...publish this amazing book, Anne’s wishes to become in author, and the big role of her father, Otto Frank, and Miep Gies to help to this book had been published. Otto Frank began to consider of having the diary published moved by Anne´s repeated wish to be an author. Miep Gies gave Otto Frank the diary and a bundle of loose notes that she had saved in the hope of returning of Anne. But, in July, 1945, the Red Cross confirmed the death of the Anne Frank. Otto Frank later commented that he had not realized Anne had kept such an accurate and well-written record of their time in hiding. He described the painful process of reading the diary, recognizing the events described and recalling that he had already heard some of the more funny episodes read aloud by his daughter. He saw for the first time the more private side of his daughter, and those sections of the diary she had not discussed with anyone. Otto Frank told to a group of Jewish friends about the diary, and one of them was really touched about it. He asked to Otto if he could lend the diary to the historian Jan Romein to read, a good friend of his. Otto Frank hesitated, but was finally persuaded. Jan Romein was also much impressed by the diary, and he wrote an article about it for the daily newspaper Het Parool. He also asked to Otto Frank to consider having the diary published. His article attracted attention from publishers, and Otto Frank agreed the diary was published in the Netherlands after as Het Achterhuis in 1947, followed...
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...Bismarck: A Brief Summary Of Accomplishments Otto Von Bismarck was the first chancellor of the German empire (1871-1890) and is well known for the unification of Germany. Germany had existed as a collection of numerous separate principalities and Free Cities since the formation of the Holy Roman Empire. As a large result of Bismarck's efforts, the various German territories were united into a single country. He was appointed chancellor during the reign of Wilhelm I and was also chancellor to his son, Wilhelm II, for a time. Bismarck can best be described as secretive, manipulative, controlling, and willing to use trickery to achieve his goals. Not exactly honorable, but you have to admire his ambition to do whatever it took to achieve his goals. I think he was a clever and masterful strategist; he studied leaders, treaties and laws that attracted him and learned from their mistakes. Bismarck would take his time and plan things out. (Bismarck, Archive p. 307) In the process of unifying Germany, three wars were fought. The first was against Denmark in 1864 which didn’t do much for the rivalry between Austria and Prussia. Bismarck knew he would have to go to war with Austria sooner or later if he wanted to unify Germany. War broke out again in 1866 with Austria. It seems that Austria was predicted to win the war, but Germanys well organized army defeated Austria in six weeks. France was not pleased with this victory; Napoleon III feared that Germany would become too powerful...
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...to the poem, ‘Daddy’, written by Sylvia Plath? WORD COUNT: 1,503 A: Marxist Literary Criticism views literary works as reflections of the social institutions from which they originate. This being said, even literature itself is a social institution and has a specific ideological function, based on the background and ideology of the author. It includes analysing the class constructs conveyed in the literature and examines the ways in which texts reveals ideological oppression of a dominant economic ruling class over the subordinate working classes. It is here used to analyse ‘Daddy’, written by Sylvia Plath (1932-1963). The poem is supposedly to be about the psychological relationship Plath had with her father, Otto Emil Plath. Her poem makes great use of metaphor, alliteration, repetition, symbolism and imagery. The poem was written by Plath on the 12th of October, 1962. It was written a year before Plath’s suicide on the 11th of February, 1963. The poem was published posthumously, in her vast collection of poetry named Ariel, in 1965. It is a rancorous and brutal poem, consisting of sixteen-five line stanzas. Within the poem, the language alternates between a lyrical tone and an ironic critique of the endless depth of despair Plath feels. ‘Daddy’ works in its entirety by creating a replica of Plath’s supposed psychic state in the readers, so that we almost re-live her despair, horror, rage, revenge, insanity and masochism. Throughout ‘Daddy’ there is an emotionally...
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...Their mission is to parachute into southern Bavaria to rescue a nine year old girl named Angelique from a convent. From there Otto and Leni are to take the child to a rendezvous point at Lake Constance on the Swiss border where the admiral will be waiting with a plane to fly them back to England. Otto and Leni undergo two weeks of intensive training before they are flown in a Mosquito, a small fast plane, and dropped into Bavaria. As expected things do not go as planned, although Leni has no trouble getting Angelique to leave the convent. She is more than willing to escape her lonely prison. But from then on it does not take long before the Germans realize that Angelique has been taken by two teenagers. When Hitler learns of Hess' defection to Britain he orders Reinhard Heydrich, the head of the Reich Main Security and the General of the SS to go to Berghoff where Angelique is being kept, to retrieve her and move her to a more secure location. However...
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...Otto Hahn was born in 1879 and grew up in Frankfurt am Main, Prussia, where he was the son of a prosperous entrepreneur. Although his father, who was a prosperous glazier, wanted him to be an architect he had an interest in chemistry, which led to him to t the age of 15 to start performing chemistry experiments. In 1897 he took his abitur and went to the university of Marburg to start studying chemistry and mineralogy. He received his doctorate in 1901 and then began his year of compulsory military service, after which he returned to the university of Marburg and worked as a doctoral supervisor for two years. The trajectory of Otto Hahn’s career shows the value of planning and preparation, but also how plans often...
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...Experience The term ‘religion’ has come to mean a wide variety of things over the years. It has ranged from “a statement of faith” (Gill, 968) to an element constructed to justify a human need for purpose in life. In the most distinguished writers of philosophy, religion, anthropology and psychology, the interpretations of religion and it forces within society, vary as much as their individual specialization fields. Thinkers have always had something to say about the experiences believers encounter when they immerse themselves in their deep-rooted belief systems. They reiterate, agree with, reject, and even propagate the theses brought forth by both past thinkers and their own contemporaries. In the writings of Friedrich Schleiermacher, Rudolf Otto, William James, Richard King, and Alan Cole, the view of how individuals and groups make religion an experience they embody through their actions both individually and as a result of the mystical aspects within the religion, is discussed expansively. These thoughts have led to deeply analytical observations of religious followers who allow themselves to have a more intimate embodied experience within their beliefs. In the writings of Friedrich Schleiermacher and William James, both philosophers, important observations referring to the mystical essence of religion were established. These thinkers were revolutionizing the way people thought about the religious experience in their own eras. They scrutinized the concept of mystical experiences...
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...Otto Dix He was the great German Expressionist, was famous for his unique and grotesque style. Dix always balanced his inclination toward realism with an equal tendency toward the fantastic and the allegorical. Having experimented with Expressionism, Futurism and even Dada, Dix finally opted for a realist language that allowed him to present a critical view of the society that surrounded him and which led him to become one of the leading representatives of New Objectivity. His profound knowledge and admiration for the Old Masters, particularly the German Renaissance painters, led him to base his new style on a technique that revived their working methods. This included the use of panel rather than canvas as a support and a mixed technique of tempera and oil; his painstaking preparation of the support; his way of using the pigments and glazes, and even his signature in the form of a monogram in the manner of Lucas Cranach. These technical resources also provided him with a way to emphasize form over color and to convey the critical objectivity that he desired, accentuating the realism of his style and endowing it with the critical, ironic and mordant tone that is so typical of his work. Dix’s revival of old techniques and styles, combined with this “return to order” on the part of a realist artist in opposition to the language of the contemporary avant-garde movements, was accompanied in his by an interest in rediscovering signs of national identity, establishing...
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...Otto Roethke was a German immigrant who moved to the Michigan along with his family and wife to start a new life and raise their growing child, Theodore. Otto and his father invested in a small gardening, and floral company where they worked out of a greenhouse located in their backyard. This company was the financial stability that their family had been longing for. Growing up, Roethke followed in his father's footsteps, starting as a young child working in the greenhouse. Gale Contextual Encyclopedia states, “Theodore Roethke was born in Saginaw, Michigan. His father, Otto Roethke, who had immigrated to America from Germany in 1872. The Roethke's prospered, and when Roethke's grandfather had made sufficient money, he built a greenhouse so that he could enter the florist business, which also prospered. As a child, Roethke followed his father about his work. Thus, Roethke almost literally, grew up among the plants of the greenhouse.” (Roethke) Because of his early interaction with nature, flowers, vegetables, etc. he uses this...
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...How far does the role of individuals explain the outbreak of the German Wars of Unification? The German Wars of Unification can be blamed on a myriad of reasons however the pragmatism of Otto Von Bismarck often allowed him to take advantage and shape the course of German history. Conversely it would be remiss to state that Bismarck was solely responsible for the German Wars of Unification, nationalist elements as well as growing calls for liberalism all spurred the way for the beginning of a German state. Compounding this was the economic prosperity of Prussia, as Prussia grew economically stronger it diminished Austria’s sphere of influence in the region. This would also spur calls for greater German unity whilst isolating Austria. Prussian ambition can be first seen to rival Austria with the creation of the Zollverein. Prussia in 1818 created a law to integrate Prussian customs systems onto neighbouring small states, over the next fifteen years through a complex mixture of threats and concessions the Prussians managed to create a concrete policy that would lay the foundations for the Zollverein. In 1833 the Zollverein was created and most importantly Austria was firmly excluded. The importance of this is summed up in Metternich’s quote “a smaller rival confederation..which all too quickly will become accustomed to following its own objectives with its own means”. Metternich’s fears would eventually become a reality, this is reiterated by the historian Treitschke...
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...The main idea of this speech is that Otto von Bismarck wanted Germany to actually make a difference for their country by taking action. He wanted to enforce power, military, something that Prussia had not done. Here he was responding to the Landtags of Prussia and how they refused military support. He says that, “not through speeches and majority decisions,” the problems and conflicts of this German state will no longer be solved by just talking and waiting for public and the parliament's approval. The government always took too long to come into an agreement yet, their governing was not successful. Basically, the main idea was that an army was needed fast to help gain more control no matter if his solution becomes violent and bloody; war. Bismarck want to make sure that he was taking over so Germany, in the future, would not have to deal with another revolution. He wanted to make things right, right in that moment....
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...Anne Frank, a fifteen year old girl who showed the world how the time of Adolf Hitler was in Germany, who spoke out verbally for many about her life during World War II. She had not survived the war but she and her diary have opened eyes around the world. Frank was born on June 12, 1929 to Otto Frank and Edith Frank and died on March 1, 1945; while growing up, Anne and her family moved from Frankfurt, Germany to Amsterdam, Germany because of economic despair causing Adolf Hitler to take control over the government in result of him taking over everybody except Nazis, which were Jews, which was also Frank’s family because they were Jews; when Frank had finally turned thirteen, she had received a diary book from her parents, since the day Anne...
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...it comes as naturally as sleep.” In Book 1, Section II it mentions in the beginning “I do not remember the arrival at my grandmother’s farm sometime before daybreak, after a drive nearly twenty miles with heavy work- horses. When I awake, it was afternoon. I was lying in a little room, scarcely bigger than the bed that had held him and the window-shade at his head was flapping softly in a warm wind.” Jim described his grandmother “A tall woman, with wrinkled brown skin and black hair, stood looking down at me; I knew that she must be my grandmother.” Jimmy’s grandmother had been crying, he could see, but when he opened his eyes she smiled, peered at him fearfully and sat down on the foot of his bed. His grandmother asked if he had a great sleep, Then in a very different tone she said “My how you do look like your father had been her little boy; his grandmother must often have arrive to wake him like this when he overslept. She gave him clean clothes then brings him down to the kitchen to have a nice warm bath behind the stove. Jim goes with his grandmother into the basement, it was divided into a dining-room at the right of the stairs and a kitchen at the left. Both rooms were whitewashed and plastered, the floor was of hard cement. Jim smelled gingerbeard baking, he takes a bath a big cat comes along and watches. He then smelled the cakes burning, she came laughing, and waving her apron. Jim described his grandmother “She was a spare, tall woman, a little lowered, and she...
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...We act heroically when we are motivated to make the world a better place, to bring joy to others, and to spread a message of standing up for what we believe in. In the story “ The Underground Railroad”, the author gave a brief explanation about an outstanding conductor during the terrible occurrences of slavery named, Harriet Tubman. Harriet Tubman made a great impact on the world and has always been a big inspiration for many who have suffered from and been through this type of discrimination. Harriet Tubman had been a slave herself since birth, however, she was lucky enough to escape to Philadelphia, where she began to work on the railroad to help free her family. The underground railroad was a network of safe houses and routes slaves could take to escape from the South to freedom in the North. Harriet was a very driven, hard working, independent woman who was strongly committed to her mission of freeing slaves, along with her family. She, as much as all the slaves, knew that the laws were unjust and wanted freedom, to make things right. On the railroad,...
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...dealership had lead to the growth. He also attributed this to developing the customers and playing close attention to the customer’s needs. Most customers both new and used had returned to the dealership several times to make additional purchases. The latest income statement is shown in the exhibit along with an analysis of the service department expenses. To accomplish semi-retirement Rusty needed to make organizational changes. Talking with his daughter, a recent Laurier MBA graduate, he felt that the profit centre approach would best fit his requirements. Thus the dealership was divided into three profit centres. The new cars sales department was to be run by Sue Me, the used car sales department by Le Mon and the service department by Otto Baun. All of these people had been key players at the dealership for the past ten years. Each manager was told to run their department as if it was an independent business. Under the profit centre approach each manager would receive their compensation based on a percentage of gross profits (revenue – cost of goods sold) for their centre. Feeling good about his organizational change Rusty went to play golf and started planning on a four week...
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...enter into permanent alliances with other great powers, but rather to concentrate on their colonies. The Franco-Prussian War, 1870 - spanning from July 1870 until May 1871, the Franco-Prussian War was fought between the French and the Germans, resulting in a comprehensive German victory. The primary cause of the war was Otto von Bismarck, Prussian Chancellor, and his desire to create a unified Germany. Unification of Germany - officially occurring on the 18th January 1871, this unification was a direct result of the Franco-Prussian War, although many believed this organisation of German-speaking populations into one nation was inevitable. Nevertheless, this rose tensions for political, religious and cultural reasons, meaning true unification wasn't complete for years. Austria-Hungary - in the Balkans, the growth of Slavic nationalist groups threatened the stability of the already-fragile Austro-Hungarian empire. These groups sought to gain independence from the political domination of this empire. Unification of Italy - this involved the consolidation of states of the Italian peninsula into one state, spanning a large proportion of the 19th century. Many see the completion of this process as 1871, when Rome was made the capital city of this unified state. This was due to a growing national identity and the sight of nearby countries also unifying. The Dual Alliance, 1879 - created on 7th October 1879 as part of Otto von Bismarck's plan to prevent or limit war...
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