Baku Essays

is an independent state. The memorandum, submitted by the Azerbaijani delegation to the Paris Peace Conference in November 1918, sets out the territory of the republic as follows: Baku Province (Baku district, Javad district, Goychay district, Shamakhi district, Quba district, Lənkərən district together with the Baku Circle); Yelizavetpol (Gəncə) Province (Gəncə district, Javanshir district, Nukha district, Arash district, Shusha district, Karyagi Jabrayil district, Zangezur district, Qazakh district

Joseph Stalin originally named Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili was born in a Georgian village of Gori. Stalin was the third child that was born to the Vissarion Dzhugashvili and Yekaterina, however he was the only one to be successfully born to the family. Vissarion his father was abusive and chain-drinker who eventually failed at his job and left young Stalin at the age of 5. After his father left Stalin and his mother went to live at the home of a priest. Stalin had an unusual face and was small

II.1.1 Preservation Preserve [pre-zurv] means (1) to keep alive or in existence; make lasting, (2) to keep save from harm or injury; protect or spare, (3) to keep up; maintain. (The definition of preservation, n.d). Preservation is the protection or maintaining of cultural property through activities that minimize damage and that prevent loss of informational content. The primary goal of preservation itself, is to prolong the existence of cultural property. (Definitions of Conservations, n.d).

“I present to you…Alicia Keys!” “And the crowd goes wild!” Lately, Alicia Keys and her team have been thinking about going on tour soon. We have all decided to go on tour on Summer18. We have had trouble choosing the locations of these concerts. But we have now narrowed it down to 6 different cities around the world. Welcome to Alicia Keys’ World Tour. Be prepared to have the time of your life. First stop is going to be Hamburg, Germany. The population of the city of Hamburg is approximately 1.8

well as their tattoos. Tattoos have roots in the history of different nations. The theoretical framework of this study has been traced through the observation of the increase of popularity of tattooed people in the streets of Azerbaijan, especially Baku. According to many authors, body modification has not only become an increasingly common feature among urban youth, but is also practiced across a diversity of social groups of all ages, genders, social backgrounds and occupations (Demers, Deschesnes

Clive Cussler and Justin Scott send detective Isaac Bell on his eight historical action-adventure, this time confronting Standard Oil, otherwise known as the ‘Octopus’. Afbeeldingsresultaat voor the assassin clive cusslerThis time they turn the time to 1905, giving Bell a chance to color the beauties Edna, and Nellie, daughters of Bill Matters, an old Oil city, Pennsylvania wildcatter co-opted into joining up as another John D. Rockefeller slave even though he was never ‘one of the boys’. Van Dorn

At the end of the Allied Occupation in 1952, Japan ranked as a less--developed country, with per capita consumption a mere one-fifth that of the United States. During the period 1953-1973, the economy grew with unprecedented rapidity (the average growth rate was 8.0% per annum overall and 10.6% during the 1950s). Real output per person in 1970 was 2.5 times higher than in 1960, and, Japan became the world's second largest economy in 1968. This rapid growth resulted in significant changes to Japan's

in the society, it could not stop the Azerbaijan women to succeed in social life. It is the fact that, the first secular girl school was opened in Baku in 1901. It caused the establishment new cultural understanding because it consisted of traditional Muslim and advanced European Civilization elements. The establishment of first secular school in Baku and Eastern World plays the significant role for improvement for gender equality. The idea for to establishment of school for girls was suggested in

The thing that was not in doubt however, was that Stalin would try to defend the state depite fear and lack of strategy. He would go on to use the same courage, boldness and endurance that he showcased during the Bolshevik Revolution. His words to the people “ The German invaders want a war of extermination aginist the people of USSR. Well, if the Germans want a war of extermination, they will get it” were convincing (Sakwa 254). His actions during the revolution proved decisive given that there

organisation and control from the central government was hugely important for their win. In August 1918, Lenin finalised a trade agreement where the Bolsheviks were to pay six billion marks and provide Germany with one-quarter of the oil production of Baku on the Caspian Sea. This meant that the Reds could take their focus off the west, especially the Ukraine, and move their forces to better deal with the Socialist Revolutionaries in the east. Another success was Lenin’s launch of the Red Terror itself

At the beginning of the war the Germans decided there were six major oil fields in the Caucasus that they had to have to win the war. The Germans were always fuel-short and were never more than 6 weeks from running out of fuel completely. Their major oil production came from Ploesti in Rumania and it crippled them when those refineries were targeted by the American air force, though they still managed to maintain production there throughout the war despite Allied bombardment. In addition the Germans

A few days have passed since Baku the peddler informed me about the demon fugitive. I have put the village under high alert, the villagers are not allowed to leave the village until the demon fugitive has been found. Thankfully our food stock is enough to last until spring, we won 't have to starve ourselves while waiting for this disaster to pass. I also asked Sylv 'air to do reconnaissance around the village. She 's a fellow demon after all, even if they met each other the hobgoblin shouldn 't

At one point, my life was just like anybody else’s, normal. That all changed when I enlisted in the the United States Marines. The following months that past resulted with finding myself in Baku, Azerbaijan. I had been assigned to Beta Squad consisting of myself and three others. (Ruiz, Victor, and Baez) Our mission was to collect some “intel” on the Chinese and the Russians, because there was a military coup (a coup is a sudden, violent, and illegal seizure of power from a government) going on in

group called the Young Turks came into power. These leaders were powerful and tried to unify and strengthen the massive empire that they had. Then came World War I. Turkey had sided with Germany during the war when they had tried to capture the city of Baku, in Azerbaijan, they had suffered massive losses.

Zaha Hadid, often named as the most excellent female architect, was the founder of Zaha Hadid Architects studio. She occupied an important and out-standing position in architecture area and was awarded the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 2004. Each of her designs evolves nearly thirty years of researches and experimentations. Hadid was well-known for her unique ideas, critical thinking, and stream-like architectures. She was born in Baghdad, Iraq in 1950. Hadid then grew up in a well-educated

Paulus, assisted by the Fourth Panzer Army, advanced on the city of Stalingrad. His primary task was to secure the oil fields in the Caucasus and to do this, Paulus was ordered by Hitler to take Stalingrad. The Germans final target was to have been Baku. Stalingrad was also an extremely important target to the Germans as it was Russia’s centre of communications in the south as well as being a centre for manufacturing. At the start of September 1942, the German Army progressed to the city. The Russians

“Two ways to belong in America“ is a story written by Bharati Mukherjee. Story about two sisters who moved to the United States in the 1960’s. Both sisters moved to United States in hope to pursue their dreams and to achieve they goals with college and further education. Both having similarities in appearance and religious values. Both Bharati and her sister Mira had planned to move back to their homeland India after their education, to marry the men that their father had chosen for them. As story

preparations, I scored 63 points in law school entrance test. Personal inclination towards law school and high academic achievements accompanied by family support, made it possible to get admission from the top LL.B. program of the country, offered by Baku State

identify myself as representative of a mixed ethnicity – half Azerbaijani, half Kazakh. Both ethnicities are important for me, I think, mainly because of grandparents…we live in Astana but each summer from the early childhood my parents brought me to Baku, where father’s parents live. I have a huge family there, having many relatives around is as important for Azerbaijani as it is for Kazakhs…So my Azerbaijani grandparents influenced me as much as my Kazakh relatives…choosing one ethnicity would mean

Pyotr Stolypin was appointed in 1906 by Nicholas the second as prime minister. He served as leader at the third Duma and aimed to counter unrest by undertaking reforms that could vastly improve life for the peasants in Russia. His most prominent accomplishments were in farming change. He made it possible for ex-serfs to buy themselves out of the peasant commune and for small strips to be consolidated into capitalist farms, aided by loans from the Peasant Land Bank. About two million households took