Imagine being able to send me on a trip that I could learn three important lessons from: music performance skills, social skills, and cultural information. Luckily, a trip like that exists! The American Music Abroad program has sent over 36,000 high school musicians around the world so they can share their talent with different audiences. In 2018, the AMA Gold Tour will be traveling to 5 different countries to perform: Austria, Italy, France, Germany, and Switzerland. Before the AMA Gold Tour leaves the US, all of the participants go to Millersville University to spend a weekend practicing all the music that will performed in Europe. On July 8th of 2018, the group will go to JFK Airport and take a flight to the first country on the trip. …show more content…
The time spent in Engelberg provides an amazing cultural experience. After spending a day exploring the town, the students gather back at the hotel to enjoy a wonderful dinner together. While dinner is normally an exciting meal because eating is always enjoyable, the entertainment provided is guaranteed. During dinner, there will be traditional Alpine horn entertainment. The next morning, a bus will take everyone to Lucerne. This is a stop where all of the people on the trip will be able to shop for watches, music boxes, or any other gifts. A panorama of medieval towers can be seen and the students on the trip will be able to visit a lion monument carved out of rock. Once the morning and a bit of the afternoon is spent Lucerne, the group will travel to France. Two areas in France will be visited during the drip. The first place will be Strasbourg. This part of France has a blend of German and French culture. It is the capital of the Alsace region. At nighttime for the first day in France, there will be an exclusive dance party for the Gold Tour members! In the morning, there will be a visit to Haut Königsbourg Castle. There, a stop for lunch is planned and there will be time to explore the magnificent town surrounded by vineyards. After the daytime visit, everyone will return to Strasbourg for an evening concert and to spend one last night in …show more content…
Off to Germany! The first stop at Germany will be the historic city of Heidelberg. There will be time to visit the medieval fortress or to just spend time wandering through the streets. In the afternoon, it’s to travel into the Bavarian Region. Dinkelsbühl is the next historic town we are visiting. On the 17th of July, the first evening concert in Germany will be performed. The next day (and most important day of this trip), July 18th, will also be spent in Dinkelsbühl. It will start off by a guided walking tour and then the rest of the day is a free day that can be spent exploring the beautiful colorfilled town. There is another evening concert planned for this night. The next day of this trip is the most educational part of the entire trip. A visit to Dachau is planned. Here, everyone will get to see what it was really like to be trapped in a concentration camp during World War II. Once the visit to Dachau is over, a mostly silent bus ride to Munich will happen. Everyone will eat lunch in Munich’s famed Marienplatz area. Then, the bus will be boarded again and everyone will be off to the last country of the
In this paper, we will explore the camp that is Bergen-Belsen and its workers, the camp system, liberation and trial. The notorious detention camp, Bergen-Belsen, was constructed in 1940 and “was near Hanover in northwest Germany, located between the villages Bergen and Belsen” (jewishvirtuallibrary.org), hence the name. Originally, the “camp was designed to hold 10,000 prisoners” (jewishvirtuallibrary.org) but, Bergen-Belsen rapidly grew. “In the first eighteen months of existence, there were already five satellite camps.” (holocaustresearchproject.org).
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Following the beginning of the Second World War, Adolf Hitler’s Nazi Germany and Joseph Stalin’s Soviet Union would start what would become two of the worst genocides in world history. These totalitarian governments would “welcome” people all across Europe into a new domain. A domain in which they would learn, in the utmost tragic manner, the astonishing capabilities that mankind possesses. Nazis and Soviets gradually acquired the ability to wipe millions of people from the face of the Earth. Throughout the war they would continue to kill millions of people, from both their home country and Europe. This was an effort to rid the Earth of people seen as unfit to live in their ideal society. These atrocities often went unacknowledged and forgotten by the rest of the world, leaving little hope for those who suffered. Yet optimism was not completely dead in the hearts of the few and the strong. Reading Man is Wolf to Man: Surviving the Gulag by Janusz Bardach and Survival in Auschwitz by Primo Levi help one capture this vivid sense of resistance toward the brutality of the German concentration and Soviet work camps. Both Bardach and Levi provide a commendable account of their long nightmarish experience including the impact it had on their lives and the lives of others. The willingness to survive was what drove these two men to achieve their goals and prevent their oppressors from achieving theirs. Even after surviving the camps, their mission continued on in hopes of spreading their story and preventing any future occurrence of such tragic events. “To have endurance to survive what left millions dead and millions more shattered in spirit is heroic enough. To gather the strength from that experience for a life devoted to caring for oth...
In the second half of the film, it is now March 13th, 1943, and the liquidation of the ghetto is taking place. Many Jews are unjustly killed as they are pulled from their houses or did not co-operate. Those who tried to hide are found and kill...
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Director Mark Herman presents a narrative film that attests to the brutal, thought-provoking Nazi regime, in war-torn Europe. It is obvious that with Herman’s relatively clean representation of this era, he felt it was most important to resonate with the audience in a profound and philosophical manner rather than in a ruthlessness infuriating way. Despite scenes that are more graphic than others, the films objective was not to recap on the awful brutality that took place in camps such as the one in the movie. The audience’s focus was meant to be on the experience and life of a fun-loving German boy named Bruno. Surrounding this eight-year-old boy was conspicuous Nazi influences. Bruno is just an example of a young child among many others oblivious of buildings draped in flags, and Jewis...
World War II was a grave event in the twentieth century that affected millions. Two main concepts World War II is remembered for are the concentration camps and the marches. These marches and camps were deadly to many yet powerful to others. However, to most citizens near camps or marches, they were insignificant and often ignored. In The Book Thief, author Markus Zusak introduces marches and camps similar to Dachau to demonstrate how citizens of nearby communities were oblivious to the suffering in those camps during the Holocaust.
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Auschwitz I was built in 1940, as a site for Polish political prisoners. This was the original camp and administrative center. The prisoners’ living conditions were inhumane in every respect, and the death rate was quite high. Auschwitz I was not meant ...
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The culture of a country is built from the ground up over a long period of time. Germany has a surprisingly wide variety of ethnic groups and religions historically from all over the world. Germany’s rich diversity of many cultures is what makes it such a distinct country, with a culture unmatched across the world. Germany’s history dates back to thousands of years ago during the time of the Roman empire into the AD period. Germany has a plethora of religious, geographical, cultural, social and military history.
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