Manhattan Portage, NY Bike Messenger Bag: A Quick Review
After crawling through the lists of best sturdy messenger bags for the real world, I settled on this gray “NY Bike Messenger Bag” from Manhattan Portage.
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Mise en Scéne in Pulp Fiction: Jackrabbit Slim’s Diner
Pulp Fiction is a classical example of postmodern film that forgoes special effects in favor of intriguing characters, unique settings and smart dialogue to achieve mainstream success. Quentin Tarantino uses myriad techniques to create his unique style, which conveys endless information about the characters, plot and ideology that is beyond what is found merely in [...]
Discontinuity and the Soviet Union
The Soviet Union began as an experiment in communism that was to stand on the shoulders of Marxist theory, initiated by Vladimir Lenin and the Bolshevik Party. The basic tenets of the abolition of private property, ownership of the means of production by the community and an eventual classless, stateless society were ostensibly the goal of implementing Marxism in Russia. However, Lenin’s ideas of a forced revolution by vanguardism, misconceptions of the theory of history and adherence to an authoritarian government marked a clear break from traditional Marxist theory, while the arbitrary violence, establishment of the totalitarian “socialist State”, collectivization, political repression and rapid, forced industrialization of Joseph Stalin proved to be both a break from Leninism and especially from Marxism.