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Media #5 Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion

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Media #5 Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion

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The main character of Code Geass, Lelouch Lamperouge, relates to the main character of Crime and Punishment. Both have a motive to do good, yet their circumstances lead them to try to accomplish that goal through violence. Raskolnikov wants to help people like himself out of poverty, and decides on murdering a selfish pawn shop owner and stealing her valuables to give to others. Lelouch plans at first to make a gentler world where his sister can live without fear, yet throughout the show, his objective changes to free Japan, and then again to create world peace. However, his actions lead him to make the choice to go to war, from terrorism to open leading conflict between global superpowers. However, the difference between the two is that Raskolnikov’s plan is flawed from the beginning, and no one benefits. Lelouch on the other hand ultimately succeeded in creating world peace. (I highly recommend this show)

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“The Railroad” is a poem that reflects the hardships taken in Russia by the peasants, sacrificed by the thousands, in order to build and grow Russia. It focuses on the injustices taken upon the peasants by the rich, and the terrible conditions they worked through, such as cold and hunger, in order to build the railroad. It also contrasts to how things are currently (when the poem was written) and how more wealthy immigrants are treated better, and now work off of the things the peasants built. In “Crime and Punishment” it shows the same theme, focussing on the crime and poverty experienced by the lower Russian class around the same time that the poem was written. It also shows how the rich benefit from it all, and how the harsh conditions experienced by the majority aren’t even noticed. The two relate a lot to each other in describing the toil and death faced by lower classes, and the immunity of the rich in Russian society to problems.

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Media #4 "The Railroad" by Nokolay Nekresov

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Media #4 "The Railroad" by Nokolay Nekresov

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Robin Hood is a well known and classic character. In his story, he goes about with his band of merry men, and sets out to take from the rich nobles and give back to the poor peasants. This relates to Raskolnikov’s motivation for planning a murder. Raskolnikov has been going back and forth in his head between going through with a murder, or not and letting his life continue to go down hill. He knows an old, rich, and horrible woman that allows people to sell and pawn valuable items to her. She abuses her sister that lives with her, and no one really likes her. Raskolikov has decided to kill her in order to take her hoarded valuables, and give them to the poor like him and his family that need it desperately. Robin Hood, while a much more light hearted story, brings about the same principle of taking from the rich and selfish, and giving to the poor and generous as seen in “Crime and Punishment.”

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Media #3 "The Merry Adventures of Robinhood" by Howard Pyle

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Media #3 "The Merry Adventures of Robinhood" by Howard Pyle

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Moscow (AFP)

Since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, crowds have grown at the Martha and Mary Convent in central Moscow.

The white-walled women's monastery houses one of Russia's best known charities that gives out free food parcels, among other projects.

"Before the pandemic we had around 30 to 40 people a day," Yelena Timoshchuk, a social worker at Miloserdie (Mercy) told AFP, leaning against a table loaded with bottles of sunflower oil.

"Now we get about 50 to 60 people daily. It's a heavy workload."

Many of the visitors who queue for packages containing buckwheat, sugar, and tea are retired but there are also those who have lost their jobs or had their salaries cut.

The coronavirus pandemic has delivered a new blow to Russia's stagnating economy, which was already chafing under Western sanctions, low oil prices and weak corporate investment.

Observers say that rising poverty, falling incomes and lack of tangible government support during the pandemic are fuelling discontent with President Vladimir Putin's two-decade rule and strengthening the opposition.

Answering the jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny's call, tens of thousands of people have protested across Russia over the past few weeks, and his team plans more protests ahead of parliamentary elections in September.

Russians' real disposable incomes have been falling for the past half-decade, and contracted by 3.5 percent in 2020, while the cost of basic foodstuffs surged.

Aware of growing anger over falling living standards, Putin in December ordered ministers to introduce emergency measures to cap prices.

Despite government efforts to rein in inflation, the cost of sugar was 64-percent higher in January than it was a year earlier.

Wearing a red cap over long braids, 66-year-old Sandra said she had stopped going shopping and instead turned to Miloserdie's free food parcels.

"You can't buy anything anymore," said the pensioner, who did not give her last name. "Before I could afford to feed the birds but now even grain is expensive."

- 'Risks have increased' -

"From the point of view of political consequences, the current situation does not look good," said Igor Nikolayev, head of strategic analysis at FBK Grant Thornton.

"The risks for the authorities have increased."

Older Russians were particularly "very sensitive" about rising prices because they brought to mind runaway inflation that followed the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, Nikolayev said.

He suggested the Russian government might unveil a new economic package to dampen social discontent ahead of the parliamentary polls.

"They have to do something," added Nikolayev.

According to a recent poll by the independent Levada Centre, 43 percent of Russians do not rule out protests motivated by economic demands, a level last seen in 1998.

The study also found that 17 percent of respondents were ready to take part in those protests themselves.

Denis Volkov, deputy director at Levada, said recent protests showed that anger at the authorities was no longer limited to the marginalised opposition and that many demonstrators were motivated by economic hardship.

The protesters wanted to "express their disappointment with the authorities, concern over a lack of prospects and the dead end in which our country has found itself according to them," Volkov wrote in the Russian edition of Forbes last month.

"Authorities have nothing to offer to those who are unhappy over their policies," he added, pointing to "ostentatious wealth" of the Russian elites and growing divisions in society.

Eighteen-year-old Yekaterina Nikiforova, who joined pro-Navalny rallies in the Pacific port of Vladivostok, said the country was stagnating.

The political science student told AFP she could not see "any prospects of economic and political development" in Russia.

Arseny Dmitriyev, 22, who rallied on the other side of the country in the second city Saint Petersburg, struck a similar note.

The sociology graduate said he understood "how things are going for the county".

"Just looking at the statistics I understand that real disposable incomes are falling and the quality of life is not improving".

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Russia's rising poverty fuels political discontent - France 24

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Moscow (AFP) Since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, crowds have grown at the Martha and Mary Convent in central Moscow. The white-walled women's monastery houses one of Russia's best known charities that gives out free food parcels, among other projects.

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This news article is about Russia, and how many people are turning against the government due to increasing poverty, rising prices, and a stagnant economy. This situation is reflected in the book because every place that has been shown so far is covered in poverty. The main character can’t even afford bread to eat, and malnutrition and joblessness are everywhere. Yet while most of the ordinary people have nothing, the government workers, like lawyers and police, are well off, and don’t have such worries. It is an ironic comparison between the news article and book since they both take place in Russia, and they are both faced with poverty and a poor economy.

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This painting, of a woman in a cafe, which looks a lot like a bar, reflects the setting of “Crime and Punishment.” The background of the painting looks hazy and smoke filled, and the woman also has a glass, with presumably alcohol contained inside. In my book, the main character walks past several bars filled with poor and broken people. He even goes into one, meeting a miserable and reckless former government official, whose family life is… undesirable. Most of the plot up until now revolves around bars and drinking, both in the character’s life and his dream. The painting, while not showing anything as despicable as the book, does portray the mood and atmosphere of the bars in the book.