century‚ particle theories of light dominated physics‚ primarily due to the work of Isaac Newton. Thomas Young’s 1805 famous double-slit experiment‚ which showed that light mimics a wave‚ extinguished some of these early views. However‚ in 1887‚ Heinrich Hertz – who is‚ coincidentally‚ perhaps better known for definitively proving the existence of James Maxwell’s and David Hughes’ theorized electromagnetic “light” waves by detecting radio waves around the same time – breathed new fire into the seeming
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Mannerism: The anti-High Renaissance The height of Italian Renaissance art had reached its summit in the late 15th century with the advent of the three masters of the High Renaissance: Leonardo‚ Michelangelo‚ and Raphael. Their works of art exhibited the pinnacle of man’s aesthetic ability in creating realistic depiction of the world through anatomically detailed human bodies‚ harmonious perspectival space‚ and emphasis on uniformity derived from nature. However this astounding progress in artistic
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of the difference psychologically harming. Women will believe they are only worth 20 percent of male when in reality everyone is equal. The other alarming part is that a report from the United States Joint Economic Committee ranking member Martin Heinrich reported that women with a graduate degree earn $5000 less than male. This difference can discourage women from pursuing a college degree since even with a degree not only will they be behind men in pay‚ but now they also will be in longer lasting
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Theorists Hannah Arendt and Michel Foucault present their views on the power/knowledge affiliation in works such as Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil and Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison. While reading the pair‚ it becomes almost impossible not to relate or apply their visions onto the contemporary society. One may even argue that they resonate with current systems of government. Eichmann in Jerusalem‚ albeit a collection of articles for the New Yorker‚ was published
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The Holocaust is the name applied to the systematic state-sponsored persecution and genocide of the Jews of Europe along with other groups during World War II by Nazi Germany and collaborators[1]. Early elements of the Holocaust include the Kristallnacht pogrom and the T-4 Euthanasia Program‚ progressing to the later use of killing squads and extermination camps in a massive and centrally organized effort to exterminate every possible member of the populations targeted by the Nazis. The Jews of
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war viewed as not very consequential‚ and perhaps desirable‚ the notion of diplomacy and peace in favor of war was seen as ignominious. Some people thought that war was a conservative notion. In The Greatness of War (circa 1890)‚ German historian Heinrich von Treitschke declared: “It is quite clear that the furtherance of an everlasting peace is fundamentally reactionary...to banish war from history would be to banish all progress” (Treitschke‚ 119). In the years leading up to World War I‚ the glorification
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The Holocaust‚ which started on January 30‚ 1933 was when Hitler and The Nazi’s took over Germany and tried to kill all the Jews. They would take the Jews from their homes and bring them to work or concentration camps where they would work them to death or kill them if they didn’t think they were useful. There was also other things Germans did with the Jews‚ like Josef Mengele was a worker at Auschwitz (one of the camps) and he would do medical experiments on Jews. The Holocaust was twelve years
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SS lieutenant colonel Adolf Eichmann represented the epitome of desk murderers. “A hundred dead people is a catastrophe‚” Eichmann told. “Six million dead is a statistic” (Rice 57). Born on March 19‚ 1906 in Solingen Germany‚ it wasn’t long before Eichmann moved with his family to Linz‚ Austria to finish schooling and get a career. Upon completing school‚ he wanted to study mechanical engineering‚ but couldn’t complete it because of the rough economic situation in Germany in the 20’s. Eichmann moved
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When the stock market collapsed on Wall Street on Tuesday‚ October 29‚ 1929‚ it sent financial markets worldwide into a tailspin with disastrous effects. Fallout from the Great Depression - A young and hopelessly unemployed Berliner panhandles for spare change. Below: A run on a bank in Berlin. Below: May Day 1930 brings a huge turn-out of pro-communist Berliners expressing admiration of Soviet Russia. The German economy was especially vulnerable since it was built upon foreign capital‚ mostly
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for the systematic murder of European Jews in extermination camps in Poland‚ undertaken in Spring and Summer of 1942‚ were taken without his consent or his knowledge. - Private diaries of Nazi propaganda maestro Joseph Goebbels and Gestapo chief Heinrich Himmler unearthed from the secret Soviet archives show that Adolf Hitler personally ordered the mass extermination of Jews on December 12‚ 1941 during a meeting of Nazi German regional governors in the chancellery. As Goebbels wrote "With regards
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