Frankfurt am Main

In the free will vs. determinism debate, hard determinism seems to be a dominant belief. Hard determinism is the belief that free will and determinism are incompatible ideas, and that it is not possible to truly believe in both without being logically inconsistent. Under hard determinism, there is a view called hard incompatibilism which Smilansky subscribes to. Hard incompatibilism is the belief that determinism is incompatible with both human freedom and moral responsibility. Saul Smilansky…

Miep Gies described him as "The calm one, the children’s teacher, the most logical, the one who balanced everything out. He was the leader, the one in charge. When a decision had to be made, all eyes turned to Mr. Frank.” He was born on 1889 in Frankfurt am Main. Him and his whole family were liberal Jews. After completing high school, Otto studied art history for a summer semester at the University of Heidelberg. He worked at a bank for a year and then had the opportunity to do an internship…

little girl can stand up against a whole army of men. Anne Frank has a legacy for staying strong and writing a diary while hiding in an attic, therefore she is known as the girl in hiding. Annalise “Anne” Marie Frank was born on June 12, 1929 in Frankfurt, Germany (Biography.com) (World Book, 229). She was a born German Jew. She lived with her dad (Otto Frank), mom (Edith Frank), and her sister…

The story of Oskar Schindler contains many acts of heroic bravery and sacrifices to save the Jewish race. There were a myriad of heros in the holocaust, and Oskar Schindler was just one of the many. Oskar Schindler was a hero of the holocaust because he saved thousands of Jews from the clutches of the Nazi rebellion. Oskar Schindler was with the germans at first, but once he saw that the men, women, and children were killed senselessly and more than he thought. More and more Jews were taken to…

The involvement of the Netherlands in World War II began with its invasion by Nazi Germany on 10 May 1940. On 22 June 1941 is when Jews started to be arrested in Amsterdam. The penalties for helping Jewish people hide from the Nazis were Execution, Vicious beatings, bullet the head, hanging etc. If you helped a Jew in Nazi Germany you were called a traitor, which was in Nazi ideology worse than a Jew. The allies liberated Amsterdam on the 5th of May 1945 right at the very last days of the war.…

OBJECTIVES 1. To understand the general scenario of outbound tourism to Germany in india. 2. To put the theoretical knowledge learnt in the first year to practical work. 3. To understand organisational and work culture 4. To understand the degree to which travel agencies help in promoting the destination Germany to their clients. 5. To learn about the various whereabouts which are taking place in Germany which is boosting its tourism scenario. 6. To observe and detect areas in which the…

Erik Erikson, previously known as Erik Homberger, was born in Frankfurt, Germany and lived from June 15, 1902 to 1994. As Erikson’s dad abandoned Erik and his mother, Karla Abrahamsen, before Erik was even born there is not any information known about the biological father other than he was Danish. After raising Erik by herself for three years, Karla married Erik’s pediatrician Dr. Theodor Homberger. After they got married the family moved to Karlsruhe in southern Germany where Erikson got his…

The year of 1939 started one of the biggest nightmares to come for the world. Germany had invaded Poland, starting the second World War (History). Among the millions of those affected by Hitler’s reach was a young girl named Anne Frank. With a diary she received, at the age of thirteen, she became famous for her entries about the world around her, and what the Holocaust was like for a young Jewish girl at the time. The reason her diary is so important today is because she brought the person back…

concentration camps. Anne’s father, Otto Frank, is the only one of the eight people to survive. After her death Anne becomes world famous because of the diary she wrote while in hiding. Anne Frank was born on 12 June 1929 in the German town of Frankfurt am Main. Her father’s family had lived here for generations. Anne’s sister, Margot is three and a half years older. The economic crisis, Hitler’s rise to power and growing antisemitism put an end to the family’s carefree life. Otto Frank and…

Being in the forefront of the 2nd World War and Face of Pro-immigration during the European Syrian rescue, Germany have been a controversial country with events that altered the world and put a chapter into history. This brief aims to help to understand Germans and avoid intercultural misunderstandings while doing business. However, this is just a generalization of most common German culture and one should not stereotype. Location A member of the European Union, Germany is located between…