French Film French 3090 October 24‚ 2005 "The Grande Illusion"‚ the 1938 French film by Jean Renoir‚ is a fine example of how war impacts individuals and changes their views during a major war‚ however outside the norms of battles and warfare. The title of the film can be read and deciphered in many ways. The "grand illusion" could be interpreted as one singular imposing "grand" perception during the Great War; and the
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Does Your Language Shape How You Think? Seventy years ago‚ in 1940‚ a popular science magazine published a short article that set in motion one of the trendiest intellectual fads of the 20th century. At first glance‚ there seemed little about the article to augur its subsequent celebrity. Neither the title‚ “Science and Linguistics‚” nor the magazine‚ M.I.T.’s Technology Review‚ was most people’s idea of glamour. And the author‚ a chemical engineer who worked for an insurance company and moonlighted
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cogency. On October 28 a naval mutiny occurred at Kiel‚ and on the next day Emperor hurried from Berlin to military headquarters at Spa‚ imagining that the army would safeguard alike his person and his throne. Within a week almost every city in the German Empire witnessed Socialist rioting and the formation of revolutionary “workers councils.” On November 8‚ amid disorders at Munich‚ Bavaria was proclaimed a “democratic and socialist republic‚” with Kurt Eisner‚ a left-wing Socialist‚ and president
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appreciated for his contribution in uniting Germany. His ways of uniting were very unlikely but they worked very well‚ they may have been mean or rude but he had one thing in his mind‚ unite the northern Germany with southern Germany. Creating the German Nation. Otto’s method of taking money from the parliament without permission was completely necessary. Other leaders and politicians thought this was in fact unnecessary. Bismarck did not the money he “stole” for himself‚ but he spent it all on the
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to it and many events during the war. The Franco-Prussian War had problems in the background of the war and had many details about how it led up to the war. For example‚ in 1866 when Prussia defeated Austria‚ Prussia became the main power of the German
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Second French Empire and a number of German states. These included the North German Confederation (made up of Prussia and many other northern German states). Bavaria‚ Baden‚ Wurttemburg‚ Hesse-Darnstadt. The war began due to a number of reasons: ranging from the fact that France worried that Prussia would expand too far and simply because Prussia wished to bring an end to France. Another crucial reason was the fact that Prussia had already annexed many northern German states and Prussia had a chance of
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have reasonable successes. For example‚ the introduction of his new tariff law of 1902. By restoring a higher duty on imported goods‚ von Bulow hoped to encourage people to buy German produced wheat. This act proved highly important in creating the alliance of “rye and steel”; (between the Junkers and industrialists) German leaders had so eagerly been seeking. Other of von Bulow’s reforms
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manage to show their authority from early on. Several smaller reasons to why the Central Powers lost also need to be taken into consideration. Britain tried to block German ports and trade routes‚ making it difficult for them to acquire weapons‚ ammunition‚ transport and food from other countries. Considering that the Germans were already exhausted by the war‚ because of the fact that they did not expect a long-term war. To add to that‚ there was not a lot the other Central Powers could do to
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I agree Germany were aggressive but their actions were not completely responsible for the outbreak of war‚ there were other causes for the war which Germany were not responsible for‚ such as the Triple of Entente where Germany felt isolated and insecure. However‚ the Schlieffen Plan of 1905 referred to in sources 1 and 2 is frequently seen as an act of aggression. In source 1 Corrigan says that “Germany had in place a plan for an aggressive war” because they were concerned of having to fight Russia
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Language Shift and Purism: A Comparative Analysis By Michael A. Haedicke Since Gal’s (1979) pioneering study of the phenomenon‚ a number of researchers have considered language shift in communities around the world. Language shift occurs when a group of bilinguals loses or gives up one of their languages‚ usually the language of their ancestors. Most of these studies follow Gal’s lead by analyzing language shift as “an instance of socially motivated linguistic change”
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