Turks in Germany

Two American presidents traveled to a place where the people shared their political beliefs, however that city was surrounded by people with a different mindset. When Kennedy and Reagan went to speak in West Berlin, they shared their opinions of Democracy by using some basic rhetoric devices. Both presidents wanted to see the Berlin Wall taken down and greatly valued the ideas of freedom and human rights. Flattery can go a long way especially if those getting flattered already idolize you.…

German Colonies in Early America In 1608, there is a great historical event happened on the American land: the first Germans arrived at Jamestown from far away Europe by ship. For the latter hundreds of years, the German settlers continues to built their colonization on this land. Nowadays, in modern American lives, we could still found the German characteristic. We wonder that for the several hundred years the process of German settlers finding better ways to adapt the environment. What…

The setting of the text In My Hands: A Holocaust Rescuer by Irene Gut Opdyke with Jennifer Armstrong changes constantly and many years pass. Overall, she was in the countries: Poland, the Soviet Union, Russia, and Germany. This book was spread out for most of Irene’s life before and during the war. To begin, as a child Irene lived in many different cities in Poland. The first town Irene lived in was a little town called Kozienice. Irene obtained fame in the village when she almost fell into…

The Polish Plague, or Lack Thereof During the 14th century, while the plague ravaged the majority of Europe, the nation of Poland was drastically less than that of the surrounding nations. This was largely due to the Poland ruler Casimir the Great, social and economic factors, and the large population of Jewish individuals that had settled there. The first explanation to the seeming lack of the plague in Poland was a king during the 14th century. Casimir the Great through excellent and…

if slavery was abolished. In Germany, Adolf Hitler rose to power during a time of horrible economic problems in Germany. He promised to fix the issues and found a scapegoat in the Jewish population. With these examples it can be concluded that Prejudice attitudes and actions increase with fear of Economic woes. In…

Have you ever read a book or seen an movie that was almost alike? In The Giver it was a kid and the place where his was living everyone was the same but he was different because he was the only person who could see colors. In The Truman Show Truman was the only gut controlled and everyone wasn't and he got tired of it so he tried to escape . The Truman Show and The Giver are two stories with a lot of things in common but also have different symbols , biblical allusions, and setting. One of…

in the poster competition sponsored by the Priester Matches Company. It is an advertising poster for matches and shown in Berlin. Bernhard was only 18 when he created this poster. Lucian Bernhard (March 15, 1883 – May 29, 1972) was a designer from Germany. Before he came out with the final version of the poster, he had the poster with two dancing women forming from burning tobacco smoke. His friend told him this poster was a great cigar poster. This misleading understanding let him change up the…

the military secrets of their opposition. Germany was a nation that participated in this trend. However, their collection of intelligence did not involve much covert action. Rather, German intelligence officers used overt intelligence collection methods, including using both personal relationships and enemy news sources to predict enemy movements and strategy. Therefore, collection was the most important element of intelligence prior to World War I for Germany, as it led to early success on the…

In 736, Boniface was made the Archbishop of Mainz, a city in the southern part of modern-day Germany. He continued to work among the German peoples, and founded several more monasteries, while bringing the German clergy he was building up closer to Rome and the Pope. Boniface also worked to reform the crumbling Church in the Frankish kingdom. Boniface…

To put it simply, there was not a sense of a collective German nation. Prior to the Brothers Grimm, Germany found itself heavily influenced by the French. In the late 18th century, France occupied German territories, and by 1794, found itself in possession of the western extent of contemporary Germany (Roberts 28). As a result, the idea of what it meant to be intrinsically German was vastly neglected, until the efforts of the Grimms’. The brothers’…