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Introduction Every kid loves staying up late on December 24 and trying to see Santa. Well in Germany on December 6, Santa comes to your house to check on your behavior, then children must sing a song to Santa to show their skill. Germany is located in Europe, its capital is Berlin and is home to one of the most powerful symbols of the cold war, the Berlin Wall. Germany has unique qualities such as its geography, history, culture, economy, and its current events. Geography, Climate, and Location…

I learned about the Holocaust in Middle school, but not very in depth. I have also been to the Holocaust Museum in Washington DC, which was one of the most touching events I have experienced. This was a few years ago, so my understanding after reading chapter fifteen, and checking out the maps, changed and deepened the way I looked at the Holocaust. In 1933, the Jewish population in Europe was some over nine million. The Holocaust was the murder of six million Jews and millions of others by…

shining example of what supranationalist states are able to accomplish over a short period of time, for the EU this timeframe being 1950-2016 with the quasi creation of the supranationalist organization containing only Belgium, France, Germany, Luxembourg, Italy, Netherlands and the later additions of various other countries. The scale of the EU’s influences once again remains immense on the ratio of population to global exports and imports, 7% of the global population to 20% of its global…

The Holocaust is the systematic, bureaucratic, state- wide persecution and murder of over 6 million Jews. When the Nazis came to power in Germany, they convinced Germans that they were superior, and Jews, homosexuals, gypsies, Communists, Socialists, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Slavic and disabled people were inferior. The Nazis believe that white people with blond hair and blue eyes are racially superior. All other coloured people, especially Africans, are not worthy enough be in their sight. Adolf…

“O human race born to fly upward, wherefore at a little wind dost thou fall.” With his allegorical writing style, Dante Alighieri revolutionized literature in the renaissance period with masterpieces such as Dante’s Inferno. Dante Alighieri was born on May 21, 1265 in Florence, Italy. He was born to a wealthier family and had a good education as he learn poetry, philosophy, and many other literature skills he used in his writing. From the outside, his life looked perfect though his mother…

For a man who was quoted for his dislike of Paris, Marquis de Lafayette spent a large proportion of his life fighting for the city, and working hard to help it grow. It seemed that no matter what the man could do, he would not be recognized for what he did for his country. He lived in Paris through its biggest period of change. Such periods were the revolution, the reign of terror, napoleon, the bourbon restoration and the July revolution. In each time his name was known, and he worked hard…

In Wendell Berry’s “Making it home,” he uses the contrast in the character’s identity to demonstrate a change. The story follows the character Art, a man with three identities. Berry demonstrates Arts identities as a way to portray the progression of his rebirth by characterizing Art’s three stages of life; the soldier, the man and the farmer. Berry uses the contrast of Art’s life as a soldier to establish a change in his identity. Wendell Berry presents the difference in Art’s walking as a…

“When history looks back I want people to know the Nazis weren’t able to kill millions of people and get away with it.” (Simon Wiesenthal) Simon was a Holocaust survivor. After Simon escaped for the camp he wanted to do something memorable. Simon dedicated his life to hunt and prosecute Nazis. Simon didn’t want what the Nazis had done to them to go unpunished. Wouldn’t you want the same? Simon was born on December 31, 1908. Simon’s father was killed during World War I. In 1936 he married…

EUROPEANISATION The term Europeanization has different meanings and connotations. Talking outside the ambit of social sciences, Europeanization refers to the growth of a European Continental Identity or polity over and above national identities and polities on the continent. Europeanization also refers to the process through which the European Union political and economic dynamics become part of the organizational logic of national politics and policy making. There is also another definition of…

concentration camp near a polish city known as Auschwitz to hold Polish prisoners and to provide slave labor for new German-run factories that would be built nearby. As Hitler continued to conquer various parts of Europe, including Belgium, Holland, Luxembourg and France, an ‘ever-increasing’ number of Jews were placed under Nazi control. In order to “concentrate and monitor the Jewish population as well as to facilitate later deportation of the Jews, the Germans and their collaborators created…