05/09/15

"The most important ideas or concepts of the understanding, again , prior to experience are "space"and "time ".
It means that time give people the peace of might they need to figure things out.Also, space give people time to reconnect back to the self and find who out what they want.I choose this quote because I know people who always ask for time and space for  when they're in a hard situation.So, I think everyone need some time for them-self to clear their mind.

5/02 Junger 


"The human will disciplines and outfits this flesh with such painstaking care that it now seems more indifferent to injury. Today, we again are able to bear the sight of death with greater indifference, since we no longer feel at home in our body as we did before".

This passage basically mean what doesn't kill you make you stronger. He's  saying that whatever we are experiencing in this world is real. Instead of running away from problem, we have to stay strong and fight it. If we run away from problem, we will spend the rest of our life being afraid . We have to defend what is ours so we can set examples.I choose this quote because that is exactly what going on today, some people are committing suicide because they are not strong enough to fight to deal with whatever issue they're experiencing .

Max Robert

"In addition to power of the "electors" to choose the emperor there was an Imperial Legislature or Diet, that also checked the power of the emperor. The Imperial Diet was composed of three levels: at the highest level were the electors, the second level was made up of the other princes, and the third level, representatives from the city-states".
Max Robert means that they have the same type of government as United Stated. Different name but same rules, each branch overlooks the other branches to make sure that the law is distributed fairly.He's basically saying that all politicians are the Same, no one is better than the other. I chose this quote because it remind me of the type of government back home ( Haiti). They corporate  with each other to do whatever they whant.

Assignment due 3/28/15

Structure of government


"These voters were mostly from the middle and upper classes in both the cities and rural areas, and across religious lines" 
It means the German federal government had been dominated by social democratic party. The upper Clss and the middle class people  provide mostly of the  electoral  vote to support their parties and  get their needs met.

Section of right 
"Reich communities speaking a foreign language may not be deprived by legislation of their national identity, especially in the use of their mother language in education, in local administration and jurisdiction."

It mean that everybody has equal right, it does not matter where the come from, what language they speak. They have the same right has other citizens.

I chose these passages because Germany I feel that Germany has the same structure and right as U.S. Under the constitution every citizen have the same  right but in reality we don't. Upper class and middle class people have better everything than working and lower class people. They receive better education and better life style. The government provide policies that benefit their upper class people to keep them happy. Upper/ middle class voice count more than lower/ working class.

Luxembers

"The connection between serial killings and bad economic times is not definitive but there are indications of it: all of these the killers struck during a period of extreme economic uncertainty in German history"

It means that as an economic go down, people tend to be violent because they feel are angry . People  will always expect things to get better , to offer a better life for their family. Violent occur because some people don't know how to adjust to change, so when something unexpected happened, it might push people to react negative
I chose  this piece because when some  people are angry, they take justice in their own hand. And that put others in a place to fight back so they can get what they want..

M assignment

The connection between serial killings and bad economic times is not definitive but there are indications of it: all of these the killers struck during a period of extreme economic uncertainty in German history"

It means that as an economic go down, people tend to be violent because they feel disappointed. They will always expect things to get better , to offer a better life for their family. Violent occur because some people don't know how to adjust to change, so when something unexpected happened, it triggers violence and crime.
I chose  this piece because when some  people are angry, they take justice in their own hand. And that put others in a place to fight back so they can get what they want..

"Weimar Republic

A national prohibition, Paragraph 175, was added to the Reich Penal Code in 1871. It read:1

"An unnatural sex act committed between persons of male sex or by humans with animals is punishable by imprisonment; the loss of civil rights might also be imposed."

When the Nazi's came to power in 1933, they put a halt to efforts seeking reform of this law. In 1935, after the murder of Ernst Roem, the NSDAP amended the Paragraph 175 to close what were seen as loopholes in the current law.

The new law had three parts:

Paragraph 175:

"A male who commits a sex offense with another male or allows himself to be used by another male for a sex offense shall be punished with imprisonment. Where a party was not yet twenty-one years of age at the time of the act, the court may in especially minor cases refrain from punishment."

Paragraph 175a:

"Penal servitude up to 10 years or, where there are mitigating circumstances, imprisonment of not less than three months shall apply to: (1) a male who, with violence or the threat of violence to body and soul or life, compels another male to commit a sex offense with him or to allow himself to be abused for a sex offense; (2) a male who, by abusing a relationship of dependence based upon service, employment or subordination, induces another male to commit a sex offense with him or to allow himself to be abused for a sex offense; (3) a male over 21 years of age who seduces a male person under twenty-one years to commit a sex offense with him or to allow himself to be abused for a sex offense; (4) a male who publicly commits a sex offense with males or allows himself to be abused by males for a sex offense or offers himself for the same."

Paragraph 175b:

"An unnatural sex act committed by humans with animals is punishable by imprisonment; the loss of civil rights might also be imposed.

Paragraph 175 mean that after the Nazi's come to power, they were  considered homosexuality to be a crime  .Anyone who engaged in a sexual act with person in the same sex were illegal .Also, people who engaged in sexual activities with animals have been punished by imprisonment .The act was against homosexuality.

It's All a Swindle" (Alles Schwindel)

Mean that all mankind has lost their reason, we were born and raise about lies, cheat and deception. We all living in a society were all are fighting for their best interest, taking opportunity from others and give it to their own group. Everything we have been tough is lies .we cannot trust anybody except ourself. I chose this lyrics because the society we live in is corrupt , people we thought we can trust are the one who end up betraying us and want us died because of ambition, jealousy and so on .

"No Time" (Keine Zeit),

In my opinion, it means that we live in a world where we worried more about what people think about us instead what we think about ourself. We live to others expectation, we want to be accepted so we do what they want to make them happy. We spend more time analyzing others instead of ourself. Also, we have no time to rest because we spend our spare time thinking about how to make others happy.I chose this lyrics because when I'm in the street  , everyone always rushing including myself because we have certain around of things that we have to do at the same time. Time is what we don't have.for exemple, we have to eat while we studying because we don't have time to do it at a later time.

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari

Abel Gance's film Napoleon 1927

The scene seems to take place en hiver. There was a lot of snow. It shows a lot of kids dressing up with a school uniform.they had a snowball  fight between them. In fact, it seems like one of the kid has Been bullied by his classmate  because you can see that all the kids was hitting on him. Also, the white and black reflection of Napoleon means that he was unhappy.

I choose this Scene because my nephew has been bullied in his school.It was very hard for him focus in school, to make friends and  was all sad if the time because he left unaccepted?The films try to shows the earlier life story of Napoleon.it relates to the class because the class is about nihilism, they probably don't think that bully is something that affect someone emotionally ?

Siddhartha assignment

"God is immanent (or inside) meaning that God is not seen as personal entity existing outside the universe, but is inside the universe, or the universe itself. The chief difficulty has always been explaining what is the origin of difference if unity is the ultimate reality"?

I think it means that God is peace, love, unity , is  what you believe in . Is doing the right thing and help one another. This passage is important for me because some people doesn't know the truth meaning of god, they think that going to church every Sunday  is being in contact with god. Being  in contact with god is love each other, being honest and remain  faithful to one another. It basically your 
  conscience of what is wrong or right. 

Pictures assigments

Artist: Jean Mitchel Basquiat

Summary of his life: He was an American artist, a musician and a producer. He was born in Brooklyn New York .He was a neo-expressionist painter in the 1980s.He was born in December 22, 1969 and died in august 12 1988.

Title of the piece and date: Fallen angel, 1981

I love this picture. It says a lot just at looking at it; it looks like a devil. Basquiat used color like yellow that is the color of betrayal and red that mean blood for this picture. The picture represents anger and hate that exist in the society. I think he is trying to say that god doesn’t exist because from religious view, an angel is a messenger of god .The artist trying to convey that the idea that god exist is a myth, that even the angel that is a devil itself.

Title of the piece and date:Untitled (skull), " Jean Michel Basquiat, 1984 

In the painting, the head look damaged; it looks like he was beaten. They were stiches all over the head and were broken at certain places. When looking at the face, it looks angry and sad. I think the painting could represent Basquiat early life story. He trying to explain all he has been through before he reached his goals. The artist trying to convey that no one is perfect, no matter what happens in life, keep your head up and do what you have to do.

Title of the piece and date: “ Adolf the superman: Swallows Gold and Spouts junk,’’ John Heartfield, 1932

John Heartfield was an artist .He was a pioneer in the use of art as a weapon political. Some of his photomontages were anti-Nazi and anti fascist statement. He was born in Germany in June 1891 and dies in April 26, 1968.

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  The artist shows photograph of Hitler with a chest X-ray .It shows Hitler with his mouth open speaking while an x-ray superimposed over his dorsal which reveals the spine made out of gold coins. The artist is trying to show the truth identity of Hitler. 

Dada manifesto

2/14/14

Quote

“The roots of expressionism are seen in artists, something called post impressionists”. Nihilist  spoke about the importance of art, they mean that it is through art that people can fully express what they feeling inside. The authors saying this because it should be very traumatize to talk about a difficult situation or time. Art can be therapeutic by helping people who had experience World War 1 and world 2 to deal with the pain by drawing what they have on their mind.

I choose this quote because art is a creative way to tell a story. In strongly agree with because some events can be hard to talk about, so drawing is a better way to let other understand what was going on. Yes, this quote challenge me a little, just thinking about how hard it must be for those who had lost their loves one during the war, so art would give those people a change by drawing some of the good memories they had with their loved one.

Yes, it does related to something going on in present. Today, therapists use art therapy when working with children who have been abused either physically or sexually. This method help the therapist to interpret the drawing and have an idea of what going on.

Nihilism Class

Nietzche's quote

Doubt as sin.-- Christianity has done its utmost to close the circle and declared even doubt to be sin. One is supposed to be cast into belief without reason, by a miracle, and from then on to swim in it as in the brightest and least ambiguous of elements: even a glance towards land, even the thought that one perhaps exists for something else as well as swimming, even the slightest impulse of our amphibious nature- is sin! And notice that all this means that the foundation of belief and all reflection on its origin is likewise excluded as sinful. What is wanted are blindness and intoxication and an eternal song over the waves in which reason has drowned.

from Nietzsche's Daybreak,s. 89, R.J. Hollingdale tran

Lourdes Joseph

02/07/15

Nietzsche quote

It basically means that we don’t have to follow rules, because society created rules to make us behave a certain way, and force us to believe that those rules really exist.

It applies today, we do certain things not because we want to but because we believe it is the right things to do based on what we have been told . Also, we don’t want to be judge by other people when we fail to do what they expected us to do.

                                                                                            

The German Society

02/07/15

The German society

            The German society is a modern society. According to the world fact book, 6.1 percent are foreign residents, which are those not having German citizenship, and the remaining 91.5 percent are German. The official language in Germany is German but they also recognized four other languages as regional languages under the European chapter, such as Lower Sorbian, North Frisian and so on. In addition, 68 percent’s of the population are followers of Christian religion, with the two main churches, the catholic and the Protestants. Also, 3.7 percent are Muslim and 28.3 percent are non-religious. Furthermore, the German population was counted to be 80,996, 685 on July 2014 making it the 18^th most populous country in the world. Based on the world fact book, Germany has a population with more people over the age of 25 to 54 years old than any other group. Also, as 2014, 20.9 percent are 65 and older. Out of the 20.9 percent, it was estimated that 9,659,265 of them are female. Surprisingly, the population rate has drop from 0.18 percent. In addition, the death rates are higher while the birth rate is lower, so it basically means the population growth rate is also decline. The life expectancy is 80 years old. It seems like 66.2 percent of woman use birth control, which may lead to unprotected sex  and lead to the 67,000 people living which HIV.