Symbolism in "The Cherry Orchard:" Chekhov's Russia

Anton Chekhov’s perennial drama, The Cherry Orchard, is a classic work of Russian literature. Chekhov himself grew up in a Russia that was experiencing the changes effected by the emancipation of the serfs in 1861. In one generation, Russia went...

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Russia History

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The Romanovs: Alexander II (The Second) Tsar Liberator and his Children

Tsar Alexander II was an interesting man. He liberated the serfs. he also had two families, and tried to make this work.

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Social Stratification | Forms of Social Stratification

stratification stands for the arrangement of people in a society into various layers on the basis of social status. Social stratification assumes different forms in different societies on different criteria. These forms are slavery, estate, class and caste.

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Corporate To Do List

Some observations on what corporations do to limit the ability of a citizen to stand up to them. Changes made to laws and the way governments run certain things are a direct result of corporate meddling. Just because it's legal, it doesn't make it right.

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The Domination - the Draka Society

The Domination from S.M. Stirling is about an Utopian/Dysutopian society called Draka Society. I haven't read this book yet but I intend to because I think it's more entertaining - this is the...

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Represenation without Taxation

Western society has a disease what must be fixed. This disease was present in Rome proceeding it's fall. A summary of the problem and a solution to it.

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Firefox: how to improve mem usage

Even after at least hundreds of posts on digg.com, even after a Slashdot article there’s thousands of people out there complaining about the Firefox Memory Bug. Lets get it straight. It’s not a...

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Kingdoms Lost

Creative writing about the dark ages and the state of life for the poor and nobility during them plague and the dark times.

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Travel easy

Are you still looking the way you will travel. Are you still want to have almost every available option in your screen just making a few clicks? This is the best way to travel. Don’t lose your time, make it...

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