Czechs

The First World War was a calamity, but what was done in the wake of it, and the world it created, set the stage for even worse events. The post war world teetered on a precarious balance in both Europe and Asia. The nationalism that caused the First World War, manifested itself after the war and threatened post war security. Post- war Europe and Asia were fractured because of issues stemming from the First World War and combined with nascent and growing nationalism. Europe bore the brunt of…

particularly the ones who lived in central Europe argued that the knowledge and untrustworthy came from the mind through the process of intuiting and conceiving ideas. Major contributors of European enlightenment John Comenius (1592-1670) - he was a Czech intellectual who believed in practical instruction and universal education. He played a great role in the introduction of pictorial textbook that were written in vernacular language rather than Latin. He called for the development of logical…

Europe is Tested with Flood of Immigrants It’s common for one to read or hear about humanitarian crises in third-world countries, feel subsequent pity, and then return to his/hers expected, everyday life. However, Europe has no choice in putting such matters to the side; the aftermath of said crises is right on its doorstep. Migrants from all over, Syria, Afghanistan, Kosovo, Eritrea, Serbia, Pakistan, Iraq, Nigeria, Russia, and Albania, among others, are surging into Europe. The numbers vary…

Andy Warhol, an American artist who painted post-World War II, once said, “Everybody has their own America, and then they have the pieces of a fantasy America that they think is out there but they can 't see” (“Sunbeams: Issue 447”). The American Dream incorporates this sense of imagination and hope: it creates motivation to fully commit one’s time and effort in order to accomplish his or her ambitions. Warhol, however, warns people that aspirations requiring hard work can evolve into…

known for their artistic work of manipulating others. Most imposters impersonated others, tricking their clients into truly believing something completely false. Victor Lustig, born as Robert to the Miller family on January 4, 1890, in present day Czech Republic, is one of the world’s most famous and smoothest con men ever. He was a “gifted student with a seemingly bright future ahead of him” and always wished to become and ‘artist’. (Pizzoli 8). Thus, he used his clever gambling skills,…

authorized party in the country. Cuba has seen a volatile political scenario with changing and rejection of constitutions, official lies and unofficial truths about political status quos, lack of diplomatic relations with political states like The U.S., Czech Republic, South Korea and Costa Rica among others, etc. While some claim Cuba to have been a communist nation throughout, a popular school of thought also claims it to be the world’s last remaining socialist…

When i read i use various types of reading strategies. One of those strategies is re-reading. There are times while i am reading where i dose off and miss whatever i was suppose to read. Rereading allows me to get a juste of a part of my book that i have missed and prevents confusion. It's important to reread incase you have missed an important part of you book. Another strategy that i use while reading is visualizing. Visualizing allows me to be more engaged in my book. To me visualizing is…

than Hate and Fury: A Response to Kovály’s Under A Cruel Star: A Life in Prague 1941-1968 Heda Margolius Kovály’s memoir, Under A Cruel Star: A Life in Prague 1941-1968, tells a story of love and loss, of hope and horror, of life as a persecuted Czech Jew under the Nazi and Communist regimes. Her account emphasizes courage in the face of fear, and it speaks of the facts behind these regimes, as she knows them to be true. In this book, Kovály describes life in a communist state in the…

The five themes of geography include location, place, human environment interaction, movement, and region. They help answer questions such as where is it located, what it is like, what is the relationship between the humans and the environment, how places connect with one another, why is one similar to the other. In 1984, the National Council for Geographic Education and the Association of American Geographers felt the need to arrange the way geography students learned about areas. Thus, these…

army and in 1938 attained the rank of lance corporal in the reserves. Schindler began working with the Amt Auslands/Abwehr (Office of the Military Foreign Intelligence) of the German Armed Forces in 1936” (Crowe 2004). After an 18-month stint in the Czech army, Schindler returned to his company called Moravian Electrotechnic, which went bankrupt shortly afterwards. His father's farm machinery business closed around the same time, leaving Schindler unemployed for a year. He took a job in a bank…