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1. Where does the term „Techno“ for this music genre come from? The term „Techno“ goes back to the 1970s when Alvin Toffler published a book with the title „Future Shock“ by speaking about „Techno-rebells“ who use the most modern technology to fight the system subversively which created those technologies. Since the early 80s, the term was used in several interviews and in 1984 Cybotron from Detroit published in an „Electro“-sampler a single with the title „Techno-City“. Afterwards It took part…

Josef Mengele was a Nazi doctor at the Auschwitz extermination camp in Poland and was born in Gunzburg Germany on March 16, 1911. After receiving his undergraduate degree in Anthropology, he studied medicine at the University of Frankfurt am Main. Once he got his medical degree, he joined the German Army’s in the Medical Corps where Heinrich Himmler appointed him. Later on Himmler made Dr. Mengele the Chief Doctor at Birkenau, which was a supplementary extermination camp at Auschwitz…

Learning 2016 3 Linville, Patricia W. ; Jones, Edward E. Manis, Melvin (editor) Polarized appraisals of outgroup members. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 1980, Vol.38(5 4 Marushiakova, E.; Popov, V. Gypsies (Roma) in Bulgaria, Frankfurt am Main Peter Lang Verlag, 1997. 5 Michael A. Hogg, Graham M. Vaughan 2014. Social psychology 6 National Statistical Institute – Bulgaria; http://www.nsi.bg/sites/default/files/files/pressreleases/Census2011final.pdf. 7 Silverman, C. (1986).…

Differing from the late eighteenth century with radical views against women and the feminist movement, the Victorian Period saw women rise in power to become head of the domestic aspects of the family from running the shop they lived over to overseeing the work carried out by servants. Linda Nochlin argues in her essay, Women, Art, and Power, that the assumptions about the role of women in society are reflected in the art produced during that period. As women gained agency and became partners…

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe was born on August 28, 1749 in Frankfurt am Main, Germany and died on March 22, 1832 in Weimar. Goethe is considered to be the greatest literary figure of Germany because he is not only a poet, but is also a playwright and a novelist. Goethe's father, Johann Caspar Goethe was born to a wealthy family and his wife, Catharina Textor who was born to Frankfurt’s most senior official in Germany.(1) During his early years, Goethe’s passion was drawing but he quickly got…

World War II and the Enigma machine Ben Karpinski Independent Studies The Enigma Machine was a very large turning point in technology for the war. Not only was it a way of communication, but it was a way of coded information. This would end up being a way to transfer top secret information long distance. The engineer Arthur Scherbius, from Germany, invented the Enigma machine in the hope of selling to commercial companies in the department of communications. Little did he know where it…

The Straw that Broke the Camel’s Back How the Dawson’s Field Hijackings Forced Jordan to Take Action Against the PLO On September 21, 1970 the cover of Time Magazine read simply “Pirates in the Sky.” It was referring to the hijacking of four planes by the Palestinian militant group the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, or the PFLP. This incident was one of the first cases of airplane hijacking as a took for political blackmail, and it played a significant role in king Hussein’s…

Wolfgang and his father visited all of the main musical centers during their first tour which lasted fifteen months. It was during this tour that Wolfgang and his father visited the Sistine Chapel. There they listened to the Miserere of Gregorio Allegri and Wolfgang copied the exclusive piece…

Anxiety disorders are becoming increasingly common in society, and are characterized by common symptoms of fear over future events or the consequences of current ones. This fear is often debilitating in the afflicted person, and is a hindrance to normative behaviour. Certain anxiety disorders originate in childhood and adolescence, and they may persist into adulthood without treatment. One anxiety disorder with particularly negative implications is social anxiety disorder. Social anxiety…

Erik Erikson, was born in 1902 in Frankfurt, Germany, to a young Jewish mother. His biological father and mother separated before he was born, later on his mother remarried Erikson 's physician. (Weiland, 1993, p1). In school, he was bullied for his appearance because he did not look like the other kids. He felt that his stepfather never fully accepted him. Because his biological father was Danish and his stepfather was Jewish. It was hard for him to figure out where he fit in. Those early on…