Turks in Germany

Graffiti Knight- Draft #3 Graffiti Knight by Karen Bass is a great book for IB students to read. It gives the reader a deeper understanding of the global context of Fairness and Development. This book is about how a young man named Wilhelm and the rest of the German citizens are in the control of the Soviets, and they are treated very poorly. Wilhelm and his group of friends become leaders in rebelling against the soviets. The book describes the topics of inequality, developing countries and…

Although alliances were beneficial, there were also some disadvantages. An alliance could lead a nation to take risks, it could cause disputes between many nations, and it could force a country to go to war with a nation with which it was neutral. Germany formed an alliance with Austria-Hungary in 1871 and Italy in 1882. This secret alliance was known as the Triple Alliance. In 1904, the United Kingdom and France signed the Entente Cordiale, meaning friendly agreement. In 1907, Russia joined the…

Catherine the Great Catherine the Great, Yekaterina Alekseyevna in Russian, was bound to the heir to the Russian throne at the young age of 14. Sophie Friederike Auguste Princess of Anhalt-Zerbst was a German- born princess. At the beginning of her reign, she overthrew her husband Peter after he began cheating on her. Now without Peter she accomplished several things for Russia and was a principal leader of the Russian Royal Family. Being born German and ruled Russian Catherine the Great is a…

World War I was a very influential time period in history and two sources that explain World War I are history.com (source one) and britannica.com (source two). These two sources explain the causes and what lead up to World War I. Both sources are very accurate, well known, and provide some visual aid to help the reader understand. Source one is more organized with subsections and is clearly stated. As compared to, the information from source two is more difficult to understand because it tends…

Dead Souls Euro Paper During the Nineteenth century in Russia, many people had serfs and land, which was a form of wealth just like the feudal system in Europe. There were also some people who tried to exploit the wealth like Pavel Ivanovich in the book Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol. Some major points in the book include the Social class based around the amount of serfs and land a person owned, the poverty of serfs, and the ways wealthy children were treated. Pavel tries many times to buy a…

On a warm June day in 1855; Robert “Fighting Bob” Marion LaFollette was born. Wisconsin, the state of his birth, would also serve as the backdrop for his accomplished, if under-celebrated, political career. He went to school at University of Wisconsin-Madison, and shortly after was accepted at the bar shortly thereafter. He started his political career as Dane County’s District Attorney, and culminated with his loss in the 1924 Presidential election, and his death the next year. In betwixt, he…

According to extensive research done careful historians, the bloodshed was very extensive. “Campbell may be referring to the martyrology of Samuel Clarke, written in 1651. Perhaps this figure of 68 million came from Brownlee or somewhere else, possibly the writings of Llorente or Clarks Martyrology, cited above. Such figures sometimes appear in recent books, such as Wilders, but in general, all the figures about the number killed by the Papacy go back many years and have reputable sources. It is…

In the Monster Who Fed the World you learn about a German Jew named Fritz Haber. Haber was a genius chemist who learned how to take nitrogen out of the air and turn it into a liquid form to contain to use for fertilizer to help grow food for the overpopulated German nation and later the world. Unfortunately, some things and most things can have good and bad uses. Fritz Haber was born on December 9th, 1868. He was the son of a Jewish merchant in a small town. He had all ways longed for a better…

German Chancellor Angela Merkel is Time Magazine's "Person of The Year." CNN reports the 61-year-old German leader has won the title for her "steadfast moral leadership in a world where it is in short supply," wrote Time editor Nancy Gibbs. Merkel topped the magazine's list followed by Islamic State leader Abi Bakr al-Baghdadi (2nd place), US presidential candidate Donald Trump (3rd place), activist group Black Lives Matter (4th place), Iran President Hassan Rouhani (5th place), American…

The term Brutalism refers to the post World War II Modernist style that despite dominating the 1950’s and 60’s British design, is considered one of the 21st centuries most controversial architectural and design styles. This essay will look at the reasons this style is so debated, despite it dominating in the past……. The term brutalism could be considered controversial by the misunderstanding the name conveys. The word suggests something that is harsh, ugly and unfriendly due to the incorrect…