Old High German

Throughout human history, many time periods had affected the humanity in ways no one expected to happen. Such great period was the time of the First World War or the Great War which started in 1914. This was one of those events where no one could predict the outcome and the consequences it would bring. But because of the veil of ignorance, people were unprepared for what was getting later on them. The terms “‘war poet’ and ‘war poetry’, observed Robert Graves in 1942, were ‘terms first used in…

There isn’t anything more breathtaking than going Up North. If you’re not from Michigan you might be wondering, “Where up north?” In Michigan we use “up north” as a term for the upper half of the mitten, I’d say from the top of the thumb up. The UP (Upper Peninsula) can be considered Up North but normally it's just the UP. Trust me when I say, you know when you’re Up North. The traffic gets thinner, the trees get thicker, and the towns are terribly small. If you blink, you miss them. As a…

What I learned from the source: I learned that in these times from 1509 to 1547 paintings were important to the folklore to resemble their King as high royalty and someone chose from God and so it was of great importance that Kings were portrayed as strong, divine royalty. Origin: • The painting came from the work of a German painter, Hans Holbein, who was at the time assigned as the…

teleological endpoint of history. While the nation-states of the far west of Europe papered over their fractures early on with nominally unified central governments (pay no attention to lreland, the Basque Country and Belgium behind the curtain!), German historians had a hard time finding fig leaves, given Central Europe 's…

eye the most and the one that I’m gonna be writing about is the German Club. I chose this organization because my heritage is almost complete German and throughout the past couple years I have been interested in learning the German language, learning their history from all the way back to when the country was first realized to all the way to present day and most of all just really getting to know what my heritage is about. The German club is the perfect club because in it they teach all about…

Introduction There are over 6,500 languages in the world, yet most of these languages are in danger of extinctions. This is caused by assimilation to more globalized languages like English, Spanish, and Mandarin. The need to obtain a common language to communicate with others of different native languages causes a loss of culture. Smaller native languages are decreasing because people prefer learning globalized languages to achieve better opportunities. Many immigrant families that permanently…

I have had the great opportunity to have lived in several different locations around the United States. Branching off into three states and then subcategorized into cities based on the location of each. I have traveled the United States for many years, traveling from one city to another. Staring from birth I have moved and lived in many different homes, classifying each location into states and from there branching off into cities. I have had the great fortune of living in Texas first. Texas…

society permitted (Children of God’s Fire, 130). Women were exploited in many different ways, but this was one major way to both exploit a woman and make money while doing it. The likeliness of those prostitutes selling their body against their will was high and police in Brazil didn’t intervene unless the women were in immediate harm, which shows how little society thought of women. The term prostitute automatically describe a female selling her body and because of gender norms and prejudice,…

Language, a very pressing matter in our globalized society seems to be more and more of a controversial topic as time progresses. Continents with diverse environments seem to be having the hardest time with mutual intelligibility and for purposes of unification discuss ways to make do with what they are able with translators. Diverse places with plans such as the English-only movement in the United States intend to make English the sole language, although not the entirety of the United States…

expected everyone here to be a foreign exchange student from the U.S. just as Miguel, Ryan, Andrew, and I had been. It had never occurred to me that a student from the school would still remain on campus even during summer break. With my incredibly rusty German all I could manage to say was, “Ich spreche ein bischen Deutsch aber ich will dich sehen einmal mehr. Bis spӓter Alena!” The sun has begun to set and the crickets are beginning to chirp. Alex is pacing back and forth in the small dorm…