West Side Story

The Berlin Wall stretched for over one hundred miles. It not only ran through Berlin’s center, but also wrapped around West Berlin, which entirely cut West Berlin off from the rest of East Germany. The Berlin Wall was erected in the dead of the night and for 28 years kept most East Germans from fleeing to the West. The wall itself went through four major transformations during its 28 year history, each version being more deadly than the next. The first version of…

agricultural land and aquifers by denying Palestinian civilians access to their crops and their harvest (UN General Assembly, 2014). The Palestinian land had even been inundated with waste water (UN General Assembly, 2014). Israeli has occupied the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, and the Golan since the Six-Day War…

novel, the story probes the several ventures of the 1960s era and the abounding people involved in the devastating matter. Based in a divided Germany, Alec Leamas, the main character, is a British secret agent who becomes a double agent to try and undermine the head of the Communist intelligence agency in East Germany. Everything is going smoothly until Leamas discovers himself before a person that will do everything in their power to bring him to the light as a British spy. The story begins…

Another main difficulty in the region is the settlements built by Israel in Palestinian lands. Israel continues to build small communities, or settlements in the region of the West Bank, which continues to anger many Palestinians, namely Hamas. There are some who believe that these settlements may violate the Fourth Geneva Convention, which relates to the stability of citizens during times of war (Beauchamp). Alternatively, however, others believe that they may not actually be in violation,…

how investigative lawyers work, intermingled with sympathetic portraits of the survivors of the disaster”. This shows the prominence of the author who was Harvard School of Law graduate. The book was released in 2011. Content The book is about the story of a mining community that…

Controversial continues to be the adjective that defines Kanye Omari West. On his Saint Pablo tour in San Jose Last week, Kanye proclaimed that if he had voted he would have voted for Donald Trump. The large rectangular stage he stands on is suspended from the ceiling and is at the center of a Colosseum style stadium. The lights casts a reddish/orange hue on the stage, a stark contrast against the blacked out crowd. The design of Kanye’s concert is very much a metaphor for how he is viewed in…

along the Grenze (the inter-German border during the Cold War), residents of Kella experienced strict surveillance from the German Democratic Republic (GDR) and lived with additional regulations. Berdahl presents Kella as floating between the East and West; however, the impenetrability of the inter-German border from 1952 to 1989 instituted Eastern economic and cultural practices in Kella until the entire GDR experienced the fall of socialism. In this paper, I will demonstrate that…

“Apartheid is not Normal” “Normalize This” is a free form, spoken word poem from Remi Kanazi. Kanazi is a Palestinian-American born to Palestinian immigrants. Kanazi’s grandmother was pregnant with his mother when she left Palestine in 1947. Around this time there was a great exodus or “nukba” of indigenous Palestinians, just as the land was being annexed to create the new state of Israel. Kanazi’s father left Haifa after the occupation had already taken place. Born in New York City in 1981,…

“Epic… Astonishing… Page-turning… Unforgettable” (Entertainment Weekly). A book that is not easily forgotten; Yaa Gyasi, Homegoing. The story of two family lines originating with two West african step sisters separated because of the slave trade in the mid 1700s. One line is sent to the deep south of the United States while the other remains in West Africa. This book challenges the ordinary thought process towards African and African American history as described in African History: A Very Short…

For the unit 4, we watched movies that were focusing on the problems that Germany was facing after the wall came down and the unification. During this period citizens from both sides were kind of forced to get along and help each other so they can help the country and the government grow. But the problem was that these people were alien to each other and it was not really easy for them to get along. Also after the wall, there was a lot of economic issues that they were facing. A lot of people…