Wednesday, December 14, 2011

grades

Brooke Gillespie's Evaluations of student's Blogs    Roles of women and men    Poets and writers    Rulers and government    Music and dance    Inventions and industry    rate each topic on the blog of each peer student on a scale of 0-100 (100=best)
Anderson, Randall J    84    86    90    85    88    94
Balcome, Angela M    88    90    87    89    89    96
Baudhuin, Morgan T    80    90    89    88    91    96
Braun, Nicholas A    90    92    90    87    84    92
Clark-Hedlof, Brett N    86    88    87    84    88    93
Conant, Joshua S    -    -    -           
Cox, Timothy J    90    87    88    96    98    99
Dehn, Matthew G    88    90    85    88    90    92
Drays, Laura L    90    88    83    85    92    92
Gillespie, Brooke C    88    87    91    86    94    91
Goyette, Thomas E    88    88    87    87    86    88
Gu, Zhen    88    90    88    86    89    90
Gysberg, Kevin M    -    -    -           
Harp, Lacey N    90    87    85    85    92    90
Hua, YunFei    83    83    92    87    91    90
Klasons, Jekabs K    -    -    -           
Kreuger, Kristin N    86    86    86    80    93    93
Leavitt, Danika E    90    90    90    90    88    89
Monson, Thomas J    87    88    91    87    88    93
Niehoff, Robert J    89    88    88    85    87    91
Niyomchat, Pattarapong    89    88    90    88    89    92
Oberle, Robert A    84    -    -           
Riebe, Monica A    -    -    -           
Scherer, Miranda D    87    87    89    88    88    90
Schurr, Jennifer R    87    87    80    85    85    91
Shaw, Douglas E    87    85    82    87    88    92
Strong, Sarah J    -    -    -           
Vang, Starsha N    87    86    82    89    90    89
Vroman, Amber L    86    87    88    90    88    90
Zhang, Hui    86    86    88    95    88    92
                       
                       
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Wednesday, December 7, 2011

inventions and industry of 20th century

Otto Hahn(the first man to split the atom.) German chemist and Nobel laureate who pioneered the fields of radioactivity and radiochemistry. "The father of nuclear chemistry" and the "founder of the atomic age". Discovered nuclear fission. separation of many elements and kinds of atoms which arise through fission.. He was born on 8th March, 1879, at Frankfurt-on-Main. He attended the secondary high school there until he matriculated.
From 1897 Hahn studied chemistry at Marburg and Munich, taking his doctorate examination in 1901 at Marburg and submitting to Professor Theodor Zincke a thesis on organic chemistry. In 1913 Hahn married Edith, née Junghans and they had one son, Hanno, born in 1922, killed by accident in 1960


Hugo Junkers (3 February 1859 – 3 February 1935) was an innovative German engineer, as his many patents in varied areas (gas engines, aeroplanes) show. In 1915, he pioneered the first great change in aviation materials and design technology, away from wood and fabric materials braced by wire rigging, towards all-metal, cantilever-winged monoplane aircraft that had little to no external bracing.

Hugo Junkers is mainly known in connection with aircraft bearing his name. This includes such he reluctantly developed for the German Empire during World War I, later in minor association with Anthony Fokker, as well as civil aircraft designs during the Interwar Period produced by Junkers Flugzeugwerke (Junkers Aircraft Works). Junkers, a pacifist and not on good terms with the Nazis, died in 1935 and was not involved in the development of Junkers military aircraft for the Third Reich's Luftwaffe before or during World War II.


Richard Hellmann: Hellmann's (Blue Ribbon) Mayonnaise, 1905.
Alzheimer was born in Marktbreit, Bavaria. His father served in the office of notary public in the family's hometown. In 1901, Alzheimer observed a patient at the Frankfurt Asylum named Auguste Deter. The 51-year-old patient had strange behavioral symptoms, including a loss of short-term memory. This patient would become his obsession over the coming years. In April 1906, Mrs. Deter died and Alzheimer had the patient records and the brain brought to Munich where he was working at Kraepelin's lab. In mid-December 1915, Alzheimer fell ill on the train on his way to the University of Breslau, where he had been appointed professor of psychiatry in 1912. Most probably he had a streptococcal infection and subsequent rheumatic fever and kidney failure. He died of heart failure at the age of 51 in Breslau, Silesia. ALzheimer was a German psychiatrist and neuropathologist and a colleague of Emil Kraepelin. Alzheimer is credited with identifying the first published case of "presenile dementia", which Kraepelin would later identify as Alzheimer's disease.

Wernher von Braun(inventor) and Walter Robert Dornberger (co-inventor): (6 September 1895 - 27 June 1980) was a German Army artillery officer whose career spanned World Wars I and II. He was a leader of Germany's V-2 rocket program and other projects at the Army Research Center. The V2 rocket was a single-stage rocket fueled by alcohol and liquid oxygen. It stood 46.1 feet high and had a thrust of 56,000 pounds. The A-4 had a payload capacity of 2,200 pounds and could reach a velocity of 3,500 miles per hour. It was the world's first launch of a ballistic missile and the first rocket ever to go into the fringes of space.

Albert Einstein was born March 4 1879  and died  April  18 1955) was a German-born theoretical physicist who developed the theory of general relativity, effecting a revolution in physics. For this achievement, Einstein is often regarded as the father of modern physics and one of the most prolific intellects in human history. He received the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics for his services to theoretical physics, and especially for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect". The latter was pivotal in establishing quantum theory within physics. The word Einstein now is related with genius. Einstein merited awards and honors, including the Nobel Prize in Physics.

Theory of relativity and E = mc2
Neutrinos are faster then light. Proving this theory wrong.

Quantized atomic vibrations

General relativity and the Equivalence Principle


General relativity (GR) is a theory of gravitation that was developed by Albert Einstein between 1907 and 1915. According to general relativity, the observed gravitational attraction between masses results from the warping of space and time by those masses. General relativity has developed into an essential tool in modern astrophysics. It provides the foundation for the current understanding of black holes, regions of space where gravitational attraction is so strong that not even light can escape.

Modern quantum theory

CAR INDUSTRY
In 1916 BMW was founded, but didn't start auto production until 1928. The collapse of the global economy during the Great Depression in the early 1930s plunged Germany's auto industry into a severe crisis. While eighty-six auto companies had existed in Germany during the 1920s, barely twelve survived the depression, including Daimler-Benz, Opel and Ford's factory in Cologne. In addition, four of the country's major car manufacturers — Horch, Dampf Kraft Wagen (DKW), Wanderer and Audi — formed a joint venture known as the Auto Union in 1932, which was to play a leading role in Germany's comeback from the depression.
Currently, six German companies dominate the automotive industry in the country: Volkswagen AG, BMW AG, Daimler AG, Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche AG, Adam Opel AG and Ford-Werke GmbH. Nearly six million vehicles are produced in Germany each year, and approximately 5.5 million are produced overseas by German brands.
Germany is one of the top 4 automobile manufacturers in the world. The Volkswagen Group is one of the three biggest automotive companies of the world

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_Junkers

http://www.inquisitr.com/144267/scientists-say-emc2-might-be-wrong-say-neutrinos-are-faster-than-light/

http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blrocketv2.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_German_inventors_and_discoverers
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Art, Dance, Music of 20th century

Cinematography-Cinematography was created during the 19th century
Originally geared towards the upper class and it wasn't long before the lower and middle were enjoying films as well.
German Expressionism of the 1920s is said to have influence classic Hollywood film noir.
The Jazz Singer (1927)
First full length film with synchronized dialog


Nazi Regime-
No films could be made that contradicted the ideas of the Nazi Party
Triumph of the Will (1935) Propaganda film created by Leni Riefenstahl of the Nuremberg Rally
Many of the films during this time were propaganda, racist, or comedies

Films and Information-


    • 1920s
      • Nosferatu (1922) ‘Dracula’
        • Redone in 1979 by Werener Herzog
    • 1950s - Attendance was at an all time high during 1956
      Main Genres: Heimatfilm ("homeland film"), romance, musicals, comedies
    • 1960s - Less movie patrons
      Main Genres: westerns, crime, thrillers, porn
    • 1970s - New Cinema Era
      Main Genres: Literature to Film, Feminist films
    • 1980s - Renewed international recognition for German films

      • Das Boot (1981)
      • The NeverEnding Story (1984)

      • Wings of Desire (1987)
    • 1990s- Focused on independent films and horror movies
      • Lola Rennt (1998)

      • Dance
        • Schuhplatter
          • Bavarian/Austrian folk dance.
          • Originally, young men danced to impress marriageable young women.
          • The dance was a free of rules, but now the dance used traditional steps of a rhythmic hitting the thigh, knees, soles of the feet, and stomping of the feet.
      • Modern Dance
        • Rudolf von Laban and his student Mary Wigman had major influence
        • Began as a dance of experiementation.
        • Mary Wigman opened a school of dance in Dresden in 1920. However, the Nazis closed her school.
        • She reopened her school in 1948 in Berlin.
      • Early 20th century Music
      • Cabaret: Rose during Weimar Republic (1920s), Popular in night clubs, type of stage entertainment, similar to Burlesque
      • Swing: Banned by Nazi Germany because it was associated with "American ways" and promoted sexual promiscuity
      • Ernst Hermann Meyer
        • Born in Berlin on December 8th, 1905
        • · At 11 he started composing
        • · Get his PhD at Heidelburg University
        • · He was Jewish so he went to the UK so he didn’t get killed by Nazi’s
        • · He was one of the most influential music figures in the GDR
        • · He was the head of the German Society of Composers and Musicologists, professor of musicology at the Berlin Humbolt University, chairman of the German Handel Society and founder of the annual Handel Festival which is still celebrated in some parts of Germany
        • · Some of his works include: Symphony for strings, symphony in b flat and sonata for viola and piano (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrL8iTEeA2o&feature=related)
            • · He died October 8th, 1988
              • Born in Munich on July 10th, 1895
              • · He started taking interest in music as early as five, at 16 some of his music was published
              • · He participated and nearly died in ww1
              • · He not only wrote music but he also wrote stories and plays
              • · He co-founded the Gunther School for gymnastics, music and dance. He worked with mostly beginners and this is how he started to share his ideas of conducting
              • · The first way he started this was with Elementare Musikubung, this ended up being too complex for the teachers to follow. He then created Schulwerk, which was much easier to do and get the kids involved in. This helped combine instruments, music and dancing.
              • · Later on he created Musik fur Kider which also helps get children up and moving.
              • · A lot of his accomplishments were geared towards teaching children and ways of getting them involved in music and such.
              • · His most famous piece is his Carmina Burana sometimes known as O Fortuna (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkgcUEGEZv4&feature=fvst)
              • · The translation of this song is pretty depressing. It basically about trying to overcome and failing miserably (http://www.puremango.co.uk/2008/03/o_fortuna_translation/)
                • · He died March 29th, 1982
      • Modern Music:
    • Expressionist Art Movement
      • This type of art distorted color, scale and space to convey their feelings about what they saw.
      • Mostly from Dresden and Munich
      • Influenced from Van Gogh's evocative canvases
    • Works Cited
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Tuesday, November 29, 2011

Assignment for 18th Century German Rulers and Government

  From "Germany's Rulers of the 18th Century," on October 12, 2011, History 1700s.com, "Germany was not a unified country, during the first half of the century. It would not be until Bismark, that Germany would be unified." The Holy Roman Empire existed from 800 to 1806, and Germany was a part of the Holy Roman Empire. Since the peace of Westphalia in 1648, the empire, including Germany, the territories involved were separate and independent, and were largely govern by princes. Two parts of Germany that had a large amount of territory and power were Austria and Prussia. From "Germany's Rulers of the 18th Century," on page 1, "...it was the Prussian House of Hohenzollern that unified Germany and made Germany a power to be reckoned with."
   From "18th Century History of Germany," on October 12, 2011, Wikipedia.org, on page 1, "Frederick III (1688-1701) became King Frederick I of Prussia in 1701. Since there was only one King of the Germans within the Empire, Frederick gained the assent of Emperor Leopold I (in return for alliance against France in the War of the Spanish Succession) to his adoption (January 1701) of the title of 'King in Prussia' based on his non-Imperial territories." This German King came from the house of the Hohenzollerns of Brandenburg.
   Under Frederick William I King of Prussia, the German land's of Bremen-Verden and Stettin returned back from Sweden after this country lost tn the Great Northern War (1700-1721). From History of Scandinavia, by T. K. Derry, on page 163, "In the winter of 1719-20 two treaties were negotiated in Stockholm by George I's ambassador and future secretary of state, Lord Carteret; by the first Sweden surrendered Bremen-Verden to Hanover, and by the second Stettin and the neighbouring parts of Pomerania to Brandenburg-Prussia." The Hohenzollerns of Brandenburg had influence in Pomerania since 1472, according to "18th Century History of Germany."
   From Political Ideologies and the Democratic Ideal, by Terence Ball and Richard Dagger, on page 53, "...status mattered very much in earthly life, for one's position and prospects were fixed by one's social 'rank,' 'order,' or 'estate.' This was especially true under feudalism, which became the main form of social and economic organization in Europe after the disintegration of Charlemagne's empire in the ninth century." Under this relationship there were knights, or they were called lords, and these individuals would let lesser knights control sections of land in exchange for service in the military. These lesser knights might also be called vassals, and these vassals would allow serfs, also known as commoners, to work the land for rent. Or, this vassal, would rent this land to land owning peasants for them to farm. Under feudalism, two classes of people took shape, nobles and commoners; and the nobility kept a hold on the the land they owned through inheritance. Ball and Dagger write on feudalism on page 30, "...every person occupied a rank or station in society and was expected to perform the duties and enjoy the privileges of that rank or station. In this way everyone supposedly contributed to the common good,...." Feudalism created an interdependent relationship of rank, status and loyalties where the land owning nobles enjoyed great privileges and liberties; these nobles did keep a military, but they also kept the serfs attached to land in order to serve the lord.
   Feudalism under the Holy Roman Empire, in part, was due to the need for the people to have protection. Ball and Dagger write on page 30, " This form of social organization, rooted in the need for protection from marauding Vikings and Magyars,...." Problems developed, the Holy Roman Empire suffered when the king, and the emperor, spent too much time in their own local lands and did not spend enough time with the core lands of the empire. From "Holy Roman Empire," on October 19, 2011, Wikipedia.org, "Without the presence of the king, the old institution of the Hoftag, the assembly of the realm's leading men, deteriorated." With this assembly of the Hoftag, not holding on to enough political control over their local area's, the dukes within these territories started to fight against one and another. From "Holy Roman Empire," on page 8, "Simultaneously, the Church was in a state of crisis too,....The conflict between several papal claimants (two anti-popes and the legitimate Pope) was only resolved at the Constance (1414-18); after 1419,....The medieval idea of unifying all Christendom into a single political entity, began to decline." The people of the German territories, and these territories were now starting to resemble modern states, were more inclined to give their allegiances to those rulers within their own local area.
   Changes in feudalism and local government came with more people owning property, "the rising bourgeoisie." From the "Holy Roman Empire," about the 13th century, on page 7, "Instead of personal duties, money increasingly became the common means to represent economic value in agriculture. Peasants were increasingly required to pay tribute for their lands. The concept ot 'property' began to replace more ancient forms of jurisdiction,...." But changes to Germany's government of local autonomy, which was moving toward a unified nation-state, was a slow process in comparison to Britain and France during the 18th century. From "German Nationalism," on November 2, 2011,
Credoreference.com, on page 1, "But 'Germany,' unlike Britain or France, remained backward and divided, lacking a strong central state with established administrative, legislative, and legal institutions...Even as late as the mid-18th century, Germany was still a collection of dozens of autonomous political units." The political movement in Europe was toward a nation-state, and these changes was helped by ideas coming from the Enlightenment, ideas form nationalism, and because of economic and military reasons.
   From "18th Century History of Germany," on page 2, "From 1763, against resistance form the nobility and citizenry, an 'enightened absolutism' was established in Prussia and Austria, according to which the ruler was to be 'the first servant of the state.' The economy developed and legal reforms were undertaken, including the abolition of torture...." This was the period in German history, 1763, of the emancipation of the peasants, and education was also now being promoted in Germany, according to "18th Century History of Germany."
   The War of the Austrian Succession began in 1740 when King Frederick II invaded Silesia. This began a number of military conflicts involving Germany. During the Seven Year's War, (1756-1757), Germany defeated the Austrian army at the Battle of Burkersdorf, and from this victory there became more of an intense rivalry between the two major territories of Prussia and Austria. Between 1772-1795, Germany, Austria, and Russia did agree on one area of concern between them, and that was to claim Poland's area for themselves. And while Austria and Prussia was claiming land from Poland, which brought both countries more influence and power in Europe, Prussia was fighting a war with France during this same time.  Soon Austria and Prussia, despite their own issues, would be facing a new threat coming out ot France, emperor Napoleon.
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Saturday, November 12, 2011

Writers and Poets of 20th Century Germany

oWriters and Poets of 20th Century Germany
oBy: Matt Dehn, Miranda Scherer, Lacey Harp, Robert Niehoff,
oTom Monson, Angela Balcome, Tim Cox and Starsha Vang
oHans Fallada
oBorn in Greifswald in 1893
oPseudonyms come from Grimm Fairy Tales
oDied in 1947 at 54 years of age
oWorks include
nLittle Man- What Now?
nAlone in Berlin
oLittle Man- What Now?
oPublished in 1932
oMade into a Movie- released in US in 1934
oAlone in Berlin
oPublished in 1947
oBased on true story
oBecame bestseller in US/UK when translated into English
oThomas Kling
oPoet
oWrote Manhatten Mouthspace about 9/11 disaster
oDied in 2005
oAnna Seghers/ Netty Reiling
oBorn as Netty Reiling in Mainz
oStudied Philology (study of language), History and Sinology (study of classical language and literature) at Heidelber in Cologne.
oPublished Die Gefährten in 1932 warning about fascism. Leading to her arrest and later working for an anti-fascist magazine.
oIn 1950 she was a co-founder of the GDR.
oDied in 1983
oGünter Eich
oBorn February 1, 1907 in Lebus, Brandenburg
oServed in German Army during WWII
oPoet, Playwrite, Author
oDied 1972
oWorks of Günter Eich
oRebellion in der Goldstadt (1940)
oZüge im Nebel (1947)
oAbgelegene Gehöfte (1948)
oTräume. Vier Spiele (1953)
oDas Jahr Lazertis (1954)
oBotschaften des Regens (1955)
oStimmen (1958)
oZu den Akten (1964)
oAnlässe und Steingärten (1966)
oMaulwürfe (1968)
oEin Tibeter in Meinem
oBüro (1970)
oNach Seumes Papieren (1972)
oErich Remarque
oBorn 1898
oWrote All Quiet on the Western Front after his experience on the Western front
oLeft Germany in 1931
oIn 1933 the Nazi’s banned and destroyed all copies of All Quiet on the Western Front
oIn 1943 the Nazi party arrested his sister for ‘undermining morale’. She was sentenced to death by guillotine
oOther Works of Erich Remarque
oThe Road Back
oThree Comrades
oArch of Triumph
oA Spark of Life
oTime to Live and Time to Die
oChrista Wolf
oBorn March 18, 1929 in Brandenburg
oLiteracy Critic, Novelist, Essayist
oOne of the best-known writers from East Germany
oFirst recipient of the German Book Prize
oBest known work was with Der Geteilte Himmel (1963)
oAnne Frank
oBorn June 12, 1929
oGerman-Jewish teen, forced into hiding during the Holocaust
oSpent 25 months above her father’s office in Amsterdam
oIn March, 1945, 9 months after she and her family was found. Anne Frank died of typhus at the age of 15.
oHer Diary was published in 1947, later becoming one of the most widely read books in the world
oAldona Gustas
oBorn in Lithuania March 2, 1932
oMoved to Berlin in 1941
oPublished 11 books of poetry between 1962-1980.
nMain theme being Love
oReceived Rahel Varnhagen Medal in 1997.
oErich Kastner
oBorn in Dresden on February 23, 1899
oAuthor, Screenwriter
nSatire
nHumorous Poetry
nChildren’s Literature
oDrafted in WWI at 18 years old
oPublished Emil Und Die Detektive (1928)- Best-known children’s book
oNovel Fabian (1931) made into movie released in 1980
oAlfred Döblin
oWorked at Journalist in Berlin
oWon Fontane Prize for Die drei Sprünge des Wang-Lung (1915)
oWas German Army doctor during WWI
oBecame President of German Writers Association in 1924
oMost famous work was Berlin Alexanderplatz (1929)
oWorked for MGM Studios in USA in 1940 before moving to France in 1945
oSources
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