Essay On Berlin Wall

Walls that Divide Worlds Everywhere around the world, barriers located on each and every continent. From the common American's back yard to the Great Wall of China, we use them for privacy and security, but not all uses of walls have good intentions behind them. An example such as the Berlin Wall, created in 1961, divided East and Western Germany until it's fall in 1992. The North-South Korean border (also known as the Korean DMZ) was created to diffuse tension between the two sister countries, and although it was created with peaceful intentions in mind, the border has suffered thousands of casualties since it's creation in 1953. A more recent boundary is the Israeli-Palestinian wall, which is seen as highly controversial in the middle east ( some Arabs even call it the wall of apartheid), yet the Israeli government insist that it protects the people. Though all of these walls were built for different purposes, they all achieved one goal, and \that is the separation of the people. Since the Berlin wall is the most infamous wall in recent time, I will be focusing on the economical, social, and environmental consequences of its construction.
On August 12th 1961, Berliners awoke to the sight of barbed wire that divided Germany's capital city. Turmoil and confusion was widespread until Walter Ulbricht, head of the
Beside the financial cost and the lost of life, thousands Germans, both East and Western, lost their jobs. Those who had invested into real estate were devastated by the loss, and much like in the crash of the stock market, some resorted to suicide. Trade between East and West Berlin was abruptly halted, and some in east Berlin starved due to the their dependance on the west. Poverty was a familiar sight in Eastern Germany, and a paragraph from an unnamed author depicts