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German Level 4, Activity 13: Berufe / Professions (Online)
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In this activity, students will discuss what they look for in a career and what their dream job is.They will also describe what people with different careers do at work and what kind of personalities do well in these jobs.

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Languages
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Author:
Shawn Moak
Mimi Fahnstrom
Amber Hoye
Date Added:
04/19/2022
Germany and its European Context
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This course focuses on main currents in contemporary German literary and visual culture. Taking Nietzsche’s thought as a point of departure, students will survey the dialectics of tradition and modernity in both Germany and other European countries, particularly the UK, France, Denmark, and Poland. Primary works are drawn from literature, cinema, art, and performance, including works by Peter Sloterdijk, Thomas Vinterberg, and Michel Houellebecq.

Subject:
Arts and Humanities
English Language Arts
Literature
Reading Literature
Social Science
World Cultures
Material Type:
Full Course
Provider:
MIT
Provider Set:
MIT OpenCourseWare
Author:
Scribner, Charity
Date Added:
09/01/2002
In the Mountains of New Mexico
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At age twenty-seven, physicist Philip Morrison joined the Manhattan Project, the code name given to the U.S. government's covert effort at Los Alamos to develop the first nuclear weapon. The Manhattan Project was also the most expensive single program ever financed by public funds. In this video segment, Morrison describes the charismatic leadership of his mentor, J. Robert Oppenheimer, and the urgency of their mission to manufacture a weapon 'which if we didn't make first would lead to the loss of the war." In the interview Morrison conducted for War and Peace in the Nuclear Age: 'Dawn,' he describes the remote, inaccessible setting of the laboratory that operated in extreme secrecy. It was this physical isolation, he maintains, that allowed scientists extraordinary freedom to exchange ideas with fellow physicists. Morrison also reflects on his wartime fears. Germany had many of the greatest minds in physics and engineering, which created tremendous anxiety among Allied scientists that it would win the atomic race and the war, and Morrison recalls the elaborate schemes he devised to determine that country's atomic progress. At the time that he was helping assemble the world's first atomic bomb, Morrison believed that nuclear weapons 'could be made part of the construction of the peace.' A month after the war, he toured Hiroshima, and for several years thereafter he testified, became a public spokesman, and lobbied for international nuclear cooperation. After leaving Los Alamos, Morrison returned to academia. For the rest of his life he was a forceful voice against nuclear weapons.

Subject:
Arts and Humanities
Economics
History
Political Science
Social Science
U.S. History
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Diagram/Illustration
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Provider:
PBS LearningMedia
Provider Set:
WGBH Open Vault
Date Added:
02/26/1986
Irishmen - Avenge the Lusitania. Join An Irish Regiment to-Day
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Poster showing the Lusitania in flames and sinking, with people in the water and lifeboats in the foreground. Title from item. Wt. P. 110 - 7,500. 5/'15.

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History
U.S. History
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Diagram/Illustration
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Library of Congress
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Library of Congress - World War I Posters
Date Added:
06/18/2013
Is Your Home Worth Fighting For? it Will Be too Late to Fight When the Enemy is at Your Door, So Join to-Day
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Poster showing a family at home, surprized by German soldiers bearing bayonets. Title from item. P 661.

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History
U.S. History
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Diagram/Illustration
Primary Source
Provider:
Library of Congress
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Library of Congress - World War I Posters
Date Added:
06/18/2013
Nazi Germany and the Holocaust
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The rise and fall of National Socialism is one of the most intensively-studied topics in European history. Nevertheless, after more than half a century, popular views of Nazism in the media and among the public remain simplistic-essentialized by equal parts fascination and horror. Adolf Hitler, for instance, is often portrayed as an evil genius of supernatural ability; while the Nazi state is similarly imagined to have held absolute power over every aspect of its subjects’ lives. Such characterizations allow ordinary Germans to be portrayed as helpless victims of Nazism, ensnared or coerced into submission by forces beyond their control. Another popular characterization is that German culture itself is fundamentally flawed - that all Germans were basically Nazis at heart. This schema conveniently erases the manifestations of fascism in other Western nations, and allows Americans and other Westerners to reassure themselves that the horrors of Nazism could never emerge in their own enlightened national cultures.

Subject:
Anthropology
Arts and Humanities
History
Political Science
Social Science
World History
Material Type:
Full Course
Provider:
MIT
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MIT OpenCourseWare
Author:
Ciarlo, David
Date Added:
09/01/2004
Only the Navy Can Stop This
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Poster showing a florid German soldier, wearing pirate skull-and-crossbones and brandishing a bloody sword as he wades in a tide of women's and children's bodies. Printed by the U.S. Navy Publicity Bureau, N.Y. The U.S. Navy Publicity Bureau gratefully acknowledges its indebtedness to the New York Herald for the reproduction of Mr. Rogers' cartoon. Forms part of: Willard and Dorothy Straight Collection.

Subject:
History
U.S. History
Material Type:
Diagram/Illustration
Primary Source
Provider:
Library of Congress
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Library of Congress - World War I Posters
Date Added:
06/18/2013
Out of Ground Zero: Catastrophe and Memory
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Within twenty-four hours of the attack on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001 politicians, artists, and cultural critics had begun to ask how to memorialize the deaths of thousands of people. This question persists today, but it can also be countered with another: is building a monument the best way to commemorate that moment in history? What might other discourses, media, and art forms offer in such a project of collective memory? How can these cultural formations help us to assess the immediate reaction to the attack? To approach these issues, “Out of Ground Zero” looks back to earlier sites of catastrophe in Germany and Japan.

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Anthropology
Arts and Humanities
English Language Arts
Literature
Reading Literature
Social Science
Sociology
Material Type:
Full Course
Provider:
MIT
Provider Set:
MIT OpenCourseWare
Author:
Scribner, Charity
Date Added:
09/01/2005
Politics of Security: British and West German Protest Movements and the Early Cold War 1945-1970
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The Politics of Security tells the story of how people experienced the cold war as a war. It is about the impact of the cold war on political cultures. This crucial issue is often forgotten in historical memory. In particular, the book follows British and West German anti-nuclear-weapons activists in their attempts to campaign for and create security after the destruction of the Second World War, and how their own version of security clashed with concepts advanced by their own governments. But the book also demonstrates how, as part of the protests against nuclear weapons, activists and their societies learned to live with the Bomb: it recounts how activists first discovered the dangers of nuclear weapons, but how a different generation of activists came to focus on other issues as the Vietnam War became their primary concern. And it makes comprehensible how activists in two societies who had fought each other fiercely in the battle of dictatorships and democracies of the Second World War could now come to see each other as part of a common campaign. Fundamentally, with its transnational approach, the book highlights how these two societies drew on very similar arguments when they came to understand the cold war through the prism of the previous world war. The book is the first to capture in a transnational fashion what activists did on the marches and what it meant to them and to others. The book thus reminds us that threats are not merely out there, but that they need to be created in a political process that involves struggles for power and contestation.

Subject:
Political Science
Social Science
Material Type:
Reading
Provider:
Oxford University Press
Author:
Holger Nehring
Date Added:
01/01/2013
Remember!
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Picture of a German soldier (a Hun) carrying a torch and a bloody knife, and a salesman. They are one and the same person. Translation of title: Remember! Signed: F. Gottlob. Another issue: POS - Fr .E26, no. 2 (with text in French). Promotional goal: Fr. J49. 1919. Item is no. 149 in a printed checklist available in the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Reading Room.

Subject:
History
U.S. History
Material Type:
Diagram/Illustration
Primary Source
Provider:
Library of Congress
Provider Set:
Library of Congress - World War I Posters
Date Added:
06/18/2013
Rumania's Day
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Poster showing the Kaiser and the King of Romania arguing while examining a map. Caption: The two forces. Kaiser: "So you, too, are against me! Remember, Hindenburg fights on my side." King of Roumania [sic]: "Yes, but freedom and justice fight on mine." Reproduced by special permission of the proprietors of "Punch." Title from item.

Subject:
History
U.S. History
Material Type:
Diagram/Illustration
Primary Source
Provider:
Library of Congress
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Library of Congress - World War I Posters
Date Added:
06/18/2013
Stuck, The Sin
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Franz von Stuck, The Sin, 1893 (Neue Pinakothek, Munich) Speakers: Dr. Beth Harris & Dr. Steven Zucker. Created by Beth Harris and Steven Zucker.

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Art History
Arts and Humanities
Material Type:
Lesson
Provider:
Khan Academy
Provider Set:
Smarthistory
Author:
SmartHistory
Date Added:
12/31/2012
To Prevent This - Buy War Savings Certificates Now
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Poster showing German soldiers overseeing slave labor in a factory, and whipping one of the workers. B3002 Wt 5852/2598 10M 6/18. E3114. Title from item.

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History
U.S. History
Material Type:
Diagram/Illustration
Primary Source
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Library of Congress
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Library of Congress - World War I Posters
Date Added:
06/18/2013
Topics in the Avant-Garde in Literature and Cinema
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21G.031 examines the terms “avant garde” and “Kulturindustrie” in French and German culture of the early twentieth century. Considering the origins of these concepts in surrealist and dadaist literature, art, and cinema, the course then expands to engage parallel formations across Europe, particularly in the former Soviet Union. Emphasis on the specific historical conditions that enabled these interventions. Guiding questions are these: What was original about the historical avant-garde? What connections between art and revolution did avant-garde writers and artists imagine? What strategies did they deploy to meet their modernist imperatives? To what extent did their projects maintain a critical stance towards the culture industry?
Surveying key interventions in the fields of poetry, painting, sculpture, photography, film, and music, the readings also include signal moments in critical thought of the last century. Figures to be considered are: Adorno, Aragon, Bataille, Beckett, Brecht, Breton, Bürger, Duchamp, Eisenstein, Ernst, Jünger, Greenberg, Kandinsky, Malevich, Mayakovsky, and Tzara. Taught in English, but students are encouraged to consult original sources when possible.

Subject:
Anthropology
Art History
Arts and Humanities
Career and Technical Education
English Language Arts
Film and Music Production
Literature
Reading Literature
Social Science
Visual Arts
Material Type:
Full Course
Provider:
MIT
Provider Set:
MIT OpenCourseWare
Author:
Scribner, Charity
Date Added:
02/01/2003
Who feeds Paris?
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Drawn from Wheelan's 2019 work published by Norton, this reading provides a brief and engaging introduction to economics for high school students and beyond.See bottom half of document for Spanish version. 

Subject:
Economics
Material Type:
Reading
Author:
Jenoge Khatter
Date Added:
01/11/2023
World History in the Early Modern and Modern Eras (1600-Present)
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This course will present a comparative overview of world history from the 17th century to the present era. The student will examine the origins of major economic, political, social, cultural, and technological trends of the past 400 years and explore the impact of these trends on world societies. Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to: Think critically about world history in the early modern and modern eras; Assess how global trade networks shaped the economic development of Asia, Europe, and the Americas in the 17th and 18th centuries; Identify the origins of the Reformation and Counter-Reformation in Europe and assess the social and political consequences of these movements for the peoples of Europe; Identify the origins of the Enlightenment in Europe and assess how Enlightenment ideas led to political and social revolutions in Europe and the Americas; Identify the origins of the Scientific and Industrial Revolutions in Europe and assess how these intellectual and economic movements altered social, political, and economic life across the globe in the 18th and 19th centuries; Compare and contrast how European imperialism affected the states and peoples of Asia, Africa, and the Americas in the 19th century; Identify the origins of World War I and analyze how the war's outcome altered economic and political balances of power throughout the world; Identify the origins of totalitarian political movements across the globe in the 1920s and 1930s and assess how these movements led to World War II; Analyze how World War II reshaped power balances throughout the world and led to the emergence of the United States and the Soviet Union as global superpowers; Assess how decolonization movements in the 1950s and 1960s altered political, economic, and social relationships between the United States, the nations of Europe, and developing countries throughout the world; Assess how the end of the Cold War led to political and economic realignments throughout the world and encouraged the growth of new global markets and systems of trade and information exchange; Analyze and interpret primary source documents from the 17th century through the present, using historical research methods. (History 103)

Subject:
History
World History
Material Type:
Assessment
Full Course
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Lecture Notes
Reading
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Textbook
Provider:
The Saylor Foundation
Date Added:
11/21/2011