Eastern world

isolated Germany and the world between the communist and the capitalist blocs and caused major damages to society. Before the wall existed, the citizens who lived in Berlin could freely cross the border, from one side to another. Most of them had jobs and crossed the border in a daily basis for a higher exchange rate. The wall split the city, the people, and even the world, tearing apart families and friends for years. It soon became…

East Berlin soldiers in order to cease the flow of emigrants into the West. The formulation of the Berlin Wall led to a separation of the people, a fight for freedom in government, a struggle for survival, and a political battle between World War II allies. After World War II, the victors agreed to separate Germany into 4 zones. These zones would be occupied by the United States, Britain, France, and the Soviet Union. Germany’s capital, Berlin, was also divided into 4 sectors amongst the former…

strongly desires the people of Berlin to be safe and free and through his speech he desires to see that come about for all of those people. Reagan’s speech is important because it is used to emphasize the importance of freedom and peace throughout the world. In “Address at the Brandenburg Gate” (also known as “Tear Down this Wall”), Ronald Reagan uses rhetorical techniques to build support…

Remaining within Old Lines: An Examination of Daphne Berdahl’s Where the World Ended In Where the World Ended, Daphne Berdahl explores via ethnographic study the creation and evolution of identities in the town of Kella. Located within the 500-meter Schutzstreifen along the Grenze (the inter-German border during the Cold War), residents of Kella experienced strict surveillance from the German Democratic Republic (GDR) and lived with additional regulations. Berdahl presents Kella as floating…

Germans were more probable to eat more preserved foods, while West Germans ate more fish, were more likely to eat foods high in fat and had access to luxury food items. Industrialism was a principal focus in Germany during this time because after World War II, the country had been concentrated on rebuilding themselves and their economy since the 1950s and 1960s. Productivity in the former east was 70% of that in the west in 1991 and rose to just 73% in 2012, in part a legacy of the number of…

how the United States used displays of lavish and modern consumerism, as an effective tool in the fight against communism. The thesis of the article is that the desire for consumer goods is, at least, partially responsible for causing unrest in the Eastern Bloc and exposed how different the Soviet’s communist tenets were from what humans’ desire. In the introduction of Greg’s article, he speaks of a fictitious account published in 1951 by sociologist David Reisman’s. In this account Reisman…

views. Therefore the Allies divided the city of Berlin into East and West sectors, so that the Allies could control half the city to insure it did not fall to communism. The USSR isolated West Berlin, the Soviet half of the city, from the rest of the world. For the course of approximately one year no cars, plans, trains or citizens…

monster of the communist-capitalist conflict. It divided West Germany into the ‘Federal Republic of Germany’ and the smaller East Germany the ‘German Democratic Republic’.”(Taylor,1) It divided a city from the outer world and completely separated family and friends. At the end of World War II Germany as well as Berlin was divided up into four sectors. East Germany and East Berlin was made up of the Soviet portion of the regime. West Germany and West Berlin was made up of the French, British…

War, medicine, and religion broadly summarizes the Middle Ages. Bloodlines and culture clashed as the Roman empire fell, and time stood still as large, Eastern european civilizations crumbled with systematic disaster. With no political script to follow, for the first time townsmen experienced a sense of unpreparedness as they saw their rulers fall and be conquered by invaders. Throughout the Middle Ages not only was a monumental shift occurring culturally and politically, but specifically in…

spreading the plague. One common belief was that the Jews poisoned the wells. Many Jews were massacred during mob violence; especially in Germany. Some Jews escaped death by agreeing to Christian baptisms. Many Jews fearing violence migrated to Eastern Europe. It wasn’t until Pope Clement VI in 1348 declared that the Jews were not responsible for poisoning the wells. However, Jewish prejudices remained. Even to this day, Jews still face discrimination by certain hate groups. It’s…