Leipzig

Summary: The story “Symbols and Signs” was artistically written by; Vladimir Nobokov. It is a sad and intricate story, with lots of nooks and crannies to explore. “Everything’s a cipher and of everything he is the theme”. The short story is about a single day in the life of an emigrated Russian elderly couple, wanting to visit their son on his birthday. They now live somewhere in the United States, but their son resides in a mental institution, he has been there for approximately four years. The…

The piano is one of the most beautiful and most influential instruments invented. It also happens to be my personal favorite instrument. Several members of my family play the piano as well, my mom is a pianist and has recorded several albums playing the piano in accompany with her voice. Needless to say I have grown up listening to the piano and is crucial in my developing interest in music. All this personal history with the piano has made me interested to learn about the piano. In this paper I…

Print did play an integral role in the success of the Reformation and she might be a child of Gutenberg, however she was not alone “Printing was a revolution in that it made more identical copies at lower cost available should not be credited with the intellectual and psychological changes that were really the result of a new method of reading. Whether manuscript or text” (Chartier). There are so many components that play into the successes of the Reformation during the 16th century. However,…

What makes a bad leader? What makes a good leader? Is it really that black and white? There have been countless world leaders throughout history. Not all of these leaders have been great, and not all have been horrible, but no one remembers the mediocre leaders. Leaders are remembered for being really good at what they do or really bad. Sometimes a leader’s personality is remembered as much as their resume. Some leaders can be argued “good” or “bad”. Some leaders, everyone can agree are or were,…

background information about Bach and the piece mentioned above. I will also be analysing three different aspects of the piece: bowing, articulation and ornamentation. Johann Sebastian Bach was born in Eisenach, Germany in 1685 and died in 1750, Leipzig, Germany. He was a composer, organist, harpsichordist, violist, and violinist of the Baroque Era (classic fm, 2017). It was thought that Bach composed the solo cello suites between 1717 – 1723, when he was working in Köthen as a composer (classic…

Napoleon Bonaparte was born the 15th of august 1769. Napoleon Bonaparte was a French military and political leader. Napoleon Bonaparte gained his power during the French revolution and he also lead many successful campaigns during the revolutionary wars. Napoleon Bonaparte was the emperor of France from 1804 to 1814 and once again in 1815. Napoleon Bonaparte was born in Corsica an island located west of the Italian peninsula. Napoleon Bonaparte was the fourth child in their family and the…

In order to have enough knowledge to answer the question: “Was the Industrial Revolution beneficial or detrimental to the 18th and 19th century Europeans?”, the use of two primary sources will be required. It is essential to understand what is the Industrial Revolution. The Oxford dictionary defines this term as: “The rapid development of industry that occurred in Britain in the late 18th and 19th centuries, brought about by the introduction of machinery.” . The first source that will be used…

How do we know the Holocaust happened? The Holocaust was a ‘solution’ created by the Nazis to “solve their Jewish problem” Survivors say it started on January 30th 1933 and finished May 8th 1945, when the Nazis were defeated by allied forces. Holocaust deniers usually ignore all the evidence of the event and insist that the numbers and story were invented by the Jews and the Allies for their own benefit. Also, in this essay when I refer to “Jews” or “Jewish people” I am usually meaning Jewish…

fight. But, emperor Napoleon had already risen a new army in only a few months, although most of the new soldiers were untrained and ill-prepared for battle, the soldiers still faced the allied armies of the European powers outside the German city of Leipzig in October of 1813. However the strong allied forces defeated Napoleon’s newly formed army…

The bombing of Dresden, Germany occurred during the Second World War between the 13th and 15th of February, 1949. The attack was done by Britain and the United States through the use of an aerial bombing. Within the four raids that the allies carried out, 3,900 tons of highly explosive bombs and incendiaries were dropped on the city by heavy bombers of the United States Army Air Forces and the British Royal Air Force. Dresden, Germany was the country’s seventh-largest city and the largest of the…