Bernhard Goetz is a Subway Vigilante. On December 22‚ 1984‚ Bernhard Goetz left is apartment in Manhattan and went to the IRT subway station on 14th street and 7th avenue. At the subway station ‚ he took the #2 downtown express and sat next to 4 young black men. Two of the young men‚ Troy Canty and Barry Allen walked up to Goetz and asked him for $5.00. James Ramseur‚ the third youth‚ gestured toward a bulge in his pocket that looks suspiciously like a gun. He later stated that Canty’s eyes were
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examples each one sets. Expecting to grow properly and learn what one must when put in an unfamiliar generation‚ is as if trying to teach a person to walk through the example of a whale-both are mammals but are impossible to compare. This is evident in Bernhard Schlink’s The Reader‚ where fifteen-year-old Michael Berg is involved in a secretive‚ intense‚ and passionate relationship with thirty-six-year-old Hanna Schmitz. Hanna is leading the relationship so much so that when they fight‚ regardless of who
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Lucian Staniak was a young man in Warsaw‚ Poland who lost his sister and patents in a fatal car accident. The time of the accident was not documented. The driver‚ a young wife of a Air Force officer was released of all criminal charges. For Lucian his parents dying in vein was not an option. He sought out look alikes of the woman and killed them because killing her would be to obvious. His killings started in 1964 and ended in 1967. He was found guilty of the murder of six women but he confessed
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Lucian Blaga (1805- 1961) • 1919 – a debutat cu voumul “Poemele luminii” • tematica liricii : dragostea (“Dorul”)‚ natura (“Vara”)‚ reincarnarea(“La mare”)‚ arta potica (“Eu nu strivesc corola de minuni a lumii”)‚ poezia gnomica (“Cantare vantului”). Acest poem este inclus in volumul”Lauda somnului” Anul 1929 “Biografie” de Lucian Blaga Unde si cand m-am
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Good morning ‚ . Alfred Bernhard Nobel born on October 21 ‚1833 was a Swedish chemist‚ engineer‚ innovator‚ and armaments manufacturer. Nobel held 350 different patents‚ dynamite being the most famous. Born in Stockholm‚ Alfred Nobel was the fourth son of Immanuel Nobel ‚ and Andriette Nobel . Following various business failures‚ Nobel’s father moved to Saint Petersburg in 1837 and grew successful there as a manufacturer of machine tools and explosives. He invented modern plywood and started work
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essay I intend to compare and contrast the artist Lucian Freud and the photographer Narcis Virgiliu. I have chosen Freud because his paintings focus on nude models and he paints exactly what he sees. However‚ in Virgiliu’s photography work he uses slim models‚ the total opposite of Freud’s work. The artist and photographer I’ve chosen links to my theme in my own work as it involves body image and how people perceive different body shapes. Lucian Freud was one of the best known British artists‚
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Destiny Lord Mr.Ovalles1/16/2014 English In history‚ there have been various wars that have affected the lives of people around the world. The Setting Sun by Ousamu Dazai and The Reader by Bernhard Schlink are both examples of how World War II affected people. In The Setting Sun the author displays how much a country’s tradition changes after imperialism which is why some people might say The Setting Sun best represents the effects World War II had on culture. However‚ The Reader best describes
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Introduction Bernhard Riemann was one of the top mathematicians of the eighteen hundreds. He is most well known for his his development of non-Euclidean geometry which is used today in physics and in the relativity theory. Summary of Riemann’s Life Georg Friedrich Bernhard Riemann was born on September 17th‚ 1826 in Breselenz‚ Germany to Georg Friedrich Bernhard Riemann and Charlotte Ebell. Sadly‚ his mother died before her children were grown. He had five siblings‚ four girls and one boy
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Austerlitz Sebald Review #1 Austerlitz is unusual in a number of ways. The actual layout of the text is markedly different from that of most novels: there are only 25 widely spaced lines to the page. There are no paragraphs anywhere in the book‚ and no chapters in the usual sense; there are only a handful of inverted commas for speech. And there are quite a number of photographs dispersed through the text‚ photographs which Sebald seems to have taken himself. As for what the book is about: well
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Generational Perspectives on the War in The Reader In the book The Reader by Bernhard Schlink‚ the main character Michael Berg encounters several characters that lived in Germany during the Nazi regime. Through these encounters Bernhard Schlink depicts the differences in perspective between the generation born after the war and those who lived through it. These differences lead to awkwardness and conflict and show the difficulty of these two generations to reach a resolution. The
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