What is the important thing you could do to reconstruct or sustain a community ( Read more... )

German Chaos: The Berlin Wall ( Read more... )

Issue paper: What are the issues of your topic? Pick a side and argue. Enter into a scholarly discussion about the causes of a specific event, the responses to that event. In the process of your research, you should begin looking for a place to publish your work ( Read more... )

What journal entry/reflection would you like to explore further? Who do you think you need to write to? Generate a preliminary bibliography. Find four sources that add to your understanding of your issue. For each source describe why this is an important resource about the issue you are interested in ( Read more... )

Enzenberger, Hans Magnus. Buchner-Preis-Rede. Europaische Verlagsanstalt: Eva Reden band 5, 1963 ( Read more... )

Well, here is my "thesis"-type thing for my "10-12 page essay": How did the construction of the Berlin wall affect the community and, in essence, represent the destruction of the German community at that time? I hope to be able to answer this question by looking at various "eye-witness" accounts (what life was like), by summarizing the economy at ( Read more... )

What are the ethical responsibilities of bearing witness to catastrophic events, either a “natural” such as an epidemic or genocide? Can you ethically create art centered on the Holocaust? Or about AIDS? Can you turn tragedy into art? What difference does art make? Does it make horror ‘beautiful’ or does it have another role to play ( Read more... )

How does the description of the communities by Levi differ from Defoe (or are they similar to Defoe, in what ways ( Read more... )

After reading Sontag’s article, what are the major metaphors Defoe uses in his fiction? How do these metaphors reflect his understanding of the plague? Would Defoe agree with Sontag ( Read more... )

How does Defoe represent a community falling apart? What are the most important techniques he uses to convey the disintegration of public/community bonds ( Read more... )