Despite the post-war peace, progressive attitudes, and economic successes with which the 1920’s are associated, the Weimar Republic was an incredibly insecure time for German people. From the eerie darkness of The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari to the destructive chaos of Metropolis, much of the era’s popular film thematized this insecurity with expressionistic flair. By the summer of 1929, however, the expressionist movement had faded, giving rise to a new movement: New Objectivity. Robert Siodmak’s People
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The Beaux-Arts style and the Chicago School style both share stylistic characteristics. While they are similar, they are not completely identical to one another. I will be comparing Chicago School style with the Home Insurance Company Building from the architect William Le Baron Jenney, and Beaux-Arts style with the Boston Public Library from the architects Charles Follen McKim, William Rutherford Mead, and Stanford White. As a general overview, the Home Insurance Company Building used a steel
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Scapegoating within medical matters has been very apparent throughout both time and history. In some occasions of scapegoating, such as sacrifice rituals, specific people are targeted as a scapegoat for people who try to forget about their own wrongdoings. Meanwhile in other occasions, groups, especially minorities, can be targeted together by opposing parties. However, from pathogenic outbreaks to lack of preparedness within hospitals, both individual people and various groups have been held responsible
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bomb which we would not have if it wasn’t for Albert Einstein. Ulm, Germany is where the genius Albert Einstein was born on March 14, 1879. When Einstein was young he was very interested in the mysteries of science. He grew up in a secular middle class Jewish family. Einstein dad and brother created a company called Elektrotechnische Fabrik J. Einstein & Cie, this company manufactured electrical equipment in Munich, Germany. His mom ran the house and looked after him and his sister. His sister
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Aufgabe 1 - Die Flagge und das Wappen von Wien Lies den Text und schreibe die Sätze auf. DASWIENERWAPPENZEIGTINEINEMROTENSCHILDEINWEISSESKREUZDASWAPPEN KANNAUCHINFORMEINESBRUSTSCHILDESINDERFIGUREINESSCHWARZENADLERSMITGOLDENENFÄNGENUNDGOLDENEMSCHNABELVERWENDETWERDENDIEWIENER FLAGGEBESTEHTAUSZWEIBREITENWAAGRECHTENSTREIFENDEROBEREISTROTDER UNTEREISTWEISS Aufgabe 2 – Lesespiel “Rundgang durch Wien” Ersetze die Bilder
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of its impact on education became apparent. The emphasis on university-educated specialists began to tell as the number of active classical scholars doubled from 141 working in 1750 onwards to 350 post-1850. Half of these scholars were working in Germany. Because of this the growth of a new predominately German class of educated bourgeoisie, the Bildungsbürgertum, had a huge impact on classical scholarship and European scholarship as a whole. The Bildungsbürgertum was a bourgeoisie social class
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What is Cause of Book Burning? In Germany, the administration made laws that will affect books in public places. There one thing about this bomb fire is that there is communication, but German people don't have the freedom of speech. In the power of the destruction era, what cause so much hatred over books in Germany? Germany believes that there were topics that Germans felt were Un-German. Everyone states for their own opinion and everyone has a religion and us as people should accept it. Since
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In 1618, the most devastating war of the seventeenth century, the Thirty Year’s War, began in the Holy Roman Empire as a war of religion between Protestants and Catholics. Although most of the fighting during the war took place in Germanic lands, the war spread throughout much of Europe. In addition, as the Thirty Year’s War progressed, the conflict shifted from a religious war to more of a politic war between two dynasties, the French Bourbons and the Spanish-Australian Hapsburgs. Between 1618 and
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Budapest is the wonderful capitol city of Hungary. The people have had struggles in the past - such as the Hungarian Revolution. The people, history and architecture is very unique with churches, local shops and restaurants. They have a plethora of absorbing history. “But if you go to Moscow to Budapest, you will think you are in Paris,” according to Gyorgy Ligeti, a Romanian composer of classical music. (Brain Quotes) Budapest’s climate is the Humid Continental. The summers are from April to August
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Throughout history, artists have often broken the times’ current style, and put forth something fresh and innovative. This transition into a new style is frequently seen in the work of architects. A dramatic architectural shift in style occurred not only during the Baroque period of art, but also in more modern of times. This shift is evident in the work of both Francesco Borromini and Frank Gehry, two world-renowned and brilliant architects. Specifically, this extreme break in style is evident
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