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…an expansive image of Russia during the period of the napoleonic wars, and "Anna Karenina" is a narrative about a distressed wicked woman. Tolstoy intended to do more than amuse or even disturb his readers. He treated the writing of fiction as sober as a moralistic…

…I have read 'Red Sky in the Morning' by Elizabeth Laird. It is a novel based on the life of a mature teenage girl called Anna Peacock. The story is told by the main character in the first person. It is a family drama and as it is told in the first person…

…in March 1933 when he met with his representatives for the first time. Goebbels discussed his aspirations for the Ministry. He used three films as examples to model his films from: Anna Karenina, The Rebel, and The Nibelungen. These films illustrated…

…. There is an exceptional portrayal of a field of hay being cut by this technique in Tolstoy's Anna Karenina, Part III Chs. 4,5. Wheat seems usually to have been cut using a sickle, a much smaller tool than the scythe. The hay cannot protect itself against the sweep…

…(Anna) Eleanor Roosevelt was born to Anna Hall Roosevelt and Elliot Roosevelt on October 11, 1884. The Roosevelt family was a part of New York's golden Victorian society. In spite of being born into such a privileged position, Eleanor Roosevelt…

…with several volunteers. All of this was portrayed in chronological order in the movies. Several minutes into the movies Santa Anna's troops reclaim San Antonio and Santa Anna ahs one of his troops raise a flag on top of the bell tower of the San Fernando Church…

…and Lyudmila, Boris Godunov, Eugene Onegin, and the Bronze Horseman. Nicholas Gogol was one of the best fiction writers. Tolstoy wrote War and Peace, and Anna Karenina. The musician Tchaikovsky wrote 1812 Overture, Nutcracker Suite, Swan Lake, Romeo and Juliet…

…people in a story which attacks prejudice and bigotry. Lillian Gish's performance as Anna Moore is superb and flawless, beautifully photographed as having an inner light and spirituality. Moving, authentic and intense, she expresses the full range of emotions…

…Have you ever done something solely to build or save your pride? In the Texas Revolution a strong and proud general named Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna tightened control over Texas in order to repopulate Texas with Mexicans, since the dominating race had…

…would rather be reading Anna Karenina, Jane smiled and nodded and took the first manila folder back to her desk. She sat down and smiled to herself. What that twit Mrs. Terada didn’t know, what nobody, not her parents, not the children, not even her…