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Overview of Ivan the Terrible

In six pages Ivan the Terrible or Ivan IV, first Russian czar, is the focus of this historical consideration. Seven sources are c...

Ivan Ilyich and Socrates

from the fact that I realized that I knew nothing. A man of my era named Chaerephon once asked the Oracle at Delphi is there w...

Website Analysis: Ivan the Terrible

mijn werk als architect. - Laatst bijgewerkt 08-05-2006" (Klaas Vermaas Portfolio Website, 2006). The text, which is in Dutch, app...

Ivan the Terrible, Oprichnina, and the Secret Police

In ten pages this paper examines Russian Czar Ivan's brutal use of police force in Russia during the 16th century. Ten sources ar...

Czar Ivan IV a.k.a. Ivan the Terrible

He started out well, but then absolute power began to corrupt absolutely (Gerard ppg). Significance/Contribution The speech that...

Novgorod and Ivan The Terrible

In 6 pages Novgorod and Ivan the Terrible are examined in this historical overview. There are 7 sources cited in the annotated bi...

Ivan Ilych versus 'Slave Girl' Linda Brent

In one page this paper compares the characters Ivan Ilych from Leo Tolstoy's short story 'The Death of Ivan Ilych' and Linda Brent...

Life, Moral Judgments, and 'The Death of Ivan Ilych' by Leo Tolstoy

In five pages this report examines whether or not Ivan's death represents a moral judgment resulting from his life in this classic...

Healthcare: The Death of Ivan Ilyich

unnecessary, and the look of importance which implied that if only you put yourself in our hands we will arrange everything - we k...

Ivan the Terrible, Directed by Sergei Eisenstein

his cheek, he has a look that mixes fear and trepidation with determination. With this, Eisenstein introduces the idea that the Ts...

Birth Defects and Vitamin A Overuse

In five pages this paper discusses how birth defects including those involving the cranial neural crest and retinal issues can be ...

Alfie Kohn's The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A's, Praise, and Other Bribes

reward. He has been joined by a number of other theorist, each of whom present their own social cognitive theories. Several of t...

The Potential benefit Of M&A's in Supporting Nigerian Economic Growth

During the early 20th century merger and acquisition (M&A) activity in the United States provided one of the tools for economic gr...

Model A’s, Model T’s, and the Changing Face of America

few weeks later, the company sold its first automobile, to a doctor in Detroit (Davis). As noted above, the company produced 1,700...

Blinded by Class in 'The Death of Ivan Ilyich' by Leo Tolstoy

of their husband and friend. Tolstoy wrote of Ivan and his co-workers, "He had been ill for some weeks with an illness said to be...

Salvation in Tolstoy's Death of Ivan Ilych

of the regimen of behavior that is required to obtain and maintain a position on the upper rungs of the social ladder. Ivan does n...

Ivan Ilych

unpleasant an endeavor that they simply dispense with it as hastily as possible; they make small talk as effortless as eye-blinkin...

Nihilism: Turgenev, Dostoevsky

This research paper describes how Ivan Turgenev addresses nihilism in his novel Fathers and Children and compares this to Dostoevs...

Death of Ivan & Faust

child and is sentenced to death. As this indicates, Faust is plot driven. This contrasts sharply with Ivan Ilych, which mostly c...

Tolstoy: "After the Ball"

the physical setting and the Vasilievichs thoughts and emotions with exquisite clarity, though he doesnt tell us what Varinka is t...

The Death of Ivan Ilyich

dying and then the death itself that show the reader the truths he discovers. He observes his life, what it has been, while he is ...

Leo Tolstoy’s Alyosha the Pot

is always used and told what to do with no credit to his character. No one shows him kindness and yet Alyosha is still a good natu...

Happiness, Compassion and Religion

study showed that the emotions of "loving-kindness and compassion" could be encouraged and learned as sixteen "age-matched contro...

Ivan Pavlov

decided to become a physiologist during his third year" (Lautenheiser, 1999). His focus became narrowed to digestion and blood cir...

Immortality: Dostoevsky and Tolstoy

point that immortality may not exist at all. The only true thing is suffering and pain and that people may well convince themselve...

The Realistic Novel: Pride and Prejudice and Fathers and Sons

beautiful or charming as her sister. Her charm lies in her honesty, openness and her wit. Darcy is a man who, at first, seems take...

The Meaning of Life According to Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky

quite a bit about himself, he insists that he is lying. There is no point in this narrative in which the Underground Man becomes ...

Civil War Naval History

navy of the Confederate States of America. Roughly one-fifth of US naval officers resigned and joined the Southern rebels. In hi...

The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Leo Tolstoy

one part of the dying process involves anger. However, in this case, Ivan is seemingly too extreme for his behavior to be explaine...

Leo Tolstoy and Franz Kafka

successful than Gregor and supported his family. But as his story develops he begins to envision how his life has been pointless, ...