Dresden

Waxman was the only musical one in the family, and his father was against him becoming a musician, thinking he wouldn’t make any money from it. He worked as a teller for two years before moving to Berlin to study composing and conducting at the Dresden Music Academy. He moved to America after taking a beating from the…

Egon Schiele By: Farshad Engineer Early Life Schiele was born on 12th June 1890 in Tulln, Lower Austria. When Schiele was a child, he was interested in trains he would devote hours sketching trains, he would sketch so much that his father wanted to destroy his sketchbooks. At the age of 11 Schiele moved to the nearby city of Krems, to attend secondary school. Early Life Cont’d. Schiele was a strange child in the eyes of the people around him, he was a shy and reserved and did not do well in…

There is limited work that provides am academic and broad definition to authoritarian backsliding. Dresden and Howard define backsliding as “a decrease in the competitiveness of the electoral playing field.” This definition provides a fairly broad, but useful understanding of authoritarian backsliding as it implies that backsliding is measured in a given…

Shostakovich’s music and his musical style were directly affected by the political climate in Russia. He grew up and lived in a time of great turmoil, with wartime shortages and the 1917 revolution the first few years of his life had not been uncomplicated. Some of these events that transpired during his early life are observed in his 2nd, 11th, and 12th Symphonies. Shostakovich took influence from the likes of Prokofiev and Stravinsky during the earlier part of his career. His 2nd Symphony- a…

Over the centuries the United States has seen and been through a lot. For Example The Yalta Conference, John F. Kennedy’s assassination as well as the Hostage Crisis in Iran. These events have occurred throughout the United States History from 1876 to our present day. Yalta Conference February 1945, Allied leaders came together knowing that their victory in Europe was practically impossible of loosing. At Yalta Churchill and Roosevelt talked with Stalin about the Soviet Union joining in the…

What was the significance of having the three different concentration camps and what effect did it have on the victims and the bystanders of the Holocaust? The significance of having three types of concentration camps was that Hitler, the SS and the Nazis were able to concentrate their sub-human victims. Having three types of concentration camps was an essential part of the Nazis ultimate goal of the Final Solution, as it dictated the fate of not only the victims but also the bystanders of…

On the surface, Slaughter-house Five, by Kurt Vonnegut presents the idea that humans have no free will. Vonnegut uses the lack of free will as a metaphor for the helplessness that people feel faced with situations beyond their control. However, the novel can be reexamined to show the opposite; not only do we have free will, but the choices we make are supremely important. Unexplainable tragedies such as war, disease, and famine appear to be inevitable, engendering an overwhelming sense of…

This is reflected by the author as he says “No one needs me to tell them about Florence, or Dresden, or Prague, or New York; or, indeed, a hundred other cities in Europe or the Americas. Any Lonely Planet guide will tell you how to get around them and how to make the most of them [sitting in the second-largest square with a good cup of coffee is…

Heinrich Von Treitschke: Warfare and Nationalism to gain Liberation Germany faced the worst era of political imperial leadership, which suppressed the economy. During the nineteenth-century, Europe had many historical nationalists who studied their history and then glorified their nation's past (Kohn 21). A historian named Heinrich Von Treitschke vastly influenced Germans through his, political speech, named “The Greatness of War” shifting Germany’s perspective on the needs of the citizen’s…

His characters speak French sporadically but all of the German characters use their native German language regularly. For example, when the scholar Goethe described the destruction of Dresden he spoke in German: “Von der Kuppel der Frauenkirche sah ich diese leidigen Trümmer zwischen die schöne städtische Ordnung hineingesät…” (22). The use of foreign language creates a strong atmosphere for the reader to experience and contributes to…