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Niagara Falls was an oil canvas painting done in 1834, by Gustav Johann Grunewald. Gustav Grunewald was originally born and died in Germany from 1805-1878 (Allentown Art Museum) (Sozanski). Gustav trained at the Dresden Academy with his teacher Casper David Friedrich, who was a well known 19th century German Romantic landscape painter (Sozanski) (Stokstad). Friedrich believed that the artist's inspiration comes from within, rather than an outside object (Whelan)…

Hitler’s Germany Question 13 In the years 1933 to 1945, different Germans benefited in different ways from Nazi Rule. Throughout these years, the benefits the German workers received is hard to conclude due to fabricated Nazi figures and schemes, such as the Volkswagen scheme, along with realistic economic success, such as the Labour service Corps. Unemployed people benefited from these schemes, becoming employed, and so did Nazi part members, but many Nazi opponents such as political members…

altered and his teaching began to diminish. Mozart began to give up public performances depending strictly on loans from friends to support him and his family. He tried solving his financial problems by traveling to different places such as- Leipzig, Dresden, Berlin, Frankfurt, Mannheim, and other German cities. However, it wasn’t…

Evil and Sadistic SS Women When people think of sadistic killers during the Holocaust they think of men; What about their female counterparts? Many of these women were stationed in concentration camps. Some of the female members of the SS were more sadistic than male members. Herta Bothe is one of the three sadistic women spoken of in the Bergen Belsen trials. Bothe was born on January 3rd 1921 (Source Bergen Belsen Trial Transcript) in Tete, Mecklenburg. Bothe had done house work until…

Sexing: The techniques used for sexing faunal remains will be determined by the degree of preservation of the element themselves as well as the identified species present. Unfortunately, a clear indication of sex is not always apparent in the archaeological record and we have to infer based on overall size in comparison to modern population (Reitz and Wing, 1999). One exception is in the case of female birds which can be recognized by medullary bone, a calcium deposit associated with egg laying…

Howard Zinn was one of the most well known American historians in recent history. His A People’s History of the United States is a best-seller that routinely sells more than one hundred thousand copies every year, despite being published 35 years ago. Zinn was born in 1922, the son of two Jewish factory workers. He was introduced to literature at an early age, and studied creative writing in a special program at his high school. Zinn joined the US Army Air Force during World War II and became a…

The Smithsonian was justified in terms of canceling the exhibit “The Last Act”. The mistake with the implementation of the exhibit was with the timing, the impact wouldn’t have been as great if it wasn’t for the 50th anniversary of the bombings. Americans who were alive during this time expected to be applauded for their sacrifice and support, veterans expected to get an “atta- boy” and to be honored for their valor and heroism. When in actuality, “The Last Act's" perspective was too analytical…

no one almost to keep the towns.. some are left limbless, some slain.” The quote stated by Pope Gregory II speaks of the brutal and destructive ways of barbarian tribe, The Lombards. The Lombards originated in the Lower Elbe Valley in modern day Dresden, Germany. Although from Germany, records state the Lombards origin is in Scandinavia just like the Visigoths. Unlike the the rest of the tribes, the Lombards grew to be Arian christians instead of believing in the trinity like the others. Many…

Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador. Much of what we currently know about the Pre-Historic Maya has come from excavation in these countries and of the few books that survived, the Spanish conquistadors. These Books are The Madrid, Dresden, Paris and Grolier codices are named after the city which they currently resided in. Then there is the Chiliam Balam of the Yucatan Mayas, and the Popol Vuh. The Popol Vuh which is seen by many as the only real account of religion, my many as…

Traumatically stressed from the reverence from the bombing of dresden. Vonnegut attempts to manifest his fractured state into writing, yet he is unable to portray these ideals intelligently as he states that “nothing intelligent could be said about a massacre(Vonnegut 23)”. Conventional methods of storytelling prohibit him from, in an attempt to portray the atrocities of war, expressing his ideals in a meaningful manner. In Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse Five, Slaughterhouse uses Billy Pilgrim…