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Overview  Working title: “Readers of the Holocaust”  Tagline: This brief documentary follows a graduate student’s exploration of an unusual choice of textbooks in a high school classroom: graphic novels.  Estimated length: 15-20 minutes  Proposed date of completion: April 21st, 2016 Introduction: Goals and Voice of the Documentary  The overarching question I ask in this film is how graphic novels about Holocaust and other events of genocide are enabling experiential learning in high school…

Injustice: In my opinion injustice is the lack of fairness and equality between two or more people or groups. The Difference in Pay Between Genders in Canada One large injustice found in the economic industry is the gap between a woman 's average income and a man 's average income. According to the Statistics Canada data report conducted in 2011, women made an estimated 74 cents for every dollar a man made in relation to full­time income. This is actually…

The process of political, economic, and social modernization in Scandinavia and the Baltic states from the early 19th century to 1939 has both similarities and differences; similarities in the sense that moves toward modernization were taken, and differences in the sense that the processes themselves as well as the outcomes of each vary. In the beginning of the 19th century, Scandinavia’s political sphere was control largely by monarchies. At the beginning of this century, Sweden and…

government, but since they are there, “as part of the NATO mission,” it also has intimidated every country that is part of NATO and also in Afghanistan currently. (Rahim) The countries currently in Afghanistan are mainly Germany, Georgia, Belgium, and Latvia, and they quickly came to Germany’s defense after the attack, as stated by the article. Though this was a terrorist attack, the attack injured civilians instead of the intended group, specifically injuring 19 women and 38 children. This…

To what extent were Lithuanian locals responsible for the Lithuanian Holocaust? Lithuania, the southernmost of Europe’s Baltic states, had its own distinct and highly developed Jewish culture, including a special dialect of the Yiddish language. Lithuanian Jewry played a profound role in many Jewish ideologies, including the Jewish workers' movement. Before World War 2 the Jewish population of Lithonia was some 160,000, about 7 percent of the total population (Abramovich and Zilberg, 2011).…

World and American History Ms. Privolos Fall 2015 Did the Industrial Revolution improve the public water service? During the Industrial Revolution, the pollution of public water was a silent slayer which was not known to people even at late 1800s. Before the Industrial Revolution and even these days, water’s major usage is for daily water supply, a sweet dew between every so often in a day. Before the Industrial Revolution, people drank water in form of beer and wines. Beer and wine…

Imagine being a German citizen living in the same era as one of the most notorious and high ranking officers in Nazi Germany’s history. This was the case for many citizens of their proud Nazi Germany and the prisoners, POWs (Prisoners of War) , and criminals that had to face the wrath of Heinrich Himmler. Heinrich grew up in a Roman-Catholic conservative family, where he experienced difficulties in life, and eventually became a political activist. He grew up to become one of the most…

becomes reality. The Empire of the Senses is set from 1914 to 1918 and 1927 to 1933, between the start of World War I and the beginning of World War II. The first half of the book, 1914 to 1918, takes place in Mitau, Russia, or present day Jelgava, Latvia. It is a broken down town located by the plains near a dense, voluminous forest on the banks of Lielupe River. When Lev, one of the main characters first arrives here, Mitau is in a desolate state. The town was abandoned by its citizens and…

The overall cause of World War I is very debatable; however most historians agree that the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary and his wife was the most immediate cause. This assassination led to Austria-Hungary declaring war on Serbia. When Russia began to mobilize due to its alliance with Serbia, Germany declared war on Russia. Finally, Great Britain entered the war against Germany a couple days later and then was against Austria-Hungary. The drivers of these…

ETS does not fully utilize the power of its Brand and its unique position in the education business. One way to rectify this in the digital reality of 21st century would be to join the first generation of knowledge companies that provide content, analysis and solutions in the global information marketplace. As of this writing, there is no distinctive leader in the sphere of education solutions that would provide both general and specialized information pertaining to all aspects of education.…