The origins of the first world war has been debated indefinitely‚ and with great controversy. Fritz Fischer‚ dubbed the “the most important German historian of the 20th century”‚ argues that the responsibility for starting the war should rest solely on the shoulders of Germany‚ as their actions were carried out with the goal of world domination.‚ Fischer’s argument has been openly criticised by two modern historians‚ Niall Ferguson and Sean McMeekin‚ who insist Fischer’s claims display personal bias
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Fritz Lang’s M (1931)‚ contains both dialogue sequences and silent sequences with music or sound effects. Lang edited the sound as if he were editing the visuals. We are introduced to the murder in shadow when he speaks to a young girl‚ Elsie. We hear the conversation he makes with her‚ but we see only his shadow‚ which is ironically shown on a reward poster for his capture. Lang then set up a parallel action sequence by intercutting shots of the murderer with the young girl’s mother. The
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Life As We Knew it by Susan Beth Pfeffer is a fictional book about the moon getting hit by a huge astroid. In this novel the people have to live through this event. It may not sound like a big deal but the moon controls a lot actully like tsunamis‚ earthquakes and volcanic eruptions. This book focuses on one family and there troubles. I love the authors writing style in this book. First of all its written as a teenage girls journal so as i reader i get to know everything thats going on for her
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Life As We Knew It ALTERNATE ENDING I told my mother that I was going to the post office hoping to have a letter from my father. My mom said “Miranda‚ I heard that things should get better soon and this will be all over with‚ please be quick and be safe‚ it will all be over soon.” That gave me some hope. I left my skis in the house‚ knowing what I was going up against. I stepped outside into the blizzard‚ expecting the worst and not returning home. When I finally got to the post office‚ I realized
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& Leiter‚ 2010; Fritz‚ Lam‚ and Spreitzer‚ 2011). However‚ fatigue‚ tiredness‚ and exhaustion have become a highly disturbing phenomenon for the last several decades. Therefore‚ it is important for managers of business units and organisational scholars to identify strategies that employees use at work to maintain their energy and reduce fatigue‚ evaluate their effectiveness‚ and assess levels of workers awareness of energy management (Trougakos et al.‚ 2008; Pfeffer‚ 2010; Fritz‚ Lam‚ and Spreitzer
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Auschwitz-Birkenau and Sobibor killing centers in German-occupied Poland. During the first half of July‚ Anne and her family went into hiding in an apartment which would eventually hide four Dutch Jews as well—Hermann‚ Auguste‚ and Peter van Pels‚ and Fritz Pfeffer. For two years‚ they lived in a secret attic apartment behind the office of the family-owned business at 263 Prinsengracht Street‚ which Anne referred to in her diary as the Secret Annex. Otto Frank’s friends and colleagues‚ Johannes Kleiman‚ Victor
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She was always afraid of being found in the secret annex. Once again‚ they were joined by more people. In November 1942‚ the Franks and Van Pels were joined by Fritz Pfeffer. Now‚ there were eight people in the small secret annex. All eight people had to live in fear and never go outside. They had to remain quiet during the day and also all had a schedule that they followed every day. It started with everybody getting
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and son‚ and Miep Gies’s dentist Fritz Pfeffer was famously chronicled in Anne Frank’s posthumously published diary‚ which ended three days before they were anonymously betrayed and arrested on 4 August 1944. After detainment in the Gestopo headquarters on the Euterpestraat and three days in prison on the Amstelveenweg‚ Edith and those with whom she had been in hiding were transported to the Westerbork concentration camp. From here they were deported to Fritz Pfeffer on 3 September 1944‚ the
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Imagine not being able to go outside for over two years and living with another family you have never met. As difficult as this may seem to believe‚ this is exactly what the Frank family and the Van Pels family had to go through‚ along with many other restrictions on their daily life. After the innocent killing of Jews during the Holocaust began‚ thousands of Jewish families were forced into hiding just like the Franks and Van Pels. Miep was one non-Jew who helped these families stay hidden by
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under the control of Adolf Hitler. The Franks and the rest of the Jews in Germany had to flee Germany or go into hiding to avoid Nazi persecution. The Frank family decided to hide along with another Jewish family‚ the Van Pels and a man named Fritz Pfeffer in a secret annex of a building. The Frank family hid in the secret annex for more than 2 years. There was a special young member of the Frank family named Anne Frank. Anne Frank kept a diary of the family’s experiences while living in the secret
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