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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