Germanic languages

The smoky room is filled with stocky men in short lederhosen sporting big, bushy sideburns and unkempt mustaches and heavy-set waitresses outfitted with blue knee-length dirndls carrying up to sixteen mugs of beer while walking down the aisles. The overly crowded tables are festooned with blue and white checkered tablecloths, and numerous people are singing drinking songs, albeit in a rather out of tune fashion. This image of the Hoffbrau Haus is the stereotypical view many Americans hold of…

Ever since the beginning of time, people have always been controlling and have been making rules so that in a culture every one is the same. This makes a culture uniform and together to be able to be stronger because everyone is alike. However, there are times when people must break free and become their own person to explore the world and achieve greatness. As in the book, In Broken Places by Michele Phoenix, the story is set in Germany. Many immigrants, such as a mother named Shelby and…

Beowulf prevails as one of the most significant pieces of English literature despite being written centuries ago. One justification for this is that countless motifs that it elaborates on are still applicable in the modern world. One of the widespread matters developed in Beowulf is the prestige of the heroic code. Most of Beowulf is committed to interpreting and epitomizing the heroic law which appreciates characteristics like power, perseverance, and glory. Contrasting with this teaching are…

unjustified. Topic sentence: The Acadians have settled in the atlantic region for thousands of years. With the rivalry between England and France no one is taking chances, with the French arriving first the Acadians got to know them from learning their language and trading with them. Reason 1: When the French first arrived the acadians took their side and got to know them better, they had no idea there was other people across the atlantic or any land at all. The Acadians trusted and liked the…

I walked happily over to the hanger my new plane was in and I changed into my pilot gear, cheers for these Mr Rackham I thought to myself. I went to my plane and found my new gunman. I shook his hand as he said "I'm Wilson, you must be George Rackham?" "Sure, I'm George Rackham, I'm your guy. I replied not worrying about a thing. I just wanted to get up in the air. She is beautiful I thought to myself. My plane was a Bristol F2.B. In short she was a fighter plane. I got in the cockpit and I…

Introduction Going into a new market with a product is a challenge for any salesperson. New markets, especially international markets, have an endless amount of different strategies to use for all of the different countries in the world. Going into Germany to sell laptops seems like a good idea after looking into Germany’s culture and comparing their culture with the United States culture. It is important to be self-aware of one’s own values and culture. Going forward, this paper will identify…

Descirbing Pomeranians Do you know what a Deutscher Spitz, Zwergspitz, Pom, Pom Pom, Zwers, or Tumbleweeds are? They are all different names for a Pomeranian. They have a great attitude that would meet expectations. They are not very big, so you could push them around in a stroller or you could move them around, or you even carry them in a purse if you really wanted to. They love exercise so you could take them to a park or outside for some fresh air. If you’re looking for a friendly,…

Luchini Professor Eike Reichardt Cultural Geography 3 May 2015 Languages: Languages spoken on Planet Earth Without languages being created and widely-spoken, human beings would have a very bad way of communicating with each other. It would be virtually impossible to have countries succeed without some form of communication. Thankfully, there has been 6,909 languages that have been created and widely spoken as of 2009 ("How Many Languages Are There in the World? | Linguistic Society of…

History is no stranger to unexpected outcomes, especially when it comes to wars and battles. One notable example is the battle of Agincourt. The battle was a part of the Hundred Years War, which took place in the year 1415. The two combatants were the French and English. Their force compositions were vastly different. According to Enguerrand de Monstrelet, a French chronicler, the French forces out numbered the English by 6 times (de Monstrelet 340). Despite the overwhelming odds, the…

The German Fusiliers were a type of German soldiers rented to the British to help fight in the Revolutionary War in America. During the American Revolutionary War, German princes hired out some of their regular army troops to Great Britain to use to fight against the American troops. About 30,000 of these men served in North America. A large amount of them were called Hessians, because the largest group came from Hesse-Kassel. They didn’t come as individuals, but as entire groups of soldiers…