Conrad- Heart of Darkness Introduction The aim of this paper is to analyze the General Act of the Berlin Conference on West Africa (1884-1885) and the partition of Africa among the main European powers, considering its importance for the construction of Europe. The Conference of Berlin was the culmination of a process that began with the presence of European traders in the costal areas of West Africa. The relations between Europe and Africa developed during the age of slave trade and were transformed
“Ich bin ein Berliner”-John F. Kennedy John F. Kennedy, having been in Berlin numerous times already, returns to display the support of the United States government. Kennedy’s willingness for the survival of Berlin was vast and was never doubted. The strength of Berlin rested with the United States, and John Kennedy looks toward the positive of their situation. With his youth and energy, John Kennedy’s words are heard around the world yet again. On June 26, 1963, President Kennedy delivered the
the need to build a wall to shut the nations out, which has been successful in few occasions but a complete failure in many others. The Berlin Wall was created in 1961 to stop emigration from the east to the west. It had originally been easy to cross the border, for many people from East Berlin started doing just that, but it eventually got harder. The book The Berlin Wall: How It Rose and Why It Fell states: The crossers received
the barrier which had divided West and East Berlin since 1961. Reagan begins his speech by addressing the people present and recognizing the “freedom” and “feeling of history” of the city of Berlin has. He makes his first reference to previous speakers by saying, “Twenty four years ago, President John F. Kennedy visited Berlin, and speaking to the people of this city and the world at the city hall. Well since then two other presidents have come, each in his turn to Berlin. And today, I, myself, make
and Britain shared West Germany. On the other hand, East Germany was occupied by the communist Soviet Union. In the center of the Soviet side, these four countries split the city of Berlin as well. The French, British, and Americans contained the west zone of Berlin, while the Soviets contained the east of Berlin, in the same manner that they had split the entire country. As soon as the land was divided, thousands of civilians quickly migrated from East Berlin to West Berlin, causing the communists
In the middle of the night, on August 13, 1961, the Communist government of East Berlin had made a decision that would change not only East Berlin, but the rest of the world. That decision was to put up a barrier between them, their people and the rest of the world. The barrier would be constructed of barbed-wire fencing, stretched over seventy-nine miles, and separated the people from their friends and families. There would be those who opposed and never gained their freedom, and those who made
spoken towards the Berlin Wall and the issues that surround it. The speeches and incredible words spoken by both John F. Kennedy and Ronald Reagan brought a new light to those uses and the conflict with the separation of Berlin, Germany. In their inspiring words they used countless uses of rhetorical strategies such as anaphora, imagery, and the use of their addressers language to enhance and emphasize their words and appeal to the people and in doing so it soon brought the city of Berlin back together
children calmly waited outside of the Tempelhof airfield in the western district of Berlin, as a C-54 “Skymasters” cargo plane approached; gently rocking its wings the aircraft dropped small parachutes with candy attached for them to the waiting children, the Berlin Airlift is in full swing (Grathwol, 2013). For the next 15 months, Operation Vittles, succeeded in airlifting over 2.3 million tons of supplies to western Berlin, breaking the Soviet cordon of the city. Following World War II, Allied forces
Lincoln’s famous “Gettysburg address.” He gave this speech on November 19, 1893, in dedication to the soldiers that died in the Battle of Gettysburg. Our second speech is “Remarks at the Brandenburg” by Ronald Reagan where he gives a speech at the Berlin Wall towards the end of the Cold War. Our third speech is by Franklin Delano Roosevelt dealing with the attack on Pearl Harbor and the entrance of the United States into World War II. The final speech we have is by Patrick Henry titled, “Give Me
the Berlin Wall in 1989 precipitated the Reunification of Germany in 1990. Negotiations and talks between East German’s Lothar de Maiziere and West German’s Helmut Kohl and the four occupying powers of United States, United Kingdom, France, and Soviet Union resulted in the Unification Treaty or the “Two plus Four Treaty” recognizing the sovereignty of the newly unified German state. The five states of German Democratic Republic or East Germany united with Federal Republic of Germany or West Germany