Leipzig

This chapter talks about mental testing in America. James Cattell and Galton believed that intelligence is hereditary. Henry Herbert Goddard shared a similar view to James Cattell and Galton. He conducted a study in the heredity of feeblemindedness and wrote a book called “Kallikak Family.” Ligthner Witmer was an environmentalist and he believed that hereditary was an excuse for an action. One of the research psychiatrists in this area was Alfred Binet. Theodor Simone joined Binet’s team and…

Global Warming, a Reality or a Myth There is a growing concern on the conditions of the Arctic when factoring Global Warming. Most scientists believe the last 50 years of constant temperature changes in the world is due to human activity and the burning of fossil fuels. Many also take in the natural factors, for example, variations in the solar radiation, where major volcanic interactions and eruptions between the ocean and the atmosphere. Many people on earth do not understand the importance of…

had altered and his teaching began to diminish. Mozart began to give up public performances depending strictly on loans from friends to support him and his family. He tried solving his financial problems by traveling to different places such as- Leipzig, Dresden, Berlin, Frankfurt, Mannheim, and other German cities. However, it wasn’t…

and also he was a beer distributor. Out of the kids that Ernst and his wife had Gustav was the only one out of those five to attend college. Gustav at an early age had an extreme liking to history. Stresemann attended the colleges of Berlin and Leipzig from 1897 to 1900. After finish school he wanted to become a teacher but he could not because he was not qualified enough. Instead he went to a university to study…

Napoleon's defeat in Russia, Alexander the Russian Czar aligned with countries such as Poland and Prussia to form the Sixth Coalition (Durant 713). The Sixth Coalition then began their attack on the French Empire, defeating them in places such as Leipzig (“Napoleon Bonaparte” 1). Napoleon was retreating to Paris, but before he arrived the capital fell to the allies (Durant 725). The Coalition then had the French Senate depose Napoleon, making his reign as emperor come to an end (Durant 725).…

Opera means work in Italian and is the name given to a dramatic play set to music where the performers sing their parts accompanied or unaccompanied by music in solos called arias and two or more singers called ensembles. The sixteenth century saw the beginning of operas which started as poems sung by musicians called Camerata (“society”). In 1607 Claudio Monteverdi first used an orchestra to accompany his opera, La favola d’Orfeo, creating the modern opera we know today. (London: Octopus…

Today I will be talking about Johann Sebastian Bach and sharing the joys of his music. Bach was born in 1685 in Eisenach, in what appears to have been the Holy Roman Empire at the time, he also seems to have died in the Holy Roman Empire in 1750, Leipzig. At the time of his birth, many of his family members were musicians, including all of his uncles, this lead to any local musician being jokingly called a ‘Bach’ since the Bach family was so prominent at the time. Since his family was full of…

Fredrich Nietzsche’s father was a Lutheran pastor. However, Nietzsche’s father only lived until Nietzsche was five. After his father died, Nietzsche’s brother only lived for six more months and died at the age of two. Nietzsche attended boarding school and university in the hopes of becoming a minister like his father was. Although, after one semester at university of studying theology, Nietzsche had a crisis of faith. It was a delayed reaction to the death of his father and brother. He couldn’t…

Philosophers have been thinking about the mind for centuries, however advancement of techniques during the 20th century allowed the discovery of measurable concepts such as reaction times, leading to the notion that a mathematical description of the mind is possible. With inputs from philosophy and sociology, and more recently from physiology and biology, the existence of two opposing approaches is created. ‘Neither of these definitions, however, is satisfactory to the psychology of today’…

We live in an era where social media is at its peak. Many people are of the opinion that social media has contributed to new age revolutions, however Malcolm Gladwell is one of the few who have contradicting ideas. In his article “Small Change: Why the revolution will not be tweeted”, he argues that “social media can’t provide what social change has always required.” In his defense, he asserts that social media is a tool, not a cause of social change. He narrates with a number of examples, using…