politician which he spend in Frankfurt‚ Russia and France‚ partially as ambassador for Germany. The most significant step in his political career was maybe when he was made chief minister of Prussia under Wilhelm I. His relation to the King and later the Kaiser was so good that he was much trusted by Wilhelm I. In the later years of his career‚ during the unification‚ Bismarck really ruled the country. Even though many Germans wanted a nation and something that was secure and powerful they did not see
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Visited and described by Chase‚ this was later the long-time home of Paul Wilhelm‚ whose palm-log house now serves as visitor center for the Coachella Valley Preserve. Wilhelm first saw the area with his father several years after Chase’s visit. The elder Wilhelm had acquired 80 acres of the oasis as a water source for his cattle. Paul Wilhelm described his reaction to the oasis in a late 1970s interview with Colin Fletcher (who used a pseudonym to protect
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History Assess the role of Kiaser Wilhelm II in the direction of German domestic and foreign policy between the years 1900-1914. Between 1871 and 1890 Otto Von Bismarck had worked hard and skillfully to secure Germany’s position in the European hierachy. Alliances formed between Germany and other nations such as Russia and Austria cemented peace within Europe during the 1870’s and 1880’s‚ and Germany’s isolation of France (whom Prussia had defeated in 1871) could continue. The use of realpolitik
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To what extent is Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) beneficial to a company’s performance? Conventionally‚ Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) was defined as actions businesses take to improve society’s welfare (McWilliams and Siegel‚ 2011). Currently‚ CSR has expanded into developing new business models that honor human rights‚ combat societal and environmental challenges‚ and profit companies at the same time (“Business case for CSR”‚ 2013). CSR also emphasizes on engaging shareholders in
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How far did the new German constitution of 1871 establish a democratic form of government in Germany? 1871 marked the start of the new German Empire with Wilhelm I as Kaiser and Otto von Bismarck as chancellor. The National Liberals wanted a democratic constitution‚ which would limit the power of the Kaiser and give more power to the people of Germany by allowing them to vote. Despite his traditional conservative views‚ Bismarck joined the National Liberals in order to fulfil his wish for a strong
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reverse effect‚ the production of an electric potential Maxwell‚ ( c.1856‚) developed ideas mathematically in his theory of electromagnetic radiation. Birth of Modern Physics ( late 19th cent. ) most of classical physics was complete‚ Wilhelm Roentgen (1895) the discoveries of X rays radioactivity by A. H. Becquerel (1896)‚ the electron by J. J. Thomson (1897)‚ and Ernest Rutherford 1911 interpreted experimental evidence as showing that the atom consists of a 3 H. C. Oersted
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mustard aroma‚ struggling to breath‚ it subsides after a couple of minutes. Without knowing it you have been exposed to a new chemical used by the Germans‚ code named LOST‚ which referred to the last names of the two chemical engineers‚ Wilhelm Lommel and Wilhelm Stenkopf who developed the cytotoxic agent which will become to known as Mustard Gas. Mustard gas has a variety of health effects as well as an interesting history of its discovery and use in the world. The first use of mustard gas as
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In 1871‚ a new form of colonisation emerged in Europe and was later differentiated from the Empires of Spain and Portugal in the 15th and 16th centuries as New Imperialism. Intelligibly‚ it is also referred to as ‘the Scramble for Africa’‚ as a result of the swift rate at which nations clamoured to gain control of weaker regions in deviated areas from the 1600’s. There is much speculation surrounding the reasoning of such accelerated expansion‚ however‚ there is a clear correlation of events that
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Throughout the years there have been many things that have threatened children. One of the biggest threats to children has been disease. The human race has worked and fought to prevent children from dying of these diseases. With great strides‚ this goal has been met with the creation of vaccines. Though many people think that vaccines are a good idea‚ there are also others who don’t believe in vaccinating their children. In the best interest of children and everyone around them‚ vaccination is a
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Chapter 6 of Hirshfield’s Nine Gates entitled “Two Secrets: On Poetry’s Inward and Outward Looking” talks of the subjective‚ reflective‚ and objective modes of poetry. Hirshfield provides examples of all three modes and the risks that they carry‚ such as a subjective poem: “The lapse into solipsism‚ pitfall of the worst Romantic poems‚ continues to throw a sentimental fog over many people’s idea of what poetry is." Hirshfield envisions a hierarchy‚ with the subjective voice being more immature and
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