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Anne Frank She began to keep a diary June 12, 1942 First records belong Peru flippant young girls who cheerfully lists the gifts received on the day of birth. Soon, she said the real reason for their records: it has no really close friends and she wants the diary has become a friend, it will be called Kitty. It briefly describes how her father Otto in the thirty-six years, married her mother Edith and silver in 1926, was born in Frankfurt, her elder sister Margot, and a further three years now, and Anna herself. In 1933, the family fled from Nazi persecution in Holland. After the German invasion in 1940, and in this country have been tightened laws against Jews, severely restricting all their activities. Despite the horrors around her, Anna verify your diary gossip about the girl-odnoklassnitsah writes on evaluation tests, the good and bad students. |
Bob Dylan He began to act now become a mythical club "city folk Gerdes" in Greenwich Village in New York. "Folklore city was a hotbed of postwar popular music, where every night improvising with Judy Collins, Peter Yarrow, Paul Knock, Mary Travers, Richie Heyvens, Tom Paxton, Phil Ochs and Buffy the Saint-Marie. At that time, most of them lived in poverty, always in search of food. Speeches Dylan in "Folklore City" attracted the attention of a major producer of phonograph records (and her husband, Benny Goodman), John Hammond. The important role of the latter in the development of American folk music is well known for working with such artists as Billie Holiday and Bruce Springsteen. Hammond, along with the company "Columbia Records" published in 1962 the first album of Dylan. A year later, at twenty-three years, Bob Dylan composed "Blossoming in the Wind". This song, being popularized by the "Pete, Paul and Mary, became a landmark for a generation. |
Harry Houdini In addition to its unbearable values for illusionists and performers who can be released from shackles, Houdini is known and what was the first great pop superstar, to use the media to achieve the highest recognition. By manipulating the press, showing the audience all the more sensational numbers and handing them to the wrapper imaginary artistry, Houdini has created a mass spectacle. Until now affects his ability to get out of the icy river, from the forbidding prison and locked in lock boxes. The way he managed the public′s attention, as if shutting a lot of people in its powerful grip and freeing its audience only at the last moment when it seemed that death is knocking at the door, it was surprising and inhuman. The fact that the boy-immigrant and ever wandered son of Rabbi Harry Houdini was able to perform because of its sharp mind and excellent physical training, was both an American success story and a Jewish fairy tale. Houdini symbolized the unusual ability of its people to survive even when there is no exit. |
Henri Bergson In addition to its unbearable values for illusionists and performers who can be released from shackles, Houdini is known and what was the first great pop superstar, to use the media to achieve the highest recognition. By manipulating the press, showing the audience all the more sensational numbers and handing them to the wrapper imaginary artistry, Houdini has created a mass spectacle. Until now affects his ability to get out of the icy river, from the forbidding prison and locked in lock boxes. The way he managed the public′s attention, as if shutting a lot of people in its powerful grip and freeing its audience only at the last moment when it seemed that death is knocking at the door, it was surprising and inhuman. The fact that the boy-immigrant and ever wandered son of Rabbi Harry Houdini was able to perform because of its sharp mind and excellent physical training, was both an American success story and a Jewish fairy tale. Houdini symbolized the unusual ability of its people to survive even when there is no exit. |
Vilgelm Steinitz He was born in Prague, as a boy he studied the Talmud and the third ten moved to Vienna. Neglected classes in mathematics, Steinitz played chess where only he could. Arriving as the representative of Austria on the English Chess Tournament 1862, he remained in London, earning a living chess game. In 1866 Steinitz met in a match with the great Adolf Anderson - master of the so-called a sharp style and noble romantic. Steinitz won in the eight parties to the six Andersen. Since Andersen was considered the best in the whole world, chess player, Steinitz declared himself the champion of the world. He always made it clear who he was. Arguing that kept his title for over twenty eight years, Steinitz has devoted most of this period, the improvement of new ideas, renewed its participation in tournaments, but refrained from matches for the championship until he was sure of the elegance of its equipment. |
Henry Kissinger Kissinger wrote a doctoral thesis - which is not surprising - of Prince Metternich and the achievement of peace after the Napoleonic wars. According to Dr. Kissinger, problems after Waterloo overlapped with the era of the Cold War. While others have developed the concept of a nuclear test ban, he reflected on the "real politics" Metternich and Castlereagh in the Marquis 1812-1822 gg. Harvard professor thrill of understanding Metternich diplomacy as having its roots in the limitations of the individual. Kissinger admired and "iron" Chancellor of Prussia, Bismarck, been able to humiliate the French, uniting his country a world power. Kissinger preferred to Bismarck′s opinion that foreign policy should be based not on feelings but on the military, economic and political power. |
David Sarnoffrn Experienced telegraph operator who has received national recognition for the reception of signals from the SOS sinking of the Titanic, Sarnoff in 1915, predicted that every American home will have a radio. In the early 1920′s. He became a popular "wunderkind from the radio." In 1926, he used the free airwaves to create the first radio network covering the whole country. Like a modern Medici, he developed together with the lucrative commercial shows and cultural programs, such as a concert of symphonic orchestra Al-Bi-Si under Arturo Toscanini. In 1944, the Association of television announcers called him the father of American television ", and really no one else Sarnoff did not contribute to the development of this mass formation. Overcoming the resistance of many powerful figures RCA, he later insisted on the distribution of color television. |
Emile Durkheim His research division of labor in primitive and developed societies and the problems of personality development (discussed in his work on suicide) also played a big role and confirmed the care of the healing of modern society. In primitive societies, he assured, there was a kind of "mechanical solidarity", in which the work was nearly split, and one member to help others by participating in the ritual of interdependence. Personal relationships are built strictly to the will of the group. In more developed societies, labor is divided into many specialties and comes into effect "organic" solidarity, adjustable integrated judicial system, it is necessary to resolve conflicts and to impose control. Similarly, Durkheim considered the act of suicide in its relationship with society and therapy. Suicide can be committed in the name of the case (like the altruistic death of a soldier on a dangerous mission), due to the belief that society is completely disintegrated, or justified by the subject, deprived of communication and empathy of other people. |
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