...Essay 101 Perhaps two of the most influential people in their countries at the time, Adolf Hitler and Franklin Delano Roosevelt were practically opposites. Hilter came from a poor background whereas Roosevelt came from a fairly well off family. They did however, share many commonalities. Their rises to power were for the most part, based on their abilities to effectively communicate their messages to the masses. Born to a minor customs official and a peasant girl, Hitler never completed high school. When he applied to the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, he was rejected due to his lack of talent. He served in the Bavarian army during the First World War, and proved himself to be a dedicated, courageous soldier. Ironically, he was never promoted beyond Private First Class because his superiors thought him lacking in leadership qualities. Hitler joined the nationalist German Workers' party which was later renamed the National Socialist German Workers' (Nazi) party and in November 1923 he lead an uprising against the postwar Weimar Republic. However, his plan collapse as a result of his lack of military support. He was served 8 months in jail and in December of 1924, he began to rebuild his party again. When the Great Depression struck in 1929, his explanation of it as a Jewish-Communist plot was accepted by many Germans. Promising a strong Germany, jobs, and national glory, he attracted millions of voters. Nazi representation in the Reichstag (parliament) rose from 12 seats...
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...In the 1920’s, particularly in the year 1921. Munich, Germany was realing from the draining defeat in WWI. Germany as a whole was trying to get back on their feet economically by first in the way of social spending. Unfortunately for the citizens of Germany they were experiencing a social spending rate that was astronomical and still rising. After so long the government of Germany was relying on tax revenues which were from income. At that point they found themselves depending more on state trade and property tax than anything else. As the 20’s progressed in Germany and the economic structure crumbled further they were looking for the light at the end of the tunnel. By this time a very evil entity named Adolf Hilter was starting his ascent...
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...actuality as you know yourself to be in possibility”. I have always said it a bit different: maybe that if I had grown up in Hilter’s shoes I might just be Hilter himself. We mistakenly believe that there is something fundamentally good about ourselves because we have not perpetrated any heinous or extremely violent acts over the course of our lifetime. This is not the case. Goodness is something that is not in us at all, unless we are indwelt with the power of the Holy Spirit. So the only thing that makes me good has nothing to do with myself. I am not good. If I were left to my own devices I would become the Hilter of my own life. Jesus always made the point that there is no division between the mental and physical lives, that the thought is just as bad as the action (i.e. if any man lust after a woman, if any man wants to kill his brother, etc…). In sum, if we were to be honest with ourselves we must profess that it is a force wholly separate from our corporeal body that changes us and makes us different—that if I were left to myself I would be in actuality what I already know myself to be in possibility. I know the thoughts that occupy my mind when I am not watching myself: thought of unprovoked violence, undo adultery, malice, strife, and all manner of terrible act. The only thing separating us from becoming Hilter is the thin veil...
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...Biography - Adolf Hitler Sherri Hiott MAN4304 Dr. Gisela Salas April 1, 2015 Table of Contents Introduction 3 Background 3 Charismatic Leadership 7 Transformational Leadership 7 Style Approach 8 Conclusion 6 References 7 Introduction Leadership does not have an exact definition. It can have different meanings to different people. “Leadership is a process whereby an individual influences a group of individuals to achieve a common goal” (Northouse, 2012, pg. 5). The process by which a person influences others to accomplish a goal or objective is carried out by applying their leadership attributes. A leader has a variety of attributes that affect how they accomplish their goal. These attributes include beliefs, values, ethics, character, knowledge, and skills. Leaders often are charismatic, good communicators, and have the ability to motivate (Northouse, 2012). Leadership normally combines a goal that coincides with the leader’s beliefs. Leaders are usually perceived in positive light, although just because you are a leader does not mean it is for a virtuous cause. The objective of some leaders can be immoral. This type of leader is referred to as a pseudo- transformational leader. This type of leader is “self-consumed, exploitive, and power oriented, with warped moral values” (Northouse, 2012, pg. 187). Adolf Hitler was the leader of the Nazi Party and the Chancellor of Germany but the ramifications of his leadership had a devastating impact on Eastern...
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...* World War One * Assasination of Archduke Ferdinand: killed by a Serbian national. Austria and Germany declared war on Serbia. Due to various treaties, other European nations got involved into the war. Russia backed Serbia, Germany declared war on Russia. France backed Russia, so Germany declared war on France. The Germans planned to attack France, but in order to get to France they quickest route was through Belgium. Belgium was neutral in the matter, but Germany attacked them and Britain declared war on Germany. * Rise of Nationalism: was aggression of European nations against other nations within the same region. Economic and imperial competition and fear of war prompted military alliance and an arms race. This helped speed the outbreak of the war due to increased tensions. * Building of military and alliances: European nations had a mutual defense agreements that if one nation was to go into war, the nations who signed the treaty would help in the war. * Russia 1917-1941 * Germany 1933-1945 * Cold War 1945-1962 * U-2 incident: US was flying spy planes so high over the Soviet Union so that planes couldn’t be reached. One of the planes was malfunctioned or shot down during peace initiative. Pilot parachuted and was captured. * The launch of Sputnik: The launch of the first satellite and it was the Soviet Untion who won the race. The US was embarrassed when they lost the race that they devoted more money and time...
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...expanded their power and leadership. Napoleon and Adolf Hitler first started with small crowds in order to deliver their message of how to make their society a better place. As Napoleon used to speak at the farmhouse and Hitler at the pub, they both had their speeches around small crowds at first and the crowd began to enlarge as they spoke of what the people/animals wanted to hear about how to become a better society. Although both spoke what the people wanted to hear, yet there were some protesters. As Napoleon and Hiler grew to have more supporters, they also gained protection for themselves. In their cases, Napoleon had gained the seven dogs protection and loyalty, and Hitler had gained the army's protection and trust. Napoleon and Hilter had gained protection, yet they could not allow protesters to ruin their image to other people. In order to gain all people's attention and support, they both exiled whoever had protested against them. In Napoleon's case, he exiled Snowball, Boxer, and others in order to make the farming system work better. Yet Hitler had committed mass genocide to create a perfect race. In conclusion, we can see the similarities between Napoleon and Adolf Hitler in gaining power and leadership through gaining people's...
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...unrelated factors, such that they would not be inferior anymore in society. The Attitude they were using is called peripheral- route processing. Hitler was a very smart man and knew exactly who to target. Which is why he chose these young men that were very hungry for power and dominance. Also since Hitler was such a powerful figure the young men would easily follow his command. Hitler asked them to join the group and they young uneducated men became obedient because of the commands from Hitler. Hitler spoke to the young men’s emotions, which stirred them, and helps convince them to join the group. Once the group was together the individual thinking was thrown out and they used groupthink. This is one reason why normal individuals joined Hilter and continued to terrorize other people. They followed the will of the group and it continued to get worse as the groups got larger and the Nazi party included many...
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...Passionate The reason why I chose this word is that in most of this book , it shows you the lengths the boy would go for his father . The boy Rami is trying to make his father not so easily taken advantage of . Ironically it was supposed to be the other way around . Entrepreneur In chapter five just by seeing the first two words you can relate what’s going to happen . While at the market Mrs. Hilter and Rami’s father start selling pastry’s , while Rami and Donna find a proper sucker to buy their goats . Though it takes a while in the end they do find person who bought there goats . Phenomenal This book shows you an aptitude of multiple genres like adventure ,drama ,romance , and suspense . It’s one of the few book’s that really capture the art of the early first century . It really inspires children like josh from a cow boy called boy can do something about situations bigger than them . Daredevil The Reason why I choose this first word is , that Rami’s father was a risk taker. Merton’s farm was on the verge of no crops . So in order to save his farm and his family , he borrowed money from an extremely wealthy business man . Unfortunately his garden had not get enough money as he had hoped and he didn’t have enough to pay off his loan. Downsides After being divorced and having almost nowhere to go he decide to live in his log cabin on robin hill . Robin hill is wide open field with barley any residents and any furniture , they had to settle there . Another...
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...would we know our heritage, or perhaps what our ancestor’s went through. I fear a world where history is not important. I personally feel that we need to remember history, learn from it and improve ourselves along with society. To have family history is a blessing in my eyes. So many adopted individuals have no information on their true heritage. To truly know the whole story of your great grand parents and their struggles, or to be able to say I am seventy five percent German and a mix of Irish and Native American, is special. History can be seen on so many different levels of our everyday lives. On a broader scope of the picture, history we can learn from it. There is no need to keep repeating the mistakes of the past. For example, Hilter as a leader. To try and remove one section of society due to religious beliefs, making everyone live in fear of having to face the gas chambers. Not accepting humans if they were not blonde and blue eyed. This was the earlier form of being a racist and stereotyping, which in today’s society it would be frowned upon and even criminal. Another great example of history is Martin Luther King, the history this man made set the direction of human rights and equality of all. We have even evolved in our criminal justice system, now instead of the hanging at the nearest tree we face a jury of our peers. History has allowed this to happen. A day in history that a large majority will remember is the stock market crashing....
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...lottery is to gain prizes by random choice. In this story, the lottery is done to kill off one person. The story states that the lottery is done yearly. It seems to be done to control population. However, this one in particular lottery, one person spoke up. Tessie Hutchinson stated that the whole thing was not fair, because her husband was rushed to get his ticket. Tessie ended up picking the ticket with the black dot on it. She was then stoned to death. Jackson, uses the lottery to make several connecting points. The overall point being that controlling the population is wrong and not fair. She could also have used this story to show relations to Holocaust. During the time of this story, she wrote this story shortly after the Holocaust. Hilter killed off an entire race to make the world better, which obviously was not right or fair. On some concertation camps, a lottery was taking place. Many Jews were placed into rooms and building and no one knew whether they were going to live or die. Each day, a different building or group of Jews were being killed, to make room for more Jews, Gypsies, and homosexuals. (“The Killing Machine” ) Jackson could have been trying to warn the America not to get caught up with the crowd and think about reason. I believe, she was trying to warn people. Both Jackson and Chopin used historical cultures and background to change the game up. For Chopin she used the rules of the Creole culture to bring change for women. Jackson used recent events to ensure...
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...was 150 miles wide and 100 miles deep. German also had six commands throughout this battle while the soviets had four. The Germans had Erich Von Manstein, Hans Seidermann, Herman Hoth, Robert Ritter and Walter Model. The soviet commanders were Nikolai Fyodorovich Vatutin, Georgy Zhukov, Ivan Konev and Konstantin Rokossocsky. This battled involved four million people from both sides, 70,000 artillery guns, 23,000 tanks and 12,000 warplanes. The battle of Kursk, named operation Citadel, was originally a German attack that ended up being a soviet win. The Germans had hoped that it would weaken the Soviet offensive for that summer by stopping a large number of forces that they had anticipated would be in the Kursk salient. April 15th in 1943 Hilter order stated, “This offensive is of decisive importance. It must end in swift and decisive success. Every commander, every private soldier, must be indoctrinated with awareness of the decisive importance of this offensive. Victory at Kursk will be a beacon for the whole world.”. However while the Germans were preparing soviet partisan movement was watching and reported their information back to he soviet Army. So while Germans readied their side the soviets were already prepared for a huge counterattack. Soviet forces were heavily preparing with thousands of tanks, artillery and men all...
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...From 1933 onwards the youth of Germany were prepared for war. Imparted within them was a fanatic belief in the NSDAP regime, one of which one manifest itself in German success up to 1942. The youth was also rendered ready for war through intensive physical activity. Hitler declared that the purpose of education was “building bodies which are physically healthy to the core.” T he Hilter-Jugend was designed to turn children into the next generation of German landsers that would fight in the campaigns of Poland, France and the Low Countries, and Russia. The effect of this policies is marked when considering Shirer’s contrast between the “German soldiers, browned and clean cut from a youth in the sunshine on adequate diet,” and the “tragic examples of the youth that England had neglected” who he describes as being “hollow chested, round shouldered” and had “pasty complexions.” In this sense the indoctrination and preparation of youth for war was vital in the German successes in the European war until...
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...after being wounded at the Somme. With the help of nationalists and a generous use of intimidation, Hitler won the last ‘democratic’ elections in Germany on March 5, 1933. Hitler was sentenced to five years of prison and was released after nine months and dedicated his work to Rudolf Hess (source #3). While in prison, he dictated to Rudolf Hess the distended Mein Kampf, which was filled with anti-Semitic outpourings (source #1). Hitler designed the Nazi Party Banner, appropriating the Swastika symbol. A wave of violent anti-Jewish pogroms Austria, Germany, and parts of Sudetenland, almost arresting 30,000 Jewish men (source #2). Adolf blamed the German defeat on betrayal by Marxists and Jews (source #1). During the election of presidency, Hilter ran against an eighty-four-year-old man named Paul Von Hindenburg. The results accustomed Hitler was a strong force in the German politics (source #2). Hindenburg offered Hitler a subordinate position in the cabinet, when the Nazis were elected the largest party (source #1). After the death of Von Hindenburg, Hitler was credited...
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...The 1940’s was basically ruled by World War II, which started on September 1, 1939. The War affected everything about this decade. Men were off fighting, so women had to work in the factories or wherever they could find work in order to support their families. Art and Architecture changed drastically and the radio became a vital piece to American living. Fashion became almost recyclable as new trends became more practical and theatre and film took a wild ride during this outstanding decade. Everything from sports to books were altered due to this war and the events that took place then have shaped the way that we live now. Unemployment rates in 1940 were an overwhelming 8,120,000 but that soon changed by 55% once men went off to war and women got a chance to fill those empty positions. At this time minimum wage was $.43 per hour. First, single women were chosen to work and then in 1943 with mostly all single women employed, married women were allowed to work as well. With women working, it became hard for them to balance both home life and the work world, too. Automobile production began to decline in 1942 and decreased food supplies began in 1943. To try to rehabilitate this food drought, victory gardens were reinstituted and supplied 40% of the vegetables consumed on the home front. With WWII ending in 1945 the US emerged from the war as a world superpower. With all of the men returning home, the baby boom was formed, which is still having repercussions on American society...
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...Augustina Asiafor Hayley Esther Hedgpeth English 1102 4 February 2014 A Paradoxical Relationship Sylvia Plath’s poem “Daddy” emphasizes the ill-fated relationship between a woman and her deceased father. The speaker conveys her paradoxical feelings for the one man who she worshipped during her young years, but feared his malicious influence and domination after his death. Throughout the poem, Plath use of tone changes with the progression of German inferences in order to escape the oppression of her father while attempting to preserve the idealistic mirror of him. The poem begins with a childlike tone, misleading the reader on the upcoming subject matter. The first line echoes a nursery rhyme, feeling like a charm against some brooding curse: “You do not do, you do not do/ anymore black shoe” (lines 1-2). Metaphorically, the shoe is a trap, smothering the foot. The adjective “black” suggests the idea of death, thus it can relate to a coffin. The speaker feels a submissiveness and entrapment by her father. In an attempt to rid herself of the restriction in her own life, she must destroy the memory of her father. “Daddy, I have to kill you” (3). However, the description of the father as “marble-heavy” (8) and “ghastly statue” ( 9) reveals the ambivalence of her attitude. The speaker reacts with hate to her father who had made her suffer by dying when she was young, but she is still affectionate towards him. The tone becomes more realistic and is composed of less...
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