Heinrich Böll Essays

  • The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum by Heinrich Boll

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    The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum by Heinrich Boll Authors often use characters within their novels to show the consequences of challenging cultural boundaries and, in turn, display their own personal concerns. It is not uncommon for characters to reflect an author’s ideology regarding social groups in their contemporary time periods. It is clear that this is certainly the case with the 1975 novel The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum, (also referred to as How Violence Develops and Where it Can Lead)

  • The Laugher by Heinrich Böll

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    Heinrich Böll’s short story, “The Laugher”, reflects a fictional character whose voice is that of a professional laugher. This particular work influenced me to apply a similar approach into writing of my own. As Böll delivered the voice of a person with a particular identity and purpose, I was able to deliver an invention of a particular character as well. Resembling “The Laugher”, I constructed the voice and occupation of “The Twisted Taxidermist” into a short story. “The Twisted Taxidermist” and

  • Keep The River On Your Right Summary

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    Review on the Book Mutant Message Down Under The literature work of Keep the River on your Right belongs to an anthropologist by the name Tobias Schneebaum. The work is quite interesting as it takes an outlook of a memoir explaining the experiences of the writer in life with primitive tribe presumed to be cannibalistic. The work expresses more of jungle experiences that the author had with primitive Indian communities in the jungle. On the other hand, there is a comparable book to the film Keep the

  • Johann Ludwig Heinrich Julius Schliemann’s Excavation at Troy

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    Johann Ludwig Heinrich Julius Schliemann’s Excavation at Troy Johann Ludwig Heinrich Julius Schliemann’s ability to challenge academic establishment make him an appealing yet dubious character. The German’s late nineteenth century excavations of Truva are often considered to have shed new light on ancient history or ‘undoubtedly destroyed a great deal of archaeological data that will forever be lost[1]. Despite the praise and glorification that surrounds the romantic stems of Schliemann’s work;

  • A Comparison of the Representation of Oppression in The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum by Heinrich Böll and The Outsider by Albert Camus

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    and Meursault a great deal of personal strength and freedom, but which ultimately proves to be their downfall when they are in need of appearing sympathetic or vulnerable in order to survive the judgement passed upon them. Works Cited Böll, Heinrich. The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1978. Camus, Albert. The Outsider. London [etc.: Penguin Books, 1983. Camus, Albert. The myth of Sisyphus, and other essays. New York: Vintage Books, 1991.

  • Archaeology and the Trojan War

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    Archaeology and the Trojan War “… he [Heinrich Schliemann] found layers of ruins … and two bore unmistakable signs of violent destruction. One of these layers, the seventh according to more recent excavators, was no doubt the city of Priam and Hector. The historicity of the Homeric tale had been demonstrated archaeologically.” - M.I. Finley, the World of Odysseus Introduction The Trojan War and its characters are detailed in the writings of Homer, Vergil, Dante and many others. It is a fantastical

  • Hamlet's Soliloquy - To be, or not to be

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    attitude is not new. Even centuries ago, the "holiness" of Shakespeare's work inspired and awed audiences. In a letter dated October 1, 1775, Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, commenting on David Garrick's production of Hamlet (1742-1776) to his friend Heinrich Christian Boie, likens the "To be, or not to be" soliloquy to the Lord's Prayer. He says that the soliloquy "does not naturally make the same impression on the auditor" as Hamlet's other soliloquies do, But it produces an infinitely greater effect

  • Comparing Spiritual Growth in Siddhartha and the Movie (Film), Seven Years in Tibet

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    both of these stories relate. During the movie and the novel there are many similar themes. There are many examples that show compassion for all living creatures. Having respect for all living beings is a belief for Buddhists. In the movie, Heinrich was building a movie theatre for the Dalai Lama. The townspeople were helping them, but while they were digging they noticed earthworms were living there. It would be cruel for them to kill the earthworms; so in order to build the movie theatre

  • The Boll Weevil Plague

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    stone, a woman is presenting a boll weevil in honor for its efforts in destroying the crop, cotton, Enterprise, Alabama’s main economic source. The boll weevil. It is a common name given to an insect that infests cotton plants. Fully grown, they tend to be “reddish-brown, gray, or almost black in color and are normally less than 0.24 inches long” ("What is a Boll Weevil?"). Its snout originates from its face with two fork like spurs that extend it further out. boll weevils hibernate in grass during

  • Alabama Agriculture: Growing for You and Me

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    Agriculture has been practiced in what is now Alabama for centuries. Alabama agriculture has changed considerably since the mid-1860s, when cotton was king and Alabama was known as "The Cotton State." One hundred years ago almost four million acres were planted to cotton, and today only 1.3 million acres are devoted to all agricultural crops” (Mitchell, 2007). Agriculture in Alabama is mainly cotton and peanuts in the past they grew cattle corn and cotton. The Native Americans started Alabama off

  • Heinrich Schliemann

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    "We could describe (Heinrich) Schliemann's excavations on the hill of Hissarlik and consider their results without speaking of Troy or even alluding to it," Georges Perrot wrote in 1891 in his Journal des Savants. "Even then, they would have added a whole new chapter to the history of civilization, the history of art" (qtd. in Duchêne 87). Heinrich Schliemann's life is the stuff fairy tales are made of. A poor, uneducated, and motherless boy rises through his hard work and parsimonious lifestyle

  • Heinrich Schlieman

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    Was Heinrich Schliemann a good archeologist? In this essay my aim is to separate the truth from the predjudice and find out whether Heinrich Schliemann was a greedy charlottarian, a talented archeologist or just someone who stumbled upon a great discovery. Heinrich Schliemann was born on January 6, 1822 in the small village of Neu Buckow, Germany. His interest in Homeric Troy started when his father, a protestant minister, gave him a book or Christmas in 1829 by Ludwig Jerrer entitled Illustrated

  • The Schutzstaffel History Of Hitler

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    major way. The SS was started four years after Hitler became the leader of the Nazi party. It started off as a small group to personally guard Hitler and other Nazi officials. The SS later started to gain popularity and members when Hitler appointed Heinrich Himmler to be commander of the SS. Himmler wanted to separate the SS from the SA (Hitler’s original guards) and make them a larger and more powerful elite group of guards. By 1932, Himmler had built up the SS to thousands of members. When Hitler

  • Susan Griffin's Our Secret and Are You My Mother? by Alison Bechdel

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    lady once expressed her thoughts on parenting children by stating, "Children are likely to live up to what you believe of them." In “Our Secret” Heinrich Himmler is named after a prince, whom his father believes he can be like one day, as long as he makes the right decisions. Heinrich’s father controls what he writes in his journal, making Heinrich leave out emotions. Gebhard’s intimidating demeanor is exposed through the line, “He has the face of one who looks for mistakes. He is vigilant”

  • Ordinary Men by Christopher R. Browning

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    The book Ordinary Men discuss the story behind the men who were involved in the killing force of the final solution. Throughout the book one finds out that the men who were involved with these groups were no different than any other person at the time but they just got stuck in a bad situation. The Reserve Police Battalion 101 was responsible for a large amount of the mass murders that were taking place during the holocaust. The basis behind these mass murders was to fulfill the plan of the final

  • The Main Accomplishments Of Heinrich Himmler (SS)

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    The Reichsfuhrer-SS head of the Gestapo and the Waffen-SS, minster of the interior from 1943 to 1945 and organizer of the mass murder of the Jews in The Third Reich, Heinrich Himmler is born in Munich, Germany. Himmler graduates from high school in Landshut. Himmler receives his degree in agriculture from the Technical University in Munich. Himmler joins the Nazi Party. Himmler marches in the Beer Hall Putsch against the German government. Himmler marries Margarete Boden. Adolf Hitler appointed Himmler

  • Concentration Camp

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    What is a concentration camp? If you look it up on google, this is what it will tell you: “A place where large numbers of people, especially political or members of persecuted minorities, are deliberately imprisoned in a relatively small area with inadequate facilities, sometimes to provide forced labor or to await mass execution. The term is most strongly associated with the several hundred camps established by the Nazies in Germany and occupied Europe in 1933-1945, among the most infamous being

  • The Ways the Nazis Tried to Eliminate all Jews in Europe

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    operations aimed entirely at the Jewish communities. The SS, the Elite Guard of the Nazi state, soon regarded the mobile killing methods, mainly shooting and/or gas vans, as inefficient as psychological trouble on the killers. In the autumn of 1941, Heinrich Himmler assigned SS General Odilo Globocnik (SS and police leader for Lublin) to take out the operation of systematically murdering the Jews of the general government. This operation was then given the codename Aktion Reinhard after Heydrich

  • Trying to Understand Heinrich Himmler

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    know who they are? As people, we tend to judge others without realizing that they became the way they are through experiences and how they were brought up. In Susan Griffin’s “Our Secret” she discusses the abnormal strict childhood experiences of Heinrich Himmler. The main question that Griffin answers are: how did he become this way? We only knew him as a Nazi leader but we did not truly understand him and why he did the things he did. Griffin talks about how Himmler had an extremely strict father

  • The Holocaust: The Mass Extermination Of Jews At Auschwitz

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    that begins by stating that he is 46 years old and since 1922 has been a member of the Nazi Party. In 1934, he became a member of the SS (Protection Squadron or later renamed Schutz-Staffel), the most powerful organization in the Third Reich. Under Heinrich Himmler's command, the SS was responsible for many of the crimes against humanity during World War II from 1939 through 1945. Hoess attested to his continuous association with the administration of several concentrations camps since 1934, being appointed