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    Book Review: In the Garden of Beasts by Erik Larson Larson, Erik. In the garden of beasts: love, terror, and an American family in Hitlers Berlin. 375 pages. New York: Crown Publishing Group, 2011. Erik Larson is a known journalist who writes non-fiction historical books. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania, where he studied Russian history. He further attended Columbia University, where he received a master’s in journalism. He worked for The Wall Street Journal, and later contributed

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    Company Value and vision Siemens, a German conglomerate company based on Berlin and Munich, it is the largest manufacturing electronics company in the world, they have been established over 170 years. At Siemens, their goal is to applied science and engineering into the common good of the society, use the sustainable technique to improve the life condition and gain the best value to the society. However, Sustainability is a key enabler of Vision 2020 of Siemens( Siemens AG, 2016) ‘Ingenuity

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    A Woman in Berlin A Woman in Berlin is a book written by an anonymous writer which is an eight-week diary that took place in April 1945. The way the anonymous writer wrote about her experiences in the war is extensive and very descriptive – she has explained how it is to live during a war and how it can be hard to wake up without knowing what you will be facing for the day. In the first parts of the diary, Anonymous explained some of her physical experiences through her sentences. This is important

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    locked in cages, the quarters were full of bugs and there were no toilets. She then moved to another prison fortress, Torgau where many women were raped. From there she was moved to the former Nazi concentration camp at Sachenhaun just outside of Berlin, which was run by the German police. She says that at first she had been very happy to be committed to the Germans, as she and other inmates believed that their cases would be reviewed, and they would be released, however, she says that “what we had

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    The Berlin Bar, otherwise called the Berlin Carrier, was the main real emergency of the cool war. June 26, 1948 is the point at which the airdrop started. On June 24, 1948, the Soviet Union obstructed all street and rail go to and from West Berlin, which was situated inside the Soviet zone of occupation in Germany. The Soviet activity was because of the refusal of American and English authorities to permit Russia more say in the monetary eventual fate of Germany. The U.S. government was stunned by

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    General Electric (GE), established in 1892, is an American based, diverse conglomerate. General Electric is common household name, as well as a renowned name in electric, oil, gas, power, renewable energy, aviation, transportation, and healthcare. In 2015, the Fortune 500 Company had over $117 billion in revenue. The company continues to expand, and even surpasses the yearly goals it sets for its self. As of 2015, GE has 10 research centers, employees over 3,000 engineers and PhD’s between these

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    Unbroken is the story of Louie Zamperini, a kid from a small midwestern town who experiences the highest of highs and the lowest of lows in his astounding life. Louie had to work his absolute hardest to make the qualifying time for the 1937 Berlin Olympics. It took all of his willpower to survive forty-seven days stranded on the ocean and then another two years under extreme torture in a Japanese POW camp. Finally after returning home he had to face his own demons in a battle with alcoholism and

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    dread of the Vietnam War. Paul Berlin, a young and inexperienced soldier, was being torn apart at the seams with the guilt of killing his comrade Caccatio. a person who appeared to be plagued by Post Traumatic Stress Disorder creating an effort to justify the war to himself. Paul Berlin feels the necessity to imagine chasing Cacciato, as a result of he fired the shots that killed him, accidentally. Cacciato, who is seen as an irresponsible reasonable person by Berlin and his comrades in arms. His

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    life corresponds to Mademoiselle Maurice’s values of human-nature relation as an urban artist. Bikini Berlin and Mademoiselle Maurice established a fit in values, visions, voices, and personalities. (2) Product fit: The

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    Beerohm Response

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    2. The distinction Beerbohm makes between going out for a walk and being taken out for a walk is that going out for a walk requires your own motivation and pride. He thinks that going out for a walk escorts your brain to shutdown mode, as shown when he says, "My objection to it is that it stops the brain...This boast is not confirmed by my memory of anybody who on a Sunday morning has forced me to partake of his adventure." He also thinks that going out for a walk means that it is your body's way

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