Wednesday, December 17, 2014

Final Post!!

Part A:
2. Tristen’s blog was drew my interest because he had a lot of important information on his blog and he actually seemed interested in it.
3. He showed a lot of interest because he included many pictures and the information was legit and fun to read about.
4. I would give Tristen a 4 because his blog was generally great, the only thing I would do is add a background or change it up a bit to intrique the viewers to want to read it.
5. A 5, because everything is legible to read because the background is white with a black text.
6. I’d rate our blogs about the same because although I do have a background, he has more information, so I think they should be rated the same.

2     2. Chanae’s blog drew my attention right away because of the colorful background and fun font that was used throughout the blog.
       3. She seemed interesting in each of her blogs because she researched a lot of topics that she liked to learn about and presented useful information.
4     4. A 5, because she included everything on her blog, even has a few videos too that makes it a lot more fun to read through.
5     5. 5, everything on blog is legible.
6   6. Blog was good, the different colors really made it a fun blog to read.

2    2. Tabitha’s blog drew my interest right away because there are tons of pictures in each blog along with all of the information provided.
3    3.     Good! This was my favorite blog because of the many pictures, not many people included pictures in their blog.
4    4.    5, I enjoyed everything about Tabitha’s blog.
5    5.  5, everything was legible, had no problem reading blog.
6    6. I think her blog was overall awesome because it is a very informative and visual blog.

Part B:
I have learned many things in this introduction to German culture course. For example, the different states in Germany and the history/story behind each of them. We also learned about the different cultures, cuisine, landmarks, and famous people. There was also plenty of wars that took place including WWII and everything that Adolf Hitler and his followers did.

I thought the class was overall very good, I just wish we could have learned alittle more from you rather then doing the research ourselves or in groups. Not everyone is a fan of group work and as I’m sure you could tell, not many of us were into doing it every week. But other then that, I enjoyed the topics we went over and the different movies we watched. It made me a lot more interested in visiting Germany someday. I also really enjoyed hearing your stories and what you had to say about your home. You made the class very exciting whenever you mentioned your thoughts and knowledge of things. Once again, everything in class worked for me other then some of the group work, I would’ve enjoyed hearing you talk more and learning more from you, rather then doing most of the research ourselves. However, thank you for interesting class and I hope you have a great semester break!

Wednesday, December 10, 2014

The Baader Meinhof Complex

This film takes place in Germany in 1967, “The children of the Nazi generation have grown up in the devastation their parents created. They vowed fascism would never rule again, in their fight for freedom they lost themselves in the cause and ignited a revolution around the world.”

This film was made in 2008 and was written and produced by Bernd Eichinger. It tells the story of four Germans who carry out the fire bombing of a department store that was responsible for the death of a protestor. The young protestor was killed because he was against the ruling of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the leader of Iran. The group was then put on trial for the bombing and were defended by a lawyer who shared the groups beliefs. After each of their prison sentences were finished, the group had become more appealing to young Germans; they became known as RAF. The RAF describes themselves as a communist and anti imperialist urban guerilla group engaged in armed resistance against what they viewed a fascist state. Members of the RAF generally used the Marxist-Leninist  term"Faction" when they wrote in English. The German Government considered RAF a terrorist organization because they were for responsible for nearly 300 bomb attacks and murdered many people without reason from 1973 to 1995.