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Nonconformity, Dissent, Opposition, and Resistance in Germany, 1933-1990

The Freedom to Conform

By: Sabrina P. Ramet

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Nonconformity, Dissent, Opposition, and Resistance in Germany, 1933-1990

The Freedom to Conform

By: Sabrina P. Ramet

“This book brings fresh light to previously marginalized subject in German history. It is an original approach, up-to-date written without scholarly jargon, easily accessible to students, both at undergraduate and graduate. It is highly focused departing from the usual “histories” of a single country arguing for the “two German states”, and the three political systems.”- Prof. Dr. László Kürti, Institute of Applied Social Sciences, University of Miskolc, Hungary This book contrasts three very different incarnations of Germany – the totalitarian Third Reich, the communist German Democratic Republic, and the democratic Federal Republic of Germany up to 1990 – in terms of their experiences with and responses to nonconformity, dissent, opposition, and resistance and the role played by those factors in each case. Although even innocent nonconformity came with a price in all three systems and in the post-war occupation zones, the price was the highest in Nazi Germany. . It is worth stressing that what qualifies as nonconformity and dissent depends on the social and political context and, thus, changes over time. Like those in active dissent, opposition, or resistance, nonconformists are rebels (whether they are conscious of it or not), and have repeatedly played a role in pushing for change, whether through reform of legislation, transformation of the public’s attitudes, or even regime change.

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Springer Nature

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3030554120

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A Witless Woman and Her Valiant Masquerade

Miss Tina in the Aspern Papers

By: Sabrina Walther

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A Witless Woman and Her Valiant Masquerade

Miss Tina in the Aspern Papers

By: Sabrina Walther

Seminar paper from the year 2010 in the subject English - Literature, Works, grade: 2,7, http: //www.uni-jena.de/ (Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik), course: Literary Studies II, language: English, abstract: 1 Introduction "[I]n fact I afterwards found [Miss Tina] the bigger of the two in inches." - narrator in The Aspern Papers (1888) At first glance, Henry James' novella The Aspern Papers seems to be a story about a conquering heroic narrator, who copes with several problems during the story, solves them by implementing a tremendously brilliant plan, and at the end firmly believes to have reached his goal - the long-desired Aspern Papers. However, James does not simply narrow down his novella to a plain adventurous story à la Indiana-Jones, he rather embellishes it with ingenuity and brilliancy. In order to reveal this brilliancy, the attentive reader will soon realize that it is important for this novella to read between the lines, rather than being just impressed by the artful acting of the narrator. As Gargano once stated: "James' narrator prepares the reader for the 'big' scenes, for James himself the small and transitional scenes tell the fuller truth [...]". Hence, even the spaces within the novella seem to be fraught with tension. When analysing James' novella, one will soon realize that there is a quite significant complexity within the text. Indeed, it seems that the characters of the story are so close connected in their thinking and their action that it becomes quite difficult for the reader to distinguish between the person who dupes and the one who is duped at the end of the story. This complexity becomes clear by analysing the story of Juliana's niece, Miss Tina. Although Miss Tina is not presented as the typical mighty heroine right at the outset of the story, and is often initially seen as a simple-minded minor character, whose only function is to serve as a tool for the narrator to achieve his goal, there is so much more about her. Duri

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GRIN Verlag

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3640974611

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Religious Experience and Its Transformational Power

Qualitative and Hermeneutic Approaches to a Practical Theological Foundational Concept

By: Sabrina Müller

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Religious Experience and Its Transformational Power

Qualitative and Hermeneutic Approaches to a Practical Theological Foundational Concept

By: Sabrina Müller

The author approaches the phenomenon 'religious experience' through a qualitative study in which young, urban people from Europe and the USA are empirically examined. It becomes clear that individuals themselves are constructive agents of experience and theology. Religious experience manifests itself as a transformative perspective of hope in the lives of young people. The study ends with a plea for a theology from below, based on liberation theology and feminist theories, in which contextual perspectives are central to practical theological theorising.

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Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

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3110990466

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9783110990461

Concealed I

Book 2

By: Patrizia Sabrina Prudenzi

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Concealed I

Book 2

By: Patrizia Sabrina Prudenzi

There are things that should be kept hidden forever. Julia is young, beautiful and will soon inherit an immense fortune. But she has a horrible secret. David loves her dearly, but if he would know the truth, then there would be no future together more. Worse still, she would be locked up for the rest of her life. Her only option is to hide the secret from David and everyone else. At first she succeeds well. Until someone endangers her life ...

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509

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Babelcube Inc.

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1667413287

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9781667413280

Building Evacuation with Mobile Devices

By: Sabrina Merkel

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Building Evacuation with Mobile Devices

By: Sabrina Merkel

The rapidly growing world population and increasingly dense settlements demand ever-larger and more complex buildings from today's engineers. In comparison to this technological progress, a building's equipment for emergency evacuation has been hardly developed further. This work presents a concept for a building evacuation system based on mobile devices. Furthermore, various algorithms for route planning with mobile devices and for indoor localization of mobile devices are addressed.

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KIT Scientific Publishing

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3731502070

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9783731502074

East Central Europe and Communism

Politics, Culture, and Society, 1943–1991

By: Sabrina P. Ramet

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East Central Europe and Communism

Politics, Culture, and Society, 1943–1991

By: Sabrina P. Ramet

The communists of East Central Europe came to power promising to bring about genuine equality, paying special attention to achieving gender equality, to build up industry and create prosperous societies, and to use music, art, and literature to promote socialist ideals. Instead, they never succeeded in filling more than a third of their legislatures with women and were unable to make significant headway against entrenched patriarchal views; they considered it necessary (with the sole exception of Albania) to rely heavily on credits to build up their economies, eventually driving them into bankruptcy; and the effort to instrumentalize the arts ran aground in most of the region already by 1956, and, in Yugoslavia, by 1949. Communism was all about planning, control, and politicization. Except for Yugoslavia after 1949, the communists sought to plan and control not only politics and the economy, but also the media and information, religious organizations, culture, and the promotion of women, which they understood in the first place as involving putting women to work. Inspired by the groundbreaking work of Robert K. Merton on functionalist theory, this book shows how communist policies were repeatedly undermined by unintended consequences and outright dysfunctions.

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Taylor & Francis

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1000877124

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Salinger’s Holden Caulfield (The Catcher in the Rye)

Criticized by the press – still beloved by many readers

By: Sabrina Walther

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Salinger’s Holden Caulfield (The Catcher in the Rye)

Criticized by the press – still beloved by many readers

By: Sabrina Walther

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2010 im Fachbereich Amerikanistik - Literatur, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Ever since the publication of J.D. Salinger’s novel The Catcher in the Rye in 1951, there were controversial discussions and numerous debates about the story of sixteen-year-old Holden Caulfield. Even so the book is often considered as a classic in literature, it can still be found among the list of banned books in many American classrooms, libraries or bookstores. Due to its usage of vulgar and offensive language, as well as the illustration of a rebellious teenage character, who indulges underage drinking, smoking, and promiscuity; the novel was often considered as too pessimistic and too obscene for young Americans on their way from adolescence to adulthood (qtd. in Lomazoff). Others, on the contrary, argue that Holden’s rebellious behavior against the American society of the 1950’s exactly represents an entire generation of American youngsters, which was later defined as the ―Beat Generation‖. Although the book already celebrated its fiftieth birthday in 2001, the story of Holden Caulfield still enjoys great popularity among youngsters all over the world. Up to this date, youths are still identifying themselves with the sixteen-year-old protagonist. Holden’s rebellion against the ―phony‖ adults, as he describes them throughout the novel, his first experiences with love, his strive for freedom and his struggle of finding an identity and a place in society, are mainly the key features adolescents can relate to. Unfortunately, the press and numerous critics cannot share the fascination of many youngsters. Down to the present day, most critics are rather interested in Holden’s mental state and his ―misbehaving‖ in society, than in trying to understand the impact that he had and still has on youngsters. Most essays and articles that had been released about the protagonist’s characteristics deal with the analysis of his mental ―illness‖, his depression and nervous breakdown. Indeed, many analysts and newspaper journalists assign reasons for Holden’s behavior by arguing that he acts and behaves in such a rebellious way, because he’s just in the throes of the puzzling process of growing up. As if this was not enough, they also refer to him as an ―unregenerate whiner‖, being ―as phony as those he criticize[s]‖ (Yardley para. 2). [...]

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3640974506

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A "Witless" Woman and her valiant Masquerade: Miss Tina in "The Aspern Papers"

By: Sabrina Walther

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A "Witless" Woman and her valiant Masquerade: Miss Tina in "The Aspern Papers"

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Seminar paper from the year 2010 in the subject Didactics for the subject English - Literature, Works, grade: 2,7, http://www.uni-jena.de/ (Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik), course: Literary Studies II, language: English, abstract: 1 Introduction "[I]n fact I afterwards found [Miss Tina] the bigger of the two in inches.” - narrator in The Aspern Papers (1888) At first glance, Henry James’ novella The Aspern Papers seems to be a story about a conquering heroic narrator, who copes with several problems during the story, solves them by implementing a tremendously brilliant plan, and at the end firmly believes to have reached his goal – the long-desired Aspern Papers. However, James does not simply narrow down his novella to a plain adventurous story à la Indiana-Jones, he rather embellishes it with ingenuity and brilliancy. In order to reveal this brilliancy, the attentive reader will soon realize that it is important for this novella to read between the lines, rather than being just impressed by the artful acting of the narrator. As Gargano once stated: “James’ narrator prepares the reader for the ‘big’ scenes, for James himself the small and transitional scenes tell the fuller truth [...]”. Hence, even the spaces within the novella seem to be fraught with tension. When analysing James’ novella, one will soon realize that there is a quite significant complexity within the text. Indeed, it seems that the characters of the story are so close connected in their thinking and their action that it becomes quite difficult for the reader to distinguish between the person who dupes and the one who is duped at the end of the story. This complexity becomes clear by analysing the story of Juliana’s niece, Miss Tina. Although Miss Tina is not presented as the typical mighty heroine right at the outset of the story, and is often initially seen as a simple-minded minor character, whose only function is to serve as a tool for the narrator to achieve his goal, there is so much more about her. During the novella this “futile spinster” turns into a “clever manipulator” , using the narrator’s obsession with the papers to assert her claims, and finally turns out to be the true heroin of the story.

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Nonconformity, Dissent, Opposition, and Resistance in Germany, 1933-1990

Nonconformity, Dissent, Opposition, and Resistance in Germany, 1933-1990

A Witless Woman and Her Valiant Masquerade

A Witless Woman and Her Valiant Masquerade

Religious Experience and Its Transformational Power

Religious Experience and Its Transformational Power

Concealed I

Concealed I

Building Evacuation with Mobile Devices

Building Evacuation with Mobile Devices

East Central Europe and Communism

East Central Europe and Communism

Salinger’s Holden Caulfield (The Catcher in the Rye)

Salinger’s Holden Caulfield (The Catcher in the Rye)

A "Witless" Woman and her valiant Masquerade: Miss Tina in "The Aspern Papers"

A "Witless" Woman and her valiant Masquerade: Miss Tina in "The Aspern Papers"

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