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    The Nazi Olympics The 1936 Olympics in Berlin, also known as the “Nazi Olympics”, was a milestone in the history of the world. All of the attention of the Olympics that year was focused on Adolf Hitler and the Nazis. In 1933, Nazi leader Adolf Hitler became leader of Germany and quickly turned the nation's democracy into a one-party dictatorship. He took thousands of political opponents, holding them without trial in concentration camps. The Nazis also set up a program to strengthen the Germanic

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    Many immigrants across the country have contributed to making the society we are familiar with today. They have helped in small and big ways. Albert Einstein, Alfred Hitchcock, and Irving Berlin are just three of the most famous immigrants that have made the biggest differences in various ways. Immigrants have positively impacted science, music, and technology in many ways in the United States. Immigrants like Albert Einstein have forever changed how we learn science. Einstein has provided evidence

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    million people from the East side of Berlin visited West Berlin that weekend to celebrate. One journalist described it as "the greatest street party in the history of the world." Despite the fact that the Berlin Wall successfully divided East and West Berlin people were killed because they tried to get over, under, or around the wall. The Berlin Wall was created during WWII, because the Nazis did not want Jewish people to enter or exit Berlin. The Berlin Wall stood for twenty eight years straight

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    German History Essay

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    Most would agree that it is valuable to acknowledge history, whether it be through documentation, education, or architectural preservation. However, history can be complex and ugly, stained by war, genocide, and destruction. Therein lies a philosophical controversy: should these historical “stains” be acknowledged or buried? What role do these ugly histories have in the development of a society? Within the last century, no nation has been forced to confront these questions on the same scale that

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    act of their creative and practical responses. Located in once the bombarded Berlin, a new language of architecture emerged. It appears with multiple contradictions, yet not confliction, from itself to the surroundings and within its own construction. That is the Berlin Jewish Museum, submitted by the young Daniel Libeskind in a competition to provoke the unsavory history of Berlin very soon after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. The Western tradition in building museum is twisted by its expressionistic

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    40th President Reagan discusses the positive qualities and aspects of the democratic system of government in America at the time. Reagan also challenges the Soviet Union as well as their communism and calls for Berlin to unify once again. Attempting to spread the ideology to those in Berlin, as well as the world, and convince the people there should have been a transition from Communism to Democracy, Reagan takes advantage of multiple appeals as well as an inspirational and hopeful tone. Reagan also

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    Streaming through the opened borders, celebrations in the streets, armed with only household tools and pick axes, the citizens of Berlin demolished the Berlin wall and all it stood for, piece by piece. On that fateful day of November 9th, 1989, a day that would forever mark history, president Gorbachev of the Soviet Union allowed for the opening of the Berlin wall borders. The world watched in sheer astonishment and amazement as thousands flooded to the border, reuniting at last with long lost family

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    The Fall of the Berlin The Berlin wall is a very significant point within history. It began quickly after World War II; Berlin was separated and conquered into four different zones. Each part was owned by Great Britian, France, the United States, or the Soviet Union. Eventually three of these zones (owned by the United States, Great Britain, and France) combined to become West Germany. The Soviet Union hastily followed after these three zones but instead became East Germany. The difference between

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    As part of the division of Germany following WWII, Berlin, the capital of Germany was divided evenly between the two nations. However, the entire city of Berlin was deep inside of the GDR, so the Western half of the city was democratic but it was surrounded by communist territory. This made West Berlin a place where many East Germans would try to escape to. As a result of this the German Democratic Republic built a wall surrounding West Berlin to stop its own people from escaping to freedom. In

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    Irvin Berlin Critique

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    Before coming into this class, I have to be honest, I didn’t know much about the history of the American musical theatre or anything that was related to musicals in general. As a kid, I was exposed to a few musicals here and there, but it never really grabbed my attention because I was a stereotypical athlete. I also have to admit that I was one of those people that thought that there wasn’t a lot of work that go into making a musical and as soon as I started taking this course I have been proved

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