Beaux-Arts architecture looked back to classical tradition, using symmetry, sculptural ornament, monumental entrances, and academic composition to create buildings that felt formal and civic.

Art Deco turned toward the modern age, with geometric ornament, vertical lines, stepped setbacks, and a streamlined sense of progress — especially in skyscraper design.

One speaks the language of classical monumentality; the other captures the speed and ambition of the 20th century.

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What's the relevance to TIDE? Hirsch lived in the era of Beaux Art, which means beautiful art. It was a more moral and noble time. The more we replicate it the better, and the better TIDE feels. 

Rav Hirsch in Portuguese

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Torá Interpretada (5 volumes)

À luz dos ensinamentos do Rabino Samson Raphael Hirsch

Autor: Samson Raphael Hirsch

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Páginas: 3888

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Amplo, rico e profundo comentário sobre a Torá baseado nos ensinamentos do Rabino Samson Raphael Hirsch, destinado àqueles que já possuem algum conhecimento sobre o Pentateuco e desejam ampliá-lo de modo sistemático. O autor analisa as palavras, a etimologia delas e seus significados; o texto e o contexto; os personagens e seus sentimentos; as leis e suas razões; e temas pungentes são esclarecidos e confrontados com a realidade que vivemos.

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Mark Twain

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The only film footage of Mark Twain, filmed by Thomas Edison in 1909 at Twain's Connecticut home.

Europe

 

Share of the German population with a migration background. Today, this applies to nearly 1 in 3 residents.

19th century was better but much of it destroyed

 

The original Tonhalle concert hall in Zurich, Switzerland, shortly after its construction in 1895. They tore this down after a little over 30 years in 1930!

Old Penn Station in NY

New Penn Station

Tuition-Free Universities

 

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TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN, Here are Twenty-five (25) Tuition-Free Universities in Germany : 1. Heidelberg University 2. Humboldt University of Berlin 3. Free University of Berlin 4. Georg-August University of Goettingen (University of Goettingen) 5. University of Hamburg 6. University of Stuttgart 7. Technical University of Munich (TUM) 8. Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) 9. RWTH Aachen University 10. Technical University of Berlin (TU Berlin) 11. Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen 12. Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg 13. University of Bremen 14. Hasso Plattner Institute, Potsdam 15. Ulm University 16. University of Passau 17. University of Kaiserslautern 18. TU Clausthal 19. TU Braunschweig 20. BTU Cottbus – Senftenberg 21. Magdeburg University 22. Technical University of Dresden (TU Dresden) 23. Goethe University Frankfurt 24. University of Münster (Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster) 25. University of Cologne

important word

  Word: überheblich

arrogant, presumptuous

Old English from Kyoto

 Old English is NOT the language of Shakespeare

When you look beyond the "thee" and "thou," Shakespeare's English is actually quite similar to ours Old English is much older—by 1,000 years or more Compare Shakespeare's English with the Old English of King Alfred:

If you go by the sheer quantity of words, most of modern English comes from Latin, mainly through French.

These words are elegant and sophisticated:

-Conflict -Paternal -Veracity The words that come from Old English are simple and direct: -Fight -Father

-Truth

Understanding Old English helps make modern English make more sense:

Are “old wives’ tales” exclusively told by married women?

No. In Old English, the word “wīf” simply meant woman—so old wives’ tales are really tales of old women.

But then something strange happened…

Eventually the word «wife» changed to mean «married woman»

Which is why Old English had to create a new term for «woman» in the general sense

It added the word for «person» («mann») to the end of wīf:

wīf + mann = wīfmann, or, woman.

Old English had many of the strange sounds for which English is known:

-The sound of “th” in “thin”

-The sound of “w” in “water” In fact, modern English is one of the few European languages that preserves the old sound of “w”

In the others, it disappeared or turned into a “v” sound (like the German “w”)

When the Anglo-Saxons adopted the Latin alphabet, there were no symbols for these sounds, since Latin didn't have them.

But the Anglo-Saxon monks had an ingenious solution: they used the ancient runic symbols for the sounds.

For example, the sound we write as “th” was written as “þ”.

The spelling of “th” as “þ” continued until the era of the printing press

English printers used letter types imported from the continent — where “þ” was unknown

The closest letter they had was “y” So “the” was written “ye” — as in “ye olde shoppe”

But it was still pronounced “th”!

The structure of sentences in Old English was different from Modern English — but we still see fossils of it

For example, you can say “I have never done that"

Or you can move the verb “have” to the 2nd position and say: “Never have I done that"

This is exactly how it worked in Old English

Kyoto

German efficiency

 German efficiency isn’t about going faster—it’s about being reliably predictable.

Yaw Nyame, MD | Mind & Body

German doesn't borrow words for new concepts.

 German doesn't borrow words for new concepts.

It builds from pieces it already has. Stacked together. Precise. Logical. 𝗞𝗿𝗮𝗻𝗸𝗲𝗻𝗵𝗮𝘂𝘀 𝘒𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘬 = sick. 𝘏𝘢𝘶𝘴 = house. 𝗦𝗶𝗰𝗸-𝗵𝗼𝘂𝘀𝗲. Hospital. 𝗛𝗮𝗻𝗱𝘀𝗰𝗵𝘂𝗵 𝘏𝘢𝘯𝘥 = hand. 𝘚𝘤𝘩𝘶𝘩 = shoe. 𝗛𝗮𝗻𝗱-𝘀𝗵𝗼𝗲. Glove. 𝗙𝗹𝘂𝗴𝘇𝗲𝘂𝗴 𝘍𝘭𝘶𝘨 = flight. 𝘡𝘦𝘶𝘨 = thing/tool. 𝗙𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁-𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴. Aeroplane. 𝗦𝗰𝗵𝗹𝗮𝗳𝘇𝗶𝗺𝗺𝗲𝗿 𝘚𝘤𝘩𝘭𝘢𝘧 = sleep. 𝘡𝘪𝘮𝘮𝘦𝘳 = room. 𝗦𝗹𝗲𝗲𝗽-𝗿𝗼𝗼𝗺. Bedroom. 𝗦𝘁𝗮𝗱𝘁𝗯𝗶𝗯𝗹𝗶𝗼𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗸 𝘚𝘵𝘢𝘥𝘵 = city. 𝘉𝘪𝘣𝘭𝘪𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘬 = library. 𝗖𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗹𝗶𝗯𝗿𝗮𝗿𝘆. Public library. The rule that makes every compound word readable: The 𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘁 word carries the meaning. Everything before it describes it. 𝘒𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘬𝘦𝘯𝘩𝘢𝘶𝘴 is a house. A specific kind - for sick people. 𝘏𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘴𝘤𝘩𝘶𝘩 is a shoe. A specific kind - for hands. Once you see this logic - German stops looking impossible and starts looking like a system. You can as well guess the meaning of a word, compound words through this system. 𝗟𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗻 𝗚𝗲𝗿𝗺𝗮𝗻 𝗦𝗶𝗺𝗽𝗹𝘆

The perfect tense needs an auxiliary verb.

 The perfect tense needs an auxiliary verb.

But which one – 𝗵𝗮𝗯𝗲𝗻 or 𝘀𝗲𝗶𝗻? Here is the rule that covers the vast majority of cases: 𝗦𝗘𝗜𝗡 – for two categories only: 𝟭. Change of location (Movement from A to B): gehen, kommen, fahren, fliegen, reisen, laufen Ich bin nach Berlin gefahren. (I drove to Berlin.) 𝟮. Change of state (Transition): werden, sterben, einschlafen, aufwachsen Er ist eingeschlafen. (He fell asleep.) 𝗛𝗔𝗕𝗘𝗡 – for everything else. 𝟭. Transitive verbs (verbs with an object): Ich habe einen Apfel gegessen. 𝟮. Static verbs / No change of state: Sie hat viel gearbeitet. The test – two questions: Is it a movement from one place to another? Is it a change from one state to another? Yes to either? 𝘀𝗲𝗶𝗻. No to both? 𝗵𝗮𝗯𝗲𝗻. This covers the overwhelming majority of sentences you will build at A2 and B1.

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