Vorsprung durch Technic is the company's catch phrase, which translates from German as "Leap Forward Through Technology". Using another language makes it more memorable, German is used because Audi is a German company. ... The car drives through the stunning German countryside on rough roads, but it drives smoothly and carefully with out much stressful effort from the driver. ...
My father carried a large sack and 2 suitcases filled with the little we had as the Germans marched us to our new home. ... My teachers Hala and Fela taught, math , French and art , but we all had to keep learning a secret from the Germans because schools in the ghetto were forbidden. ... Everything seems to be back to normal until the day my father returns home from work and tells us that once more we must leave our new home, it seems the Russians were no better than the Germans . ...
The Bildungsroman as a genre has its roots in Germany. The word itself is German, with Bildung having a variety of connotations, from "portrait" and "picture" to "shaping" and "formation", all of which give the sense of development or creation. ...
In Mary Shelly's Frankenstein, families are a very important part of the structure of the novel. Frankenstein's family is critical because the reason why the monster was created lies within the family. Almost every family mentioned in the novel was either incomplete or was dysfunctional. Frankenstei...
I believe that eating my mother's lasagna taught me how to appreciate the small things in life. I believe in appreciation of one's family and the time spent together. I believe in perfecting recipes and taking time to get to know the little secrets found in someone else's imperfection. I have alway...
The person I interviewed was Marie W, my grandma. She was born on October 17, 1921 in Sidney, Texas. Sidney, Texas is located in Brown county about 25 miles northeast of Brownwood, Texas. There were four brothers and five sisters, including my grandma, that lived. There were two siblin...
Life is about happiness and tragedies. Everyone is happy sometime in their life. It is that happiness and those memories that make life go on. Even in those times of tragedy, you will always have the memories. With these memories come the stories of our life. I am telling the story of my mother. H...
Leap Into Darkness is a real life story written by Leo Bretholz. Leo spent his teenage years running for his life and trying to survive the Second World War. He told a great story of his personal experiences and how he, a victim of the War, became a survivor. He was a survivor of dehumanization ...
The Holocaust is filled with horror, terror, hunger, painful, etc that moves people's heart with pity and shock. Night is a memoir written by Elie Wiesel which tells the true story of Elie's experience and everyone else's in the concentration camps. During the reign of the nazis, German soldiers inv...
One day I was driving home from work and I realized I had forgotten something I was going to let my friend borrow. The second I had a chance on my lunch break, I went home quick and got it. On the way back, unfortunately, I was met head on with an Amish buggy. I saw it coming from about 30feet in fr...
The Second World War (WWII) was one of the most significant events in Canadian History. Although Canadian soil did not see battles, Canadian Families were profoundly affected, both during and after the war. The traditional role of women in the family was forever changed as a result of the war; re...
Michael A. Dorris, a contemporary author of anthropological studies, poetry and short stories, best known for his work in prose. Perhaps his interest and later achievement of a Masters of Philosophy in anthropology from Yale, in 1970 came from his unique genealogic tree, Irish and French on his mot...
Everyone has a narrative about their life, and this is my story. My life has changed for the better since I moved to America. I implemented into my life that created amazing, compounding change, and completely shifted the direction and energy of my life. That has totally changed my life, we left eve...