Education in Germany

Iceland: the Land of Fire and Ice The Republic of Iceland contains some of the most breathtaking geological features in the world. With a population of 329,100, it is the least populated country in Europe. It is the second largest island in Europe and the seventeenth largest in the world. Located in the Atlantic Ocean between Greenland and Norway, Iceland is nearest to Europe and is thusly considered a European country. To put it into perspective, its capital city Reykjavík is a five hour plane…

this; she spent much of her youth touring the continent with other members of this organization. She traveled through Germany with the notorious Mitford Sisters, British aristocrats went to jail for their public support of Nazi. Joseph and Ella Hepburn divorced when Audrey was very young. She was attending school in London when the Second World War broke out. Ella returned to Germany and attended Nazi rallies and wrote about those rallies in articles for a fascist magazine called The Blackshirt.…

Life for Jews under Christian rule has not been easy over the centuries. Starting in the late 1400’s Sephardic Jews have been dealing with a great deal of oppression prior to their expulsion from Spain in 1492. Their expulsion incited a massive movement of Sephardic Jews who were forced to pick up their things and move out of Spain. As a result, most fled across Europe in hope of finding a suitable country to relocate too without facing persecution. Although many Jews fled East, the ones that…

The article “Soldiers Bridge Language, Cultural Barriers at Combined Resolve Exercise”, talks about how NATO has tried to standardize language across the 29 nations during the multinational Combined Resolve X. The Combined Resolve is a exercise created to test the readiness and capabilities of the U.S Army Europe rotational forces in a multinational environment. This training exercise included almost 3,700 military members from various allied nations. Coalition forces were created for the…

ydney Brenner was born in January 13, 1927 in Germiston, South Africa. Brenner’s parents were Jewish immigrants. His father was a shoe repairer and they lived in rooms that were at the back of his father’s store. Brenner started to read at a young age. One of his father’s customers, Miss Walkinshaw, encouraged Brenner’s father to allow Brenner to go to her kindergarten without charge. Brenner finished three years of primary school in one year and enrolled to local school when he was six. After…

Charlemagne The Great I think that Charlemagne deserves to be called great because of the following reasons. First of all, Charlemagne helped children learn things that some of the adults didn't even know such as reading and writing. Secondly, Charlemagne was equal to all genders and that's saying something because back then because girls were discriminated. Being equal by judging was difficult because if you were to have friends or family you would always have wanted them to be treated…

Dorotka Goldstein Roth Dorotka Goldstein Roth, was a Jewish girl born in Warsaw, Poland on February 1st, 1932. Miss Roth, the youngest of three children in her family had a very charismatic father. Mr. Roth believed in Zionism, this meant that he reasoned that Jewish people should go back to Palestine because that’s was where the holy land of Israel was, their true home. Dorotka’s father, in addition to be a Zionist, was a very caring man, he even built a soap kitchen for Jewish refugees in…

Following the Seven Years’ War, France lost its political standing in Europe, as its independence, security, and power were threatened daily. The idea of an American victory over the British greatly appealed the French, as it proffered an invaluable chance to the French to regain their status and to weaken England in one blow. Yet the French did not wish to support a mercurial and unstable cause, and the Americans did not desire a loss of their unique neutrality, and on these terms the French…

The republic of Finland is the most eastern of the West-European countries. More than 70 percent of the country is covered with woods, 8 percent is put to agricultural use and 10 percent consists of water. Finland has more than 60,000 lakes and there are more than 20,000 small islands along its coast. A third of the country lies north of the arctic circle. The landscape in Finland slowly changes from the flat (sometimes a bit sloping) and lake rich south (of which one doesn't see much from the…

The Jewish people in Europe faced harsh persecution in the late 19th and early 20th century. This hatred towards the Jewish people was often exhibited through violence and false accusations that led to unreasonable and unfair punishment. This prompted Jewish leaders from all around the world to start a Zionist movement calling for a revolution and the creation of a Jewish state. The movement created various types of Zionism and different beliefs on how to achieve establishing a Jewish nation…