Bismarck

The First World War was an incredibly complicated conflict involving numerous state actors each with their motivations and war aims. In this respect, it presents one of the greatest challenges for those who seek to prove theories of war in the international system. The first theory of the conflict we will examine is one of the most popular, the rise of European nationalism necessitating a grand struggle of nations. Instead of the traditionally dominant realist theories revolving around the…

As it would appear the First World War led to a rather distressing engagement and a vast number of post-war difficulties for the German race in the face of their defeat in 1918. It seemed that as a result of their loss, other more advanced, countries found the need to emasculate them further with a number of significant terms that came in the form of various treaties that forced the German people to take the blame or the War Guilt, and pay for the cost of the war itself in the form of reparation…

The Germans started a national pension plan in Bismarck. The fixed retirement age at first, was the age of 70 years old. However, later on the Germans then lowered it to 65 years old. The standard of retirement was established after that. In the United States, the retirement principle was also used. The…

Bismarck High School Faculty and Staff Scholarship Throughout our lives we are influenced by many things. Some we notice and some come in and go out of our lives without us noticing at all. This does not lessen their impact on who we become. Here I have written about the big things that I know have changed the person I am and my influenced my love for my community. These are the things that have changed me and set me on the course that now guides me forward. My experiences with my education,…

Before the 19th century, much of Africa remained untouched by the Europeans and other powers because of the deadly diseases and uncharted land. In fact, Africa earned itself the nickname “the white man’s grave.” This all changed though when the slave trade was outlawed in 1807 and slavery in 1833. Because of this end of slavery, Europe looked to imperialize and establish colonies. Explorations went underway and slowly but surely the holes or blank spaces were filled in the maps of Africa. Still…

The Dakota Access Pipeline is a 1,172 mile pipeline that will connect Bakken and Three Forks production areas in North Dakota to Patoka, Illinois. Once built it will transport approximately 470,000 barrels of oil per day; Shippers will be able to access multiple markets, including Midwest and East Coast markets as well as the Gulf Coast via the Nederland, Texas crude oil terminal facility of Sunoco Logistics Partners. The pipeline which was supposed to be completed at the end of 2016 would turn…

Heart of Darkness Book Review Joseph Conrad, author of the novel Heart of Darkness, was born in Ukraine to Polish parents in the late 1850s. At the age of 16, Conrad began his mariner years. He sailed on multiple French commercial ships and traveled around the world. Later on, he joined the British merchant marines and went on to become a British citizen (“Joseph”). About nine years before writing the novel, Conrad was appointed to serve as captain of a steamer on the Congo River by a Belgian…

Opera means work in Italian and is the name given to a dramatic play set to music where the performers sing their parts accompanied or unaccompanied by music in solos called arias and two or more singers called ensembles. The sixteenth century saw the beginning of operas which started as poems sung by musicians called Camerata (“society”). In 1607 Claudio Monteverdi first used an orchestra to accompany his opera, La favola d’Orfeo, creating the modern opera we know today. (London: Octopus…

This was the so called big gun thinking dating from World War One. Around the time of World War One a new class of Battleships arrived; fast battleships. These were very fast and also very powerful, example being the famous German Bismarck class. In 1938 USA, Britain and France invoked an escalator clause in the Second London Treaty to build ships around 45,000 tons. (Guðmundur Helgason) At the time nations has already started to build ships of around 35,000 tons, resulting in the…

The Battle of the Atlantic was the longest maritime operation of WWII, lasting 6 years, spanning from the declaration of war on the 3rd September 1939 until the Germans eventually surrendered in 1945 . The German Navy was completely outclassed and comprehensively outnumbered by the Royal Navy and its allies, therefore a conventional battle would not be sustainable. The German Navy therefore resorted to an unconventional tactic for the time by deploying packs of hunter submarines into the…