Introduction The word Lied has a long history going back as far as the 12th Century‚ and is connected with folk songs and Lutheran church hymns. The great age of German Lieder‚ however‚ came with the Romantic Movement. The Romantic Movement developed in the late 18th and early 19th Centuries‚ and was particularly influential in Germany. It was more of an intellectual than directly political movement‚. With the poets and authors who led the movement came the composers who eternalised much of the
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was made by Dr. Paul Herman Müller of Switzerland. Müller worked as a laboratory technologist at the great dye-manufacturing firm of J.R. Geigy. Müller started working on inventing new insecticides in 1936 and by 1939 had synthesized DDT. After years of perfecting the new compound‚ he proved its effectiveness in controlling Colorado Potato Beetles on crops. During WWII‚ he also found it just as effective in destroying lice on war refugees. As testing continued‚ Müller and his associates were convinced
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favorable to those who prevail as triumphant and defame the losing side. Riefenstahl’s post-war career has been an attempt to distance herself from the losing Nazi regime. This can be seen through her work with Nuba‚ underwater photography and the Muller documentary. Due to Germany losing World War II‚ the process of de-Nazification occurred in which Riefenstahl was involved with. Internationally within many media reports she was hailed as “The Nazi pin-up girl” and “Goebbels plaything’ in accordance
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person to climb the Citedal. Ever since Rudi’s dad Josef Matt died while climbing the Citedal‚ no one dreamed of coming close to the mountain. The villagers thought that there were demons and ghosts on the mountain. Even though no one believed Rudi could never be a guide or even a could climber‚ Rudi knew it was in his blood and knew he had to climb that mountain. The most often talked about main character is Rudi Matt. He is Josef Matt’s son. Rudi was always being picked on and people
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Caitlin Colangelo Chapter One: Tjaden‚ Muller‚ Tjaden‚ Kaczynski‚ Kemmerich‚ and the narrator (Paul) are all part of the Second Company. The novel opens up with a scene where everyone is eating together and distributing rations. The cook accidentally made enough food for 150 soldiers‚ but because the Company just came from battle‚ their numbers are far shorter than this number. The cook argues that he’s only allowed to give out one ration per soldier‚ and that the rest of the food has to be thrown
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For years‚ many philosophers and psychologists have argued the debate of whether nature or nurture takes the cake for reasonings behind certain behaviors. The argument surrounds itself by the variables of the natural forces that include biology‚ physiology and instinct and the nurture qualities being learning‚ and environmental or social factors. With that argument‚ perception is also another subject being added to the equation. This debate is contemplating whether it be either nature or nurture
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allotted during the work day. The case of Muller V. Oregon‚ in 1908‚ following Lochner Vs. New York just three years before‚ ruled in the favor of women regarding working conditions; regardless of similar circumstances in Lochner V. New York. The Brandeis Brief was used by the lawyer at hand in appealing to women’s domestic spheres and “scientific” data displaying their need for shorter work hours and more care and comfort than men need. The women in the Muller workplace were treated unfairly with very
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old. Boltzmann studied physics at the University of Vienna‚ starting in 1863. Boltzmann was awarded a doctorate from the University of Vienna in 1866 for a thesis on the kinetic theory of gases supervised by Josef Stefan. After obtaining his doctorate‚ he became an assistant to his teacher Josef Stefan. He established the relationship between entropy and probability was first stated in his kinetic theory of gases". Entropy is a measure of the disorder of a system‚ where S is the entropy‚ k is
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was on the point of collapsing is because its weak nature was highlighted when in 1905 the Hungarian Independence Party won the election and as the historians Wolfson and Laver write “Since it still refused to approve an increase in the army Franz Josef appointed his own Prime Minister‚ Baron Fejerváry and sent troops to disperse the Hungarian Parliament.” This shows that the Habsburg Empire was weakening as Hungary’s refusal to support the Austrian army could be seen to reflect a desire for control
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As one of the strongest and most liberal democracies in the world‚ Switzerland has a responsibility to fight terrorism. While terrorism within Switzerland’s boundaries is the government’s main concern‚ an attack on an ally is an attack on the entire free world. As part of the developed Western nations of the world Switzerland fears that it could be a target for extremist groups within or outside of Swiss borders. The government has taken and will continue to take steps to ensure that Swiss citizens
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