Following the Napoleonic Wars of the early 19th century, government leaders met at the Congress of Vienna (1814-15) to redraw the boundaries of Europe. In Central Europe, a confederation of thirty-eight German states replaced the long-standing Holy Roman Empire, which had been dissolved through Napoleon’s conquests. In the prelude to the Revolutions of 1848, the political, economic, and social orders of this new German Confederation became subjects of great debate and varied opinions among…
It has been assumed that Lang was working from the media coverage of Peter Kürten, or The Vampire of Düsseldorf. However, there were a handful of serial killers running around Germany at the time including the criminally and violently prolific Friedrich Haarmann, Carl Großmann and the unknown extent of his crimes and intent, and Großmann’s predecessor, Karl Denke and his unfortunate hankering for cannibalism; all of these cases being excellent portraits of the developing criminology world of the…
In the words of Kaelee Friedrich who attended the march in LA "Let me be clear - Yesterdays March was NOT an "abortion march." Which I so frequently heard many uninformed individuals refer to it as. Abortions did not start with Roe V. Wade - Roe V. Wade was the beginning of women no longer dying from abortions. Yesterday's March was NOT because "women hate men." Yesterdays March was FILLED with men, women, and children. Yesterday's March was NOT because "us whining democrats can't accept the…
The British Empire is recognised as the first ‘free trade nation’; trade liberalisation was specifically promoted since 1815 (Trentmann, 2008: 5). Specifically, the repeal of the Corn Laws in 1846 and the Navigation Act in 1849 ushered ‘laissez-faire’ system, since the industrial policy aimed to be the ‘workshop of the world’, which provided manufacturing goods produced in efficient and cheaper ways, so those laws were obstacle to expanding markets (Lacher and Germann, 2012: 103; Semmel, 1970:…
When a Citizen Goes to Court (1) Citizens play an active role in the court process. Begin your response by identifying at least two different ways that citizens interact with the court process and explaining these roles. List two different ways that citizens interact with the court process and explain these roles. Next, compare and contrast the roles you selected with respect to their interactions with court personnel during the court hearing process. There are many ways citizens play an…
Nike is a text-book example of modern free trade markets and advanced capitalism – and not necessarily in a good way. The company has been doing aggressive outsourcing since the 1970’s and it has been directed mainly towards Asian countries. These days Nike has over 900 contract factories which employ over a million workers in about 45 different countries. The numbers illustrate Nike’s wide outsourcing, which is bound to create challenges. Through-out its history, Nike has been accused of…
christened "Donald".[2] Trump's paternal grandfather, Friedrich Trump, first emigrated to the United States in 1885 at the age of 16, and became a citizen in 1892. He amassed a fortune operating boom-town restaurants and boarding houses in the Seattle area and the Klondike region of Canada, during the gold rush.[3] On a visit to Kallstadt, he met Elisabeth Christ and married her in 1902. The couple settled in New York definitively in 1905.[4] Friedrich died from influenza during the…
never before while incorporating tools researchers from Mau, Jacobson, and Garrett’s outcomes with presbyphonia along with new ideas and concepts. Gugatschka, M., Kiesler, K., Obermayer-Pietsch, B., Schoekler, B., Schmid, C., Groselj-Strele, A., & Friedrich, G. (2010). Sex hormones and the elderly male voice. Journal of Voice, 24(3), 369-373. doi:…
When English philosopher Francis Bacon was commenting on what he believed were the 3 inventions that changed the modern world, he mentioned gun powder, the compass, and the printing press. While all three have been respectively relevant throughout history, with gun powder changing the face of modern warfare; the compass evolved into the GPS and other direction giving devices. The printing press is the one invention that still stands out as one of the most positively beneficial inventions of all…
philosophy, Eastern philosophy (including middle eastern) and Modern philosophy. Plato, Aristotle, Socrates are famous western philosophers, Siddartha Gautama (as known as Buddha), Confucius, Sun Tyu, Laozi are famous eastern philosophers, And Karl Marx, Friedrich Nietzsche are famous modern philosophers. (Hour, 2010) (www.philosophy-index.com, n.d.) However, there are many more famous philosophers…