I really liked this class and I am glad I took it because I
learned a lot about Germany’s history that we did not learn about in high
school as well as how Germany is today. I learned a lot about the history of
the German states and how Germany got to where it is now. I learned how Germany
is made up of 16 states that each have their own unique background as well. I
learn very interesting things of the Hanseatic League, the Deutsche Hanse, and
how people traded during the middle ages. Then I really like the book “All
Quiet on the Western Front” because instead of just talking about how the war was,
it brought us into the war. It showed us how it was like for the people in the
war and helped us understand the “Lost Generation.” Then I learned about Anthroposophy,
the start of gymnastics, and the food in Germany. The movie “Berlin Calling” showed
me into the life of dubstep and we also talked about other music in Germany in
class. I learned about important people and events that went on in Germany in
the 18th through 21st centuries which was very cool. The
last thing we learned about was the Baader Meinhof Complex. This was a very
interesting movie because I never knew about any of this terrorist group or
even heard of them. I do not think this class needs to change at all because it
was different from any other class I had had. The way this class was set up
with blog posts was fun and made us learn more on the information we learned in
class by researching it outside of class. You taught us very well and you know
so much about Germany it is crazy. I really enjoyed your class and I am glad I
took it.
Saturday, December 13, 2014
Final: Part A
1. Paste the url of
the reviewed blog first.
2. Why did the blog
draw your interest as you started reviewing it, why not?
3. How much care did
the blog author show for her or his blog? How can you tell?
4. How would you rate
the overall informative quality on a scale of 1-5 (five is high)
5. How would you rate
the readability of the blog on a scale of 1-5 (five is high)l
6. Compared to your
own blog, is the reviewed blog better, the same, or worse?
2. As
I was browsing over this blog my attention drew to all the information that was
written in each blog post.
3. As
to the blog page itself, it looks like the author just went with the template
that was given because it is just plain blue. Although, the posts on the blog
looks like the author took the time on each one.
4. The
information on the blog I would scale a 5/5. The author seemed to have
researched what she wrote about before writing the posts.
5. I
will give the readability of this blog a 5/5. As I read the blog it flowed
smoothly within each blog and was well written.
6. I
think the review blog is a little better than mine only because in this blog
the author used much more bolded titles so it was easier to find what I was
reading about.
2. Right
off the bat I really liked the page layout. The background made the text pop
out at me more than just having a plain layout.
3. I
think the author of this blog put quite of time on this blog by setting up a
cool layout and writing a good amount of information in each post.
4. Reading
the blog posts the information seems accurate but at the same time the author
has no sources to back it up so I have no idea where it came from. Therefore, I
would rate it overall as a 3.
5. This
blog was very reader friendly so I would give this blog a 5. It had some
different styles between posts such as paragraphs as well as bullet points.
6. This
blog had all of the blog posts that were required, as does mine. I would not
say that this blog is worse than mine, but the only thing lacking in this blog
that I have in mine is the amount of pictures. I think this author could have
imported more pictures to the later posts because there was only pictures in
the earlier ones.
2. This
blog caught my eye as I was looking at it because it was different from most of
the other blogs I looked at. It was much darker and there were pictures with
most of the posts.
3. I
would have to say that this author did not put that much work into the blog itself
because it was just a plain black template. The author did put more effort into
the posts, which shows that the author cared about them with the information
and pictures that were used.
4. I
will rate the quality of this blog a 4/5. I did this because it almost looks like
in some of the blogs the author used more pictures than words. Therefore, it
makes it hard for what the author was trying to say. Although, the author did
use a good amount of sources.
5. I
would rate the readability of this blog a 4/5. In the blogs that were in paragraph
form flowed smoothly and made sense as I read through it. The blogs that had
pictures had bullet point which is nice but not all the pictures were written about
or explained enough.
6. I
would have to say this blog is a little worse than mine because I feel like I
had more information than this author had. This author did put the time in the
blog but I feel like this author made the blog more from presenting it instead
of informing the readers on the information.
Wednesday, December 10, 2014
The Baader Meinhof Complex
The Baader
Meinhof Complex is a book from 1985 that was made into a film in 2008. These two are of the Red Army Fraction movement.
Overview:
This started in 1967 when Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, the Shah of Iran,
visits West Berlin to attend a performance at the Deutsche Oper. Many young
Germans are angry with how Pahlavi is governing Iran so they protest at his
appearance at the opera. One of the protesters was killed without provocation by
a German police officer who was trying to control the protesters. This made
many Germans very angry. A left wing journalist Ulrike Meinhof, who had earlier
written articles critical of the Shah was one of these angry Germans and also
inspired many others with her writings. After some of her fans were caught carrying
out firebombing she meets with them and becomes friends. As time goes on more
and more people are starting to get together with Meinhof and her friends, they
are soon wanted by the law and have to flee Germany. The group comes back to Germans
now naming themselves the Red Army Fraction (RAF). They are a terrorist group
who do many harmful and illegal things. They soon get caught and thrown in jail
where they start falling apart emotionally. As times goes on many members kill
themselves, but the group stays alive as they continue to murder many people
who are against them.
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Baader_Meinhof_Complex,
12/10/14.
Wednesday, December 3, 2014
20th Century Relationship between Germany and France
The harmony collapsed between Germany and France in 1905
when Germany took an aggressively hostile position to French claims to Morocco.
This brought very much anger from the French for the next 50 years.
After WWI France was the leading supporter of harsh peace
terms against Germany at the Paris Peace Conference.
Germany failed to
pay damages under the Treaty of Versailles in 1923 (Germany being accused of
not having delivered telephone poles on time), so France responded with the
occupation of the Rhineland and the industrial area of Germany, the center of
German coal and steel production, until 1925.
French Army troops gathering before their departure from Rhineland, occupied
Mainz, 1930.
The French dominated
the International Olympic Committee which banned Germany from the Olympic Games
of 1920 and 1924. This illustrated the French’s desire to isolate Germany.
The French did
not want another war on their soil so they prepared for war when Hitler took
power. When Germany invaded Poland in September 1939 it pushed France and Britain
to declare war on Germany.
When the Germans launched their blitzkrieg invasion of France in 1940, the
French Army crumbled within weeks, and with Britain retreating, an atmosphere
of humiliation and defeat swept France. But by the end of war, the French army
occupied south-west Germany and a part of Austria.
With France
wanting to integrate Europe it led to the signing of the treaty of the European
Defense Community (EDC) in 1952 which would bring the French and Germans closer
together.
The post-war Franco-German cooperation is based on the Élysée Treaty, which
was signed on January 22, 1963. The treaty contained a number of agreements for
joint assistance in foreign policy, economic, military integration, and
exchange of student education.
Ever sense
Germany and France’s relationship has continued to grow.
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