/cows existence.
