The Weimer Republic

   Article 13
Reich law breaks state law
If there are doubts or opposing opinions regarding if a state regulation harmonizes with Reich law, the respective Reich or central state authority may request according to the specification of Reich law,  Reich supreme court to decide in the matter.
   The article's meaning is as follows:  it states that those who live under the governing law and are unsatisfied with the governing law can petition the surpeme court to make such ruling to seek change on the local level.  This displays that the people of the said governing state or locality have the right to questions the governments laws placed upon said society.


 Article 120
It is the supreme oligation and natural right of the parents to raise their offspring to bodily, spiritual and social fitness, the governmental authority supervises it.
The article states that the parents of children under age are responible for their up brining on a emotional, physical, and spiritual wellness under the Reich law.  The law places control in the hands of the parent but warns that if the offspring are not protected the government has the right to intervene.
 My interpertation of this passage is that if the parents of under age children are held to the highest level of the childs totaol wellness for example: education, food, shelter and clothing which are all basic necessities in which America holds their parent so.  I believe that Article 120 would be fitting to today's society.  The youth of today lack respect and are so self absorbed within their own lives and are not able to grasp what life is truly about.  

 

Luxemburg Passage

The Luxemburg passage I choose states the following:
   The more that soical democracy develops, grows, and becomes stronger, the more the enlightened masses of workers will take their own destinies, the leadership of their movement, and the determination of its direction into their hands.  And as the entire social democracy movement is only the conscious advance  guard of the proletarian class movement, which in the words of the Communist Manifesto represents in every single moment of the struggle the permanent interests of the liberation and the partical group interest of the work force vis a vis the interests of the movement as whole, so within the social democracy its leaders are the more powerful, the more influential, the more clearly and consciously they make themselves merely the mouthpiece of the will and striving of the enlightened masses, merely the agents of the objective laws of the class movement.

This passage speacks to major events that took place in the last 2 elections of President Obama.  The passage speack to how his campaign was a grassroot effort that spoke to the voters who felt that they were the 99% of Americas the Repulican Candidate Romney didn't want to waste time seeking their vote back in 2011.  People will back a politican that is willing to have dialogue with the voters about their concerns for example economic, jobs, and education.  When America was introduced to a little known Congressman from Chicago who first got his feet wet at the Democratic Convention before entering the race for President.  He was a regular man who came from humble beginnings.  Obama prides himself on speaking for and to the people.  Obama's "power" comes from his ability to meet his voters right were they work and live.  

M for Murder

Let me start off by saying I enjoyed this film.  It offered a preview from 1929 forencis science to today's.  The film offered up earlier attempts at criminal profiling and criminal pathology.  I digress, the scene that I will like to explain is within the first 20 mintues of the film whn the murder is sitting at his kitchen window and wrote out his motives to the newspaper. He decided to contact the newspaper throoght a letter beccause, the police faled to catch him of even consider him as a suspect. In this secen he is methodically sitting at his kitchen window writing very hard on the paper as we begin to get a real idea of how ill this man truly ill and lack self-control.  In the scene it's alos displays a character that has the ability to hide in plain site within already desparte society searching for the anwers and the killer.  He is proves to be highly visible that lends itself to him being invisible in society.  

The Blue Angel

The first song I chose was "It's all a Swindle" and the lyrics I will focus on are
"Get what you can from your fellow man"
" Life is good knock on wood"

Bekommen, was sie komen von ihrer Mitmenschen, Lebenist gut klopfen auf Holz
I chose these of the song because, they speak to how the social structure affects the psychological behaviors and attitudes of people.
Ich habe mich fur diese teil des songsweil, wie die soziale strukturwirkt sich auf die psychologische Verhanltensweiser und Einstellungen der Menschen.

Dr. Caligare

Aftter viewing the slient film "Dr. Caligare" I will analyze a scene that brought my fear of a faceless monster to life.  As Dr. Caligare calls forth his "patient" Cesare the man who sleeps and only wakes upon his command.  Cesare emeraged in robotic like state with eyes open wide due to heavy tar like makeup around the eyes.  Through the scare, derange and slow movement it was visible signs of terror upon his face as well the audience.  Cesare is dresses all in black with a short bob haircut.  The auidence is drawn over to Dr. Caligare's tent with promise of witnessing a miracle of a man wacking from a deep sleep by a lone man claiming to have the ability to control him by the voice command.
The scene translate to me as a way of using mind control over people who are vulnerable, susceptible to mind control as the people are seeking a break from reality during difficult times.
I chose this scene because it reminded of images when America was hit with Great Depression in 1930.  As the people lined the streets for food and day labor many of them had the same facial expressions as the people in under Dr. Caligare tent.  The scene relates to the class by displaying the sentiment of the time in Germany in which the people are seeking national stability.

Siddhartha

The passage is from a book I read my freshaman year of college, and the title "Why Are The Black Kids Sitting Togehter in the Cafeteria?" written by Beverly Daniel Tatum, PH. D.  "The impact of racism gegins early.  Even in our preschool years, we are exposed to misinformation about people different from ourselves.  Many of us grew up in neighborhods where we had limited opportunities to interact with people different from our families.
The meaning of the passage I've chosen just proves that there is still  a great deal of social segregation  in our communities.  Mainly this comes from a lack of knowledge and secondhand information we receive has been distorted, shaped by cultural sterotypes, and left imcomplete.
This passage is important to me because, when I first arrived in America I was treated horribly by the students in my 5th grade class.  I had a heavy Caribbean accent as teased everyday.  My mother had to explain that "most American's" believe that if you don't speak "english" your different.  I thought it was strange but, as a child I knew I spoke english and could'nt figure out why my english wasn't the proper version of english?  I felt leftout and alienated from my peers. Finally I realized what the issue was, and it was my accent and how I pronounced words.  It was a difficult time for me but back then and as I work with children I remind them and my own daughter that you can't judge others because you feel that they are not what your use to.

"The Scream"

The artist that I've chosen to write about is Edvard Munch (1863-1944).  He was a norwegin painter who evocative  treatment of psychological themes built tenets of the late 19th century and influenced German Expressionism.  Born december 12, 1865 he was raised by his father who suffered from menatl illness.  His father used fear of hell and deep rooted issuess which lead to why Edvard work took a deeper tone.  Munch was influenced by impressionism artist Claude Monet, Edward Manet and Von Gogh.  A majority of his work depicts life, death, love, terror and feelings of loneliness.  The emotions were depicted by his use of lines, the darkes colors, blocks of color and somber tones, which depicted the darker side of the art he designed.

The title of the piece is "The Scream" (1893)

My interpertation of the piece is genderless person with to figures in the background with their backs turned as if to not wanting to bare witness to this persons anguish.  It dipicts a moment of psychic calamity.  The techniques used are cartoonish like the figures face. The colors are from one end of the color specturm to the other from dark to bright.  The colors are ultramarine blue, lead, white, cadmium yellow, pale blue, pale orange, red and green just to name a few.  And finally he used Linseed oil with beeswax one of the four versions of this piece.