Marvelously, this timeline of life has continued and the birth of a research paper is in commencement. The very core of a historian's goals, directions, and desires are in motion. The people's right to discover and learn about these phenomenal events in history is possible because of the western democratic values that govern this and many other republics today. "Plato constructed his republic on what he considered the basic elements or characteristics of the human soul: the appetitive, the spirited, and the philosophical," ("Plato", Encarta). Distinctively, as Germany's philosophical element began to transform under the dictatorship of Adolf Hitler during the 20th century, the world was plunged into the Second World War. By May of 1945, the Allied Powers had dismantled Nazi control of Germany and divided the country into French, British, and American controlled West Germany, and Soviet controlled East Germany (Holzner, World Book, 264). Although this solution seemed...