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Dear Beth,
Below is my homework:A boy, slumbering in London lives in Mayfair (must be a rich fella’). He is one who dwells on the streets, whose pockets are filled with priceless jewelery and wallets. Surely his pockets are only the infinitesimal fraction of a whole planet of fortune. Surely he is one who simply owns a house with not enough space for a bed. Surely he doesn’t earn this trove of riches from any pickpocketing. Surely not. He definitely isn’t a vagabond intending to create a type of Chicago gang-mafia chaos. Definitely not. Definitely.
Mr Goodman arrived at the flower stall present in the midst of the district’s wealth, where butchers and tailors could be witnessed cooperating with one another, as if the butcher requested merchandise representing cold cuts or the tailor yearning for his clothing to be trimmed by the precise edge of a cleaver.
“Just here to purchase some bouquets for my Valentine. You know what it’s like in London, you get the Cockney type mixed with the West, and a whole country of flowers wouldn’t be adequate. Lucky for me that’s different since wife know about my role in the Hand and she would bid me admiration when I leave for work, in awe of my achievements and accomplishments.”
At the present time of speaking, a passer-by stopped and noticed the boy. He knew what the boy was: a person just like him, deserving to spend life enclosed in the depth of the gutter. Crouching down and noticing an watch and wallet sticking out of Goodman’s pocket, he whispered to the boy, ” You, yes you, dya’ wanna know somethin’ good? A fingersmith you are, go around like one and use your fingers to get some riches. Start with that gentleman at that crone’s shop.”
Nodding, the boy stood up and approached the man silently, assuring himself that his entire back was visible to him and that no eyes at all were laid on him. Carefully, his long, spindly hand reached into the pocket as lightly as possible, but still with effect. And out came something with two dials and a metal frame, easily crafted by a dextrous blacksmith. Yes, try to act like nothing happened, Oliver, I know that I can. That’s the final step.
Apologies for slightly late handing in,Johnny
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Dear Beth,
I’ve written some vile Vogon poems (something I hope they approve) below.
NOTE: spelling mistakes are intentional
Doubting your failure.
I wish you were here to skunk
Tell me why madness had made you funk.
Gorging on your hand
and your squiggleburt be shall you.
Nothing a moddlesume
being can do.
See if you fail.
A simble insult
Say you were slime
You only pleasing yourself
Your out of date milk’s less stale
than your language.
Say I were to meet your frog,
Aiming to trample its finger
with my wigglesquirt
and my herd of bull-dozers.
See is survival is possible.
JUST A RANDOM VILE VOID OF A POEM
empty
just empty,
as you will be empty at the end
empty minded and headed
empty feelings
from empty poetry.
Empty your empty brain and empty empty, the word.
empty.
See you next lesson,
Johnny
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Cold War: Fall of USSR
“We are living in a new world”-Mikhail Gorbachev
The Cold War: a heated, non-violent competition between the two superpowers on two totally different sides. USA vs USSR. Capitalist vs Communist. Such intensity and pressure put on both economies on low and it was literally a fight to the death. Both suffered economic calamity, but while Ronald Reagan pushed the US economy to grow (and spending about a trillion dollars with his plans during his presidency), nobody cared or helped the Soviet economy, causing them to fall in ruin, showing how the massive advantage in economy and quality of life could help one factor lose or win dramatically.
How could a non-violent war raging on for forty years collapse the largest ever communist regime? It’s more about the stability of the country that may be impacted on by other countries, not the gradual deterioration of one’s economy by forceful tampering by for example the CIA. It was Soviet choices to still strive to win in response to another superpower’s achievements.
Reagan’s rise to power in 1981 was momentous. In the first years of his presidency, he looked at the human rights treatment in USSR and called them an “Evil Empire”. He also aimed to push the Arms Race further for government economic spending, which further pushed the USA ahead of the Soviets. One of the famed examples include the Space Defence Initiative (Star Wars) which was basically an anti-nuke shield capable of destroying any Russian Missiles in Range of the US, which worried the Soviets even more at seeing such an advance to an extent that they started creating more inventions and ideas in response.
Such pushes weakened the economy and made the Soviet Union seem weak in the hands of a capitalist and thriving nation. This would lead to the crumble as well.
In total, the Soviet Union collapsed due to the Cold War and Arms Race spending that was going to the military, not the people.
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Dear Beth,
Thank you for the super lesson😁😁😁✨✨✨🎉🎉🎉.
Here is my homework.
The progressive historical role of capitalism may be summed up in two brief propositions: increase in the productive forces of social labour, and the socialisation of that labour. But both these facts manifest themselves in extremely diverse processes in different branches of the national economy.
Lenin, The Development of Capitalism in Russia, The “The Mission of Capitalism” (1899)
See you next lesson!
Johnny
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