Zachary Jenkins wrote a new post, Die 95 Thesen, on the site German 260 Blog
Als ich diesen Artikel geliest habe, bin ich überrascht. Wir haben in der Klasse gelesen, dass Martin Luther “nur ein Reformer wurde sein”. Aber ich habe gedacht, dass er viel mehr anders machen...
View ArticleZachary Jenkins wrote a new post, Emilia Galotti, on the site German 260 Blog
Emilia Galotti ist, in den Wörter des Schriftstellers, ein bürgerliches Trauerspiel. Es ist nicht nur eine Tragödie, aber eine Tragödie des Volks. Die ganze Konflikt des Spiels fangt an mit der Wille...
View ArticleZachary Jenkins wrote a new post, Vor dem Erwachen, on the site German 260 Blog
die Dynamik zwischen Edith und Hans in der Geschichte Vor dem Erwachen ist das Mittelstuck der Etage. Auf dieser Grund, denke ich dass diese Beziehung am grossten Interessant ist. Am ersten, hat Hans...
View ArticleZachary Jenkins wrote a new post, Der Ausflug Der Toten Mädchen, on the site...
Der Geschichte Der Ausflug Der Toten Mädchen spricht uber der Gewalt des Kriegs. Durch die Erzählung hören wir einzige Geschichten von den Klassenkameraden der Ezahlerin. Jede Geschichte hat eine...
View ArticleZachary Jenkins wrote a new post, Semester Reflection, on the site German 260...
Discussionsfrage: 1. Ich will mehr über dem ganzen Feld “Deutschstudien” lernen. Was ist “Deutschstudien”? Ich weiss, dass es eine Mischung von Kulturstudien, Geschichte und Ethnographie. Aber wie...
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Zachary Jenkins wrote a new post, The Question of Brazil's Deepening Economic...
A recent article in The Economist, titled “Irredeemable?”, highlights growing concerns as to Brazil’s financial stability and solubility. Brazil, states The Economist, while once a shining example in...
View ArticleZachary Jenkins wrote a new post, Wikipedia Entry: Gilda de Abreu, on the...
My chosen article is on Gilda de Abreu, a female film director working in the 1930s and 40s. The article is currently extremely short, consisting of a sentence-long introduction, a paragraph on her...
View ArticleZachary Jenkins wrote a new post, Scalar Analysis, on the site Samba, Soccer,...
The Scalar project Bad Objects 2.0: Games and Gamers, created by Brad Anderson, hopes to analyze a particularly contemporary source of anxiety within the film industry—that of the increasingly...
View ArticleZachary Jenkins wrote a new post, Class Notes, 2/2: Slavery and Brazil, on...
Our class began with a map quiz. Afterwards we discussed the material for next class, including the topic of our future multimedia presentations. After that, we began to discuss the historical matters...
View ArticleZachary Jenkins wrote a new post, Blog Post, 2/9, on the site Samba, Soccer,...
Two factors distinguish Jean de Lery from his contemporaries in the Brazilian colony. The first is his nationality—de Lery was French, rather than Portugese. The second is his status as a Huguenot, a...
View ArticleZachary Jenkins wrote a new post, Research Paper: Calha Norte and Rain Forest...
My research project will examine the nuances of rain forest control from an economic and political security standpoint. It will focus specifically upon the Calha Norte (Northern Headwaters) project, a...
View ArticleZachary Jenkins wrote a new post, Discussion Question, on the site Samba,...
My discussion question is, to what degree has Brazil’s relationship with musical culture shifted since samba’s establishment as the national music in the 1930s. Answer: It seems that, in this...
View ArticleZachary Jenkins wrote a new post, Racial Parity and National Humor, on the...
In his article on Carmen Miranda, Davis discusses the discursive manners in which the singer/actress both subverted and enforced burgeoning class and racial divides in Brazil. As middle-class, white...
View ArticleZachary Jenkins wrote a new post, Blog Post, 4/14, on the site Samba, Soccer,...
There exists an interesting comparison between the current political crisis in Brazil and the 1964 coup– in neither case did the individuals perpetrating the upheaval think of themselves as ousters. In...
View ArticleZachary Jenkins wrote a new post, Pretty Modern Question, Pt 2, on the site...
In Chapter 1, Edmonds discussed the effects globalization had on shifting beauty standards. How has globalization similarly affected notions of race and racial pride in Brazil? A: It both has and has...
View ArticleZachary Jenkins wrote a new post, Intimate Matters: Seeds of Change, on the...
Over the course of the eighteenth century, sexual relations and social regulation of such increasingly became the purview of the public, rather than private or communal, sphere. These changes were...
View ArticleZachary Jenkins wrote a new post, Pretty Modern Blog Post 3, on the site...
Question: How does aesthetic medicine reorder the woman’s sexual ‘life cycle’ within Brazil? Answer: The potential of what is considered to be ‘revitalizing’ surgery collapses the traditional...
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