Austria

Based on the relatively small-scale dimension, Austria is a country that uses marvelous quantity of renewable energy. It is claimed that the various renewable energies have accounted for about 80 % of all Austrian contemporary electricity power generation. Especially, Austria is good at using solar energy that results several famous solar energy specialized firms. For example, GREEN None TEC Solar industrie GmbH plays a vital role in solar thermal collector manufacturing industry. Eighty-five…

performance there were given great praise and called “astounding” and referenced Mahler as “positively a genius”. This praise came at a cost as long rehearsal hours made the singers and orchestra resent him. In 1893, he visited Lake Assertee in Upper Austria and purchased land there. For the rest of his life, summers were dedicated to composing.(Biography) He composed his Second and Third symphonies there which were heavily influenced by the Wunderhorn folk-poem collection. Mahler’s First and…

The Iceman, also called Ötzi, is a mummy from the Stone Ages who was discovered by hikers, Erika and Helmut Simon in the Alps in the late 1900s. The Iceman when he was found was stuck in a glacier called the Niederjoch Glacier. This glacier is part of what kept the Iceman preserved for so long. He is one of the oldest mummies in the world, at about 5,300 years old and he lived around 3300 BCE. When the Iceman was first discovered, he was thought to have died of natural causes. This was thought…

Southern Bohemia-Culture and Entertainment In South Bohemia, Culture is at a Premium South Bohemia, which lies in the southern area of the Czech Republic known as Bohemia, is a historically rich land of heritage and culture. The name Bohemia inspires visions of a carefree lifestyle, with deep roots in faith and personal expression. Those qualities are seen here, where the museums and monasteries are one of a kind. Guests to South Bohemia will have the chance to understand the land's character by…

(Germany and Austria-Hungary) were in a secure alliance with Italy. Things got complicated for Italy when they noticed they were committed to two conflicting alliances. The first, with Germany and Austria- Hungary, which was known as the Triple Alliance of 1882 and this alliance was known publically; the second, with France, was a secret alliance. On the 2nd of August Italy formally announced a policy of neutrality with a straight forward reasoning. Her alliance with Germany and Austria- Hungary…

Syrian Refugees Find a New Home in the Old West Amidst the current political unrest in the Unites States, the topic of accepting refugees is a controversial issue. For many asylum seekers, finding refuge in the U.S is not possible. However, many refugees have found solace in the USA of yesteryear- a wild west themed park in Southern Sweden. High Chaparral short High Chaparral, which is named after a 1960's era television show about the wild west is an open air museum that includes a church,…

. While most educated individuals can agree that it is not wrong to use the diary for educational purposes, the argument of how they are teaching it tends to come up in conversation quite often. Students are being taught while reading that they can relate to Anne and the things that she is currently going through. Students tend to believe that they are facing some of the issues that Anne was forced to experience. Ultimately, leading to a false understanding of what people actually experienced…

The Nazis killed over six million Jews and millions of other Polish and Soviet civilians in the Holocaust. They also killed gypsies, physically and mentally disabled people and homosexuals. The number of survivors today are quickly dwindling down. Clinical psychologist Natan Kellermann defines a Holocaust survivor as any Jew who lived under Nazi occupation and was threatened by the “final solution” (Kellermann 199). This definition can be applied not only to Jews, but to anyone in general whose…

Thursday, October 1, 2015. Irving Roth came to Bronx community college, to the ESL03 class. Irving Roth a holocaust survivor and his girlfriend Mirna was in the class. Mr. Roth came to the ESL03 class, to speak about his life during the Holocaust and the book that he wrote “Bondi’s Brother”. The purpose of the visit was to know the answer of some question that the class wrote. The question to Mr. Roth is about the book and his life. Irving Roth was born in 1929 in Kosice, Czechoslovakia and…

Fear and Self-Loathing in Egon Schiele 's Work Egon Schiele was 20th century Austrian painter, known mostly for his erotic portraits of women and his tortured self-portraits, but he also did landscape painting and photography. It would be easy to assume that Egon Schiele was conceited and arrogant by looking at his self-portraits, because he would paint himself as a haloed visionary sent on earth to reveal the truth about sexuality (Izenberg 475) or draw erotic portraits of himself. It is,…