A Response to Goodbye to Berlin "I am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking" (Isherwood 1). This phrase comes from the first page of Christopher Isherwood's most popular documentary styled novel, Goodbye to Berlin (1939). In this novel, Isherwood m...

Darwin Darwin is the main setting of Maestro. Paul and his family move there after his father accepts a position as a medical officer. It is the capital city of the Northern Territory and Australia's northernmost city. Settlement was attempted in the early 1800s by the English, but it was...

The Rise of Communism in Russia Unless we accept the claim that Lenin's coup that gave birth to an entirely new state, and indeed to a new era in the history of mankind, we must recognize in today's Soviet Union the old empire of the Russians -- the only empire that survived into the mid 1980s (Lut...

Creation in a world of destruction: Art as survival in the Holocaust The Holocaust in art and the art of the Holocaust are two distinctly different forms of art. The former refers to any art depicting or alluding to the Holocaust. It includes works created both during and after the war, by victi...

Adolf Hitler was not the first man to drastically implement a strong nationalistic country. However, he was the first to implement a distinct form of nationalism, which imbedded highly raciest overtones for the everlasting purification of an Aryan Germany. Hitler's raciest ideals originat...