Bismarck

In an exceptionally ambitious biography—the first volume of a projected three takes us from Stalin’s birth, in 1878, up to 1928 in just under 1,000 pages—Stephen Kotkin, a history professor at Princeton, sets out to synthesize the work of these and hundreds of other scholars. Stephen Kotkin has a goal, to remove the fog of mystery and the mythology out of Soviet history forever. His goal in Stalin is to sweep the cobwebs and the mythology out of Soviet historiography forever. He dismisses the…

afforded an immense degree of power to extremists. In some cases, popular nationalism came to be defined by other, related and reactionary sentiments such as racism, national chauvinism, and imperialism. Needless to say, leaders such as Otto Von Bismarck, English Colonialists, and Adolf Hitler used precepts of this ideology to exert authority over weaker nations and inferior races, affirming the virility of nationalist sentiment within Europe at the time. Hitler argued that should nature…

One Room Schoolhouse In the 19th and 20th century, most American students had attended a one room schoolhouse. The teachers would have grades kindergarten through eighth grade. The largest number of students that showed up at a one room schoolhouse was 40 students. The history of the one room schoolhouse includes one room schoolhouses in the modern times, one room schoolhouses in today’s times, How are modern times and today’s times different, what was it like with one teacher and grades…

“God is dead,” claimed Friedrich Nietzsche. Such bold statements defined Nietzsche’s nonconformity and his critical attitude towards the public and Christianity in the late 1800’s. A nonconformist is one who does not comply with society's standards and opinions as a whole. Nietzsche fit this role of nonconformity perfectly, he disagreed with common opinions, criticized mainstream religion, and argued with modern philosophy. Friedrich Nietzsche was born in 1844 in Röcken, Germany. Nietzsche had…

Utilizing the film Sick around the World, aired in 2008 by PBS and Frontline, and produced and directed by Jon Palfreman, we can make a comparison between the healthcare systems of five progressive capitalist nations and America. We can review how The United Kingdom, Switzerland, Germany, Taiwan, and Japan would address key issues in the story of John Q. Issues like cost inflation, the uninsured and under-insured, and efficiency. To see if John Q is a uniquely American issue. For the…

Before the war, his garments was dreamed by the doomed heroines of Remarque's novels, after the war he dressed the richest women of the Old and New Worlds. At the end of May 2017, for the first time in the UK, the London Museum of Victoria and Albert opened a large-scale exhibition - a retrospective of the heritage of the Spanish couturier: “Balenciaga: Shaping Fashion.’. The project is timed to the 100th anniversary of the opening of the first studio Balenciaga in Spanish San Sebastian and the…

For our interview/observation we decided to visit the Sylvan Learning Center in North Bismarck. None of us really had any experience with this particular center so we were really interested to see what Sylvan was about. When we first arrived, we observed for the first hour we were there. The three of us watched three different groups that included anywhere from two to four kids per group. The last twenty minutes we spent interviewing the head supervisor of the learning center asking questions…

The word "modernism", derived from the Latin “modo”, to denote the main direction in the art of bourgeois society, the era of its decline. One more terms to express the same concept are "avant-garde", "avant-garde". The main objective of modernism is : the depth of penetration into the conscious and subconscious human transmission of the memory, perception of the features, including, as in "moments of being" refracted past, present and foreseeing the future. The basic techniques in the work of…

World War One curated throughout the years of 1914-1918. There was much tension between countries long before the war begun due to conflicts over resources, land, military forces, ideas and technological changes during the 1800’s. It was then one event in 1914 that ignited World War One. By 1907, there was two major alliance groups. The Triple Alliance was formed in 1882, when Italy decided to join the alliance between Germany and the Austro-Hungarian Empire. It was then two and a half decades…

of learning by traveling to different places and learning about other people’s culture. During this process, she was still able to maintain her role as a Gullah storyteller and teach people about her culture. In doing so, she was able to travel to Bismarck, North Dakota and learn about the culture and traditions of the…