“Speer was an apolitical technocrat” There have been historical arguments over the idea of Albert Speer being an apolitical technocrat in regards to his career. Speer wasn’t an apolitical technocrat due to the use of slave labour for the production of armament‚ his visits to concentration camps such as Mauthausen camp and the horrific conditions he saw at the Dora missile factory‚ his knowledge of Himmler’s speech at Posen also his defence at the Nuremburg trials in 1945. Criticism of Speer’s
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went through a series of events to get to Ellis Island and my experience there is worth telling. I will tell you about my voyage there‚ the very maddening inspections‚ and all my little experiences in-between and after. Let me tell you about my journey to get to Ellis Island. As you know‚ I went to Ellis Island to live with my mother since my father had passed away roughly 7 years ago and I was living with my aunt and uncle in Italy. My mother had gone to Ellis Island a few years previous to my own journey
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Albert Jacka Albert Jacka was born on the 10th of January 1893 in a small dairy farm in Winchelsea‚ Victoria. On the 17th of the first 1932‚ seven days after his 39th birthday‚ he died of chronic nephritis. He was the fourth child of 7 of Nathaniel Jacka and Mary Elizabeth Kettle. He spent most of his life in Wedderburn after his parents decided to move the family there in 1898 when Bertie was the age of 5. After completing elementary school‚ he found work as a labourer with his father‚ and
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Humans are little more than complex organisms reacting to stimuli in their environment. Some would argue that humans are transparent and simple; we have needs and simply seek to fulfill them. There is a specific order to our behavior and that behavior is being driven by a need or desire. Camus challenged this notion with The Stranger. In one sense he upheld the idea that we simply strive to fulfill needs. In another sense‚ Camus forced us to understand that sometimes there is no reason‚ no need being
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Albert Fish’s real name was Hamilton Howard‚ He was also known as the Gray Man‚ the Werewolf of Wysteria‚ the Brooklyn Vampire‚ the Moon Maniac‚ and The Boogey Man. He was a serial killer in the United States. He was born on May 29th‚ 1870 in Washington D.C. and died January 16th‚ 1963 in Ossining‚ New York. He an American Sado-masochistic serial killer and cannibal. He was a father of 6 kids their names were Anna Fish‚ Gertrude Fish‚ Albert Fish‚ Eugene Fish‚ John Fish‚ and Henry Fish. Albert
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In 2003 a man known as Simon Hall was jailed after the brutal murder of Joan Albert in her home after an attempted burglary. Joan had suffered at least five stab wounds from a carving knife from her own kitchen‚ she was found dead in the hallway. He initially claimed he was innocent and although admitting to burglary‚ he claimed it was at a different place and therefore it was impossible for him to have killed Joan. Unfortunately for him however‚ forensic investigators had found fibres on her body
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Albert Speer. Early Years: Albert Speer was born in 1905; in the city of Mannheim located in the state of Baden-Württemberg in Germany. Albert had been raised in the small township of Heidelberg; he was the second of three boys. His father‚ Albert Friedrich Speer‚ was a highly successful architect and his mother Luise Mathilde Wilhelmine Hommel was the daughter of a very wealthy businessman. Albert was nine years old at the time when World War One broke out‚ though he was too young to fight at
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Albert “The Boogey Man” Fish This next serial killer is one that to me is one of the most horrible killers that ever lived. There is no other way to describe Albert Fish as anything but a monster. He was a living nightmare that looked like an innocent grandpa. But under the surface he was something that no sane person can possibly imagine. Fish’s sadistic behavior did not begin to surface until after his wife left him for John Straube. Fish got great pleasure from pain. Whether him inflicting
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January 24‚ 1936 Phyllis Wright‚ a sixth grade student‚ asked the question to Albert Einstein “whether scientists pray‚ and if so‚ what they pray for.” Einstein’s response to the students question was rhetorically effective. He managed to answer he question without giving her a direct answer. He went in-depth to explained the scientific response to pray. He started off by making it sound like he did not pray but by the second paragraph he stated reasons that would make readers assume he does pray
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have chosen to look at Watson’s Little Albert study. I remember learning of this experiment in high school psychology‚ and it has always stuck in my mind – mainly because I feel so bad for the little guy! He thinks he is going to play with a nice‚ cute little animal (rat)‚ and then he ends up getting terrified! A more formal recap is as follows: In an effort to demonstrate whether or not emotional responses could be conditioned‚ Watson introduced a baby Albert (nine months) to various stimuli such
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