Leopold von Ranke

During the Romanticism period there was a great deal of individual thought and personal imagination. It was a time for literary and intellectual movement from when America gained independence from England. Although this literary movement originated in Europe and then transferred on to us, we were establishing cultural independence during the Romanticism time period of about 1800-1860. A fair share of poems came from this time period, as they were a big influence, like Henry Wadsworth…

A human being is part of a whole called by us the universe, said Albert Einstein, a famous physicist who developed the theory of relativity. In Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's most influential play Faust, there is a clear depiction of the characteristic polarity between the individual and the whole, in other words, between Microcosm and Macrocosm. The play itself, so as the main character, Faust, strongly privilege the macrocosmic perspective. Faust's vision of the Macrocosm is more complex than…

A mystery that has lasted almost a century, who killed Manfred Von Richthofen, also known as the dangerous WW1 threat, The Red Baron? With information being pulled up from every angle and the conclusion has finally been drawn. Countless pieces of evidence have been narrowed down to three vital points. The rounds, the range of the shot taken to kill the Red Baron, and the Angle from which he was shot at, all prove that Sergeant Cedric Popkin shot down the German legend. To begin, The rounds…

April 21st, 1918. A day of dogfights, death and controversy. Particularly the death of Manfred von Richthofen, Also known as “The Red Baron”. The death of the famous World War 1 pilot has sparked controversy from the days after his death to even present day. It is not known for sure who shot down Richthofen. The man credited with the kill was Roy Brown of the 209th squadron. Who chased the Baron in a dogfight which ended in the death of the Baron Based on where the Baron was shot and the angle,…

What do the following five cases all have in common? (1) National Treasury Employees Union v. Von Raab, (1989), (2) Deal v. Spears, (1992), (3) O’Connor v. Ortega, (1987), (4) Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Illinois Railroad, (NMB, July 3, 194) and (5) Anderson v. Philadelphia, (1998). The core issue for all five of these cases…the fourth amendment the United States Constitution. “The Fourth Amendment protects people from unreasonable searches and seizures by the government. The…

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Von Raab, 489 U.S. 656 (1989) Drug testing is not a violation with some jobs. Brown v. Texas, 443 U.S. 47 (1979) An officer cannot make an arrest if someone will not show them their identification when there is no reasonable suspicion. Holding: The Court…

Anthony Grafton’s work, The Footnote, begins with an analysis of Leopold von Ranke and his use of footnotes. Over the course of the book, Grafton takes the reader backward in time to explore the various changes in history that influenced the development of the footnote. Grafton chose this unique chronology in order to help him reveal to the reader “where, when, and why historians adopted [the footnote’s] distinctive form of narrative architecture.” In choosing a non-linear chronology, Grafton…

they returned to the American system. Leopold von Ranke to them was the definition of what a historian should be, describing him as an objective and impartial figure dislocated from bias. Yet, this opinion of Ranke was decisively wrong. The Ranke taught and read in Germany was very much opinionated in his approach to research, specifically towards his “pantheistic state-worship.”(Novick, 28) The American students effectively made a false idol out of Ranke in order to represent…

Quoting Leopold von Ranke, Novick establishes the guidelines for historians to judge the past “as it essentially was”, developing the ideal that the primary function of historians was to gather source-based evidence and let it provide its own interpretation. However…