Part A

Class blog Review

David Sufficool

1.         Paste the url of the reviewed blog first.

http://ge110davids.blogspot.com/

2.         Why did the blog draw your interest as you started reviewing it, why not?

The blog drew my interest because of obvious and clear ideas with the information.

3.         How much care did the blog author show for her or his blog? How can you tell?

Actually the author gave his blog more attention and it seems that he spent times to make it perfect.

4.         How would you rate the overall informative quality on a scale of 1-5 (five is high)

This blog is completed, so I would give it 5/5.

5.         How would you rate the readability of the blog on a scale of 1-5 (five is high)

It is perfect blog and I would rate it 5/5 because all the posts are understandable.

6.         Compared to your own blog, is the reviewed blog better, the same, or worse?

To compare this blog and my own blog I think they both are kind of similar.

1.         Paste the URL of the reviewed blog first.

-http://ge110tabithak.blogspot.com/

2- Why did the blog draw your interest as you started reviewing it, why not?

It drew my interest because it is easy to understand.

3-   How much care did the blog author show for her or his blog? How can you tell?

It seems that the author took care of his blog and I can tell because it is clear.

4-   How would you rate the overall informative quality on a scale of 1-5 (five is high)

I would give this blog 5/5.

5-   How would you rate the readability of the blog on a scale of 1-5 (five is high)

I would give this blog 5/5 because it is interesting to read and get some ideas from it.

6-   Compared to your own blog, is the reviewed blog better, the same, or worse?

Comparing this blog and my own one I think there is no difference.

1-   Paste the URL of the reviewed blog first.

http://ge110calvinsm.blogspot.com

2- Why did the blog draw your interest as you started reviewing it, why not?

It drew my interest because this blog has some interesting ideas are put into the posts.

3-How much care did the blog author show for her or his blog? How can you tell?

The author did care about this blog and that is obvious to see.

4-   How would you rate the overall informative quality on a scale of 1-5 (five is high)

Deserves 5/5.

5-   How would you rate the readability of the blog on a scale of 1-5 (five is high)

I would give this blog 5/5 because it is organized.

6-   Compared to your own blog, is the reviewed blog better, the same, or worse?

To compare this blog and my own blog I would say they are same thing.

Part B

Benefits and Recommendation of The Class

First of all, we all know the class may give the students a lot of different benefits and divers information specially if the students would pay attention to the lecture instead of focusing on something out of the class or rather is not related to the class. In order to gain benefits from the classes you should understand some points. First, do not even try to underestimate the importance of the class, do the assignment at the time of the due, attend the class unless you do not have hospitalization excuse, and do not hesitate to ask the professor about what you do not understand. This class is about the German culture and not just about the people life but about how this country has been developing and growing because the explanations from the lecture during this semester were seeking to deliver important points and information to the students. For example, discussing about the industrial and inventions. About myself, I can testify that German has distinguished invention between the other countries and the example of that is how they accurately analyze the information to create better cars such as BMW. However, I learned about the people, social life, freedom, inventions, industrials, and government.  Secondly, the German culture class is one of the best classes that I have ever taken because I really confess that I gained many benefits and learned how to make researches and get difficult information such as the economics. Lastly, I would say I enjoyed my times in the class and loved learning about cultures of different countries and improving the knowledge of divers things.

The baader meinhof Complex

Baader meinhof complex is an extremely interesting film was published in 2008, the film is written by Bernd Eichinger and all the events with the ideas are based on some book that has exactly the same name of the film. However, this film talks about some incidents have happened when the shah of Iran decided to travel to German, at the same time there were some people from German didn’t like to see Mr. Shah in their country and he was heading to west Berlin and actually he intended to visit West Berlin because he was looking forward to see the opera. In that time the people who were completely refused that visiting have shown up to prevent Shahs appearance, so there was a number of attack on the people who were protesting and one of the Germans people was killed at that time, that incident has convinced many German people to participate in that protest. A journalist name Ulrike Meinhof has wrote some article climacteric. Ulrike Meinhof did her best to arouse Gudrun Ensslin and Andreas Baader, after that they moved to the bomb department for training and they spent sometime there, then they went back to German as an armed organization, which is ( RAF). The government of German expects that RAF organization like terrorist. The RAF killed a lot of innocent people and that was for nothing. In 1973 to 1995 the RAF had been involved for many number of attacks.

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our presentation about rulers and politics.
In 18th century.

Introduction

The 18^th century is the period ranging from January 1, 1701 to December 31, 1800 while the 19^th ranges from the period of January 1, 1801 to December 31, 1900. The German state during the 18^th century was known as the Prussia empire, “a kingdom and historic state originating out of the Duchy of Prussia and the Margraviate of Brandenburg, and centered on the region of Prussia”(Clark, 12)

Political Status

The break of the 18^th century found the Hohenzollern dynasty in power; a group of hierarchical kings that ruled Prussia from 1640. The reforms agenda put by Fredrick William, established Prussia as a powerhouse. Fredrick William’s internal reforms saw the establishment of a permanent system of taxation and slotted a big percentage of that revenue into establishing a permanent and standing army. The rise of Fredrick William 1 into power found a stable empire which he cemented by combining with healthy government finances. 1740 saw him bequeathing power to his son, Fredrick William 2, who used the stable state of the nation and a stable army to expand the empire into current Germany and Europe (Clark 33).

The 18^th century, found Prussia in conflict with Austria and the accusation of the rich province of Silesia and potions of Poland. The century saw the emergence of states and the emerging of Saxony as a great player in the unity of German as a state. The napoleon wars elevated the states of Bavaria (1806), Saxony (1807) and Hanover (1814), into significant status, with the choice of whether to side with Prussia or Austria as a significant choice (35-36).

A combination of Napoleon wars and the French aggression, gave Prussia extensive lands around the Rhine and the Moselle and Williams turned all his empire states into a custom free zone giving him a leadership status in Germany. The 1848 Munich riots saw the abdication of power by the Bavarian king, Louis 1, to his son and the resignation of Vienna chancellor due to unrest. Berlin unrest saw William 4 propose a national assembly and a constitution (Clark 37).

Following its involvement in the Dutch succession war and the acquisition of Schleswig-Holstein (1848-1864), the state of Prussia attacked Hanover, Saxony and Hesse-Kassel due to loyalty claims and won. Bismarck, an army general, attacked Austria and annexed Vienna, made a peace treaty with them. With a weakened Austria, Bismarck turned his attention to France and the 1870-71period saw the rise of the Franco-Prussia war, which he won and acquired the rich states of Alsace and most of Lorraine. Fredrick William was declared emperor. William 1 died in 1888 and a few months later Fredrick 3 died; Bismarck was forced to resign. The later years of the 19^th century saw the uncertainty in German politics (Clark 76-82).

Work cited

Clark, Christopher. Iron Kingdom: The Rise and Downfall of Prussia, 1600-1947. Cambridge:      Belknap Press. (2008).