Today I was going through the attic in my house and I found this old trunk with the name Alexi Iavok painted on the side. When I opened up the trunk I found several pages written by Russian peasant living in St. Petersburg during the Russian Revolution. This man was there to experience the March Revolution, the attacks in Petrograd, and the beginning of War Communism by the Bolsheviks. I was amazed by all of the things he lived through and what he experienced, and how lucky I was to find these. I
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1. The term “Dual Executives” can be described as a government system in which power is shared between both a prime minister and a president. The prime minister is referred to as the head of the government, while the president is the head of state. This form of government is utilized in both France and Russia. In France the division of power is based off the political party of both the two leaders. The majority of the time if both the president and prime minister are from the same political party
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The famous truffle soup was created by Paul Bocuse in 1975 February 25 for the president of France, Valery Giscard d’Estaing when Bocuse was appointed ‘chevalier de la Legion d’Honneur’. The order is the highest French order for military and civil merits, established 1802 by Napoleon Bonaparte. The order is divided into five degrees of increasing distinction: Chevalier, Officer, Commandeur, Grand Officer and Grand-Croix(2). After that time, Paul bocuse has served the soup in his restaurant as “Soupe
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BACKGROUND - Characteristics of the fictional company JD Hair Solution is a company founded by two childhood friends which specializes in hair products for men, women, and kids. The company sells products for: Hair colors, hair restoration, hair wash, hair moisturizing, hair shine, hair protection, and hair growth. The company is currently reaching sales of more than 200,000 million per year. Our products are sold in The US (New York - Headquarters), Dominican Republic, Colombia, Mexico, and
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properties. Lithium, sodium, and potassium, for example, were grouped together in a triad as soft. German chemist Leopold Gmelin worked with this system, and by 1843 he had identified ten triads, three groups of four, and one group of five. Jean-Baptiste Dumas published work in 1857 describing relationships between various groups of metals. Although various chemists were able to identify relationships between small groups of elements, they had yet to build one scheme that encompassed them all. In 1858
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Zara’s supply chains and operations management | December 23 2013 | | | COVENTRY UNIVERSITY LONDON CAMPUS Student name: Ha Linh Tran Student ID: 4569196 Module title and code: 214LON Supply chain and Operations Management Tutor’s name: Dr Amanda Mao Assignment title: Zara’s supple chain and risks of management Date of submission: 23rd December 2013 Word count: 2169 CONTENTS Page 1. Introduction
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Creeco reports its activities to the Cree Nation at its first annual assembly Business Leaders, chiefs, special guests, and representatives for the all the Cree communities of Eeyou Istchee gathered for a two-day conference to discuss the affairs of the Cree Regional Economic Enterprises Company (Creeco). The event was held this past summer in the Cree community of Chisasibi located in Northern Quebec. Creeco started its operations in 1982, three years after the Crees received their first compensation
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COMPARATIVE ESSAY BETWEEN ALEXANDER II AND III Tsar Alexander II and III while father and son had very different ambitions as Tsar and different view for the future of the empire. Alexander III succeeded to his father’s throne in 1894. His reign is looked upon by most historians as a time of repression that saw the undoing of many of the reforms carried out by his father. Certainly that was a time of great economic and social change but these had led, in the West of the nation, great pressure
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in the war as ill-equipped, with the soldiers under-fed. The morale was so low that there were Russian soldiers who began deserting their troops. In 1916, approximately 1.5 million soldiers deserted the army. Michael Rodzianko, the President of the Duma, sent a telegram to Nicholas II on 27th February 1917 stating how ‘the troops of the garrison cannot be relied upon,’ and how, ‘the battalions of the Guard regiments are in the grips of rebellion’ This shows the lack of unity in fighting against a
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community has been an arduous one. Since the gay propaganda law was passed in 2013, hate crimes against the LGBT community has nearly doubled. The law bans “propaganda of nontraditional sexual relations around minors” and was justified by Russia’s Duma as a crucial measure to protect children from homosexual influence. This law is discriminatory, stimulates homophobia and infringes the European Convention on Human Rights. The increasing conservative trends and negative public attitudes affect the
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