The musical and film of the Sound of Music is set in Austria in the late 1930s with Europe on the brink of the Second World War. In historical context Austria has been portrayed by some historians at the first victim on Hitler’s expansionism of the Third Reich as part of its plan to conquer Europe and remedy for the injustices in the Treaty of Versailles in 1919. This treaty ‚ amongst other things‚ assigned guilt to Germany for starting the First World War and ‚ under duress compelled it to pay
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Claus Von Stauffenberg (Differences between the movie Valkyre and his real life) Claus Von Stauffenberg was a German army officer and Roman Catholic aristocrat who was one of the leading officers of the failed 20 July plot of 1944 to kill German dictator Adolf Hitler and remove the Nazi Party from power in World War II Germany by making operation Valkyre. He was one of the central figures of the German Resistance movement. He became so important‚ that people decided to make movies about him‚
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Human Knowledge Friedrich Von Schiller World Literature 107 Schiller was born and raised in Germany. His father was an army surgeon. He went to school for medicine and law‚ but there was something about law that excited him. While attending Stuttgart Military Academy‚ he wrote his first play “The Robbers.” He got dismissed after leaving the army post without permission to see the opening of his play. The opening of the play was also influential to his life because it said “against Tyrants”
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Science trivias There are 62‚000 miles of blood vessels in the human body – laid end to end they would circle the earth 2.5 times A thimbleful of a neutron star would weigh over 100 million tons A typical hurricane produces the energy equivalent of 8‚000 one megaton bombs Blood sucking hookworms inhabit 700 million people worldwide The interstellar gas cloud Sagittarius B contains a billion‚ billion‚ billion liters of alcohol Polar Bears can run at 25 miles an hour and jump over 6 feet in
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Austrian flag Maria came to the von Trapp family in 1926 as a tutor for one of the children‚ Maria‚ who was recovering from scarlet fever. Maria and Georg married in 1927‚ 11 years before the family left Austria. Maria did not marry Georg von Trapp because she was in love with him. As she said in her autobiography Maria‚ she fell in love with the children at first sight‚ not their father. When he asked her to marry him‚ she was not sure if she should abandon her religious calling but was advised
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Elsa as well. Original Sound of Music Private Tour: I chose this event for all of the family members. It has history relating to the second world war as well as the history of the von Trapp family for Albert‚ music for Elsa‚ architecture for Heidi and for Ivan‚ seeing the different gardens and landscapes around the von Trapp family home. Mozart
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TABLE OF CONTENTS Biographical Essay Further Readings Source Citation Updates BIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY The instrumental music of the German composer Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) forms a peak in the development of tonal music and is one of the crucial evolutionary developments in the history of music as a whole. The early compositions of Ludwig van Beethoven marked the culmination of the 18th-century traditions for which Haydn and Mozart had established the great classical models‚ and his middle-period
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MATH 239 Assignment 1 • This assignment is due on Friday‚ January 18th‚ 2013‚ at 10am in the drop boxes outside MC 4067. Late assignments will not be graded. • You may collaborate with other students in the class‚ provided that you list your collaborators. However‚ you MUST write up your solutions individually. Copying from another student (or any other source) constitutes cheating and is strictly forbidden. Exercise 1 (10 pts). (a) In how may ways is it possible to rearrange the letters in
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1. Under the von Neumann architecture‚ a program and its data are both stored in memory. It is therefore possible for a program‚ thinking a memory location holds a piece of data when it actually holds a program instruction‚ to accidentally (or on purpose) modify itself. What implications does this present to you as a programmer? Ans: The programmer should taken proper care so that the program doesn’t modify itself when programming. for example if a program location holds an instruction and later
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philosophy of language will not call to mind the message in which linguistic and other related disciplines reveal. Of course‚ it must pay attention to the facts which linguistics and related disciplines reveal. It is in recognition of the aforesaid that Ludwig Wittgenstein entitled his significant books on language and meaning as Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus and Philosophical Investigations. It is also the reason why he insisted on tackling the problems encountered in philosophy. Against this milieu‚
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