Karl Otto Koch

Houseless Being houseless, better known as homeless, is a growing epidemic in the United States and across the world. Becoming houseless is not ideal, it can make life very difficult. Throughout the world, more and more people are becoming houseless for a variety of reasons. Being houseless could mean living on the streets or even living out of a car. The quality of someone’s life can be determined by three things; their health, comfort, and happiness. Being houseless can be defined as a low…

In The Manifesto of the Communist Party by Karl Marx and Federick Engle’s, “a spectre haunting Europe – the spectre of communism” (Marx 191), Karl Marx and Frederick Engels open with the idea of the stories of history being a constant power struggle between the oppressed (Proletarians) and the oppressors (Bourgeoisie). No matter the outcomes of battles or wars, history has always produced, “new conditions of oppression, new forms of struggle in place of the old ones.” (Marx 191). As time…

Banners bore the poet Vladimir Mayakovsky's proclamation "Lenin lived, Lenin lives, Lenin will live forever!" There might be challenges to the globalized liberal order, but they would come from Islamism or China's state capitalism, no longer a discredited Marxism. China and Russia both deploy symbols of their Communist heritage to strengthen an anti-liberal nationalism; in the West, confidence in free-market capitalism has not recovered from the financial crash of 2008, and new forces of the…

It is in my interests and the interests of other well minded German citizens that the Nazi Party be voted in the upcoming elections of 1932. The Nazi party is the people's party, and it is my conviction that they will bring changes to the lives of the upper class, the middle class (Mittesland) and the have-nots; besides, it is more likely to bring law and order to the entirety of Germany (Nyomarkay, 35). With the policies of the party, Germany will be able to realize the reprisal of the Treaty…

One of the most renowned biological theories to date, Charles Darwin’s theory of natural selection established the concept of “survival of the fittest” in which species adapt and change, and the organisms with the best suited mutations dominate (Campbell and Reece 13). Deriving the foundation of this crucial theory, English sociologist Herbert Spencer developed a theory of his own: social Darwinism. Merriam-Webster defines social Darwinism as “an extension of Darwinism to social phenomena and,…

The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety Felix Mendelssohn. He was a very privileged child. He used is his talents for the better. All in the short period of time, he was alive. Felix Mendelssohn was born on 3 February 1809, in Hamburg Germany. He was the grandson of the philosopher Moses Mendelssohn. Felix was born into a prominent Jewish family. Although initially he was brought up without religion and was later baptized as a Reformed Christian. His father was Abraham Mendelssohn who…

Benedict Anderson the author of Imagined Communities identifies a nation as an imagined political community that is limited and sovereign. An imagined community can be considered as having a horizontal or vertical structure. For a community to be horizontal it means that everyone is considered as equals. To have a vertical structure in a community there is a hierarchy of power, normally consisting of a king, nobles, peasants etc. For an imagined community to be considered modern it requires to…

Bernd Becher, Hilla Becher, Duisburg-Bruckhausen, Ruhr Region, Germany, 1999 The photograph seems to be a landscape of houses and factories. The houses are clustered together on one side of the photograph while the factories sit on the opposite side. A road seems to divide the cluster of houses and the factories. Duisburg-Bruckhausen shows that photography is a medium towards understanding the subject being photographed. The Duisburg-Bruckhausen, in particular, hints the viewer of what it once…

The socialist man who stood up against the Communist ideology. There are many people in history that have made the “easy” decisions. Coping with the society and the injustice rules, unequal social systems and the prejudice authority. Mr. George Orwell has however, stood up against the mainstream ideas, exposed the presence of injustice and hypocrisy in our society, and expressed his anti-soivet opinions in the mid-1950s. Even though Great Britain and the Soviet Union had a favorable…

America cannot be able to acquire a brighter future by socialism. Having a more socialist ideology would negatively influence our country. The means of production along with other things are owned by the state or central planning authority in a socialist economy. Hence, competition is removed. “It is due to competition that an economy becomes prosperous.” ( "What Is Socialism, Advantages and Disadvantages of Socialism." What Is Socialism, Advantages and Disadvantages of Socialism. Umar Farooq,…