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Humanities Core: Winter 2008
Humanities Core: Winter 2008
Welcome to The Making. This is the webslog (website + blog) for Discussion Section 29011, which meets MWF 1:00-1:50 in HH 224. My name is Erin Trapp and I am your discussion instructor. Please refer to the blog for information and assignments, and always feel free to post comments. You will occasionally be asked to post responses here. My office hours are in HIB 192, Wednesday 12-1 and Friday 10-11, and by appointment.
Major Due Dates
- FRI jan 18 sofar Essay #4 (w2)
- WED jan 23 WD Essay #4 (w3)
- MON jan 28 FD Essay #4 (w4)
- MON feb 4 PreWrite Essay #5 (w5)
- FRI feb 8 MIDTERM (w5)
- MON feb 11 Ideas Draft (w6)
- MON feb 11 DISC task #3 (w6)
- FRI feb 15 WD essay #5 (w6)
- MON feb 25 Final Essay #5 (w8)
- WED feb 27 Discovery Task #3 (w8)
- FRI feb 29 Pre-Writing Essay #6 (w8)
- MON mar 3 Ideas Draft Essay #6 (w9)
- FRI mar 7 WD Essay #6 (w9)
- MON mar 10 SQ Jane Jacobs (w 10)
- FRI mar 14 FD Essay #6 (w 10)
- WED mar 19 1:30-3:30 FINAL EXAM
Schedule of Genre Presents
- w4 (2/1) Painting: Sarah, Shannan, Rani, Jill
- w5 (2/8) Images: Alex W, Colby, Christina, Jean
- w6 (2/15) Primary Sources: Kyle, Karen, Evan
- w7 (2/22) Film: Dennis, Alex R, Keith
- w8 (3/1) Music: Dana, Elvin, Asad
- w9 (3/8) Design: Sacha, Amanda, Ryan
Labels
- 203 words (1)
- A Midsummer Night's Dream (5)
- alberti (4)
- art (11)
- assignments (11)
- Barthes (1)
- bauhaus (1)
- bosch (1)
- brecht (2)
- britannica (1)
- city (10)
- city limits (4)
- conferences (1)
- cyberculture (2)
- design (18)
- diversity (3)
- DP (2)
- essay five (5)
- essay four (3)
- essay six (2)
- exam (2)
- germany (5)
- Gershwin (6)
- gerswin (1)
- global (1)
- graffiti (2)
- grosz (1)
- heartfield (1)
- high school (1)
- hoch (1)
- interpretation (3)
- jane jacobs (18)
- klee (1)
- lady macbeth (1)
- leskov (1)
- manifesto (1)
- midterm (1)
- music (5)
- painting (6)
- peer review (1)
- Porgy and Bess (7)
- realism (3)
- schwitters (1)
- shakespeare (4)
- shostakovich (2)
- soviet (4)
- suburban (4)
- theater (1)
- thesis statements (2)
- van eyck (1)
- week eight (1)
- week five (1)
- week four (1)
- week nine (1)
- week one (1)
- week seven (1)
- week six (1)
- week ten (1)
- week three (1)
- week two (1)
- writing (2)
Links
- Celebrating Irvine
- The Irvine Company
- Music Terms
- Sample Program Notes (Shostakovich)
- Hall Johnson Review of Porgy and Bess
- Review of Porgy and Bess by James Standifer
- Gershwin Jukebox (Moeller)
- Cuban Overture Program Notes
- Cuban Overture Performance
- Opera for Beginners (includes link to list of opera terms)
- hyperlink text of Porgy by DuBose Heyward (edited, with commentary by Kendra Hamilton)
- Barthes, Death of Author
- Foucault, Death of Author
- utube "Summertime" versions
- MLA (Diana Hacker)
- MLA (The Write Source)
- MLA Guide (Purdue)
- "Too Scary for Stalin" (review of LMM)
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- Hypermedia Berlin
- Brittanica Online
- Moeller HIST122B Hitler and German Society (login/pass moeller)
- German Historical Museum LeMO
- Calvin College Nazi Image Collection
- Moeller Website
- German-English Translation
- Grove Art Online (UCI access)
- "From Buses to Blogs: A pathological Individualism is Poisoning Public Life" by Madeline Bunting
- Bauhaus Museum of Design Berlin
- MOMA Dada Exhibit 2006
- International Dada Archive
- German History in Documents and Images
- Theater Notes Blog
- Business Theater (Brecht and epic theater)
- Shakespeare I've Seen (reviews of various stagings)
- The Onion on staging Shakespeare
- Thinking with Shakespeare (links to jstor articles)
- Online works of Shakespeare (search for a term)
- Pyramus and Thisby, performed by The Beatles
- Royal Shakespeare Company, production of A Midsummer Night's Dream
- The Oxford English Dictionary
- UCI Libraries Website
- eee
- Discussion Section Website
- Humanities Core Student Site
Reading
- Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities
- Gershwin, Porgy and Bess
- Shostakovich, Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk
- HCC Reader 85-133 (German docs II)
- HCC Reader 35-84 (German documents)
- Albierti, On Painting, preface, chapters 2 & 3
- Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream
- Reader, chapter 11 "Genre"
- Reader, chapter 14 "Analyzing Drama"
- Reader, chapter 13 "Textual Analysis"
- Reader, chapter 12 "The Active Reading Process"
Meanings
aesthetic (source: Online Etymology Dictionary)
1798, from Ger. ästhetisch or Fr. esthétique, both from Gk. aisthetikos "sensitive," from aisthanesthai "to perceive, to feel," from PIE *awis-dh-yo-, from base *au- "to perceive." Popularized in Eng. by translation of Immanuel Kant, and used originally in the classically correct sense "the science which treats of the conditions of sensuous perception." Kant had tried to correct the term after Baumgarten had taken it in Ger. to mean "criticism of taste" (1750s), but Baumgarten's sense attained popularity in Eng. c.1830s (despite scholarly resistance) and removed the word from any philosophical base. Walter Pater used it (1868) to describe the late 19c. movement that advocated "art for art's sake," which further blurred the sense. Aesthete first recorded 1881.
1798, from Ger. ästhetisch or Fr. esthétique, both from Gk. aisthetikos "sensitive," from aisthanesthai "to perceive, to feel," from PIE *awis-dh-yo-, from base *au- "to perceive." Popularized in Eng. by translation of Immanuel Kant, and used originally in the classically correct sense "the science which treats of the conditions of sensuous perception." Kant had tried to correct the term after Baumgarten had taken it in Ger. to mean "criticism of taste" (1750s), but Baumgarten's sense attained popularity in Eng. c.1830s (despite scholarly resistance) and removed the word from any philosophical base. Walter Pater used it (1868) to describe the late 19c. movement that advocated "art for art's sake," which further blurred the sense. Aesthete first recorded 1881.
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- listening to Gershwin
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- death of the... author
- Assignments: Week Eight
- realism/ist
- (social vs. socialst) realism
- Sample (Soviet) Citations
- Pravda Mtsensk Captions
- Peer Review
- Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk
- Assignments: Week Seven
- Entartete
- Assignments Week Six
- Ideas Draft: Essay Five
- Claiming the Britannica
- The Midterm
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About Me
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- the tile square is one of the few concrete reminders that the blog began in LAlandia.
20 comments:
Claim: "The Brutality with which Hitler met any presumed challenge to his authority became dramatically evident when on June 30, 1934, he ordered the murders of the SA leadership." -Schleunes, Encyclopaedia Brittanica Online.
There are a couple of claims here, one being that Hitler met challengers with "brutality", the main one being that the murders of the SA leadership was when his brutality towards opposition became dramatically evident.
I am not too sure exactly what we are looking for in terms of "making a claim" but i believe we are looking for sentences, or ideas that seem to be interjected from the author's bias/ pov? This may be a stretch, but one that I found could be on page 36, end of 2nd paragraph:
"Soldiers returning from the military fronts by the hundreds of thousands were left stranded, jobless, hungry, and bitter-- grist for the mill of revolution."
This quote is saying that the bitter resentment faced by the soldiers coming coming home made them more susceptible toward radical actions, such as revolution. They were angry and full of discontent from their disillusionment of a "quick war." Even after the war was over, there was still the Allied Blockade which brought shortages of food and supplies.
Now, going to why I might believe this may be a claim. Compared to the majority of other lines in the EBO, this quote was not backed up by evidential proof, testimonials, or gave sufficient reasoning that them being bitter truly caused the need for a revolution. Of course, I whole heartedly believe the quote as well, so it is actually somewhat hard to attack, and provide adequate reasoning why it is a "claim" and not truly evidential. What made me come to the conclusion that it might have been a claim, was its story-book-like emotional telling. "They were stranded, jobless, hungry, bitter and OMG ready for revolution." Not quite teh exact requoting, but the amount of emotional content displayed by that passage brings a more humanized, psychological awareness of the intensity of what the discontented soldiers felt. Compared to some of the surrounding passages, the other lines are more neutral, sterilized, and "boring" in tone-- typical of an encyclopedia entry.
This is why I believe my quoted quote may have been a claim, since it does not quite provide contextual evidence (though I'm sure there were people who were bitter/restless/writing more humcore blog entries); it only provides an overgeneralized account of what the soldiers felt. Were they truly "grist for the mill of revolution?" Or was that just a burst of emotional rhetoric to brighten and enliven the passage? What am i even saying?
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"World War II is appropriately called "Hitler's war." Germny was so extraordinarily successful in the first two years that Hitler came close to realizing his aim of established hegemoney in Europe. But his triumphs were not part of a strategic conception that secured victory in the long run." (p. 90)
The Britannica author suggests that World War II is called "Hitler's war." This claim is not biased, but it is the author's own opinion. I'm sure there are people who didn't call World War II "Hitler's war," but most likely called it World War II. The author also states that "Hitler came close to realizing." How does the author know what Hitler realized at that moment in time? What were these "triumphs" that weren't a part of the strategic conception. I don't see these statements as facts, because I feel like they are based on the author's insight of World War II and Hitler.
Claim: "On the following day the Japanese, nominally Germany's ally, launched their attack on the U.S. naval base at Peral Harbor in Hawaii. Although they had not bothered to to inform Hitler of their intentions, he was jubilant when he heard the news. "Now it is impossible for us to lose the war,"
he told his aides. On December 11 he declared war on the United States. (Page 90 - World War II)
Summary: The main idea presented in this claim appears to be the amount of power Hilter has. He was confident that he would win the war with the aid of the Japanese. His thirst for power seems to begin overcoming him and his desire to win the war and know things that he wasn't supposed to know more strongly prove that he was overly ambitious nature and thirst for power and that was what ultimately caused his death.
Shannan's post -
Claim:
"It was a combination, finally, of Hitler's daring and brutality, of the weaknesses of his opponents, and of numerous instances of extraordinary good luck that allowed him to establish his totalitarian dictatorship"(HCC Reader 86).
Summary:
The Britannica article definitely becomes arguable when it says that Hitler's dictatorship emerged out of luck. The claim tries to describe the Great Depression as a lucky occurrence for the National Socialist party that allowed Hitler to jump in and lead the country, but the claim should be clarified. I feel that the Britannica article needs more evidence and warrant for their claim about Hitler's "luck".
Claim: It was a combination, finally, of Hitler's daring and brutality, of the weakness of his opponents, and of numerous instances of extraordinary good luck that allowed him to establish his totalitarian dictatorship.(86)
- The claim being made here, by the author, is that Hitler's totalitarian control of Germany was done by luck and brutality. The author is giving his opinion with this statement because it was alot more than luck that Hitler had to rise to power. The "daring and brutality" was evident enough to state as a fact in the article but the "extraordinary good luck" was a stretch.
Claim: "It was a combination, finally, of Hitler's daring and brutality, of the weaknesses of his opponents, and of numerous instances of extraordinary good luck that allowed him to establish his totalitarian dictatorship." (pg 86)
Based on this sentence, it's as if Britannica (it's authors) is showing both sides of Hitler, his "daring" side and his "brutal" side. I think the claim here is that Hitler gained control not just because of what he could bring to Germany and the world, or what he thought he could bring. He gained control because of the state of Germany at the time. The author is recognizing the cruelty of Hitler's character, but he's also saying that if it wasn't for his cruelty, he probably would have come to power if he didn't have "extraordinary good luck". I don't really know if his opponents were weak; the German air force had a difficulty fighting off the British Air Force; and Hitler declared war on the US, thinking that because of their (US) vulnerability, Germany and himself could have easily won the war.
Alex Wong:
Claim: "Hitler's charismatic appeal and the youthful energies of his movement were attractive to large segments of a populace fearful of being ruined by economic and social disaster." (43 HCCR)
This is an interpretive claim made by the Britannica regarding Hitler's rise to power. There isn't any discussion or proof of Hitler's 'charismatic appeal' or 'youthful energies'. Perhaps it wasn't Hitler's personality which mattered as the text asserts. Perhaps Hitler's policies and proposals were ultimately what made him attractive to the German people.
Claim from Britannica: "Because Ebert had just left the building, his friend and fellow Majority Socialist Philipp Scheideremann felt called upon to address the crowd. To meet its inevitable demands for change and to forestall whatever Liebknecht might be telling his followers, Scheidemann in his speech used the phase 'Long Live the German Republic!'"(35).
Summary: The claim in this passage is that Scheidermann felt he needed to address the crowd to let them hear what they want to here about new change. It also claims he wanted to forestall what Liebknecht was telling his followers for a socialists republic.
In order for a claim to be true it needs to provide evidence that supports it. Britannica doesn't state the evidence that supports it claim
My claim is taken from "Beauty Without Sensuality: The Exhibition Entartete Kunst", p.122.
Claim: "Degeneration was, in its modern sense, a medical term used during the second half of the nineteenth century to identify the conditions of those who had departed from the "normal" because of shattered nerves, inherited abnormalities, or behavioral or sexual excess. "
This quote is more so a claim on the Nazi's view of art as through the author's point of view. The author obviously got this information from the Britannica, or elaborated on the art based on what the artist had seen. However, this definition of "Degenerate" art does not hold for the artists who created this art. Those who created art that later became labeled "Degenerate", were not mentally ill as the claim suggests, or even had physical deformities. The term "degenerate" is defined accordingly to how the Nazis want to believe it, and so the claim the author makes is definitely biased towards the Nazis. This makes sense since the author is quoting historical evidence of "degenerate" art, but makes a bold statement against the artists of the art.
"The elections on January 1919--the first German election in which women had voting rights--produced a resounding victory for Ebert's conception of democracy" ( 37).
The claim being made here is that Ebert's conception of democracy was supported so whole heartedly by the German populace that his victory was won resoundingly. This claim essentially is that Ebert beat his competition by a landslide margin and that his victory was so definite and so complete that it was "resounding"
Sorry I'm not 100% sure what I am supposed to do. It may be because I missed the beginning of class and should have asked what I had missed.
My claim is... "Nazi efforts to solve the 'Jewish problem' were in fact products of a vicious anti-Semitism propelled the Nazi regime toward increasingly extreme measures of persecution." (87)
The main point of this claim is that the Nazi believed there was a Jewish problem and in order to solve it, the Nazi persecuted their race. It shows what had driven the Nazi to perform their ruthless, vicious acts against the Jews for they saw the Jews as a problem, or the leading source of their impoverished conditions. The Nazi members had been disillusioned by their unfortunate conditions that they were willing to make up a source for their condition and was willing to do anything to eliminate that source.
Claim: Hitler made two dramatic foreign policy moves in 1938 that helped clarify for the world the extent of his less-than-pacific intentions. In March he annexed Austria to the Reich, justifying the Anschluss ("Annexation") as a fulfillment of the principle of German national self-determination.
(HCC Reader, 89. Schleunes)
This article has several claims. Hitler's control for the Soviet domination also included plans to extend his reign overseas, thus embedding the image of global domination into his skin. Additionally, his act of annexing Austria to become a "fulfillment of German national self-determination" further proved his desire to overthrow current government and instill the Nazi movement onto other foreign nations. Basically, Hitler was a madman!!!!!
"Nazi efforts to solve the "Jewish problem"were in fact products of a vicious anti-semitism that propelles the Nazi regime toward increasingly extreme measures of prosecution."
I think the term änti-semintism"is incorrect in this context because the semetic family includes the ancient and modern forms of Amharic, Arabic, Aramaic, Akkadian, Ge'ez, Hebrew, Phoenician, Maltese, Tigre and Tigrinya among others. Not just the jews as some people tend to make assumptions.
People refer to "zionism" as the "political movement" that originally supported the reestablishment of a homeland for the Jewish/Muslim People in Palestine, but now is a forefront for the mass genocide of the Muslim people.
There are differences between "political movements" and mass genocides.
Claim from “Totalitarian State.” “Nazi efforts to solve the “Jewish problem” were in fact products of a vicious anti-Semitism that propelled the Nazi regime toward increasingly extreme measures of persecution. SA terrorism, legislation expelling Jews from the civil service and universities, boycotts of Jewish businesses and professionals, and the eventual expropriation of Jewish-owned properties had by 1938 led to the emigration of roughly half of the 1933 Jewish population of 500,000 people.” ( pg. 85 HCC Reader)
The claim presented here in this paragraph is that the mounting resentment against the Jews and the Nazi Party’s attempts to destroy their race are effects of anti-Semitism which has driven the Party to commiting such malicious acts. By putting the words, the "Jewish problem" in quotation marks, the paragraph notes that claims of there being a problem with the Jews advocated by the Nazi Party is hypothetical and imagined. This paragraph is also claiming how wrong and immoral the Nazi Party was in the dehumanizing actions they took on the Jewish population with the second sentence.
"The Nazi's professed an idology, national socialism, that purported to champion the commin man, whom the portrayed as a victum in a world controlled by Jews." 90
There are 2 claims in said quote:
1)the first claim is that there the Nazi's provided something that would change an orfinary man into a champion, in this case it was the Nazi's regime and Socialism. Hitler offered the people hope by installing a new government.
2) the second claim is that the reason that germany isnt a land of champ's is beause the Jew has held them back. They work in a land of Jews and they are the ones who are causing the problem, it has nothing to do with socio-economic problems, its just jews...
Claim: By 1937 Germany was beginning to suffer from a labour shortage. It was equally important to inculcate workers with a sense of being an integral part of a racially based national community. For this the Nazis devised an elaborate program of subsidies for leisure-time activities for workers. (87)
The claim is that even though Germany had a labor shortage, the Nazi still created programs that provided leisure activities for workers. I think it’s arguable whether there was an equal trade-off between not having enough workers for the labor force and making the workers feel more integrated into the community.
Hitler's ideas included inequality among races, nations, and individuals as part of an unchangeable natural order that exalted the “Aryan race” as the creative element of mankind.
The claim that Hitlers ideas of inequality creates a negative image of Hitler. His ideas of a superior race made him seem vulgar and arrogant to think that one man can wipe out diversity to make what he wants.
There are a couple of claims I pulled from this Brittanica Online:
1st claim:"The Nazi's professed an ideology, national socialism, that purported to champion the common man, whom they portrayed as a victim in a world controlled by Jews." (85)
It is claiming that the Nazi's were tyring to make the common man better possibly. Their goal is to make him above what he is now. IT is also showing that the common man is being held back from being champion by the JEws because the Jews are taking over them
Another claim: "It was a combination, finally, of Hitler's daring and brutality, of the weaknesses of his opponents, and of numerous instances of exraordinary good luck that allowed him to establish his totalitarian dictatorship." (86)
This is showing that the only way that Hitler received his title as a dictator was by being brutal and daring. He was very forward possibly. Also, by stating that he got to that point by the weakness of his opponents suggests that Hitler was not weak, and that he was infact powerful. Another claim was that he got it by chance because it said it was by his good luck.
"[In] 1937 more than sixteen thousand examples of modern art were confiscated as 'degenerate' [...] The National Socialists rejected and censured virtually everything that had existed on the German modern art scene prior to 1933. Whether abstract or representational, the innocuously beautiful landscapes and portraits by August Macke, the expressionistically colored paintings by the popular Brucke artists Ernst Ludwing Kirchner, Emil Nolde, and Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, the biting social criticism of Max Beckmann, Otto Dix, and George Grosz, or the efforts of the Bauhaus artists to forge a new link between art and industry--all were equally condemned." (94-95)
Encyclopedia Britannica claims that with the rise of the National Socialists, they did not differentiate between any art on any grounds. Any "modern" art prior to 1933 was condemned, no questions asked.
Ironically, Britannica claims that all of the art was "equally condemned", when the decade between 1910 through 1920 showed a gaining popularity in racism, prevalent in the middle class (97).
The condemnation of modern art prior to 1933 is a harrowing harbinger to the mass genocide of the Jews during World War II.
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