Intermediate Examination Paper from the year 2002 in the subject American Studies - Culture and Applied Geography, grade: 1,7, Humboldt-University of Berlin (Department of English and American Studies), course: Introduction to US Cultural Science II: "The Thirties," 10 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: Although much of Langston Hughes's and Richard Wright's writing expressed social protest, there is one genre -the essay- that has gone largely unnoticed. In the eyes of Hughes and Wright, custom, tradition and religion may be seen as some of the root causes of racism...

Seminar paper from the year 2005 in the subject Literature - Comparative Literature, grade: 1,0, Brown University (Department of History), course: European Intellectual History: Discovering the Modern, 12 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: Although political philosophers like Jean-Jacques Rousseau, John Locke and Thomas Hobbes thought it important that all individuals be free to govern themselves, they often based their theories of representative democracy on the nuclear family as the smallest unit in society. Since families are formed by individuals, how is it possible...

Seminar paper from the year 2004 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 2,0, Brown University (Department of American Civilization), course: Cultures of Imperialism: Race and Gender, 19 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: This essay seeks to draw a comparison between Thorstein Veblen's and Charlotte Perkins Gilman's most respective books "The Theory of the Leisure Class" and "Women and Economics." The purpose of this essay is to show how Veblen's basic theory of the Leisure Class relates to Gilman's notion of power relations between the sexes in the 19th...

Seminar paper from the year 2005 in the subject American Studies - Miscellaneous, grade: 1, Brown University (Department of American Civilization), course: Trauma and Shame of the Unspeakable, 20 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: One event that turned "ostalgia" - the term given to the nostalgia felt for East Germany - into an unstoppable popular movement in the spring of 2003 was the overwhelming success of Wolfgang Becker's film, Goodbye, Lenin, a tragicomic satire set during the time of German reunification. Becker's film portrays the East's total dissolution into...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2013 im Fachbereich Geschichte Europa - and. Lander - Mittelalter, Fruhe Neuzeit, Note: 1,7, Humboldt-Universitat zu Berlin (Institut fur Geschichtswissenschaften), Veranstaltung: Transformation der Antike im Mittelalter, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Diese Arbeit versteht sich als legitime Ubung im Rahmen eines Hauptseminares der Geschichtswissenschaften im Sinne einer methodischen wie begrifflichen Einarbeitung in die Transformationstheorie, die sich als Konzept zur Erforschung kulturellen Wandels anbietet. Die Transformationstheorie beansprucht "ein...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2011 im Fachbereich Geschichte - Amerika, Note: 3,0, Humboldt-Universitat zu Berlin (Institut fur Geschichtswissenschaften), Veranstaltung: HS Menschenrechte, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Neuere Untersuchungen der US-Menschenrechtspolitik kommen zu dem Schluss, dass der Regierung Carter von Anfang an bewusst war, dass die Ausrichtung der Auenbeziehungen an menschenrechtlichen Grundsatzen uneinheitlich und kein allumfassendes Kriterium der Regierungspolitik sein konne. Die US-Menschenrechtspolitik von 1977-1981 war eine Abwendung von der als unzeitgema erachteten...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2013 im Fachbereich Geschichte Europa - Deutschland - Neuere Geschichte, Note: 1,0, Humboldt-Universitat zu Berlin (Institut fur Geschichtswissenschaften), Veranstaltung: Diktaturen erleben. Nationalsozialismus und Stalinismus in Briefen, Tagebuchern und Memoiren, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Mit ihrer Veroffentlichung in den Jahren 2001 sowie 2003, erreichen Heinrich Bolls "Briefe aus dem Krieg" und Willy Peter Reeses Tagebuch "Mir selber seltsam fremd" eine am Krieg unbeteiligte Generation. Welche Rolle spielte der Einzelne am Kriegsgeschehen, wie involviert war er...

Thesis (M.A.) from the year 2013 in the subject American Studies - Culture and Applied Geography, grade: 1,7, Humboldt-University of Berlin (Institut fur Anglistik und Amerikanistik), language: English, abstract: "Office Space" recently gained cult status for its parody of the realities of postmodern work combined with a fundamental critique of late twentieth century forms of corporate management. Although it was filmed in 1999, and work conditions have since changed, paid occupational labor is more relevant for individual identity projects than ever. Office Space effectively presents the...