Dresden

The SS and the Gestapo: Instruments of Destruction A few questions many researchers ask during study of WWII is, “How did we let this happen? What instruments could carry out such atrocities?” Even before the war started, there was persecution and maleficent intentions towards people that were deemed unfit to reproduce. Who would carry out these crimes against humanity? What extent of damage did the dark acts of the Geheime Staats Polizei (literal translation, Secret State Police or, best known…

The tragedy of the 9/11 attack had a lasting impact on the dynamic of families and individuals across the nation. As the unbelievable occurred, people struggled to find ways to overcome the situations they had been faced with. In his novel, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Jonathan Safran Foer emphasizes this through elements in his writing such as characterization, graphic images, a detailed setting, and the use of multiple narrative strands. These effectively create the story of nine year…

What is the one thing the whole human race has in common? Religion. Eighty four percent of the world's population has a religion. The largest religion is Christianity, the second is Muslim ( Harper, Jennifer. “84 Percent of the World Population Has Faith; a Third Are Christian.” The Washington Times). As a human, believing in something is important but trusting that everything that is being taught is 100% true is hard to prove. People live day by day from those beliefs, so imagine a religion…

With mainland Europe left in ruins after war, civilians of the devastated countries sought to rebuild their cities, and return everything to normal. This attempt of normalisation is what drives the story lines of both Primo Levi’s ‘The Reawakening’ and Roberto Rossellini’s ‘Germany Year Zero,’ as the characters in both seek to make things as they were before the war. What differs between the two stories is how the characters went about the process of normalisation, and how each story arc…

The following question will look at where I believe rhetoric should go from this point and do so by using identity approaches in rhetoric as well as discuss how rhetoric can be used to analyze other forms of media that the course didn’t dive to deep into, such as poetry, the invention of identity of animals on social media, how social media can shape new musical and or social identities. Throughout the semester we learned a lot about the theoretical significance of rhetoric and how we can use…

as one of the great leaders of Human history. His triumphs are in abundance as he is highlighted by some of his great victories throughout his leadership. Many people look at his victories more often that his losses. His battles at Austerlitz and Dresden were truly fantastic, however, it often overshadows some of his disappointing losses such as Waterloo and more importantly, his miserably embarrassing…

The role for women during the period of the Bauhaus and the works of Marianne Brandt When thinking about the Bauhaus and all of its accomplishments and designs, it is rare that one thinks of a woman's work. Despite this most likely having something to do with Walter Gropius’s intentions, men's domination in the art world and history being written largely by men, there were many distinct successful works by women that have been overshadowed by the male counterpart. Marianne Brandt was one of…

5.1 French revolution The French revolution begin on 1798 till 1799. The most obvious reasons for the revolution is the heavy taxes that the French regime made the poor people pay it (As France was heavily in debt at this era) and the authority of the church and the aristocracy. The revolution main demands were equity, justice and change monarchy with republic system. The revolution had went into wrong hands like the Robespierre and Jacobins that caused a lot of terror and blood. This era had…

Both Timothy Findley’s ‘The Wars’ and Kurt Vonnegut’s ‘Slaughterhouse Five’ delve into extreme detail on the absurdity and tragedy of war and life itself. The books and the characters within are often befuddled, bemused, or held subject to the mad whims of a world that is ultimately apathetic to whether they live or die. Both books utilize their unique narrative structures to emphasize the absurd nature of death by shaping the form in which information is presented around the intended message of…

Vonnegut's work. The upbringing of Vonnegut himself contributes to this lackluster view: he grew up amid the Depression. He watched his dad work himself to death as his mother courted suicide. He saw the massacre of innocents amid the firebombing of Dresden and became a prisoner of the Germans. Vonnegut is no stranger to the most primal of human feeling, of fear, of anger, even of what there are no words sufficient to describe. He experienced the paradoxical medley of death and jubilation that…