Essays Tagged: "German language"
Sources of information on Composer Rober Schumann
interesting, it was not very fruitful for my information collecting. Half the sites I found were in German; obviously useless to me. After being denied any useable information from the web, I turned t ... s of Schumann's critical essays. All essays that were analyzed in the book were in both English and German. Interesting insights were gained from this book because it discussed how Schumann analyzed m ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Music History & Studies > Performers & Composers
Biography of Carl Friedrich Gauss.
Carl Friedrich GaussCarl Gauss was born on April 30, 1777 in Brunswick. The German scientist andmathematician is called the founder of modern mathematics. His work in physics a ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Mathematics
"Daddy", a poem written by Sylvia Plath.
f herfather and how he treated her. Subsequently she conveys her outlook on the wars beingfought in Germany. She continues by explaining her life since her father and how it hasrelated to him.In the f ... still cared enough for him to worry. But he still didn't care that sheworried. The passage "In the German tongue, in the Polish town scraped flat by the rollerof wars, wars, wars," (16-18) shows the ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Poetry
Franz Kafka.
he mainstream society of the Austro-Hungarian empire. The offical ruling language of the empire was German, so Franz attended German grammar school and later the German Gymnasium. He finished his Doct ... school and later the German Gymnasium. He finished his Doctorate of Law in Prague, studying at the German Language University. He initially gained employment at a private insurance firm. His job here ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers
English Composition I Cause and Effect
keep comparing for a long time to be aware of the effects. I still catch myself liken Americans and Germans.Inevitable the language has a huge effect. I had English since 5th grade, which was very hel ... but nevertheless it is totally different than the actual spoken American-English. Back in the 80's Germany was oriented on Great Britain so I learned countless British expressions and idioms like "tr ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing
To what extent was martin Luther responsible for the protestant reformation in Germany?
To what extent was Martin Luther responsible for the 'revolutionary' Protestant reformation in Germany?In this essay, I will attempt to assess the extent of Martin Luther's role in the Protestant ... r's role in the Protestant reformation that took place at the beginning of the sixteenth century in Germany. Luther's name is synonymous with the religious Reformation of the sixteenth century, or the ...
Subjects: History Term Papers
Short introduction to German co-operatives.
Nowadays, German co-operatives impart their experience, accumulated over more than a hundred years, all over t ... ly also taking place in the developing countries of Central and Eastern Europe.Nowadays every fifth German is a member of a co-operative. In the entire country there are over seven and a half thousand ...
Subjects: Businesss Research Papers
Language Culture and the Brain: Ties Between Neurolinguistics and Linguistic Anthropology As Seen in Japanese, English (British and American), and Arabic
04).Turner and Popel (1983), in experiments on language, took culture into account. They had native German speakers and native Korean speakers read poems in their native tongues. The poems had the sam ... nces in reading and speaking styles when dealing with an experimental situation. In poetry reading, German speakers read faster on average than Korean speakers (Kien and Kemp, 1994). This finding prov ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Language Studies
Acceptance of Anglicism in the German advertising.
ntroduction1.1 Problem definitonThe English language has become such a great part of our culture in Germany that we hardly notice its presence. Especially the way of communication in advertising is us ... vertising is usually filled with English notions and slogans. This assumption of the English by the German is literarily described as "anglicism". The "Duden - Das groъe FremdwЖrterwЖ ...
Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Marketing
"All Quiet on the Western Front" (based on movie).
In this movie we enter the lives of German schoolboys barely out of their teens. This movie is about young men who entered the war becau ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Film Review and Analysis
Lufthansa Strategy.
because regional staff can make customers feel more familiar and it can also reduce costs of hiring German staff, but also German staff in order to protect their own culture. However, a large number o ... weaken their management cohesion and lose its own culture and style. In addition, is will also lose German employment owing to exporting jobs.III. Training and development: Nowadays, the staffs in Luf ...
Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Management
"Journey's End" by Robert Cedric Sherriff - Letter From Stanhope to Raleighs Parents
. Jimmy was killed on the 21st of this month. Jimmy had just been put on duty on the front line the Germans had been making a big push for a few hours by the time Jimmy had took his duty. There guns s ... him on his intelligence and enthusiastic attitude. Raleigh participated in a successful raid on the German line where he led ten men he successfully captured a machine gun and bundled a German across ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature
Gestalt Theory
Gestalt is a German word for "˜form' and as applied to Gestalt psychology it means "Unified whole"�. ... eater than its parts.The statement "˜The whole is Greater than its parts' was used by several German psychologists using visual perception to describe the way people view patterns in nature. The ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology
International Communication
nurse got off the phone she said, "Oh yea I almost forgot, the patient you are getting only speaks German. Have a good day!" It took me a second to realize what she had said and then I thought, "This ... to his room he had a few people in there who I found out were some friends of his. One of them knew German as well as English which was a miracle from God I do believe. He told me that my German was n ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Communication Studies
TOK: Imagine a World with an extra sense.
anet Earth. It had started happening to him 6 months ago. The earliest recorded case was in 2036 in Germany. It was called verlore, or more commonly the sixth-sense. The people experiencing this pheno ... the sixth-sense. The people experiencing this phenomenon were called the verloren or "the lost" in German. It was a foreshadowing of the future, with an ability to change it. It was a riddle for scie ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing
To be, or not to be
ppelgänger is a double, an often ghostly or evil counterpart to a character. It comes from the German language, doppel- double + -gänger goer. It might be asked, "What does a doppelgäng ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature
August tubbe
er to uplift the country and her people morally and religiously as God gave him light to see it.The German Emperor nor the German Empire was not in existence until seven years after August Tubbe left ... ar that August lived in the United States. August never participated in any correspondence with any German, German agent or German sympathizer at any time.August Tubbe had children, grand children and ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > World History
Chicken and Egg: a study of poultry genetics industry
A1:Problem StatementThe main problem is that the German and American companies share the same vision, but have major differences on how to implement ... mark of 10/14.The main sub-problems are the following:•Lack of good communication between the German and American CEOs (neither spoke the other’s language), and thus, even though the case d ... ark will be 18/21.•Decreased autonomy of the American subsidiary (increasing centralization in German head office) and invasion of the American market by Lohmann.•Long-term planning by Hy-Li ...
Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Case Studies
Difference in business cultures: Brazil and Germany
8).This term paper will assess the difference between two contrasting business cultures: Brazil and Germany, as well the ability of successful interaction amongst them. The business culture category t ... lture category that Brazil can be placed in is Multi-Active, and the business culture category that Germany belongs to is Linear-Active. This difference will be determined by varying elements which in ...
Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Case Studies
Teaching literature as a mechanism for learning German
The potential of literary texts in teaching and learning of German as a foreign language is a significant issue as a student and a teacher.Teaching literature, ... dy of literature therefore depend on the level of the learner. While beginners and intermediates of German may read literary works for language practice, reading comprehension and possible appreciatio ... language is the increasing gap between the secondary school and third level university of teaching German. In secondary school the student is thought the basic skills and grammatical principles and t ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Language Studies