Berlin

Isaiah Berlin was a Russo-British Jewish social and political theorist and a historian of ideas. He was born June 6, 1909 in Riga, Latvia. He was the son of a successful timber merchant and land owner. His family moved to St. Petersburg where he was an eyewitness to the Russian Revolution. His family then emigrated in 1921 to London where the family had business interests. As a young boy, Isaiah was known as Shaya and had his bar mitzah. In his high school years he attended St. Paul’s in London…

The Berlin Boxing Club by Robert Sharenow is about a Jewish boy named Karl Stern. Karl went to a non - Jewish school, and because he was Jewish, he was bullied often. Being in a fight was one of Karl’s biggest fears. In his school, there was one group who always bullied him, the Wolf Pack. Karl ended up facing his fear of being in a fight. Karl was a very courageous and brave person. There are many examples throughout the book that proves Karl’s biggest fears was being in a fight. In the book on…

society. However not all change is good but all change does occur for one of the following reasons whether it be economic, social, scientific, political, or religious. With this being said, the French Revolution was an economic change, The fall of the Berlin wall was a…

after the war. The people of Berlin thought something was going to happen but nothing happened. More years went by and then it was finally the time when the GDR and the Soviet Union did something that would effect everyone in Berlin that no one saw coming.…

Average daily cost on a shoestring budget The average daily cost of travelling to Berlin on a frugal budget is €33 per day or $35 per day which includes food at € 7.5 and accommodation at € 15 per night. Berlin has innumerable museums and most of them have special student prices. If you are a student, make sure you carry your student ID with you. Cheap (or free) things to do in Berlin Berlin is a city of museums and the good news is the entry ticket to most of these museums are priced…

Sociologists question a person’s ability to understand other cultures within their own culture they have grown up with.. “A culture must be studied in terms of its own meanings and values… Sociologists endeavor as far as possible to avoid ethnocentrism, or judging other cultures in terms of the standards of one’s own,” (Giddens, Duneier, Appelbaum, & Car, 2015). Throughout this paper I will be giving insight into Germany’s culture, and views. Germany is not as diverse as some other western…

The Berlin Boxing Club was written by Robert Sharenow and told the story of a boy named Karl during the early years of Hitler’s rule in Germany. The main character, Karl, started off as a scrawny, defenseless man. But once put to training, he was up to be German’s greatest boxer. Karl was also Jewish, but unlike his family, he didn’t carry the Jewish physical features. This book covers five years of Karl’s life, and how he has trained under German boxing world champion Max Schmeling. Karl and…

I’m excited to share with you the first piece of my upcoming album. It’s called “Berlin During Winter”. Although it’s chosen as the introductory song to “Who Am I”, it’s actually the closing track of the record. Genre-wise, if I have to put it in a box, I’d say it’s electro ambient-core. Lyric-wise, “Berlin During Winter” has a twofold meaning. The obvious one, as the title suggests, takes you on a walk through Berlin, during the cold months. Everything is gray and freezing cold. All colors are…

The Berlin Conference of 1884 created and divided Africa into different European sections of control. The Conference was designed to set rules and guidelines that would allow the European powers to extract and capitalize on what they believed to be Africa’s full market potential. Africa being one of the last remaining untapped continents of colonization, the Europeans saw Africa as an opportunity to expand their growing industrial economies. However each European power dealt with their own…

President Kennedy’s Inaugural Speech Analysis John F Kennedy, the 35th president of the United States was one of the most famous presidents of the country. On January 20, 1961, President Kennedy gave an Inaugural Address which is still remembered to this day. His speech was around a period when the Soviet Union had just gained power. Americans were fearful due to that reason. The main purpose of his speech was to get Americans to unite. He was calling for peace for all of mankind. Kennedy’s main…