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- 651: Karl Marx
- Karl Heinrich Marx was born on May 5, 1818, in the city of Trier in Prussia, now, Germany. He was one of seven children of Jewish Parents. His father was fairly liberal, taking part in demonstrations for a constitution for Prussia and reading such authors as Voltaire and Kant, known for their social ... political isolation" ended when he joined the International Working Men's Association. Although he was neither the founder nor the leader of this organization, he "became its leading spirit" and as the corresponding secretary for Germany, he attended all meetings. Marx's distinction as a political figure really came in 1870 with the Paris Commune. He became an international figure and his name "became synonymous throughout Europe with the revolutionary spirit ...
- 652: Small Groups of Committed People Changing The World
- ... ever so long during World War II. The Nazis, lead by Adolf Hitler, imprisoned them in concentration camps. Many were killed and many more were a breath away from the hands of death when Germany was conquered. The Nazis were a clever and thoughtful group of people, they gave the world a change for the worse. At least for awhile anyway. After Germany was defeated, things changed for the better.
- 653: Bookreport On The Spy Who Came
- ... of a big plan to get Fiedler to come to Leamas and not vice versa. The plan is successful and Fiedler comes into contact with Leamas and interrogates him. He is then brought to East-Germany where he is used as a witness during a secret trial against Mundt. Everything is successful until the defence calls Liz up as a witness. Leamas doesnt know how they found out about her ... He is a Nazi and especially hates Jews. The only interests he has are his own and he will even kill to achieve them. Two examples of that are when he needed to return to Germany from a mission in a hurry he killed two of his own men just to save his own skin. After joining the Abteilung he is very successful and when several men were dismissed Mundt, at ...
- 654: Bach; Brandenberg Concertos
- Johann Sebastian Bach; The Brandenburg Concertos One of the most profoundly inspired and masterful composers in history, Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 1750), was born into a musical family in Eisenach, Germany. Born into a musical family his father, Johann Ambrosius Bach, was a talented violinist, and taught his son the basic skills of string-playing. Another relation, the organist at Eisenach s most important church, intructed ... a professional organist, and continued his younger brother s education on that instrument, as well as on the harpsichord. After several years in this arrangement, Johann Sebastian won a scholarship to study in Luneberg, Northern Germany, and so left his brothers tutelage. A master of several instruments while still in his teens, Johann Sebastian first found employment at the age of 18 as a violinist in a court orchestra in Weimar ...
- 655: Concentration Camps
- ... wars to imprison people who could be spies or a race of people that was mistreated and not trusted in a country. The most infamous example of a political camp is the Nazi camps of Germany. Other countries to use this kind of camp are the Serbians of Bosnia and the Russians. A third type of camp is an internment camp, internment camps can almost be considered a military camp. Internment ... that were considered "politically unreliable". Politically unreliable people were usually a race or culture that was treated badly that had a lot of people that were prejudice towards them. Countries that kept political camps are Germany, Russian and the Serbians of Bosnia. The German concentration camps are probably the most well known example of camps. They are well known because of the Holocaust, the Holocaust was a genocide. The Nazis under ...
- 656: Schools Should Prepare Children For Life in Society
- ... the Third Reich). I believe that schools have an obligation to prepare children for life in society. Therefore they don't necessarily have the ability to change society but I think today's situation in Germany is not nearly as bad as the situation in "Dead poet's society", a movie based on a true story. In the movie a teacher tries to let his students be creative and critical towards ... and hear while neglecting values like punctuality and obedience. At first he is successful, but as soon as the school board notices his ambitions, he gets suspended for some odd reason. If a teacher in Germany tries to influence students in the way that they are more creative that is generally seen as positive, but what almost makes this impossible is the number of students in a class and the time ...
- 657: The Rise of Capitalism and its Opposition
- ... trusts that could control an entire industry. For most of the 20th century, opposing forms of economic systems arose as a response to capitalism. These systems included Marxist-based Communism and the Nazi system in Germany, also known as National Socialism. Nevertheless, in the search for an economic solution, capitalist systems demonstrated a remarkable ability to survive. Capitalism is an economic system in which the means of production and distribution are ... revolution's against capitalism. For most of the 20th century capitalism had faced much opposition. World War I brought revolution and a Marxist-based communism to Russia. The war also spawned the Nazi system in Germany, a mixture of capitalism and state socialism brought together in a regime whose violence and expansionism eventually pushed the world into another major conflict. These two arising forms of economic and social solutions was a ...
- 658: The Diary Of Anne Frank
- The Diary of Anne Frank Journeying back to the early nineteenth century, when Nazi forces occupied Germany during World War II, the lives of those living in this territory was spent in constant fear and anxiety. The Diary of Anne Frank leads readers through the harsh times of a family trying to ... which her story is told gives light to the talents and emotions a young mind experienced as she deals with traumatic situations. For its insights into the life of a German-Jewish child living in Germany during Nazi occupation, The Diary of Anne Franks, offers a vivid, realistic view of how a family tries to escape Nazi concentration camps. Anne\\'s ability to communicate her private thoughts engulfing the total emotions ...
- 659: Heinrich Schliemann
- ... papyri before Heinrich Schliemann; he is considered the father of both Aegean archaeology and Greek studies (Duchκne 81). Heinrich was born on January 6th, 1822 to Ernst and Luise Schliemann in Neu Buckow, Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Germany ("Heinrich Schliemann: Heros and Mythos"). Luise would die in childbirth in1831 at the age of forty, humiliated by her husband's affair with the family's servant girl. The liaison, combined with allegations of stolen ... but a few poor words in Schliemann's report. He would become the unsung hero of the digs at Hissarlik; Schliemann's work would later earn him a doctorate from the University of Rostock in Germany (Burg 73). Schliemann had returned to America earlier that year, and committed a fabulously untrue series of frauds in order to obtain a divorce from his wife there (Burg 74). Schliemann arrived in New York ...
- 660: Monopolization And Its Implication On A World Scale
- ... of the capitalistic (bourgeoises) socio-economic order, it is also, the degradation of the working class and, in fact, the respective systems imminent demise. During the Cold War competition between potential monopolist nations, USA, France, Germany, England and Canada was highly minimized and co-operation was (ironically) encouraged to counter the Soviet threat. Today, with the fall of the pseudo-socialist states in the Eastern block and the subsequent degeneration of ... ways". The Suicidal Nature of Monopoly Capitalism A logical consequence to the concentration of capital in the hands of an oligarchy is an apparently unacknowledged destruction of the economy. In the imperialist nations (USA, Canada, Germany, Japan) a whole leferature has sprung up in support of what is proudly called the "big business." The job of the economists, publishing this garbage, is not to shed light on the debilitating methods of ...
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