Georg Essays

  • Georg Cantor

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    Georg Cantor I. Georg Cantor Georg Cantor founded set theory and introduced the concept of infinite numbers with his discovery of cardinal numbers. He also advanced the study of trigonometric series and was the first to prove the nondenumerability of the real numbers. Georg Ferdinand Ludwig Philipp Cantor was born in St. Petersburg, Russia, on March 3, 1845. His family stayed in Russia for eleven years until the father's sickly health forced them to move to the more acceptable environment of Frankfurt

  • Georg Simon Ohm

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    Georg Simon Ohm At the time Georg Simon Ohm was born not much was known about electricity, he was out to change this. Georg grew up in Bavaria which is why most information about Georg is in German. There is even a College named after him: Georg-Simon-Ohm Fachhochschule Nuernberg. To much dismay not a whole lot has been written about him. Usually you will find a paragraph of the summary of his life. I hope to change this flaw in the history books by telling you as much as I could find on his life

  • Lenz, by Georg Buchner

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    In Buchner’s ‘Lenz’, the protagonist is portrayed as a fallen man, disjointed from society and mentally unstable. Buchner’s portrays Lenz’s fall into madness can be seen strongly in his narrative style but also the use of realisation and nature. From this one can evaluate whether the narrative is the most effective technique in illustrating Lenz’s descent into madness By examining Buchner’s narrative style, one can see that it is dissimilar to other German Romantics. Where Von Kleist seems journalistic

  • Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

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    Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Hegel was born in Stuttgart,Germany on August 27,1770.He was born as a son of government clerk whose name was George Ludwig Hegel.Hegel was the eldest of three children.He was brought up in a Protestant pietism ambience.Hegel was already studied about Latin before he began school by his mother.He was concerned about Greek roman classics,literatüre and philosophy.Christiane,his sister,and Hegel were very attached each other and Christiane was very jealous about Hegel’s

  • Georg Hegel's Phenomenology Of Spirit

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    Social scientists often reference Georg Hegel’s work in Phenomenology of Spirit, as he attempts to develop the notion of self and the limits of its autonomy in society. In it, he describes what is often termed the master-slave dialectic. The master-slave dialectic describes the internal, or if taken more literally, the external struggle of recognition between two figures, the master and the slave. Their relationship is at once both reflective and reflexive, as one begins to understand the other as

  • The Philosophies of Georg Hegel and Herbert Spencer

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    The Philosophies of Georg Hegel and Herbert Spencer The Philosophy of Georg Wilhelm Hegel (1770-1801) Metaphysics Georg Wilhelm Hegel aspired to find a philosophy that would embody all human experiences with the integration of not only science, but also religion, history, art, politics and beyond. Hegel’s metaphysical theory of absolute idealism claimed that reality was the absolute truth of all logic, spirit, and rational ideas encompassing all human experience and knowledge. He believed that in

  • interlopers

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    had embittered the relationships between the families for three generations. The neighbour feud had grown into a personal one since Ulrich had come to be head of his family; if there was a man in the world whom he detested and wished ill to it was Georg Znaeym, the inheritor of the quarrel and the tireless game-snatcher and raider of the disputed border-forest. The feud might, perhaps, have died down or been compromised if the personal ill-will of the two men had not stood in the way; as boys they

  • Georg Simmel The Stranger

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    of sociology focus on society as a whole. Georg Simmel differs from classic theorists such as Marx, Weber and Durkheim, stressing the importance of the individual as a separate society and the way they deal with the development of modern society. ‘The Stranger,’ as defined by Simmel is “an element of the group itself...whose membership within the group involves both being outside it and confronting it.” (Simmel, 1908, p.144). This essay will explore Georg Simmel’s writing on ‘Individuality and Social

  • The Physicists

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    who are living in the private sanatorium " Les Cerisiers " headed by the last living member of an old regional aristocratic family, Miss Dr. h.c. Dr. med. Mathilde Von Zahnd. The first one thinks he is Sir Isaac Newton, but he is in reality Herbert Georg Beutler, the second one thinks he is Albert Einstein and his real name is Ernst Heinrich Ernesti. The third physicist, Johann Wilhelm Möbius is different, he has got no second identity but he is in this sanatorium because King Solomon speaks to him

  • Electrical Resistance

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    electric transmission lines. In circuits where the current (I) and voltage (V) are related by a simple proportionality constant, as in OHM'S LAW, V = RI, the proportionality constant R is the resistance of the circuit. This discovery was made by Georg Simon Ohm (1787-1854), a German physicist, therefore, Ohm is the common unit of electrical resistance. Resistance is the property of an electric circuit or part of a circuit that transforms electric energy into heat energy. The dissipation of

  • George Simmel

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    influenced by Simmel. This was especially true of those who developed the symbolic interaction approach including writers in the Chicago school, a tradition that dominated United States sociology in the early part of this century, before Parsons. Georg Simmel (1858-1918, Germany) was born in Berlin and received his doctorate in 1881. He was of Jewish ancestry and was marginalized within the German academic system. Only in 1914 did Simmel obtain a regular academic appointment, and this appointment

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

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    see him as the god of drama, infallible and fundamentally superior to modern playwrights. However, this 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

  • Franz Kafka's Use of Humor

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    seemed to work better for Kafka. By taking a look at some of Kafka's works we can see this irony more clearly. In Kafka's short story entitled, "The Judgement," written in 1912, we see one of the unusual uses of irony by Kafka. The central figure, Georg Bendemann, has just gotten into a long and somewhat heated argument with his aging and infirm father. Suddenly Georg's father "threw the blankets off with a strength that sent them all flying in a moment and sprang erect in bed. Only one hand touched

  • George Frederick Handel

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    and several operas. Handel moved around from country to country writing, composing, and producing music for royalty such as Queen Anne and George of Hanover. In his life, Handel mastered several instruments including the violin and the harpsichord. Georg Friederich Handel (he later anglicized his name) was born at Halle, Saxony, Germany on February 23, 1685. He was the son of a barber-surgeon that opposed a career in music for a great deal of his life. But at age 8, Handel was allowed to study music

  • Georg Muffat: Music Analysis

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    Georg Muffat (1653-1704) Violin Sonata in D Major (1677) Eva Saladin (Violin) and Johannes Keller (Cimbalo Cromatico) YouTube reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G583ZJ1Psdk Georg Muffat (1653-1704) was a key composer in the Baroque era as he played a major role in introducing Italian and French styles into Germany (Burkholder, Grout & Palisca, 2014:392). His most famous work Florelegia was one of the earliest German collections of suites in the French manner (Bhutia, 2016). In the 17th

  • Georg Simmel's Social Theory

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    Georg Simmel, a Jewish sociologist born in Germany. His social theory is affected by Max Weber and Emile Durkheim. Association Georg Simmel focuses on the association in the society. In other words, he is looking into the relationship between individuals and sees how it connected to the society in daily life. He believed that association of people’s interaction is how to form the society. Forms and Types To discuss the association, Georg Simmel separates the association into two subcategories

  • Spiritual Murder in Buchner's Woyzeck

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    Spiritual Murder in Georg Buchner's Woyzeck Throughout dramatic history, tragedies have depicted a hero's humanity being stripped from him. Usually, as in Shakespeare's classic paradigms, we see the hero, whether King Lear or Othello, reduced from his original noble stature to nothingness and death. Yet Georg Buchner's fragmentary play Woyzeck shows us a protagonist already stripped of humanity, transformed into and treated as an animal. Indeed, Woyzeck, far from being a simple tale of a village

  • Infinity in a Nutshell

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    Infinity in a Nutshell Infinity has long been an idea surrounded with mystery and confusion. Aristotle ridiculed the idea, Galileo threw aside in disgust, and Newton tried to step-side the issue completely. However, Georg Cantor changed what mathematicians thought about infinity in a series of radical ideas. While you really should read my full report if you want to learn about infinity, this paper is simply gets your toes wet in Cantor’s concepts. Cantor used very simple proofs to demonstrate

  • Investigating the Factors that Affect the Resistance of a Wire

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    Factors that Affect the Resistance of a Wire Aim To study the factors which affect the resistance of a wire. Background Information Although current and potential difference measure different things, they are related to each other. In 1826, Georg Ohm discovered that doubling the p.d. doubled the current. (Taken from Ohm's Law: the current flowing through a metal wire is proportional to the potential difference across it (providing the temperature is constant). Electricity flows through

  • Social Groups By Georg Simmel

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    Social groups are the building blocks of any culture or society. A social group is a collection of two or more people who interact frequently with one another, share a sense of belonging, and have a feeling of interdependence (Kendall 14). Sociologist Georg Simmel focused his studies on the way social interactions change based on group size, especially the uniquely “more personal and intense” (Kendall 114) interactions between members of smaller social groups. He also “suggested that small groups have