Il'ya Efimovich Repin was a great Russian artist. He played a prominent role in the development of Russian democratic art of the 19-th century. Repin with Kramskoy, Surikov, Ge occupied the central place in the development of new art. Working at all ways of painting, the artist put his main problem to tell truthfully about the soul of Russian people, to show it's typical representatives, to give an idea of the history of the country. The portrait painting is one of the brightest pages of Repin's creations. Expression of people's faces always attracted Repin.
In every country and society
people
collide with different kinds of crimes. Sociologists are trying to
find the
best and more democratic way to punish criminals. There are such kinds
of
crimes as: murders, assaults, robbery, burglary, sexual offenses,
thefts,
smuggling, mugging, house-breaking and drug peddling. Punishment of
offender
depends of the infringement of the law. It is divided into crimes and
offences
(civil, administrative and disciplinary). Offenders of crimes are
sentence to
life or temporary imprisonment, conditional discharge, penalty or
sometimes
death punishment. I think that violence itself is a very vicious
circle. When
petty offenders are sent to prison they are generally kept in
unbearable
conditions, they may lose their jobs, their homes or even their
families.
Moreover, acquire more criminal experience. Thus by the time they come
out
again they may be set on a life of crime again. Therefore some
punishments are
not very weighty.
What should be done to
avoid crimes
in big cities.
It's not a secret, that
nowadays the
crime rate speeds up fast. People are afraid of going out of home,
because all
of them are potential victims of burglary and so on. How can we stop
violence
and crimes? This is the most important question nowadays. I think
there are
two reasons of the people to commit crimes.
First of all it is poverty.
There are
a lot of have-nots and hoboes in big cities. The problems are
unemployment and
high cost of living. Everyone suffers from exorbitant rents for tiny
flats and
a lot of extra expanses. Not every one can pay for flat, so people try
to get
"easy money"- they begin to commit crimes. I think to avoid this, the
wages of
have-nots and extended families should be risen or the cost of living
should
not be so high.
I think movies and television in whole make big influence on people of all kinds especially teenagers. I consider myself as a modern person so I can't stay away from such rapidly developing art as cinema. No doubt I have my favorite genres and actors. I keen on psychological, historical and war dramas. My favorite actor is Jared Leto, I'd like to tell you some facts about him.
"My favorite singer" (Vladimir Kuzmin)
Music is an important part of our life. There are huge numbers of different styles. From techno to metal, from pop to classical rock. I like rock music. My favorite singer is Vladimir Kuzmin. He has reached success in 1980's and his songs are still listened to.
Comparative analysis of anti-globalization in the USA, the UK, Russia
If
all remains so as it is anti-globalists' movement will become the same
threat
to freedom as communism and fascism.
Eugeny
Triphonov
Anti-globalization movement is a new thing (event) but nevertheless it
is
becoming a serious public force and it can be seen literally with the
naked
eye (see appendix 8) cruel collisions made by activists of movements
in
Seattle, Gotteborg, and Vienna are only the part of a big iceberg
under name,
"anti-globalization" moving along the New and Old Worlds. Under
movement's
banners in Europe one can see those who are against "the new world
order",
those who are against globalization of the world economics, those who
consider
it to be an instrument with the purpose to submit our Planet to
interests of
the USA, those who are against violence of transnational corporations
and for
doing a bigger service to the developing countries and for
nullification of
all their debts in the West states and banks.
From
time
to time governments make bad laws. One possible way to get a bad law
changed
is for lots of people to deliberately disobey the law in a public way.
This is
called civil disobedience.
History of Mass Nonviolent Action
The
use
of nonviolence runs throughout history. There have been numerous
instances of
people courageously and nonviolently refusing cooperation with
injustice.
However, the fusion of organized mass struggle and nonviolence is
relatively
new. It originated largely with Mohandas Gandhi in 1906 at the onset
of the
South African campaign for Indian rights. Later, the Indian struggle
for
complete independence from the British Empire included a number of
spectacular
nonviolent campaigns. Perhaps the most notable was the year-long Salt
campaign
in which 100,000 Indians were jailed for deliberately violating the
Salt Laws.
