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slave catchers who owned them were usually not members of the planter class which most often enlisted their services. Robert J. Butler rose to the planter class on his success apprehending runaways with his dogs. Louis Schiller, a black man from Hamburg, would testify in 1876 that…

What is the difference between a philosopher and your average joe? Both can think and theorize. But one goes in depth, whereas one barely scratches past the surface. Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell is catered to your average joe. A book of theories which would make for great short discussions with coworkers, friends, etc. over lunch or a coffee break. New York Times writer, Michiko Kakutani, provides her review of Malcolm Gladwell's bibliography, criticizing with what many…

The United States and Britain were not justified in bombing cities such as Hamburg, Dresden, Berlin, Pforzheim, Darmstadt, and Kassel which were bombed in Germany with a casualty rate anywhere from 10,000 in Kassel to 42,600 in Hamburg(OME). The USAAF and the RAF used strategic bombing in destroying what they believed to be military strong points, like industrial factories and military bases. The U.S believed that this would shorten the war by destroying all of there resources, the British…

Swing as an Attitude Towards Life Arising in the mid-1930s and originating in the United States, the newest style of jazz, swing, brought forth a renewed interest in jazz across the world, even in Nazi Germany. As the world began to recover from economic depression, swing, and swing-influenced music came to represent the latest trend in popular music. Despite discrimination against jazz music and jazz culture in the Third Reich, swing found an enthusiastic and dance-hungry audience. For a…

necessary need to brand themselves as having a very modern way of teaching or need to have a brought variety of programs (“Asklepios Campus Hamburg - Asklepios…

In late 2016, Madrid's Mayor Manuela Carmena reiterated her plan to kick personal cars out of the city center. On Spanish radio network Cadena Ser, she confirmed that Madrid's main avenue, the Gran Vía, will only allow access to bikes, buses, and taxis before she leaves office in May 2019. It's part of a larger effort to ban all diesel cars in Madrid by 2025. But the Spanish city is not the only one getting ready to take the car-free plunge. Urban planners and policy makers around the world…

A Fatwa. A fatwa is an Islamic ruling, which most of the Muslims careful follow and respect. A Fatwa issued by Obama Bin Laden in February 1993 which it illustrated that he himself and his fellow brothers were declaring war to the Americans additionally, printed by an Arabic newspaper in London. The declaration of the war was endured because Osama believed that all Americans have been against God. He and his followers were determined to change that by putting and preparing themselves through…

From August 1960 to December 1962 the Beatles were playing in Hamburg, Germany. It was where they really took off ,and where they gained a following. Their drummer during this period in time, Pete Best, commented that “We were playing seven nights a week!” As you know after Hamburg they became one of the best bands of all time . The people who are willing to put in the hours into something they love , they’re the ones who…

viewpoint when reading When Time Stood Still. The author, Gisela Roediger was a native German when the war broke out. Like the other German young people, Gisela had grown up in the Hitler Youth and was fiercely nationalistic. As a secretary in a dreary Hamburg office when the bombs fell, she enlisted…

laugh, some make you sad, and some you just can't explain. Trust me, I've been there. But recently I read a book called the "The boy who dared" by: Susan Campbell Bartoletti , and the book dates back to the minscule era of the Nazis. In the town of Hamburg, 17 year old prodigy Helmuth Huebener with his two friends Karl Heinz Snibbe and Rudolf Wobbe planed an attack over the nazis. Though they were "kids" , they made stratergies to secretly take over the nazis in a way the Nazis hadn't expected…