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A tradition in the last year high School here in Denmark is to go on a studying trip to another country. So since I'm in my last year of high school I went on such a trip with my class. As you probably guessed by now, the jaunt went to Berlin in Germany. The journey spanned over five days where we took off from the city Esbjerg where I live on a early Sunday morning with train towards destination. We arrived nearly on time seven hours later at Berliner Hauptbahnhof where we took the Metro to the station near our Hotel. We lived in close proximity the  gedächtniskirche  on Kurfurstendamm were there last year around was a terrorist attack on a Christmas marked.  Kurfurstendamm is one of the most visited places in Berlin since it has a very high concentration of your familiar well known large shopping chains. If you however are searching for something a bit more experimental and the shops that follow the current fasiontrends precisely I would recommend the area around Ale...

Essay On "The Tragedy at Marsden Manor"                    Essay By William S. Schmidt We have all seen or read a crime story at one point though-out our life, and dreamt of being as smart, wise and alert as the typical all-seeing hero in these sort of stories. Maybe even wanted ourself to become a detective or P. I. so we could help fight the evil in the world and become showered in praise for being so sagacious. Or at least I have sometimes daydreamt myself away in this pipe-dream. The genre "crime fiction" is one of the most popular genres of all time. Everybody have herd of writers such as Edgar Allan Poe, Arthur Conan Doyle and Agatha Christie. The latter, Mrs. Christie, is also the author of "The Tragedy at Marsden Manor" which is the crime-story this essay will concentrate on. The protagonist Hercule Poirot and his right hand Hastings are prime examples when it comes to describing the genre of crime fiction. Though the ...