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Talk:2009 BM1 Introduction to the Critical and Scholarly Discussion of Literature, Lecture Course

2009-09-01T08:31:11Z

Julia Goebel:

I would really like to take another look at the PPP from last week's lecture. I didn't take down everything since the PPP was said to be made available and I do find it tricky now to reconstruct the lecture even with the help of last year's lecture, which, I do admit, was rather similar.
Could they please be made accessable?

Thanks in advance!

Best,
Fabian Nattkämper

Wann kann man denn mit den Noten des Moduls rechnen? Da wir uns bereits am 17.9. für die AMs anmelden müssen, wäre es doch gut zu wissen, ob man überhaupt bestanden hat....

Talk:Lecture BM1, Summer 2009: Written Test

2009-06-16T06:20:44Z

Julia Goebel: New page: Shouldn't the last note concern question 1 as there are any topics in question 2 that could be deleted as we are free to choose a period on our own?

Shouldn't the last note concern question 1 as there are any topics in question 2 that could be deleted as we are free to choose a period on our own?

Talk:Stud.IP

2009-03-17T10:25:17Z

Julia Goebel:

When exactly on the 16th of March are we able to make our choices?
::cf. [[Stud.IP]]. --[[User:Anna Auguscik|Anna Auguscik]] 10:50, 5 March 2009 (UTC)

== Anmeldung ==
Find immer nur noch BM 5.
Introduction to Anglophone Cultural Studies Part 2 = keine Einträge gefunden :(
::Die BMs sind alle sichtbar. Es melden sich auch schon Studenten an. Da das BM2 gruppiert ist, kann man sich hier nur in eine der sieben Parallelveranstaltungen anmelden. Grüße, [[User:Anna Auguscik|Anna Auguscik]] 08:28, 16 March 2009 (UTC)

Ja, nur wenn einem immer nur die Wartungsseite gezeigt wird, während die Seminare sich füllen....das ist etwas deprimierned.
::Geduld - bei sieben Parallelveranstaltungen werden alle bedient. Tief durchatmen. Zunächst andere Veranstaltungen wählen, dann noch mal hinschauen. [[User:Anna Auguscik|Anna Auguscik]] 08:36, 16 March 2009 (UTC)

Das ging auch nur bis eben, so ca. bis halb 10, aber auch eher schlecht als recht. Ich denke, dass jetzt keiner mehr rein kommt. Wird schon irgendwie klappen. Also sieht jeder nun die hübsche Wartungsseite mit den roten großen Lettern.

Alle Bm5 sind voll und es gibt keine Warteliste...ich habe versucht einen Dozenten per mail wegen eines Platzes anzufragen, aber der ist verreist. Was kann ich sonst noch machen?

Also ich war gerade bei stud.ip und es sind nur drei BM5 Veranstaltungen voll. Es gibt noch jede Menge Plätze, auch zu guten Zeiten (also nicht nur Freitags...

Talk:2008-09 BM2 Introduction to Anglophone Cultural Studies, Part 1

2009-03-03T08:25:29Z

Julia Goebel:

Ich hatte im 1. Semester die glorreiche Idee BM2 zu schieben. Als "Ersti" hatte ich das Gefühl nicht alles gut genug schaffen zu können, wenn ich mich auf soviel konzentriere. Nun kann ich leider viele Aufbaumodule nicht belegen, weil BM2 vorausgesetzt wird. Ist es möglich wenn ich jetzt mit dem BM2 anfange parallel so ein Blockseminar im Februar zu besuchen? Dann hätte ich ja wenigstens den 1. Teil vom BM2 schon mal. Ärgerlich. Da habe ich mich wohl im 1. Semester verkalkuliert. 
:...schon per e-mail geregelt, machen wir, auch im Interesse des Blockseminars. --[[User:Olaf Simons|Olaf Simons]] 15:25, 27 August 2008 (CEST)
::Dann wäre eine für alle sichtbare Antwort an dieser Stelle sinnvoll (gewesen), da ich mir denken kann, dass diese Frage mehrere Studenten haben (und hier gucken, ob es eine Antwort darauf gibt). Deshalb fake edit. [[User:Verena Engelhardt|Verena Engelhardt]] 15:26, 27 August 2008 (CEST)

Wo steht eigentlich nochmal die Info welche chapter wir jedesmal vorbereiten sollen?

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Die Fragen am Ende der letzten Vorlesung haben es wieder einmal gezeigt; Keiner weiß, was man denn genau lernen muss für die Klausur.
Und irgendwie habe ich pers. auch den Eindruck dass zwischen den Lektoren keine Übereinstimmung bezüglich dieser Frage herrscht.
Das ganze wirkt dann auch auf die Tutoriengestaltung, und mittlerweile sind es nur noch ca. 10 Personen, die erscheinen(Freitags zumindest).[[User:Dimitri.simons|Dimitri.simons]] 17:41, 2 December 2008 (UTC)

:Hier eine kurze Vorinformation zum written test
:* Dauer: 60 Minuten + etwas Reservezeit
:* Teil 1: (30 Minuten) kurze Faktenfragen, möglicherweise multiple choice, die in die verschiedenen Bereiche gehen und Breite des gemeinwissens erfassen
:* Teil 2: Zwei Fragen (Bearbeitungszeit je 15 Minuten) auszuwählen aus sechs Fragen (zu verschiedenen Gebieten der Vorlesung) - mit dem Ziel, Raum für eine knappe Darstellung von Zusammenhänge respektive Argumentationen zu geben

:Vorbereitung: Wir werden in der Sitzung zum 17. Dezember zwei Listen ausgeben. Die erste besteht aus Daten und Ereignissen, die Euch etwas sagen müssen, die zweite, nennt Personen, über deren historische Bedeutung ihr ein knappes Bild haben solltet. Ihr könnt die Informationen aus den Powerpoint Folien beziehen oder aus Medien wie Wikipedia.
:Die sechs eingehenderen Fragen, aus denen Ihr zwei auszuwählen habt, um 15 Minuten darüber zu schreiben nehmen Fragen auf, die in den Präsentationen gestellt wurden. --[[User:Olaf Simons|Olaf Simons]] 16:16, 3 December 2008 (UTC)

Ich lerne grade die 4 Seiten Daten auswendig für Mittwoch (kann man damit 50 % knacken?) und verstehe folgenden Satz nicht:
"1641 Star Chamber abolished history of press wars ensues and goes until today"

Also ich habe auch alles auswendig gelernt und in den Tutorien hieß es wohl, dass es wirklich 50/50 gewichtet wird. Aber wer sagt, dass du diese 50% dann auch wirklich richtig machst?!? Ich hab übrigens auch die Probleme mit 1641. Das hab ich einfach ausgelassen. Ich hoffe mal, dass ich beim 2.Teil noch ein bisschen Punkte rausholen kann, aber ich denke mal, dass diese Klausur allgemein nicht wirklich gut ausfallen wird. Alle lernen bis zum Umfallen, aber ob sie wirklich das richtige lernen, weiß keiner....
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Viel Glück! (Klappt schon!) [[User:Benjamin Tabart|Benjamin Tabart]] 09:58, 14 January 2009 (UTC)

Wann bekommen wir eigentlich unsere Ergebnisse von der Klausur und wie? lg

:Wir geben uns Mühe zur letzten Sitzung alles fertig zu haben. Ihr werdet eine Excel-Liste mit Noten und Matrikelnummern einsehen können, zudem wird es in den Semesterferien einen Terin zur Einsicht geben (und meine Sprechstunden als zusätzliche Termine) --[[User:Olaf Simons|Olaf Simons]] 11:53, 21 January 2009 (UTC)

Kann man schon ungefähr sagen, wann es die Ergebnisse gibt?

:Annika McPherson hat in einer email geschrieben, dass wir Mitte Februar (nach den Nachprüfungen) die Noten erhalten werden. Mit besten Grüßen [[User:Matthias.Buettner|Matthias]]

Hallo! Wo kann ich denn herausfinden, ab wann ich mich für die Seminare und Übungen im Sommersemester anmelden kann? Sicherlich gibt es einen festen Termin, den man wissen muss, um auch in die Veranstaltung zu kommen die man sich ausgesucht hat?!?

:Der Termin ist am 16.03. - siehe "Main Page"! :) lg

Ah ja. Dankeschön! Da steht nur leider keine Uhrzeit. Kann man davon ausgehen, dass es um 0.00 Uhr freigeschaltet wird? Ich denke gerade beim BM5 muss man schnell sein....

==Timeline==

===Prehistoric Period===
*700,000 years ago: human settlements on later British soil, the later British Islands still part of the continental shelf. Several several glacial and interglacial periods in which hunter-gatherers appear and reappear
* 70,000 and 10,000 years ago: last ice age, extreme cold snap between 22,000 and 13,000 years ago
* 7500 to 6000 years ago: Meltwater causes [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_level_rise sea level rise] of 120 m, and separation of Ireland from Britsh mainland, and of British isles from continental shelf
* 3100-1600 BC [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stonehenge Stonehenge] in use. Similar constructs of megalith culture can be found all over western Europe
* 500-50 BC predominance of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celt Celtic] culture.

===0-1000===
* 43-410 Romanisation of Celts in modern England (122/142 Hadrian’s and Antonine walls against northern Picts) [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Hadrians_Wall_map.png map]
* 410 Romans leave Great Britain, power vacuum, waves of Saxons, Angels and Jutes found kingdoms on British soil
* 597 Beginning of Christianisation under St. Augustin
* 793 Lindisfarne raided by Vikings, next three centuries: Viking settlements in northern England

===1000-1500===
* 1014-1042 Danish Rule, line of succession ends with son of Canute the Great
* 1066 Battle of Hastings, Franco-Norman rule under William I
* 1215 John Lackland has to grant the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magna_Carta Magna Carta] to avoid conflict with English barons, parliament and civil rights strengthened
* 1290 Jews expelled from England
* 1380-1400 Geoffrey Chaucer, ''Canterbury Tales''
* 1339-1453 Hundred Years War against France, rise of English Nationalism
* 1453-1487 War of the Roses: Dynastic Conflict
* 1473 Caxton's press produces first printed book in London
* 1497-1583 Newfoundland claimed by England, several colonies founded on East coast in competition with Spanish, French, and Dutch colonisation

===1500-1599===
* 1534 Henry VIII Establishes Anglican Church
* 1553-1558 rule of Mary I (1516-1558), Catholicism re-established almost 300 dissenters burned at the stake
* 1560 Reformation in Scotland, organised by John Knox, Presbiterian, Calvinist Church
* 1558–1603 Elizabethan era, Protestantism reestablished, 1590-1611 Shakespeare's plays
* 1585-1604 Conflicts with Spain (Francis Drake and the Armada) over Naval Supremacy and Spanish Netherlands (modern Belgium) and Ireland

===1600-1699===
* 1600 East India Company founded, several similar shareholder companies follow with trade monopolies granted by crown. Colonialisation basically achieved by commercial enterprises protected by English/ British crown.
* 1611 King James Bilbe Authorised Version
* 1640-1660 Civil War and Commonwealth
* 1641 Star Chamber abolished, strict censoring of the press ends, the press becomes the main platform of the political debate
* 1649 Charles I beheaded (January 30)
* 1651 Thomas Hobbes ''Leviathan'' published (plea for absolute monarchy and subordination of religion, perceived as an atheist's theory of state by all sides)
* 1660-1689 Restoration of monarchy, libertine court, wars between England and Netherlands as strongest naval powers
* 1666 London destroyed in Great Fire
* 1688/89 Glorious Revolution William of Orange (Dutch) ascends throne, Bill of Rights, new press laws, new laws on religious toleration: 1690 John Locke, ''On Toleration'' (1690), ''Two Treatises of Government'' (1690), ''Essay Concerning Humane Understanding'' (1690)

===1700-1799===
* 1707 Act of Union: England/ Wales/ Scotland become one Kingdom (a union existed de facto since James I and the Stuart ascension)
* 1719 Daniel Defoe ''Robinson Crusoe'' (author stood on pilory in 1703 after publishing his ''Shortest Way with Dissenters'' (1702).
* 1720 South Sea Bubble, Walpole strengthened ans political manager, status of prime minister evolves
* 1754 Battle of Plassey (India), British East India Company exercises military power and assumes administrative functions in India
* 1756-1763 The Seven Years' War: Ends France position as a major colonial power in the Americas
* 1770 James Cook's Expedition
* 1774-1776 USA [http://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/declare.asp Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776]
* 1750s-1830s Industrial revolution with use of steam energy, second phase 1830-1900 with new energy supplies, growing infrastructure and Industrialization of USA.

===1800-1899===
* 1810s-1830s riots against mechanisation
* 1837-1901 Rule of Queen Victoria
* 1848 Karl Marx' ''The Communist Manifesto'' published, Marx moves to England (1849) where he works til his death in 1883
* 1857 Indian Rebellion, 1858: British Crown assumes direct administration over India
* 1859 Charles Darwin ''Origin of Species'' published. Evolution theory rises against short history of Earth (as created in 4404 BC by God). Impact on cultural theory: Human culture evolved slowly. Efforts taken to speed up developments.
* 1861-1865 American Civil War
* 1869 after 11 years of work (based on the forced work of over 30,000 people), Suez Canal opened. 1880s Begin of British Colonisation of Africa
* 1882 The "Chinese Exclusion Act"
* 1890s-1918 Enfranchisement of women in Great Britain, USA: 1918
* 1895-: silent era of film; 1927: beginning of sound era of film (with ''The Jazz Singer'')
* 1899-1902 Philippine-American War, invasion, ends with Fall of First Philippine Republic, land acquisition by American companies, destabilisation of Catholic church and long term efforts to introduce English as lingua franca

===1900 till Today===
* 1914-1918, WWI, 1917: US enters the war
* 1920s onwards: radio broadcastings; history of radio, see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_radio
* 1928: television service begins in the US, 1929, television service begins in the UK; households with a TV set in the US: 0,5 % in 1946, more than 50% in 1954. Reading suggestion: Tichi, Cecelia. ''Electronic Hearth: Creating American Television Culture''. New York & Oxford: Oxford UP, 1991.
* 1929-1931 US-American economic crisis affects the whole world
* 1930s USA: New Deal economic recovery and reform programs
* 1939-1945 World War II, Allied Nations against Germany, Italy, Japan. Use of first Atom bombs against Hiroshima and Nagasaki August 1945
* 1950s-1990s several US American Interventions in Latin America
* 1950-1953 Korean War of North against South Korea
* 1964 USA: Civil Rights Act
* 1965 USA: Immigration and “Naturalization Act”
* 1959-1975 Vietnam War with pre-history of confrontations involving Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam and European powers
* 1970s GB: Economic crisis
* 1973: The United Kingdom becomes a member of the European Union
* 1979-1989 United States CIA program to arm the Afghan mujahideen during the Soviet war in Afghanistan
* 1989 Salman Rushdie, ''Satanic Verses'' published. Ensuing confrontation between religious republic of Iran and secular west.
* 1990-1991 Gulf War after Iraq attacked Kuwait
* 2001/9/11 terrorist attack on World Trade centre
* 2001-2008 War in Afghanistan
* 2003-2008 Iraq War

==People==
Task: retrieve birth- and death-dates (bring names into correct order), link into Wikipedia, and write a one or two sentence statement on historical importance

* Thomas Beckett (c. 1118 – 29 December 1170) [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Becket]- Had a conflict with King Henry II about the rights and privileges of the church; he was assassinated by followers of the king and is known as a saint and martyr by the Roman Catholic and the Anglican Church.
* John of England 1166-1216 ("John Lackland")[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lackland_of_England] Was the King of England from 6 April 1199-1216 . He is known as the enemy of Robin Hood but especially for the Magna Carta [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magna_Carta], a document limiting his power which is popularly thought as an early first step in the evolution of modern democracy.
* John Wycliffe (1320s-1384)[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Wycliffe]Was an English theologian, an early dissident in the Roman Catholic Church during the 14th century and is considered the founder of the Lollard movement, a precursor to the Protestant Reformation. Wycliffe was also an early advocate for translation of the Bible and completed his translation in the year 1382, now known as the Wycliffe Bible.
* Henry VIII (28 June 1491 – 28 January 1547) [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_VIII]Was King of England from 21 April 1509 until his death. He is known for his political struggles with Rome which ultimately led to the separation of the Anglican Church from the Roman hierarchy, the Dissolution of the Monasteries, and establishing himself as the Supreme Head of the Church of England. [http://tudors.crispen.org/]
* Elizabeth I (7 September 1533 – 24 March 1603)[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_I]Was the illegitimate daughter of Henry VIII but nevertheless became Queen of England on 17 November 1558. One of her first moves as queen was to support the establishment of an English Protestant church, of which she became the Supreme Governor. This Elizabethan Religious Settlement held firm throughout her reign and later evolved into today's Church of England. She never married and became famous for her virginity.
* Oliver Cromwell (25 April 1599 Old Style– 3 September 1658 Old Style) [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_Cromwell]He was one of the commanders of the New Model Army which defeated the royalists in the English Civil War. He is best known for his involvement in making England into a republican Commonwealth and for his later role as Lord Protector of England, Scotland, and Ireland from 1653 until his death in 1658.
* John Locke (29 August 1632 – 28 October 1704) [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Locke]Was an English philosopher and is widely regarded as one of the most influential Enlightenment thinkers who influenced Voltaire and Rousseau, as well as the American revolutionaries. This influence is reflected in the American Declaration of Independence. Locke defined the "self" through a continuity of "consciousness" and maintained that people are born without innate ideas.
* Adam Smith (5 June 1723 – 17 July 1790) [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Smith]Was a Scottish moral philosopher, a pioneer of political economy and one of the key figures of the Scottish Enlightenment. Smith book The Wealth of Nations, is considered his magnum opus and the first modern work of economics. Smith is widely cited as the father of modern economics.
* Abraham Lincoln (12 February 1809 – 15 April 1865)[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Lincoln]was the sixteenth President of the United States (elected in 1861). He successfully led the country through the American Civil War, saving the Union and ending slavery. He issued his Emancipation Proclamation in 1863 and promoted the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution. He became the first president who was assassinated in 1865 and is seen as a martyr for the ideal of national unity.
* Charles Darwin (12 February 1809 – 19 April 1882)[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Darwin] was an English naturalist, who realised and demonstrated that all species of life have evolved over time from common ancestors through the process he called natural selection. The fact that evolution occurs became accepted by the scientific community and the general public in his lifetime and had a great impact on cultural theory.
* Karl Marx (5 May 1818 – 14 March 1883)[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Marx]credited as the founder of communism. Marx argued that capitalism, like previous socioeconomic systems, will produce internal tensions which will lead to its destruction. Just as capitalism replaced feudalism, capitalism itself will be displaced by communism, a stateless, classless society which emerges after a transitional period, the 'dictatorship of the proletariat'.
* Queen Victoria (24 May 1819 – 22 January 1901) [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_Victoria]Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and the first Empress of India until her death. Her reign as Queen lasted 63 years and seven months. The period centred on her reign is known as the Victorian era. This era represented the height of the Industrial Revolution and was marked by a great expansion of the British Empire.
* Thomas Alva Edison (11 February 1847 – 18 October 1931)[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Alva_Edison]Was an American inventor and businessman who developed many devices that greatly influenced life around the world, including the phonograph and the long-lasting, practical electric light bulb.
* Cecil Rhodes (5 July 1853 – 26 March 1902) [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cecil_Rhodes]was an English-born businessman, mining magnate and politician in South Africa. He was an ardent believer in colonialism and was the founder of the state of Rhodesia, which was named after him and became Zambia and Zimbabwe respectively. Rhodes wanted to expand the British Empire because he believed that the Anglo-Saxon race was destined to greatness.
* Henry Ford (30 July 1863 – 7 April 1947)[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Ford]was the American founder of the Ford Motor Company and father of modern assembly lines used in mass production. His introduction of the Model T automobile revolutionized transportation and the American industry. As owner of the Ford Company he became one of the richest and best-known people in the world
* Mahatma Gandhi (2 October 1869 – 30 January 1948) [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahatma_Ghandhi]was a major political and spiritual leader of India and the Indian independence movement and inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world. Gandhi led nationwide campaigns for easing poverty, for expanding women's rights, for building religious and ethnic amity, for ending untouchability, for increasing economic self-reliance and for achieving Swaraj—the independence of India from foreign domination.
* Nelson Mandela (born 18 July 1918)[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelson_Mandela]was the first President of South Africa to be elected in a fully representative democratic election, serving in the office from 1994–1999. Before his presidency, Mandela was an anti-apartheid activist and because of that Mandela had to serve 27 years in prison, spending many of these years on Robben Island. In South Africa and internationally, Mandela's opposition to apartheid made him a symbol of freedom and equality for many.
* Henry Kissinger (27 May 1923)[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Kissinger]He served as National Security Advisor and later concurrently as Secretary of State in the Richard Nixon administration. Kissinger emerged unscathed from the Watergate scandal, and maintained his powerful position when Gerald Ford became President.
* Martin Luther King, Jr.(15 January 1929 – 4 April 1968)[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther_King]was an African American clergyman, activist and prominent leader in the American civil rights movement. His main legacy was to secure progress on civil rights in the United States and he is frequently referenced as a human rights icon today. King's efforts led to the 1963 March on Washington, where King delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech. There, he raised public consciousness of the civil rights movement and established himself as one of the greatest orators in U.S. history. King was assassinated on April 4, 1968, in Memphis, Tennessee.

:spannende Arbeit! --[[User:Olaf Simons|Olaf Simons]] 09:56, 22 December 2008 (UTC)

Talk:2008-09 BM2 Introduction to Anglophone Cultural Studies, Part 1

2009-03-02T12:04:26Z

Julia Goebel:

Ich hatte im 1. Semester die glorreiche Idee BM2 zu schieben. Als "Ersti" hatte ich das Gefühl nicht alles gut genug schaffen zu können, wenn ich mich auf soviel konzentriere. Nun kann ich leider viele Aufbaumodule nicht belegen, weil BM2 vorausgesetzt wird. Ist es möglich wenn ich jetzt mit dem BM2 anfange parallel so ein Blockseminar im Februar zu besuchen? Dann hätte ich ja wenigstens den 1. Teil vom BM2 schon mal. Ärgerlich. Da habe ich mich wohl im 1. Semester verkalkuliert. 
:...schon per e-mail geregelt, machen wir, auch im Interesse des Blockseminars. --[[User:Olaf Simons|Olaf Simons]] 15:25, 27 August 2008 (CEST)
::Dann wäre eine für alle sichtbare Antwort an dieser Stelle sinnvoll (gewesen), da ich mir denken kann, dass diese Frage mehrere Studenten haben (und hier gucken, ob es eine Antwort darauf gibt). Deshalb fake edit. [[User:Verena Engelhardt|Verena Engelhardt]] 15:26, 27 August 2008 (CEST)

Wo steht eigentlich nochmal die Info welche chapter wir jedesmal vorbereiten sollen?

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Die Fragen am Ende der letzten Vorlesung haben es wieder einmal gezeigt; Keiner weiß, was man denn genau lernen muss für die Klausur.
Und irgendwie habe ich pers. auch den Eindruck dass zwischen den Lektoren keine Übereinstimmung bezüglich dieser Frage herrscht.
Das ganze wirkt dann auch auf die Tutoriengestaltung, und mittlerweile sind es nur noch ca. 10 Personen, die erscheinen(Freitags zumindest).[[User:Dimitri.simons|Dimitri.simons]] 17:41, 2 December 2008 (UTC)

:Hier eine kurze Vorinformation zum written test
:* Dauer: 60 Minuten + etwas Reservezeit
:* Teil 1: (30 Minuten) kurze Faktenfragen, möglicherweise multiple choice, die in die verschiedenen Bereiche gehen und Breite des gemeinwissens erfassen
:* Teil 2: Zwei Fragen (Bearbeitungszeit je 15 Minuten) auszuwählen aus sechs Fragen (zu verschiedenen Gebieten der Vorlesung) - mit dem Ziel, Raum für eine knappe Darstellung von Zusammenhänge respektive Argumentationen zu geben

:Vorbereitung: Wir werden in der Sitzung zum 17. Dezember zwei Listen ausgeben. Die erste besteht aus Daten und Ereignissen, die Euch etwas sagen müssen, die zweite, nennt Personen, über deren historische Bedeutung ihr ein knappes Bild haben solltet. Ihr könnt die Informationen aus den Powerpoint Folien beziehen oder aus Medien wie Wikipedia.
:Die sechs eingehenderen Fragen, aus denen Ihr zwei auszuwählen habt, um 15 Minuten darüber zu schreiben nehmen Fragen auf, die in den Präsentationen gestellt wurden. --[[User:Olaf Simons|Olaf Simons]] 16:16, 3 December 2008 (UTC)

Ich lerne grade die 4 Seiten Daten auswendig für Mittwoch (kann man damit 50 % knacken?) und verstehe folgenden Satz nicht:
"1641 Star Chamber abolished history of press wars ensues and goes until today"

Also ich habe auch alles auswendig gelernt und in den Tutorien hieß es wohl, dass es wirklich 50/50 gewichtet wird. Aber wer sagt, dass du diese 50% dann auch wirklich richtig machst?!? Ich hab übrigens auch die Probleme mit 1641. Das hab ich einfach ausgelassen. Ich hoffe mal, dass ich beim 2.Teil noch ein bisschen Punkte rausholen kann, aber ich denke mal, dass diese Klausur allgemein nicht wirklich gut ausfallen wird. Alle lernen bis zum Umfallen, aber ob sie wirklich das richtige lernen, weiß keiner....
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.'` .'/\'. `'.
\._.'.' '.'._./
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Viel Glück! (Klappt schon!) [[User:Benjamin Tabart|Benjamin Tabart]] 09:58, 14 January 2009 (UTC)

Wann bekommen wir eigentlich unsere Ergebnisse von der Klausur und wie? lg

:Wir geben uns Mühe zur letzten Sitzung alles fertig zu haben. Ihr werdet eine Excel-Liste mit Noten und Matrikelnummern einsehen können, zudem wird es in den Semesterferien einen Terin zur Einsicht geben (und meine Sprechstunden als zusätzliche Termine) --[[User:Olaf Simons|Olaf Simons]] 11:53, 21 January 2009 (UTC)

Kann man schon ungefähr sagen, wann es die Ergebnisse gibt?

:Annika McPherson hat in einer email geschrieben, dass wir Mitte Februar (nach den Nachprüfungen) die Noten erhalten werden. Mit besten Grüßen [[User:Matthias.Buettner|Matthias]]

Hallo! Wo kann ich denn herausfinden, ab wann ich mich für die Seminare und Übungen im Sommersemester anmelden kann? Sicherlich gibt es einen festen Termin, den man wissen muss, um auch in die Veranstaltung zu kommen die man sich ausgesucht hat?!?

==Timeline==

===Prehistoric Period===
*700,000 years ago: human settlements on later British soil, the later British Islands still part of the continental shelf. Several several glacial and interglacial periods in which hunter-gatherers appear and reappear
* 70,000 and 10,000 years ago: last ice age, extreme cold snap between 22,000 and 13,000 years ago
* 7500 to 6000 years ago: Meltwater causes [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_level_rise sea level rise] of 120 m, and separation of Ireland from Britsh mainland, and of British isles from continental shelf
* 3100-1600 BC [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stonehenge Stonehenge] in use. Similar constructs of megalith culture can be found all over western Europe
* 500-50 BC predominance of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celt Celtic] culture.

===0-1000===
* 43-410 Romanisation of Celts in modern England (122/142 Hadrian’s and Antonine walls against northern Picts) [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Hadrians_Wall_map.png map]
* 410 Romans leave Great Britain, power vacuum, waves of Saxons, Angels and Jutes found kingdoms on British soil
* 597 Beginning of Christianisation under St. Augustin
* 793 Lindisfarne raided by Vikings, next three centuries: Viking settlements in northern England

===1000-1500===
* 1014-1042 Danish Rule, line of succession ends with son of Canute the Great
* 1066 Battle of Hastings, Franco-Norman rule under William I
* 1215 John Lackland has to grant the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magna_Carta Magna Carta] to avoid conflict with English barons, parliament and civil rights strengthened
* 1290 Jews expelled from England
* 1380-1400 Geoffrey Chaucer, ''Canterbury Tales''
* 1339-1453 Hundred Years War against France, rise of English Nationalism
* 1453-1487 War of the Roses: Dynastic Conflict
* 1473 Caxton's press produces first printed book in London
* 1497-1583 Newfoundland claimed by England, several colonies founded on East coast in competition with Spanish, French, and Dutch colonisation

===1500-1599===
* 1534 Henry VIII Establishes Anglican Church
* 1553-1558 rule of Mary I (1516-1558), Catholicism re-established almost 300 dissenters burned at the stake
* 1560 Reformation in Scotland, organised by John Knox, Presbiterian, Calvinist Church
* 1558–1603 Elizabethan era, Protestantism reestablished, 1590-1611 Shakespeare's plays
* 1585-1604 Conflicts with Spain (Francis Drake and the Armada) over Naval Supremacy and Spanish Netherlands (modern Belgium) and Ireland

===1600-1699===
* 1600 East India Company founded, several similar shareholder companies follow with trade monopolies granted by crown. Colonialisation basically achieved by commercial enterprises protected by English/ British crown.
* 1611 King James Bilbe Authorised Version
* 1640-1660 Civil War and Commonwealth
* 1641 Star Chamber abolished, strict censoring of the press ends, the press becomes the main platform of the political debate
* 1649 Charles I beheaded (January 30)
* 1651 Thomas Hobbes ''Leviathan'' published (plea for absolute monarchy and subordination of religion, perceived as an atheist's theory of state by all sides)
* 1660-1689 Restoration of monarchy, libertine court, wars between England and Netherlands as strongest naval powers
* 1666 London destroyed in Great Fire
* 1688/89 Glorious Revolution William of Orange (Dutch) ascends throne, Bill of Rights, new press laws, new laws on religious toleration: 1690 John Locke, ''On Toleration'' (1690), ''Two Treatises of Government'' (1690), ''Essay Concerning Humane Understanding'' (1690)

===1700-1799===
* 1707 Act of Union: England/ Wales/ Scotland become one Kingdom (a union existed de facto since James I and the Stuart ascension)
* 1719 Daniel Defoe ''Robinson Crusoe'' (author stood on pilory in 1703 after publishing his ''Shortest Way with Dissenters'' (1702).
* 1720 South Sea Bubble, Walpole strengthened ans political manager, status of prime minister evolves
* 1754 Battle of Plassey (India), British East India Company exercises military power and assumes administrative functions in India
* 1756-1763 The Seven Years' War: Ends France position as a major colonial power in the Americas
* 1770 James Cook's Expedition
* 1774-1776 USA [http://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/declare.asp Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776]
* 1750s-1830s Industrial revolution with use of steam energy, second phase 1830-1900 with new energy supplies, growing infrastructure and Industrialization of USA.

===1800-1899===
* 1810s-1830s riots against mechanisation
* 1837-1901 Rule of Queen Victoria
* 1848 Karl Marx' ''The Communist Manifesto'' published, Marx moves to England (1849) where he works til his death in 1883
* 1857 Indian Rebellion, 1858: British Crown assumes direct administration over India
* 1859 Charles Darwin ''Origin of Species'' published. Evolution theory rises against short history of Earth (as created in 4404 BC by God). Impact on cultural theory: Human culture evolved slowly. Efforts taken to speed up developments.
* 1861-1865 American Civil War
* 1869 after 11 years of work (based on the forced work of over 30,000 people), Suez Canal opened. 1880s Begin of British Colonisation of Africa
* 1882 The "Chinese Exclusion Act"
* 1890s-1918 Enfranchisement of women in Great Britain, USA: 1918
* 1895-: silent era of film; 1927: beginning of sound era of film (with ''The Jazz Singer'')
* 1899-1902 Philippine-American War, invasion, ends with Fall of First Philippine Republic, land acquisition by American companies, destabilisation of Catholic church and long term efforts to introduce English as lingua franca

===1900 till Today===
* 1914-1918, WWI, 1917: US enters the war
* 1920s onwards: radio broadcastings; history of radio, see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_radio
* 1928: television service begins in the US, 1929, television service begins in the UK; households with a TV set in the US: 0,5 % in 1946, more than 50% in 1954. Reading suggestion: Tichi, Cecelia. ''Electronic Hearth: Creating American Television Culture''. New York & Oxford: Oxford UP, 1991.
* 1929-1931 US-American economic crisis affects the whole world
* 1930s USA: New Deal economic recovery and reform programs
* 1939-1945 World War II, Allied Nations against Germany, Italy, Japan. Use of first Atom bombs against Hiroshima and Nagasaki August 1945
* 1950s-1990s several US American Interventions in Latin America
* 1950-1953 Korean War of North against South Korea
* 1964 USA: Civil Rights Act
* 1965 USA: Immigration and “Naturalization Act”
* 1959-1975 Vietnam War with pre-history of confrontations involving Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam and European powers
* 1970s GB: Economic crisis
* 1973: The United Kingdom becomes a member of the European Union
* 1979-1989 United States CIA program to arm the Afghan mujahideen during the Soviet war in Afghanistan
* 1989 Salman Rushdie, ''Satanic Verses'' published. Ensuing confrontation between religious republic of Iran and secular west.
* 1990-1991 Gulf War after Iraq attacked Kuwait
* 2001/9/11 terrorist attack on World Trade centre
* 2001-2008 War in Afghanistan
* 2003-2008 Iraq War

==People==
Task: retrieve birth- and death-dates (bring names into correct order), link into Wikipedia, and write a one or two sentence statement on historical importance

* Thomas Beckett (c. 1118 – 29 December 1170) [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Becket]- Had a conflict with King Henry II about the rights and privileges of the church; he was assassinated by followers of the king and is known as a saint and martyr by the Roman Catholic and the Anglican Church.
* John of England 1166-1216 ("John Lackland")[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lackland_of_England] Was the King of England from 6 April 1199-1216 . He is known as the enemy of Robin Hood but especially for the Magna Carta [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magna_Carta], a document limiting his power which is popularly thought as an early first step in the evolution of modern democracy.
* John Wycliffe (1320s-1384)[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Wycliffe]Was an English theologian, an early dissident in the Roman Catholic Church during the 14th century and is considered the founder of the Lollard movement, a precursor to the Protestant Reformation. Wycliffe was also an early advocate for translation of the Bible and completed his translation in the year 1382, now known as the Wycliffe Bible.
* Henry VIII (28 June 1491 – 28 January 1547) [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_VIII]Was King of England from 21 April 1509 until his death. He is known for his political struggles with Rome which ultimately led to the separation of the Anglican Church from the Roman hierarchy, the Dissolution of the Monasteries, and establishing himself as the Supreme Head of the Church of England. [http://tudors.crispen.org/]
* Elizabeth I (7 September 1533 – 24 March 1603)[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_I]Was the illegitimate daughter of Henry VIII but nevertheless became Queen of England on 17 November 1558. One of her first moves as queen was to support the establishment of an English Protestant church, of which she became the Supreme Governor. This Elizabethan Religious Settlement held firm throughout her reign and later evolved into today's Church of England. She never married and became famous for her virginity.
* Oliver Cromwell (25 April 1599 Old Style– 3 September 1658 Old Style) [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_Cromwell]He was one of the commanders of the New Model Army which defeated the royalists in the English Civil War. He is best known for his involvement in making England into a republican Commonwealth and for his later role as Lord Protector of England, Scotland, and Ireland from 1653 until his death in 1658.
* John Locke (29 August 1632 – 28 October 1704) [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Locke]Was an English philosopher and is widely regarded as one of the most influential Enlightenment thinkers who influenced Voltaire and Rousseau, as well as the American revolutionaries. This influence is reflected in the American Declaration of Independence. Locke defined the "self" through a continuity of "consciousness" and maintained that people are born without innate ideas.
* Adam Smith (5 June 1723 – 17 July 1790) [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Smith]Was a Scottish moral philosopher, a pioneer of political economy and one of the key figures of the Scottish Enlightenment. Smith book The Wealth of Nations, is considered his magnum opus and the first modern work of economics. Smith is widely cited as the father of modern economics.
* Abraham Lincoln (12 February 1809 – 15 April 1865)[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Lincoln]was the sixteenth President of the United States (elected in 1861). He successfully led the country through the American Civil War, saving the Union and ending slavery. He issued his Emancipation Proclamation in 1863 and promoted the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution. He became the first president who was assassinated in 1865 and is seen as a martyr for the ideal of national unity.
* Charles Darwin (12 February 1809 – 19 April 1882)[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Darwin] was an English naturalist, who realised and demonstrated that all species of life have evolved over time from common ancestors through the process he called natural selection. The fact that evolution occurs became accepted by the scientific community and the general public in his lifetime and had a great impact on cultural theory.
* Karl Marx (5 May 1818 – 14 March 1883)[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Marx]credited as the founder of communism. Marx argued that capitalism, like previous socioeconomic systems, will produce internal tensions which will lead to its destruction. Just as capitalism replaced feudalism, capitalism itself will be displaced by communism, a stateless, classless society which emerges after a transitional period, the 'dictatorship of the proletariat'.
* Queen Victoria (24 May 1819 – 22 January 1901) [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_Victoria]Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and the first Empress of India until her death. Her reign as Queen lasted 63 years and seven months. The period centred on her reign is known as the Victorian era. This era represented the height of the Industrial Revolution and was marked by a great expansion of the British Empire.
* Thomas Alva Edison (11 February 1847 – 18 October 1931)[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Alva_Edison]Was an American inventor and businessman who developed many devices that greatly influenced life around the world, including the phonograph and the long-lasting, practical electric light bulb.
* Cecil Rhodes (5 July 1853 – 26 March 1902) [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cecil_Rhodes]was an English-born businessman, mining magnate and politician in South Africa. He was an ardent believer in colonialism and was the founder of the state of Rhodesia, which was named after him and became Zambia and Zimbabwe respectively. Rhodes wanted to expand the British Empire because he believed that the Anglo-Saxon race was destined to greatness.
* Henry Ford (30 July 1863 – 7 April 1947)[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Ford]was the American founder of the Ford Motor Company and father of modern assembly lines used in mass production. His introduction of the Model T automobile revolutionized transportation and the American industry. As owner of the Ford Company he became one of the richest and best-known people in the world
* Mahatma Gandhi (2 October 1869 – 30 January 1948) [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahatma_Ghandhi]was a major political and spiritual leader of India and the Indian independence movement and inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world. Gandhi led nationwide campaigns for easing poverty, for expanding women's rights, for building religious and ethnic amity, for ending untouchability, for increasing economic self-reliance and for achieving Swaraj—the independence of India from foreign domination.
* Nelson Mandela (born 18 July 1918)[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelson_Mandela]was the first President of South Africa to be elected in a fully representative democratic election, serving in the office from 1994–1999. Before his presidency, Mandela was an anti-apartheid activist and because of that Mandela had to serve 27 years in prison, spending many of these years on Robben Island. In South Africa and internationally, Mandela's opposition to apartheid made him a symbol of freedom and equality for many.
* Henry Kissinger (27 May 1923)[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Kissinger]He served as National Security Advisor and later concurrently as Secretary of State in the Richard Nixon administration. Kissinger emerged unscathed from the Watergate scandal, and maintained his powerful position when Gerald Ford became President.
* Martin Luther King, Jr.(15 January 1929 – 4 April 1968)[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther_King]was an African American clergyman, activist and prominent leader in the American civil rights movement. His main legacy was to secure progress on civil rights in the United States and he is frequently referenced as a human rights icon today. King's efforts led to the 1963 March on Washington, where King delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech. There, he raised public consciousness of the civil rights movement and established himself as one of the greatest orators in U.S. history. King was assassinated on April 4, 1968, in Memphis, Tennessee.

:spannende Arbeit! --[[User:Olaf Simons|Olaf Simons]] 09:56, 22 December 2008 (UTC)

Talk:2008-09 BM2 Introduction to Anglophone Cultural Studies, Part 1

2009-02-04T13:29:40Z

Julia Goebel:

Ich hatte im 1. Semester die glorreiche Idee BM2 zu schieben. Als "Ersti" hatte ich das Gefühl nicht alles gut genug schaffen zu können, wenn ich mich auf soviel konzentriere. Nun kann ich leider viele Aufbaumodule nicht belegen, weil BM2 vorausgesetzt wird. Ist es möglich wenn ich jetzt mit dem BM2 anfange parallel so ein Blockseminar im Februar zu besuchen? Dann hätte ich ja wenigstens den 1. Teil vom BM2 schon mal. Ärgerlich. Da habe ich mich wohl im 1. Semester verkalkuliert. 
:...schon per e-mail geregelt, machen wir, auch im Interesse des Blockseminars. --[[User:Olaf Simons|Olaf Simons]] 15:25, 27 August 2008 (CEST)
::Dann wäre eine für alle sichtbare Antwort an dieser Stelle sinnvoll (gewesen), da ich mir denken kann, dass diese Frage mehrere Studenten haben (und hier gucken, ob es eine Antwort darauf gibt). Deshalb fake edit. [[User:Verena Engelhardt|Verena Engelhardt]] 15:26, 27 August 2008 (CEST)

Wo steht eigentlich nochmal die Info welche chapter wir jedesmal vorbereiten sollen?

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Die Fragen am Ende der letzten Vorlesung haben es wieder einmal gezeigt; Keiner weiß, was man denn genau lernen muss für die Klausur.
Und irgendwie habe ich pers. auch den Eindruck dass zwischen den Lektoren keine Übereinstimmung bezüglich dieser Frage herrscht.
Das ganze wirkt dann auch auf die Tutoriengestaltung, und mittlerweile sind es nur noch ca. 10 Personen, die erscheinen(Freitags zumindest).[[User:Dimitri.simons|Dimitri.simons]] 17:41, 2 December 2008 (UTC)

:Hier eine kurze Vorinformation zum written test
:* Dauer: 60 Minuten + etwas Reservezeit
:* Teil 1: (30 Minuten) kurze Faktenfragen, möglicherweise multiple choice, die in die verschiedenen Bereiche gehen und Breite des gemeinwissens erfassen
:* Teil 2: Zwei Fragen (Bearbeitungszeit je 15 Minuten) auszuwählen aus sechs Fragen (zu verschiedenen Gebieten der Vorlesung) - mit dem Ziel, Raum für eine knappe Darstellung von Zusammenhänge respektive Argumentationen zu geben

:Vorbereitung: Wir werden in der Sitzung zum 17. Dezember zwei Listen ausgeben. Die erste besteht aus Daten und Ereignissen, die Euch etwas sagen müssen, die zweite, nennt Personen, über deren historische Bedeutung ihr ein knappes Bild haben solltet. Ihr könnt die Informationen aus den Powerpoint Folien beziehen oder aus Medien wie Wikipedia.
:Die sechs eingehenderen Fragen, aus denen Ihr zwei auszuwählen habt, um 15 Minuten darüber zu schreiben nehmen Fragen auf, die in den Präsentationen gestellt wurden. --[[User:Olaf Simons|Olaf Simons]] 16:16, 3 December 2008 (UTC)

Ich lerne grade die 4 Seiten Daten auswendig für Mittwoch (kann man damit 50 % knacken?) und verstehe folgenden Satz nicht:
"1641 Star Chamber abolished history of press wars ensues and goes until today"

Also ich habe auch alles auswendig gelernt und in den Tutorien hieß es wohl, dass es wirklich 50/50 gewichtet wird. Aber wer sagt, dass du diese 50% dann auch wirklich richtig machst?!? Ich hab übrigens auch die Probleme mit 1641. Das hab ich einfach ausgelassen. Ich hoffe mal, dass ich beim 2.Teil noch ein bisschen Punkte rausholen kann, aber ich denke mal, dass diese Klausur allgemein nicht wirklich gut ausfallen wird. Alle lernen bis zum Umfallen, aber ob sie wirklich das richtige lernen, weiß keiner....
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Viel Glück! (Klappt schon!) [[User:Benjamin Tabart|Benjamin Tabart]] 09:58, 14 January 2009 (UTC)

Wann bekommen wir eigentlich unsere Ergebnisse von der Klausur und wie? lg

:Wir geben uns Mühe zur letzten Sitzung alles fertig zu haben. Ihr werdet eine Excel-Liste mit Noten und Matrikelnummern einsehen können, zudem wird es in den Semesterferien einen Terin zur Einsicht geben (und meine Sprechstunden als zusätzliche Termine) --[[User:Olaf Simons|Olaf Simons]] 11:53, 21 January 2009 (UTC)

Kann man schon ungefähr sagen, wann es die Ergebnisse gibt?
==Timeline==

===Prehistoric Period===
*700,000 years ago: human settlements on later British soil, the later British Islands still part of the continental shelf. Several several glacial and interglacial periods in which hunter-gatherers appear and reappear
* 70,000 and 10,000 years ago: last ice age, extreme cold snap between 22,000 and 13,000 years ago
* 7500 to 6000 years ago: Meltwater causes [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_level_rise sea level rise] of 120 m, and separation of Ireland from Britsh mainland, and of British isles from continental shelf
* 3100-1600 BC [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stonehenge Stonehenge] in use. Similar constructs of megalith culture can be found all over western Europe
* 500-50 BC predominance of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celt Celtic] culture.

===0-1000===
* 43-410 Romanisation of Celts in modern England (122/142 Hadrian’s and Antonine walls against northern Picts) [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Hadrians_Wall_map.png map]
* 410 Romans leave Great Britain, power vacuum, waves of Saxons, Angels and Jutes found kingdoms on British soil
* 597 Beginning of Christianisation under St. Augustin
* 793 Lindisfarne raided by Vikings, next three centuries: Viking settlements in northern England

===1000-1500===
* 1014-1042 Danish Rule, line of succession ends with son of Canute the Great
* 1066 Battle of Hastings, Franco-Norman rule under William I
* 1215 John Lackland has to grant the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magna_Carta Magna Carta] to avoid conflict with English barons, parliament and civil rights strengthened
* 1290 Jews expelled from England
* 1380-1400 Geoffrey Chaucer, ''Canterbury Tales''
* 1339-1453 Hundred Years War against France, rise of English Nationalism
* 1453-1487 War of the Roses: Dynastic Conflict
* 1473 Caxton's press produces first printed book in London
* 1497-1583 Newfoundland claimed by England, several colonies founded on East coast in competition with Spanish, French, and Dutch colonisation

===1500-1599===
* 1534 Henry VIII Establishes Anglican Church
* 1553-1558 rule of Mary I (1516-1558), Catholicism re-established almost 300 dissenters burned at the stake
* 1560 Reformation in Scotland, organised by John Knox, Presbiterian, Calvinist Church
* 1558–1603 Elizabethan era, Protestantism reestablished, 1590-1611 Shakespeare's plays
* 1585-1604 Conflicts with Spain (Francis Drake and the Armada) over Naval Supremacy and Spanish Netherlands (modern Belgium) and Ireland

===1600-1699===
* 1600 East India Company founded, several similar shareholder companies follow with trade monopolies granted by crown. Colonialisation basically achieved by commercial enterprises protected by English/ British crown.
* 1611 King James Bilbe Authorised Version
* 1640-1660 Civil War and Commonwealth
* 1641 Star Chamber abolished, strict censoring of the press ends, the press becomes the main platform of the political debate
* 1649 Charles I beheaded (January 30)
* 1651 Thomas Hobbes ''Leviathan'' published (plea for absolute monarchy and subordination of religion, perceived as an atheist's theory of state by all sides)
* 1660-1689 Restoration of monarchy, libertine court, wars between England and Netherlands as strongest naval powers
* 1666 London destroyed in Great Fire
* 1688/89 Glorious Revolution William of Orange (Dutch) ascends throne, Bill of Rights, new press laws, new laws on religious toleration: 1690 John Locke, ''On Toleration'' (1690), ''Two Treatises of Government'' (1690), ''Essay Concerning Humane Understanding'' (1690)

===1700-1799===
* 1707 Act of Union: England/ Wales/ Scotland become one Kingdom (a union existed de facto since James I and the Stuart ascension)
* 1719 Daniel Defoe ''Robinson Crusoe'' (author stood on pilory in 1703 after publishing his ''Shortest Way with Dissenters'' (1702).
* 1720 South Sea Bubble, Walpole strengthened ans political manager, status of prime minister evolves
* 1754 Battle of Plassey (India), British East India Company exercises military power and assumes administrative functions in India
* 1756-1763 The Seven Years' War: Ends France position as a major colonial power in the Americas
* 1770 James Cook's Expedition
* 1774-1776 USA [http://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/declare.asp Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776]
* 1750s-1830s Industrial revolution with use of steam energy, second phase 1830-1900 with new energy supplies, growing infrastructure and Industrialization of USA.

===1800-1899===
* 1810s-1830s riots against mechanisation
* 1837-1901 Rule of Queen Victoria
* 1848 Karl Marx' ''The Communist Manifesto'' published, Marx moves to England (1849) where he works til his death in 1883
* 1857 Indian Rebellion, 1858: British Crown assumes direct administration over India
* 1859 Charles Darwin ''Origin of Species'' published. Evolution theory rises against short history of Earth (as created in 4404 BC by God). Impact on cultural theory: Human culture evolved slowly. Efforts taken to speed up developments.
* 1861-1865 American Civil War
* 1869 after 11 years of work (based on the forced work of over 30,000 people), Suez Canal opened. 1880s Begin of British Colonisation of Africa
* 1882 The "Chinese Exclusion Act"
* 1890s-1918 Enfranchisement of women in Great Britain, USA: 1918
* 1895-: silent era of film; 1927: beginning of sound era of film (with ''The Jazz Singer'')
* 1899-1902 Philippine-American War, invasion, ends with Fall of First Philippine Republic, land acquisition by American companies, destabilisation of Catholic church and long term efforts to introduce English as lingua franca

===1900 till Today===
* 1914-1918, WWI, 1917: US enters the war
* 1920s onwards: radio broadcastings; history of radio, see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_radio
* 1928: television service begins in the US, 1929, television service begins in the UK; households with a TV set in the US: 0,5 % in 1946, more than 50% in 1954. Reading suggestion: Tichi, Cecelia. ''Electronic Hearth: Creating American Television Culture''. New York & Oxford: Oxford UP, 1991.
* 1929-1931 US-American economic crisis affects the whole world
* 1930s USA: New Deal economic recovery and reform programs
* 1939-1945 World War II, Allied Nations against Germany, Italy, Japan. Use of first Atom bombs against Hiroshima and Nagasaki August 1945
* 1950s-1990s several US American Interventions in Latin America
* 1950-1953 Korean War of North against South Korea
* 1964 USA: Civil Rights Act
* 1965 USA: Immigration and “Naturalization Act”
* 1959-1975 Vietnam War with pre-history of confrontations involving Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam and European powers
* 1970s GB: Economic crisis
* 1973: The United Kingdom becomes a member of the European Union
* 1979-1989 United States CIA program to arm the Afghan mujahideen during the Soviet war in Afghanistan
* 1989 Salman Rushdie, ''Satanic Verses'' published. Ensuing confrontation between religious republic of Iran and secular west.
* 1990-1991 Gulf War after Iraq attacked Kuwait
* 2001/9/11 terrorist attack on World Trade centre
* 2001-2008 War in Afghanistan
* 2003-2008 Iraq War

==People==
Task: retrieve birth- and death-dates (bring names into correct order), link into Wikipedia, and write a one or two sentence statement on historical importance

* Thomas Beckett (c. 1118 – 29 December 1170) [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Becket]- Had a conflict with King Henry II about the rights and privileges of the church; he was assassinated by followers of the king and is known as a saint and martyr by the Roman Catholic and the Anglican Church.
* John of England 1166-1216 ("John Lackland")[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lackland_of_England] Was the King of England from 6 April 1199-1216 . He is known as the enemy of Robin Hood but especially for the Magna Carta [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magna_Carta], a document limiting his power which is popularly thought as an early first step in the evolution of modern democracy.
* John Wycliffe (1320s-1384)[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Wycliffe]Was an English theologian, an early dissident in the Roman Catholic Church during the 14th century and is considered the founder of the Lollard movement, a precursor to the Protestant Reformation. Wycliffe was also an early advocate for translation of the Bible and completed his translation in the year 1382, now known as the Wycliffe Bible.
* Henry VIII (28 June 1491 – 28 January 1547) [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_VIII]Was King of England from 21 April 1509 until his death. He is known for his political struggles with Rome which ultimately led to the separation of the Anglican Church from the Roman hierarchy, the Dissolution of the Monasteries, and establishing himself as the Supreme Head of the Church of England. [http://tudors.crispen.org/]
* Elizabeth I (7 September 1533 – 24 March 1603)[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_I]Was the illegitimate daughter of Henry VIII but nevertheless became Queen of England on 17 November 1558. One of her first moves as queen was to support the establishment of an English Protestant church, of which she became the Supreme Governor. This Elizabethan Religious Settlement held firm throughout her reign and later evolved into today's Church of England. She never married and became famous for her virginity.
* Oliver Cromwell (25 April 1599 Old Style– 3 September 1658 Old Style) [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_Cromwell]He was one of the commanders of the New Model Army which defeated the royalists in the English Civil War. He is best known for his involvement in making England into a republican Commonwealth and for his later role as Lord Protector of England, Scotland, and Ireland from 1653 until his death in 1658.
* John Locke (29 August 1632 – 28 October 1704) [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Locke]Was an English philosopher and is widely regarded as one of the most influential Enlightenment thinkers who influenced Voltaire and Rousseau, as well as the American revolutionaries. This influence is reflected in the American Declaration of Independence. Locke defined the "self" through a continuity of "consciousness" and maintained that people are born without innate ideas.
* Adam Smith (5 June 1723 – 17 July 1790) [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Smith]Was a Scottish moral philosopher, a pioneer of political economy and one of the key figures of the Scottish Enlightenment. Smith book The Wealth of Nations, is considered his magnum opus and the first modern work of economics. Smith is widely cited as the father of modern economics.
* Abraham Lincoln (12 February 1809 – 15 April 1865)[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Lincoln]was the sixteenth President of the United States (elected in 1861). He successfully led the country through the American Civil War, saving the Union and ending slavery. He issued his Emancipation Proclamation in 1863 and promoted the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution. He became the first president who was assassinated in 1865 and is seen as a martyr for the ideal of national unity.
* Charles Darwin (12 February 1809 – 19 April 1882)[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Darwin] was an English naturalist, who realised and demonstrated that all species of life have evolved over time from common ancestors through the process he called natural selection. The fact that evolution occurs became accepted by the scientific community and the general public in his lifetime and had a great impact on cultural theory.
* Karl Marx (5 May 1818 – 14 March 1883)[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Marx]credited as the founder of communism. Marx argued that capitalism, like previous socioeconomic systems, will produce internal tensions which will lead to its destruction. Just as capitalism replaced feudalism, capitalism itself will be displaced by communism, a stateless, classless society which emerges after a transitional period, the 'dictatorship of the proletariat'.
* Queen Victoria (24 May 1819 – 22 January 1901) [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_Victoria]Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and the first Empress of India until her death. Her reign as Queen lasted 63 years and seven months. The period centred on her reign is known as the Victorian era. This era represented the height of the Industrial Revolution and was marked by a great expansion of the British Empire.
* Thomas Alva Edison (11 February 1847 – 18 October 1931)[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Alva_Edison]Was an American inventor and businessman who developed many devices that greatly influenced life around the world, including the phonograph and the long-lasting, practical electric light bulb.
* Cecil Rhodes (5 July 1853 – 26 March 1902) [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cecil_Rhodes]was an English-born businessman, mining magnate and politician in South Africa. He was an ardent believer in colonialism and was the founder of the state of Rhodesia, which was named after him and became Zambia and Zimbabwe respectively. Rhodes wanted to expand the British Empire because he believed that the Anglo-Saxon race was destined to greatness.
* Henry Ford (30 July 1863 – 7 April 1947)[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Ford]was the American founder of the Ford Motor Company and father of modern assembly lines used in mass production. His introduction of the Model T automobile revolutionized transportation and the American industry. As owner of the Ford Company he became one of the richest and best-known people in the world
* Mahatma Gandhi (2 October 1869 – 30 January 1948) [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahatma_Ghandhi]was a major political and spiritual leader of India and the Indian independence movement and inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world. Gandhi led nationwide campaigns for easing poverty, for expanding women's rights, for building religious and ethnic amity, for ending untouchability, for increasing economic self-reliance and for achieving Swaraj—the independence of India from foreign domination.
* Nelson Mandela (born 18 July 1918)[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelson_Mandela]was the first President of South Africa to be elected in a fully representative democratic election, serving in the office from 1994–1999. Before his presidency, Mandela was an anti-apartheid activist and because of that Mandela had to serve 27 years in prison, spending many of these years on Robben Island. In South Africa and internationally, Mandela's opposition to apartheid made him a symbol of freedom and equality for many.
* Henry Kissinger (27 May 1923)[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Kissinger]He served as National Security Advisor and later concurrently as Secretary of State in the Richard Nixon administration. Kissinger emerged unscathed from the Watergate scandal, and maintained his powerful position when Gerald Ford became President.
* Martin Luther King, Jr.(15 January 1929 – 4 April 1968)[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther_King]was an African American clergyman, activist and prominent leader in the American civil rights movement. His main legacy was to secure progress on civil rights in the United States and he is frequently referenced as a human rights icon today. King's efforts led to the 1963 March on Washington, where King delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech. There, he raised public consciousness of the civil rights movement and established himself as one of the greatest orators in U.S. history. King was assassinated on April 4, 1968, in Memphis, Tennessee.

:spannende Arbeit! --[[User:Olaf Simons|Olaf Simons]] 09:56, 22 December 2008 (UTC)

Talk:2008-09 BM2 Introduction to Anglophone Cultural Studies, Part 1

2009-01-13T11:29:00Z

Julia Goebel:

Ich hatte im 1. Semester die glorreiche Idee BM2 zu schieben. Als "Ersti" hatte ich das Gefühl nicht alles gut genug schaffen zu können, wenn ich mich auf soviel konzentriere. Nun kann ich leider viele Aufbaumodule nicht belegen, weil BM2 vorausgesetzt wird. Ist es möglich wenn ich jetzt mit dem BM2 anfange parallel so ein Blockseminar im Februar zu besuchen? Dann hätte ich ja wenigstens den 1. Teil vom BM2 schon mal. Ärgerlich. Da habe ich mich wohl im 1. Semester verkalkuliert. 
:...schon per e-mail geregelt, machen wir, auch im Interesse des Blockseminars. --[[User:Olaf Simons|Olaf Simons]] 15:25, 27 August 2008 (CEST)
::Dann wäre eine für alle sichtbare Antwort an dieser Stelle sinnvoll (gewesen), da ich mir denken kann, dass diese Frage mehrere Studenten haben (und hier gucken, ob es eine Antwort darauf gibt). Deshalb fake edit. [[User:Verena Engelhardt|Verena Engelhardt]] 15:26, 27 August 2008 (CEST)

Wo steht eigentlich nochmal die Info welche chapter wir jedesmal vorbereiten sollen?

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Die Fragen am Ende der letzten Vorlesung haben es wieder einmal gezeigt; Keiner weiß, was man denn genau lernen muss für die Klausur.
Und irgendwie habe ich pers. auch den Eindruck dass zwischen den Lektoren keine Übereinstimmung bezüglich dieser Frage herrscht.
Das ganze wirkt dann auch auf die Tutoriengestaltung, und mittlerweile sind es nur noch ca. 10 Personen, die erscheinen(Freitags zumindest).[[User:Dimitri.simons|Dimitri.simons]] 17:41, 2 December 2008 (UTC)

:Hier eine kurze Vorinformation zum written test
:* Dauer: 60 Minuten + etwas Reservezeit
:* Teil 1: (30 Minuten) kurze Faktenfragen, möglicherweise multiple choice, die in die verschiedenen Bereiche gehen und Breite des gemeinwissens erfassen
:* Teil 2: Zwei Fragen (Bearbeitungszeit je 15 Minuten) auszuwählen aus sechs Fragen (zu verschiedenen Gebieten der Vorlesung) - mit dem Ziel, Raum für eine knappe Darstellung von Zusammenhänge respektive Argumentationen zu geben

:Vorbereitung: Wir werden in der Sitzung zum 17. Dezember zwei Listen ausgeben. Die erste besteht aus Daten und Ereignissen, die Euch etwas sagen müssen, die zweite, nennt Personen, über deren historische Bedeutung ihr ein knappes Bild haben solltet. Ihr könnt die Informationen aus den Powerpoint Folien beziehen oder aus Medien wie Wikipedia.
:Die sechs eingehenderen Fragen, aus denen Ihr zwei auszuwählen habt, um 15 Minuten darüber zu schreiben nehmen Fragen auf, die in den Präsentationen gestellt wurden. --[[User:Olaf Simons|Olaf Simons]] 16:16, 3 December 2008 (UTC)

Ich lerne grade die 4 Seiten Daten auswendig für Mittwoch (kann man damit 50 % knacken?) und verstehe folgenden Satz nicht:
"1641 Star Chamber abolished history of press wars ensues and goes until today"

Also ich habe auch alles auswendig gelernt und in den Tutorien hieß es wohl, dass es wirklich 50/50 gewichtet wird. Aber wer sagt, dass du diese 50% dann auch wirklich richtig machst?!? Ich hab übrigens auch die Probleme mit 1641. Das hab ich einfach ausgelassen. Ich hoffe mal, dass ich beim 2.Teil noch ein bisschen Punkte rausholen kann, aber ich denke mal, dass diese Klausur allgemein nicht wirklich gut ausfallen wird. Alle lernen bis zum Umfallen, aber ob sie wirklich das richtige lernen, weiß keiner....

==Timeline==

===Prehistoric Period===
*700,000 years ago: human settlements on later British soil, the later British Islands still part of the continental shelf. Several several glacial and interglacial periods in which hunter-gatherers appear and reappear
* 70,000 and 10,000 years ago: last ice age, extreme cold snap between 22,000 and 13,000 years ago
* 7500 to 6000 years ago: Meltwater causes [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_level_rise sea level rise] of 120 m, and separation of Ireland from Britsh mainland, and of British isles from continental shelf
* 3100-1600 BC [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stonehenge Stonehenge] in use. Similar constructs of megalith culture can be found all over western Europe
* 500-50 BC predominance of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celt Celtic] culture.

===0-1000===
* 43-410 Romanisation of Celts in modern England (122/142 Hadrian’s and Antonine walls against northern Picts) [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Hadrians_Wall_map.png map]
* 410 Romans leave Great Britain, power vacuum, waves of Saxons, Angels and Jutes found kingdoms on British soil
* 597 Beginning of Christianisation under St. Augustin
* 793 Lindisfarne raided by Vikings, next three centuries: Viking settlements in northern England

===1000-1500===
* 1014-1042 Danish Rule, line of succession ends with son of Canute the Great
* 1066 Battle of Hastings, Franco-Norman rule under William I
* 1215 John Lackland has to grant the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magna_Carta Magna Carta] to avoid conflict with English barons, parliament and civil rights strengthened
* 1290 Jews expelled from England
* 1380-1400 Geoffrey Chaucer, ''Canterbury Tales''
* 1339-1453 Hundred Years War against France, rise of English Nationalism
* 1453-1487 War of the Roses: Dynastic Conflict
* 1473 Caxton's press produces first printed book in London
* 1497-1583 Newfoundland claimed by England, several colonies founded on East coast in competition with Spanish, French, and Dutch colonisation

===1500-1599===
* 1534 Henry VIII Establishes Anglican Church
* 1553-1558 rule of Mary I (1516-1558), Catholicism re-established almost 300 dissenters burned at the stake
* 1560 Reformation in Scotland, organised by John Knox, Presbiterian, Calvinist Church
* 1558–1603 Elizabethan era, Protestantism reestablished, 1590-1611 Shakespeare's plays
* 1585-1604 Conflicts with Spain (Francis Drake and the Armada) over Naval Supremacy and Spanish Netherlands (modern Belgium) and Ireland

===1600-1699===
* 1600 East India Company founded, several similar shareholder companies follow with trade monopolies granted by crown. Colonialisation basically achieved by commercial enterprises protected by English/ British crown.
* 1611 King James Bilbe Authorised Version
* 1640-1660 Civil War and Commonwealth
* 1641 Star Chamber abolished, strict censoring of the press ends, the press becomes the main platform of the political debate
* 1649 Charles I beheaded (January 30)
* 1651 Thomas Hobbes ''Leviathan'' published (plea for absolute monarchy and subordination of religion, perceived as an atheist's theory of state by all sides)
* 1660-1689 Restoration of monarchy, libertine court, wars between England and Netherlands as strongest naval powers
* 1666 London destroyed in Great Fire
* 1688/89 Glorious Revolution William of Orange (Dutch) ascends throne, Bill of Rights, new press laws, new laws on religious toleration: 1690 John Locke, ''On Toleration'' (1690), ''Two Treatises of Government'' (1690), ''Essay Concerning Humane Understanding'' (1690)

===1700-1799===
* 1707 Act of Union: England/ Wales/ Scotland become one Kingdom (a union existed de facto since James I and the Stuart ascension)
* 1719 Daniel Defoe ''Robinson Crusoe'' (author stood on pilory in 1703 after publishing his ''Shortest Way with Dissenters'' (1702).
* 1720 South Sea Bubble, Walpole strengthened ans political manager, status of prime minister evolves
* 1754 Battle of Plassey (India), British East India Company exercises military power and assumes administrative functions in India
* 1756-1763 The Seven Years' War: Ends France position as a major colonial power in the Americas
* 1770 James Cook's Expedition
* 1774-1776 USA [http://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/declare.asp Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776]
* 1750s-1830s Industrial revolution with use of steam energy, second phase 1830-1900 with new energy supplies, growing infrastructure and Industrialization of USA.

===1800-1899===
* 1810s-1830s riots against mechanisation
* 1837-1901 Rule of Queen Victoria
* 1848 Karl Marx' ''The Communist Manifesto'' published, Marx moves to England (1849) where he works til his death in 1883
* 1857 Indian Rebellion, 1858: British Crown assumes direct administration over India
* 1859 Charles Darwin ''Origin of Species'' published. Evolution theory rises against short history of Earth (as created in 4404 BC by God). Impact on cultural theory: Human culture evolved slowly. Efforts taken to speed up developments.
* 1861-1865 American Civil War
* 1869 after 11 years of work (based on the forced work of over 30,000 people), Suez Canal opened. 1880s Begin of British Colonisation of Africa
* 1882 The "Chinese Exclusion Act"
* 1890s-1918 Enfranchisement of women in Great Britain, USA: 1918
* 1895-: silent era of film; 1927: beginning of sound era of film (with ''The Jazz Singer'')
* 1899-1902 Philippine-American War, invasion, ends with Fall of First Philippine Republic, land acquisition by American companies, destabilisation of Catholic church and long term efforts to introduce English as lingua franca

===1900 till Today===
* 1914-1918, WWI, 1917: US enters the war
* 1920s onwards: radio broadcastings; history of radio, see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_radio
* 1928: television service begins in the US, 1929, television service begins in the UK; households with a TV set in the US: 0,5 % in 1946, more than 50% in 1954. Reading suggestion: Tichi, Cecelia. ''Electronic Hearth: Creating American Television Culture''. New York & Oxford: Oxford UP, 1991.
* 1929-1931 US-American economic crisis affects the whole world
* 1930s USA: New Deal economic recovery and reform programs
* 1939-1945 World War II, Allied Nations against Germany, Italy, Japan. Use of first Atom bombs against Hiroshima and Nagasaki August 1945
* 1950s-1990s several US American Interventions in Latin America
* 1950-1953 Korean War of North against South Korea
* 1964 USA: Civil Rights Act
* 1965 USA: Immigration and “Naturalization Act”
* 1959-1975 Vietnam War with pre-history of confrontations involving Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam and European powers
* 1970s GB: Economic crisis
* 1973: The United Kingdom becomes a member of the European Union
* 1979-1989 United States CIA program to arm the Afghan mujahideen during the Soviet war in Afghanistan
* 1989 Salman Rushdie, ''Satanic Verses'' published. Ensuing confrontation between religious republic of Iran and secular west.
* 1990-1991 Gulf War after Iraq attacked Kuwait
* 2001/9/11 terrorist attack on World Trade centre
* 2001-2008 War in Afghanistan
* 2003-2008 Iraq War

==People==
Task: retrieve birth- and death-dates (bring names into correct order), link into Wikipedia, and write a one or two sentence statement on historical importance

* Thomas Beckett (c. 1118 – 29 December 1170) [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Becket]- Had a conflict with King Henry II about the rights and privileges of the church; he was assassinated by followers of the king and is known as a saint and martyr by the Roman Catholic and the Anglican Church.
* John of England 1166-1216 ("John Lackland")[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lackland_of_England] Was the King of England from 6 April 1199-1216 . He is known as the enemy of Robin Hood but especially for the Magna Carta [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magna_Carta], a document limiting his power which is popularly thought as an early first step in the evolution of modern democracy.
* John Wycliffe (1320s-1384)[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Wycliffe]Was an English theologian, an early dissident in the Roman Catholic Church during the 14th century and is considered the founder of the Lollard movement, a precursor to the Protestant Reformation. Wycliffe was also an early advocate for translation of the Bible and completed his translation in the year 1382, now known as the Wycliffe Bible.
* Henry VIII (28 June 1491 – 28 January 1547) [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_VIII]Was King of England from 21 April 1509 until his death. He is known for his political struggles with Rome which ultimately led to the separation of the Anglican Church from the Roman hierarchy, the Dissolution of the Monasteries, and establishing himself as the Supreme Head of the Church of England. [http://tudors.crispen.org/]
* Elizabeth I (7 September 1533 – 24 March 1603)[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_I]Was the illegitimate daughter of Henry VIII but nevertheless became Queen of England on 17 November 1558. One of her first moves as queen was to support the establishment of an English Protestant church, of which she became the Supreme Governor. This Elizabethan Religious Settlement held firm throughout her reign and later evolved into today's Church of England. She never married and became famous for her virginity.
* Oliver Cromwell (25 April 1599 Old Style– 3 September 1658 Old Style) [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_Cromwell]He was one of the commanders of the New Model Army which defeated the royalists in the English Civil War. He is best known for his involvement in making England into a republican Commonwealth and for his later role as Lord Protector of England, Scotland, and Ireland from 1653 until his death in 1658.
* John Locke (29 August 1632 – 28 October 1704) [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Locke]Was an English philosopher and is widely regarded as one of the most influential Enlightenment thinkers who influenced Voltaire and Rousseau, as well as the American revolutionaries. This influence is reflected in the American Declaration of Independence. Locke defined the "self" through a continuity of "consciousness" and maintained that people are born without innate ideas.
* Adam Smith (5 June 1723 – 17 July 1790) [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Smith]Was a Scottish moral philosopher, a pioneer of political economy and one of the key figures of the Scottish Enlightenment. Smith book The Wealth of Nations, is considered his magnum opus and the first modern work of economics. Smith is widely cited as the father of modern economics.
* Abraham Lincoln (12 February 1809 – 15 April 1865)[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Lincoln]was the sixteenth President of the United States (elected in 1861). He successfully led the country through the American Civil War, saving the Union and ending slavery. He issued his Emancipation Proclamation in 1863 and promoted the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution. He became the first president who was assassinated in 1865 and is seen as a martyr for the ideal of national unity.
* Charles Darwin (12 February 1809 – 19 April 1882)[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Darwin] was an English naturalist, who realised and demonstrated that all species of life have evolved over time from common ancestors through the process he called natural selection. The fact that evolution occurs became accepted by the scientific community and the general public in his lifetime and had a great impact on cultural theory.
* Karl Marx (5 May 1818 – 14 March 1883)[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Marx]credited as the founder of communism. Marx argued that capitalism, like previous socioeconomic systems, will produce internal tensions which will lead to its destruction. Just as capitalism replaced feudalism, capitalism itself will be displaced by communism, a stateless, classless society which emerges after a transitional period, the 'dictatorship of the proletariat'.
* Queen Victoria (24 May 1819 – 22 January 1901) [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_Victoria]Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and the first Empress of India until her death. Her reign as Queen lasted 63 years and seven months. The period centred on her reign is known as the Victorian era. This era represented the height of the Industrial Revolution and was marked by a great expansion of the British Empire.
* Thomas Alva Edison (11 February 1847 – 18 October 1931)[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Alva_Edison]Was an American inventor and businessman who developed many devices that greatly influenced life around the world, including the phonograph and the long-lasting, practical electric light bulb.
* Cecil Rhodes (5 July 1853 – 26 March 1902) [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cecil_Rhodes]was an English-born businessman, mining magnate and politician in South Africa. He was an ardent believer in colonialism and was the founder of the state of Rhodesia, which was named after him and became Zambia and Zimbabwe respectively. Rhodes wanted to expand the British Empire because he believed that the Anglo-Saxon race was destined to greatness.
* Henry Ford (30 July 1863 – 7 April 1947)[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Ford]was the American founder of the Ford Motor Company and father of modern assembly lines used in mass production. His introduction of the Model T automobile revolutionized transportation and the American industry. As owner of the Ford Company he became one of the richest and best-known people in the world
* Mahatma Gandhi (2 October 1869 – 30 January 1948) [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahatma_Ghandhi]was a major political and spiritual leader of India and the Indian independence movement and inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world. Gandhi led nationwide campaigns for easing poverty, for expanding women's rights, for building religious and ethnic amity, for ending untouchability, for increasing economic self-reliance and for achieving Swaraj—the independence of India from foreign domination.
* Nelson Mandela (born 18 July 1918)[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelson_Mandela]was the first President of South Africa to be elected in a fully representative democratic election, serving in the office from 1994–1999. Before his presidency, Mandela was an anti-apartheid activist and because of that Mandela had to serve 27 years in prison, spending many of these years on Robben Island. In South Africa and internationally, Mandela's opposition to apartheid made him a symbol of freedom and equality for many.
* Henry Kissinger (27 May 1923)[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Kissinger]He served as National Security Advisor and later concurrently as Secretary of State in the Richard Nixon administration. Kissinger emerged unscathed from the Watergate scandal, and maintained his powerful position when Gerald Ford became President.
* Martin Luther King, Jr.(15 January 1929 – 4 April 1968)[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther_King]was an African American clergyman, activist and prominent leader in the American civil rights movement. His main legacy was to secure progress on civil rights in the United States and he is frequently referenced as a human rights icon today. King's efforts led to the 1963 March on Washington, where King delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech. There, he raised public consciousness of the civil rights movement and established himself as one of the greatest orators in U.S. history. King was assassinated on April 4, 1968, in Memphis, Tennessee.

:spannende Arbeit! --[[User:Olaf Simons|Olaf Simons]] 09:56, 22 December 2008 (UTC)

User talk:Olaf Simons

2009-01-09T11:00:17Z

Julia Goebel:

[[User talk:Olaf Simons/Archive]] 
[[Olaf Simons:Medienbestand]]

==Prizes/Awards==
*[[User:Anna Auguscik|Anna Auguscik]] 18:45, 14 July 2008 (CEST): English, James F. 2005. The Economy of Prestige. Prizes, Awards, and the Circulation of Cultural Value. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard UP.

== blockieren ==

Vergaß, erst zu blockieren und dann die Seite zu löschen (siehe WeightLossTips, recent changes), und kann den Benutzer User:WeightLoss nicht blockieren (ich sehe die Option nicht, auf die ich klicken kann, welche normalerweise hinter jedem Edit steht. Der ganze User ist auch nicht mehr über recent changes aufgelistet). Auch kann ich seine Seite nicht löschen, obwohl ich das eigentlich können müsste - immerhin könnte ich auch Deine Benutzerseite löschen (theoretisch). Und das verstehe ich nicht ; ). Gruß an die kalte See, [[User:Verena Engelhardt|Verena Engelhardt]] 10:12, 12 October 2008 (CEST)
:Wird wohl kein Problem sein - ansonsten radikal unterbinden, Leute, die keine Namen unserer Studenten oder Dozentan haben und sich auch sonst nicht mit einer Identität ausweisen, sollten bei allem Nichtfachlichem gelöscht werden. Von der inspirierenden [http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Siggen ostholsteinischen Wikipedia Konferenz], --[[User:Olaf Simons|Olaf Simons]] 12:05, 12 October 2008 (CEST)
::Darum geht es ja: Ich habe zwar die Seite gelöscht, aber nicht den User - da ich nicht sehe, wie ich das machen kann, da ich seine Benutzerseite nur beschränkt sehe. Die Option "blockieren" fehlt (die hinter seinem Namen stehen müsste), und die User Seite [[User:WeightLoss]] kann ich weder löschen, noch die Versionsgeschichte sehen noch kann ich sie auf protect setzen - all das, was normalerweise zu sehen wäre. Das ist meine eigentlich Frage, warum ich das nicht sehen kann, wo ich doch sogar Deine Seite löschen könnte? Muss auf ihr erst was stehen um sie löschen zu können? Wie kann ich den User/seinen Pseudo-Account noch blockieren? Gruß, [[User:Verena Engelhardt|Verena Engelhardt]] 13:17, 12 October 2008 (CEST)
:::Siehst, jetzt habe ich den User erst geblockt und dann die Seite gelöscht (wobei das einfach seine Userseite war) - heute morgen hatte ich erst die Seite gelöscht und wollte dann blocken, aber nach dem Löschen der Seite verschwand der User aus der recent changes Liste, sodass ich die Option "(blockieren)" (hinter dem Namen) nicht mehr sah. Und statt blockieren wollte ich dann seine Userseite löschen, aber die lässt sich nicht löschen,- vielleicht, weil da nichts steht? [[User:Verena Engelhardt|Verena Engelhardt]] 20:59, 12 October 2008 (CEST) (ich frage aus Verständnisgründen, will ja auch dazulernen und verstehen, wie ein Wiki funktioniert)
::::Durch Probieren Problem gelöst, selbstständiges Lernen also : ) Gruß, [[User:Verena Engelhardt|Verena Engelhardt]] 21:14, 12 October 2008 (CEST)
:::::''(blocked "User:BoredWikipedians" with an expiry time of infinite: Spam (aber lustiger Name...))''
:::::Räusper. Nicht alles, [http://3.blogs.23.nu/kellerkind/2008/10/passende-auszeit-um-sich-hier-umzusehen/ was man nicht versteht], ist Spam. Und gepostet habe ich, meines Wissens, gar nichts. Kann ich a) meinen Account und b)meine Benutzerseite wiederhaben? Ich habe ja früher mal eine Weile bei der [http://entropie.digital.udk-berlin.de/wiki/Hauptseite der UDK Berlin] gewohnt, die waren da aber weniger grob und tollerant gegenüber anderen Netzlebensformen... Pfh! --[[User:Beleidigt|Beleidigt]] 13:37, 13 October 2008 (CEST) P.S. Viel Spaß weiterhin mit den Adminfunktionen :-)
::::::Dies ist das Anglistik und Amerikanistik Wiki der Uni Oldenburg - aber (das siehst Du ganz richtig) eine offene Plattform. Du kannst mitmachen, solange es die Community interessiert. Ist also die Frage, ob Du ein Projekt hast, das anglistisch oder amerikanistisch interessant ist. Und wer entscheidet das? Ganz am Ende (um das Verfahren zu vereinfachen) ich (und ich warne Dich: es ist gar nicht einfach, was zu machen, was ich interessant finde - möglich aber schon, und für Dich bestimmt eine Bereicherung, Du mußt halt nachdenken). --[[User:Olaf Simons|Olaf Simons]] 13:53, 13 October 2008 (CEST)
:::::::Zum Verständnis: Vielleicht wäre ein Klarname angebracht, damit es nicht zur Verwechslung kommt. Dies ist weder ein Chatroom, noch die große, weite Wikipedia, in der es möglich ist, Pseudonyme zu benutzen. Was ich nicht zuordnen kann, lösche ich... [[User:Verena Engelhardt|Verena Engelhardt]] 14:16, 13 October 2008 (CEST)
::::::::In der Tat, Leute mit Pseudonymen können einfach gelöscht werden. --[[User:Olaf Simons|Olaf Simons]] 17:42, 13 October 2008 (CEST)
::::::::::''In der Tat, Leute mit Pseudonymen können einfach gelöscht werden.''
::::::::::Krass: [http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlotte_Bront%C3%AB 1] - [http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Am%C3%A9ry 2] - [http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_von_Pseudonymen 3] - [http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bettina_von_Arnim 4] - [http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tania_Blixen 5] - [http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_Carroll 6] - [http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Celan 7] - [http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Celan 8] - [http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Dickens 9] - [http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Magnus_Enzensberger 10] Ich (!) werd' dann mal nachdenken... [[User:Beleidigt|Beleidigt]] 19:16, 13 October 2008 (CEST) P.S. Verena: Danke für die Wiederherstellung & viel Spaß noch im Netzuniversum :-) Bis dann...
:::::::::::Guckstu: ''Dies ist weder ein Chatroom, noch die große, weite Wikipedia, in der es möglich ist, Pseudonyme zu benutzen'' [...] ''Dies ist das Anglistik und Amerikanistik Wiki der Uni Oldenburg''. Einfach Sache, also. [[User:Verena Engelhardt|Verena Engelhardt]] 19:37, 13 October 2008 (CEST)
Noch eine technische Frage: Wenn ich über Spezialseiten auf [http://www.wiki.uni-oldenburg.de/fk3/angl-am/index.php?title=Special:Ipblocklist&limit=500&offset=0&ip= Liste blockierter IP-Adressen] klicke, steht da mein Name mit Nummern, die ich blockte, und Uhrzeiten. Da ich bei niemandem anderen von den Admins auf dieser Liste solche Sachen sehe, wundere ich mich darüber. Vor allem, da ich zur besagten Uhrzeit gar nicht im Wiki war... Gruß, [[User:Verena Engelhardt|Verena Engelhardt]] 22:43, 16 October 2008 (CEST)
:Das liegt daran, dass jemand, den Du bereits gesperrt hast, sich erneut anmeldet und versucht zu editieren. Soweit er dabei dieselbe IP-Adresse verwendet erfolgt automatisch eine erneute Sperre, hierfür musst Du nicht online sein. Grüße, [[User:Beleidigt|Beleidigt]] 23:09, 16 October 2008 (CEST)

Hallo Olaf,
danke für den Hinweis! Habs gleich geändert :-)
Gruß [[User:Hannah Treffert|Hannah Treffert]] 22:50, 17 October 2008 (CEST)
:Dear AK 47, wie sieht es denn mit Usernamen aus, die nur aus Vornamen bestehen? Du hast Britta geschrieben (die ich persönlich kenne), sie möge einen vollen Klarnamen nehmen. Es gibt hier aber noch viele andere, die nur einen Vornamen haben, deren Accounts aber schon älter sind, sodass Du/man deren Namen mittlerweile einordnen kann/st (zB [[User:Sonja]]). Versteh mich nicht falsch, aber wenn der eine das "darf", der andere aber nicht, wirkt das komisch, da sich manche an denen orientieren wenn es ums Wiki geht... Gruß, [[User:Verena Engelhardt|Verena Engelhardt]] 18:00, 21 October 2008 (CEST) PS: Da schwirrt auch eine Nummer irgendwo rum...

::Die user, die sich nicht bemerkbar machen, interessieren mich nicht. Bei Leuten, die neu auftauchen, dringe ich darauf, daß sie es vernünftig machen. Sehe aber nicht, wie ich's durchsetzen soll. Soll ich Sonja reformieren - die ich kenne... Ist mir zu mühselig und bin zu wenig Lehrertyp. Man könnte natürlich für alle accounts eröffnen, wie bei StudIP und verbieten, daß Leute sich selbst accounts basteln - will ich aber gar nicht. Also mache ich nur etwas Druck bei Neulingen, hier und da und denke dann spricht sich's herum. --[[User:Olaf Simons|Olaf Simons]] 19:06, 21 October 2008 (CEST) (Die neue Numer war Kevin... - schrieb ihm bereits)

Ist das [http://www.wiki.uni-oldenburg.de/fk3/angl-am/index.php?title=2008-09_AM_Language_Acquisition hier] nicht ein bisschen derb? Mit großen roten Lettern... [[User:Verena Engelhardt|Verena Engelhardt]] 13:46, 1 November 2008 (CET)

Ich sehe non nicht, wie ich das hinkriege, da es offensichtlich kursabhängig geschieht. Nachdem ich den Spruch hinschrieb, meldeten sich die Leute besser an. Es ist mir indes gleichgültig, --[[User:Olaf Simons|Olaf Simons]] 16:55, 2 November 2008 (CET)

:Dann solltest Du Dich entscheiden. Mit welcher Begründung wird [[User:Beleidigt|er/sie/es]] toleriert? Studenten werden angeschrieben oder geblockt, andere aber können mit Pseudonymen fleißig auf Deiner BM 2 Timeline editieren. Entweder alle Klarnamen und rigoros, oder aber alle sind frei in der Accountwahl... Abendlicher Gruß, [[User:Verena Engelhardt|Verena Engelhardt]] 21:26, 2 November 2008 (CET)
::Verena, das Problem erledigt sich von selbst, da ich einfach sogleich schmerzfrei versterben werde. Sagen wir es mal so: Erst war es ein blödsinniger Unfall, dann ''irgendwie interessant''. Dann hat man Probleme. Und aus spezifischen Gründen, die hier nichts zur Sache tun, geht sowas aber natürlich _grundsätzlich_gar_nicht_. Ich bin zwar kamera- aber nicht kopflos. Mea Culpa, [[User:Beleidigt|B.]] 22:28, 2 November 2008 (CET)

== Kleine Bitte ==

Moin. Keine Ahnung, ob ich das auslöse oder ob das immer so ist, a-bär: Ein Hinweis auf Klarnamenbevorzugung auf der Create-Account-Page bzw. genauer in [[MediaWiki:Emailforlost]] wäre nicht schlecht. Keine Ahnung wie die Rezeptionsweisen funktionieren, ich habe allerdings 6(!) Tage gebraucht, den Hinweis zu finden (was ja auch etwas über meine Geistesverfassung aussagen mag). 1. Kam ich nicht über die Hauptseite 2. Lese ich die Hilfe nicht, weil das technische weiß ich ja schon 3. Mit dem About weiß ich es selbst nicht so genau, vielleicht erwartet man von der Textsorte nichts interessantes... Freundliche Grüße in die Runde, [[User:Beleidigt|B.]] 07:16, 23 October 2008 (CEST)
:Also wie ich im Wiki Veränderungen vornehme - etwa bei der create an account Schablone Text ablege, dre sagt, was für Accounts wir bevorzugen - keine Ahnung. Das sind Dinge, die sich in unseremm kleinen Wiki auch so regeln. oder auch nicht, ohne katastrophen zu erzeugen, --[[User:Olaf Simons|Olaf Simons]] 11:00, 23 October 2008 (CEST)
::und ich bin in der Lage zu unterscheiden zwischen Leuten, die bewußt ein Pseudonym wählen und anderen, die das tun, ohne zu kapieren, daß es in Recent Changes diese Accounts hinterläßt, die einmal in sieben Jahren was Unübersichtliches tun. Gegen Leute, die entschieden verantwortungsvoll handeln habe ich gar nichts, was auch immer sie als Weg wählen. Bei Leuten, bei denen nur die Wurschtigkeit eine andere Entscheidung verhindert, klopfe ich an, und frage, ob's auch anders geht. Ein Wiki regelt sich selbst, ich bin da gelassen und zuversichtlich und blocke vandalierende Leute - nicht Leute, die aus irgendeinem Spaß mitspielen - warum denn nicht? Das konstruktive Spiel ist mir willkommen, und ich rätsele, was einen Fremden reizt, mal hier herumzuschauen und freue mich über die Neugier und die kleinen konstruktiven Edits. Gelassenheit und ruhiges Kurshalten sind in allen Dingen angeraten, und ruhiges Kurshalten schließt ein, daß man hinnimmt, daß es allemal nie geradlienig geht, doch langfristig eben nach vorne in interessante Gebiete. Gelassenheit und Toleranz... --[[User:Olaf Simons|Olaf Simons]] 23:37, 2 November 2008 (CET)
:::Nein, es beschädigt die Texte nicht. Aber es vandaliert das Norm- und Beziehungsgefüge. Und auch (und gerade das) würde man einen Troll nennen. Alles sehr seltsam... [[User:Benjamin Tabart|Benjamin Tabart]] 06:11, 11 November 2008 (CET)
::::Ich habe diesen Eintrag erwartet - da ich ein langes Buch über einen von Pseudonymen durchzogenenen Buchmarkt schrieb, und darüber nachdachte, wie der langsam zu wahren Namen kam. Namen wie Robinson Crusoe spielten da in der ersten Well mit, und [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Tabart Benjamin Tabart] ist mir natürlich nicht unbekannt. Mit Humor dabei --[[User:Olaf Simons|Olaf Simons]] 13:56, 11 November 2008 (CET)

==On the Novel==
Just a mental note. I assume you already know that so maybe the note is for myself really. David Lodge in ''The Novelist at the Crossroads'' (1971, repr. 1986) defines the European novel as "synthesis of pre-existing narrative traditions" (p.4 in 1986 edition). [[User:Anna Auguscik|Anna Auguscik]] 13:37, 11 November 2008 (CET)
:Well, yes, though this can be the cheap solution: All texts can and will be influenced by all texts the author read. So a novel I write will be influenced by the entire spectrum of genres - and not only by those fictional. Question remains: which traditions will we note? Also: what will we do about the discourse of traditions that is produced alongside by critics and novelists. --[[User:Olaf Simons|Olaf Simons]] 14:00, 11 November 2008 (CET)

== bitte ==

[[Talk:Swarm| Bitte, bitte, bitte lösche das!]] Nicht um meinetwillen, aber bitte nicht hier, nicht im Internet, nicht im Wiki der Uni. [[User:Verena Engelhardt|Verena Engelhardt]] 15:31, 1 December 2008 (UTC)
#Lösch es selbst. Es disst Leute und bringt nichts voran.
#''going to the party tonight / yeah, its Wednesday'' [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7LZRaHz0Q8 Na, sicher!]
:[[User:Benjamin Tabart|Benjamin Tabart]] 18:05, 2 December 2008 (UTC)
::es gibt nichts gutes außer man tut es (freut mich, daß noch alle am leben sind - ein enger Tag heute (Euch einen angenehmen!)), mit Dank für's Mitdenken, --[[User:Olaf Simons|Olaf Simons]] 08:44, 3 December 2008 (UTC)
:::Ein paar Ergänzungen in [[BM2-3_Anglophone_Expansion:Timeline|Great Britain and Westindies sowie Great Britain and India]] wären hilfreich. Auf dass andere Suchen und Finden mögen und die Crawler kommen und Alles nach archive.org tragen. So war es schon immer. Ansonsten: Ich bin an Menschen nicht besonders interessiert. Danke. [[User:Benjamin Tabart|Benjamin Tabart]] 19:59, 3 December 2008 (UTC)

I am not quite sure if this is the right place but I want to make an appointment to talk about my latest assignment. I hope there is some time left during the office hours! Julia Göbel

User talk:Olaf Simons

2009-01-09T10:56:21Z

Julia Goebel:

Talk:2008-09 BM2 Introduction to Anglophone Cultural Studies, Part 1

2008-12-21T13:43:53Z

Julia Goebel: /* People */

Ich hatte im 1. Semester die glorreiche Idee BM2 zu schieben. Als "Ersti" hatte ich das Gefühl nicht alles gut genug schaffen zu können, wenn ich mich auf soviel konzentriere. Nun kann ich leider viele Aufbaumodule nicht belegen, weil BM2 vorausgesetzt wird. Ist es möglich wenn ich jetzt mit dem BM2 anfange parallel so ein Blockseminar im Februar zu besuchen? Dann hätte ich ja wenigstens den 1. Teil vom BM2 schon mal. Ärgerlich. Da habe ich mich wohl im 1. Semester verkalkuliert. 
:...schon per e-mail geregelt, machen wir, auch im Interesse des Blockseminars. --[[User:Olaf Simons|Olaf Simons]] 15:25, 27 August 2008 (CEST)
::Dann wäre eine für alle sichtbare Antwort an dieser Stelle sinnvoll (gewesen), da ich mir denken kann, dass diese Frage mehrere Studenten haben (und hier gucken, ob es eine Antwort darauf gibt). Deshalb fake edit. [[User:Verena Engelhardt|Verena Engelhardt]] 15:26, 27 August 2008 (CEST)

Wo steht eigentlich nochmal die Info welche chapter wir jedesmal vorbereiten sollen?

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Die Fragen am Ende der letzten Vorlesung haben es wieder einmal gezeigt; Keiner weiß, was man denn genau lernen muss für die Klausur.
Und irgendwie habe ich pers. auch den Eindruck dass zwischen den Lektoren keine Übereinstimmung bezüglich dieser Frage herrscht.
Das ganze wirkt dann auch auf die Tutoriengestaltung, und mittlerweile sind es nur noch ca. 10 Personen, die erscheinen(Freitags zumindest).[[User:Dimitri.simons|Dimitri.simons]] 17:41, 2 December 2008 (UTC)

:Hier eine kurze Vorinformation zum written test
:* Dauer: 60 Minuten + etwas Reservezeit
:* Teil 1: (30 Minuten) kurze Faktenfragen, möglicherweise multiple choice, die in die verschiedenen Bereiche gehen und Breite des gemeinwissens erfassen
:* Teil 2: Zwei Fragen (Bearbeitungszeit je 15 Minuten) auszuwählen aus sechs Fragen (zu verschiedenen Gebieten der Vorlesung) - mit dem Ziel, Raum für eine knappe Darstellung von Zusammenhänge respektive Argumentationen zu geben

:Vorbereitung: Wir werden in der Sitzung zum 17. Dezember zwei Listen ausgeben. Die erste besteht aus Daten und Ereignissen, die Euch etwas sagen müssen, die zweite, nennt Personen, über deren historische Bedeutung ihr ein knappes Bild haben solltet. Ihr könnt die Informationen aus den Powerpoint Folien beziehen oder aus Medien wie Wikipedia.
:Die sechs eingehenderen Fragen, aus denen Ihr zwei auszuwählen habt, um 15 Minuten darüber zu schreiben nehmen Fragen auf, die in den Präsentationen gestellt wurden. --[[User:Olaf Simons|Olaf Simons]] 16:16, 3 December 2008 (UTC)

==Timeline==

===Prehistoric Period===
*700,000 years ago: human settlements on later British soil, the later British Islands still part of the continental shelf. Several several glacial and interglacial periods in which hunter-gatherers appear and reappear
* 70,000 and 10,000 years ago: last ice age, extreme cold snap between 22,000 and 13,000 years ago
* 7500 to 6000 years ago: Meltwater causes [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_level_rise see level rise] of 120 m, and separation of Ireland from Britsh mainland, and of British isles from continental shelf
* 3100-1600 BC [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stonehenge Stonehenge] in use. Similar constructs of megalith culture can be found all over western Europe
* 500-50 BC predominance of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celt Celtic] culture.

===0-1000===
* 43-410 Romanisation of Celts in modern England (122/142 Hadrian’s and Antonine walls against northern Picts) [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Hadrians_Wall_map.png map]
* 410 Romans leave Great Britain, power vacuum, waves of Saxons, Angels and Jutes found kingdoms on British soil
* 597 Beginning of Christianisation under St. Augustin
* 793 Lindisfarne raided by Vikings, next three centuries: Viking settlements in northern England

===1000-1500===
* 1014-1042 Danish Rule, line of succession ends with son of Canute the Great
* 1066 Battle of Hastings, Franco-Norman rule under William I
* 1215 John Lackland has to grant the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magna_Carta Magna Carta] to avoid conflict with English barons, parliament and civil rights strengthened
* 1290 Jews expelled from England
* 1380-1400 Geoffrey Chaucer, ''Canterbury Tales''
* 1339-1453 Hundred Years War against France, rise of English Nationalism
* 1453-1487 War of the Roses: Dynastic Conflict
* 1473 Caxton's press produces first printed book in London
* 1497-1583 Newfoundland claimed by England, several colonies founded on East coast in competition with Spanish, French, and Dutch colonisation

===1500-1599===
* 1538 Henry VIII Establishes Anglican Church
* 1553-1558 rule of Mary I (1516-1558), Catholicism re-established almost 300 dissenters burned at the stake
* 1560 Reformation in Scotland, organised by John Knox, Presbiterian, Calvinist Church
* 1558–1603 Elizabethan era, Protestantism reestablished, 1590-1611 Shakespeare's plays
* 1585-1604 Conflicts with Spain (Francis Drake and the Armada) over Naval Supremacy and Spanish Netherlands (modern Belgium) and Ireland

===1600-1699===
* 1600 East India Company founded, several similar shareholder companies follow with trade monopolies granted by crown. Colonialisation basically achieved by commercial enterprises protected by English/ British crown.
* 1611 King James Bilbe Authorised Version
* 1640-1660 Civil War and Commonwealth
* 1641 Star Chamber abolished history of press wars ensues and goes on till today
* 1649 Charles I beheaded (January 30)
* 1651 Thomas Hobbes ''Leviathan'' published (plea for absolute monarchy and subordination of religion, perceived as an atheist's theory of state by all sides)
* 1660-1689 Restoration of monarchy, libertine court, wars between England and Netherlands as strongest naval powers
* 1666 London destroyed in Great Fire
* 1688/89 Glorious Revolution William of Orange (Dutch) ascends throne, Bill of Rights, new press laws, new laws on religious toleration: 1690 John Locke, ''On Toleration'' (1690), ''Two Treatises of Government'' (1690), ''Essay Concerning Humane Understanding'' (1690)

===1700-1799===
* 1707 Act of Union: England/ Wales/ Scotland become one Kingdom (a union existed de facto since James I and the Stuart ascension)
* 1719 Daniel Defoe ''Robinson Crusoe'' (author stood on pilory in 1703 after publishing his ''Shortest Way with Dissenters'' (1702).
* 1720 South Sea Bubble, Walpole strengthened ans political manager, status of prime minister evolves
* 1754 Battle of Plassey (India), British East India Company exercises military power and assumes administrative functions in India
* 1756-1763 The Seven Years' War: Ends France position as a major colonial power in the Americas
* 1770 James Cook's Expedition
* 1774-1776 USA [http://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/declare.asp Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776]
* 1750s-1830s Industrial revolution with use of steam energy, second phase 1830-1900 with new energy supplies, growing infrastructure and Industrialization of USA.

===1800-1899===
* 1810s-1830s riots against mechanisation
* 1837-1901 Rule of Queen Victoria
* 1848 Karl Marx' ''The Communist Manifesto'' published, Marx moves to England (1849) where he works til his death in 1883
* 1857 Indian Rebellion, 1858: British Crown assumes direct administration over India
* 1859 Charles Darwin ''Origin of Species'' published. Evolution theory rises against short history of Earth (as created in 4404 BC by God). Impact on cultural theory: Human culture evolved slowly. Efforts taken to speed up developments.
* 1861-1865 American Civil War
* 1869 after 11 years of work (based on the forced work of over 30,000 people), Suez Canal opened. 1880s Begin of British Colonisation of Africa
* 1882 The "Chinese Exclusion Act"
* 1890s-1918 Enfranchisement of women in Great Britain, USA: 1918
* 1895-: silent era of film; 1927: beginning of sound era of film (with ''The Jazz Singer'')
* 1899-1902 Philippine-American War, invasion, ends with Fall of First Philippine Republic, land acquisition by American companies, destabilisation of Catholic church and long term efforts to introduce English as lingua franca

===1900 till Today===
* 1914-1918, WWI, 1917: US enters the war
* 1920s onwards: radio broadcastings; history of radio, see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_radio
* 1928: television service begins in the US, 1929, television service begins in the UK; households with a TV set in the US: 0,5 % in 1946, more than 50% in 1954. Reading suggestion: Tichi, Cecelia. ''Electronic Hearth: Creating American Television Culture''. New York & Oxford: Oxford UP, 1991.
* 1929-1931 US-American economic crisis affects the whole world
* 1930s USA: New Deal economic recovery and reform programs
* 1939-1945 World War II, Allied Nations against Germany, Italy, Japan. Use of first Atom bombs against Hiroshima and Nagasaki August 1945
* 1950s-1990s several US American Interventions in Latin America
* 1950-1953 Korean War of North against South Korea
* 1964 USA: Civil Rights Act
* 1965 USA: Immigration and “Naturalization Act”
* 1959-1975 Vietnam War with pre-history of confrontations involving Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam and European powers
* 1970s GB: Economic crisis
* 1973: The United Kingdom becomes a member of the European Union
* 1979-1989 United States CIA program to arm the Afghan mujahideen during the Soviet war in Afghanistan
* 1989 Salman Rushdie, ''Satanic Verses'' published. Ensuing confrontation between religious republic of Iran and secular west.
* 1990-1991 Gulf War after Iraq attacked Kuwait
* 2001/9/11 terrorist attack on World Trade centre
* 2001-2008 War in Afghanistan
* 2003-2008 Iraq War

==People==
Task: retrieve birth- and death-dates (bring names into correct order), link into Wikipedia, and write a one or two sentence statement on historical importance

* Thomas Beckett (c. 1118 – 29 December 1170) [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Becket]- Had a conflict with King Henry II about the rights and privileges of the church; he was assassinated by followers of the king and is known as a saint and martyr by the Roman Catholic and the Anglican Church.
* John of England 1166-1216 ("John Lackland")[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lackland_of_England] Was the King of England from 6 April 1199-1216 . He is known as the enemy of Robin Hood but especially for the Magna Carta [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magna_Carta], a document limiting his power which is popularly thought as an early first step in the evolution of modern democracy.
* John Wycliffe (1320s-1384)[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Wycliffe]Was an English theologian, an early dissident in the Roman Catholic Church during the 14th century and is considered the founder of the Lollard movement, a precursor to the Protestant Reformation. Wycliffe was also an early advocate for translation of the Bible and completed his translation in the year 1382, now known as the Wycliffe Bible.
* Henry VIII (28 June 1491 – 28 January 1547) [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_VIII]Was King of England from 21 April 1509 until his death. He is known for his political struggles with Rome which ultimately led to the separation of the Anglican Church from the Roman hierarchy, the Dissolution of the Monasteries, and establishing himself as the Supreme Head of the Church of England. [http://tudors.crispen.org/]
* Elizabeth I (7 September 1533 – 24 March 1603)[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_I]Was the illegitimate daughter of Henry VIII but nevertheless became Queen of England on 17 November 1558. One of her first moves as queen was to support the establishment of an English Protestant church, of which she became the Supreme Governor. This Elizabethan Religious Settlement held firm throughout her reign and later evolved into today's Church of England. She never married and became famous for her virginity.
* Oliver Cromwell (25 April 1599 Old Style– 3 September 1658 Old Style) [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_Cromwell]He was one of the commanders of the New Model Army which defeated the royalists in the English Civil War. He is best known for his involvement in making England into a republican Commonwealth and for his later role as Lord Protector of England, Scotland, and Ireland from 1653 until his death in 1658.
* John Locke (29 August 1632 – 28 October 1704) [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Locke]Was an English philosopher and is widely regarded as one of the most influential Enlightenment thinkers who influenced Voltaire and Rousseau, as well as the American revolutionaries. This influence is reflected in the American Declaration of Independence. Locke defined the "self" through a continuity of "consciousness" and maintained that people are born without innate ideas.
* Adam Smith (5 June 1723 – 17 July 1790) [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Smith]Was a Scottish moral philosopher, a pioneer of political economy and one of the key figures of the Scottish Enlightenment. Smith book The Wealth of Nations, is considered his magnum opus and the first modern work of economics. Smith is widely cited as the father of modern economics.
* Abraham Lincoln (12 February 1809 – 15 April 1865)[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Lincoln]was the sixteenth President of the United States (elected in 1861). He successfully led the country through the American Civil War, saving the Union and ending slavery. He issued his Emancipation Proclamation in 1863 and promoted the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution. He became the first president who was assassinated in 1865 and is seen as a martyr for the ideal of national unity.
* Charles Darwin (12 February 1809 – 19 April 1882)[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Darwin] was an English naturalist, who realised and demonstrated that all species of life have evolved over time from common ancestors through the process he called natural selection. The fact that evolution occurs became accepted by the scientific community and the general public in his lifetime and had a great impact on cultural theory.
* Karl Marx (5 May 1818 – 14 March 1883)[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Marx]credited as the founder of communism. Marx argued that capitalism, like previous socioeconomic systems, will produce internal tensions which will lead to its destruction. Just as capitalism replaced feudalism, capitalism itself will be displaced by communism, a stateless, classless society which emerges after a transitional period, the 'dictatorship of the proletariat'.
* Queen Victoria (24 May 1819 – 22 January 1901) [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_Victoria]Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and the first Empress of India until her death. Her reign as Queen lasted 63 years and seven months. The period centred on her reign is known as the Victorian era. This era represented the height of the Industrial Revolution and was marked by a great expansion of the British Empire.
* Thomas Alva Edison (11 February 1847 – 18 October 1931)[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Alva_Edison]Was an American inventor and businessman who developed many devices that greatly influenced life around the world, including the phonograph and the long-lasting, practical electric light bulb.
* Cecil Rhodes (5 July 1853 – 26 March 1902) [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cecil_Rhodes]was an English-born businessman, mining magnate and politician in South Africa. He was an ardent believer in colonialism and was the founder of the state of Rhodesia, which was named after him and became Zambia and Zimbabwe respectively. Rhodes wanted to expand the British Empire because he believed that the Anglo-Saxon race was destined to greatness.
* Henry Ford (30 July 1863 – 7 April 1947)[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Ford]was the American founder of the Ford Motor Company and father of modern assembly lines used in mass production. His introduction of the Model T automobile revolutionized transportation and the American industry. As owner of the Ford Company he became one of the richest and best-known people in the world
* Mahatma Gandhi (2 October 1869 – 30 January 1948) [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahatma_Ghandhi]was a major political and spiritual leader of India and the Indian independence movement and inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world. Gandhi led nationwide campaigns for easing poverty, for expanding women's rights, for building religious and ethnic amity, for ending untouchability, for increasing economic self-reliance and for achieving Swaraj—the independence of India from foreign domination.
* Nelson Mandela (born 18 July 1918)[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelson_Mandela]was the first President of South Africa to be elected in a fully representative democratic election, serving in the office from 1994–1999. Before his presidency, Mandela was an anti-apartheid activist and because of that Mandela had to serve 27 years in prison, spending many of these years on Robben Island. In South Africa and internationally, Mandela's opposition to apartheid made him a symbol of freedom and equality for many.
* Henry Kissinger (27 May 1923)[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Kissinger]He served as National Security Advisor and later concurrently as Secretary of State in the Richard Nixon administration. Kissinger emerged unscathed from the Watergate scandal, and maintained his powerful position when Gerald Ford became President.
* Martin Luther King, Jr.(15 January 1929 – 4 April 1968)[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther_King]was an African American clergyman, activist and prominent leader in the American civil rights movement. His main legacy was to secure progress on civil rights in the United States and he is frequently referenced as a human rights icon today. King's efforts led to the 1963 March on Washington, where King delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech. There, he raised public consciousness of the civil rights movement and established himself as one of the greatest orators in U.S. history. King was assassinated on April 4, 1968, in Memphis, Tennessee.

Talk:2008-09 BM2 Introduction to Anglophone Cultural Studies, Part 1

2008-12-21T13:39:49Z

Julia Goebel: /* People */

Ich hatte im 1. Semester die glorreiche Idee BM2 zu schieben. Als "Ersti" hatte ich das Gefühl nicht alles gut genug schaffen zu können, wenn ich mich auf soviel konzentriere. Nun kann ich leider viele Aufbaumodule nicht belegen, weil BM2 vorausgesetzt wird. Ist es möglich wenn ich jetzt mit dem BM2 anfange parallel so ein Blockseminar im Februar zu besuchen? Dann hätte ich ja wenigstens den 1. Teil vom BM2 schon mal. Ärgerlich. Da habe ich mich wohl im 1. Semester verkalkuliert. 
:...schon per e-mail geregelt, machen wir, auch im Interesse des Blockseminars. --[[User:Olaf Simons|Olaf Simons]] 15:25, 27 August 2008 (CEST)
::Dann wäre eine für alle sichtbare Antwort an dieser Stelle sinnvoll (gewesen), da ich mir denken kann, dass diese Frage mehrere Studenten haben (und hier gucken, ob es eine Antwort darauf gibt). Deshalb fake edit. [[User:Verena Engelhardt|Verena Engelhardt]] 15:26, 27 August 2008 (CEST)

Wo steht eigentlich nochmal die Info welche chapter wir jedesmal vorbereiten sollen?

----
Die Fragen am Ende der letzten Vorlesung haben es wieder einmal gezeigt; Keiner weiß, was man denn genau lernen muss für die Klausur.
Und irgendwie habe ich pers. auch den Eindruck dass zwischen den Lektoren keine Übereinstimmung bezüglich dieser Frage herrscht.
Das ganze wirkt dann auch auf die Tutoriengestaltung, und mittlerweile sind es nur noch ca. 10 Personen, die erscheinen(Freitags zumindest).[[User:Dimitri.simons|Dimitri.simons]] 17:41, 2 December 2008 (UTC)

:Hier eine kurze Vorinformation zum written test
:* Dauer: 60 Minuten + etwas Reservezeit
:* Teil 1: (30 Minuten) kurze Faktenfragen, möglicherweise multiple choice, die in die verschiedenen Bereiche gehen und Breite des gemeinwissens erfassen
:* Teil 2: Zwei Fragen (Bearbeitungszeit je 15 Minuten) auszuwählen aus sechs Fragen (zu verschiedenen Gebieten der Vorlesung) - mit dem Ziel, Raum für eine knappe Darstellung von Zusammenhänge respektive Argumentationen zu geben

:Vorbereitung: Wir werden in der Sitzung zum 17. Dezember zwei Listen ausgeben. Die erste besteht aus Daten und Ereignissen, die Euch etwas sagen müssen, die zweite, nennt Personen, über deren historische Bedeutung ihr ein knappes Bild haben solltet. Ihr könnt die Informationen aus den Powerpoint Folien beziehen oder aus Medien wie Wikipedia.
:Die sechs eingehenderen Fragen, aus denen Ihr zwei auszuwählen habt, um 15 Minuten darüber zu schreiben nehmen Fragen auf, die in den Präsentationen gestellt wurden. --[[User:Olaf Simons|Olaf Simons]] 16:16, 3 December 2008 (UTC)

==Timeline==

===Prehistoric Period===
*700,000 years ago: human settlements on later British soil, the later British Islands still part of the continental shelf. Several several glacial and interglacial periods in which hunter-gatherers appear and reappear
* 70,000 and 10,000 years ago: last ice age, extreme cold snap between 22,000 and 13,000 years ago
* 7500 to 6000 years ago: Meltwater causes [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_level_rise see level rise] of 120 m, and separation of Ireland from Britsh mainland, and of British isles from continental shelf
* 3100-1600 BC [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stonehenge Stonehenge] in use. Similar constructs of megalith culture can be found all over western Europe
* 500-50 BC predominance of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celt Celtic] culture.

===0-1000===
* 43-410 Romanisation of Celts in modern England (122/142 Hadrian’s and Antonine walls against northern Picts) [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Hadrians_Wall_map.png map]
* 410 Romans leave Great Britain, power vacuum, waves of Saxons, Angels and Jutes found kingdoms on British soil
* 597 Beginning of Christianisation under St. Augustin
* 793 Lindisfarne raided by Vikings, next three centuries: Viking settlements in northern England

===1000-1500===
* 1014-1042 Danish Rule, line of succession ends with son of Canute the Great
* 1066 Battle of Hastings, Franco-Norman rule under William I
* 1215 John Lackland has to grant the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magna_Carta Magna Carta] to avoid conflict with English barons, parliament and civil rights strengthened
* 1290 Jews expelled from England
* 1380-1400 Geoffrey Chaucer, ''Canterbury Tales''
* 1339-1453 Hundred Years War against France, rise of English Nationalism
* 1453-1487 War of the Roses: Dynastic Conflict
* 1473 Caxton's press produces first printed book in London
* 1497-1583 Newfoundland claimed by England, several colonies founded on East coast in competition with Spanish, French, and Dutch colonisation

===1500-1599===
* 1538 Henry VIII Establishes Anglican Church
* 1553-1558 rule of Mary I (1516-1558), Catholicism re-established almost 300 dissenters burned at the stake
* 1560 Reformation in Scotland, organised by John Knox, Presbiterian, Calvinist Church
* 1558–1603 Elizabethan era, Protestantism reestablished, 1590-1611 Shakespeare's plays
* 1585-1604 Conflicts with Spain (Francis Drake and the Armada) over Naval Supremacy and Spanish Netherlands (modern Belgium) and Ireland

===1600-1699===
* 1600 East India Company founded, several similar shareholder companies follow with trade monopolies granted by crown. Colonialisation basically achieved by commercial enterprises protected by English/ British crown.
* 1611 King James Bilbe Authorised Version
* 1640-1660 Civil War and Commonwealth
* 1641 Star Chamber abolished history of press wars ensues and goes on till today
* 1649 Charles I beheaded (January 30)
* 1651 Thomas Hobbes ''Leviathan'' published (plea for absolute monarchy and subordination of religion, perceived as an atheist's theory of state by all sides)
* 1660-1689 Restoration of monarchy, libertine court, wars between England and Netherlands as strongest naval powers
* 1666 London destroyed in Great Fire
* 1688/89 Glorious Revolution William of Orange (Dutch) ascends throne, Bill of Rights, new press laws, new laws on religious toleration: 1690 John Locke, ''On Toleration'' (1690), ''Two Treatises of Government'' (1690), ''Essay Concerning Humane Understanding'' (1690)

===1700-1799===
* 1707 Act of Union: England/ Wales/ Scotland become one Kingdom (a union existed de facto since James I and the Stuart ascension)
* 1719 Daniel Defoe ''Robinson Crusoe'' (author stood on pilory in 1703 after publishing his ''Shortest Way with Dissenters'' (1702).
* 1720 South Sea Bubble, Walpole strengthened ans political manager, status of prime minister evolves
* 1754 Battle of Plassey (India), British East India Company exercises military power and assumes administrative functions in India
* 1756-1763 The Seven Years' War: Ends France position as a major colonial power in the Americas
* 1770 James Cook's Expedition
* 1774-1776 USA [http://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/declare.asp Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776]
* 1750s-1830s Industrial revolution with use of steam energy, second phase 1830-1900 with new energy supplies, growing infrastructure and Industrialization of USA.

===1800-1899===
* 1810s-1830s riots against mechanisation
* 1837-1901 Rule of Queen Victoria
* 1848 Karl Marx' ''The Communist Manifesto'' published, Marx moves to England (1849) where he works til his death in 1883
* 1857 Indian Rebellion, 1858: British Crown assumes direct administration over India
* 1859 Charles Darwin ''Origin of Species'' published. Evolution theory rises against short history of Earth (as created in 4404 BC by God). Impact on cultural theory: Human culture evolved slowly. Efforts taken to speed up developments.
* 1861-1865 American Civil War
* 1869 after 11 years of work (based on the forced work of over 30,000 people), Suez Canal opened. 1880s Begin of British Colonisation of Africa
* 1882 The "Chinese Exclusion Act"
* 1890s-1918 Enfranchisement of women in Great Britain, USA: 1918
* 1895-: silent era of film; 1927: beginning of sound era of film (with ''The Jazz Singer'')
* 1899-1902 Philippine-American War, invasion, ends with Fall of First Philippine Republic, land acquisition by American companies, destabilisation of Catholic church and long term efforts to introduce English as lingua franca

===1900 till Today===
* 1914-1918, WWI, 1917: US enters the war
* 1920s onwards: radio broadcastings; history of radio, see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_radio
* 1928: television service begins in the US, 1929, television service begins in the UK; households with a TV set in the US: 0,5 % in 1946, more than 50% in 1954. Reading suggestion: Tichi, Cecelia. ''Electronic Hearth: Creating American Television Culture''. New York & Oxford: Oxford UP, 1991.
* 1929-1931 US-American economic crisis affects the whole world
* 1930s USA: New Deal economic recovery and reform programs
* 1939-1945 World War II, Allied Nations against Germany, Italy, Japan. Use of first Atom bombs against Hiroshima and Nagasaki August 1945
* 1950s-1990s several US American Interventions in Latin America
* 1950-1953 Korean War of North against South Korea
* 1964 USA: Civil Rights Act
* 1965 USA: Immigration and “Naturalization Act”
* 1959-1975 Vietnam War with pre-history of confrontations involving Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam and European powers
* 1970s GB: Economic crisis
* 1973: The United Kingdom becomes a member of the European Union
* 1979-1989 United States CIA program to arm the Afghan mujahideen during the Soviet war in Afghanistan
* 1989 Salman Rushdie, ''Satanic Verses'' published. Ensuing confrontation between religious republic of Iran and secular west.
* 1990-1991 Gulf War after Iraq attacked Kuwait
* 2001/9/11 terrorist attack on World Trade centre
* 2001-2008 War in Afghanistan
* 2003-2008 Iraq War

==People==
Task: retrieve birth- and death-dates (bring names into correct order), link into Wikipedia, and write a one or two sentence statement on historical importance

* Thomas Beckett (c. 1118 – 29 December 1170) [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Becket]- Had a conflict with King Henry II about the rights and privileges of the church; he was assassinated by followers of the king and is known as a saint and martyr by the Roman Catholic and the Anglican Church.
* John of England 1166-1216 ("John Lackland")[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lackland_of_England] Was the King of England from 6 April 1199-1216 . He is known as the enemy of Robin Hood but especially for the Magna Carta [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magna_Carta], a document limiting his power which is popularly thought as an early first step in the evolution of modern democracy.
* John Wycliffe (1320s-1384)[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Wycliffe]Was an English theologian, an early dissident in the Roman Catholic Church during the 14th century and is considered the founder of the Lollard movement, a precursor to the Protestant Reformation. Wycliffe was also an early advocate for translation of the Bible and completed his translation in the year 1382, now known as the Wycliffe Bible.
* Henry VIII (28 June 1491 – 28 January 1547) [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_VIII]Was King of England from 21 April 1509 until his death. He is known for his political struggles with Rome which ultimately led to the separation of the Anglican Church from the Roman hierarchy, the Dissolution of the Monasteries, and establishing himself as the Supreme Head of the Church of England. [http://tudors.crispen.org/]
* Elizabeth I (7 September 1533 – 24 March 1603)[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_I]Was the illegitimate daughter of Henry VIII but nevertheless became Queen of England on 17 November 1558. One of her first moves as queen was to support the establishment of an English Protestant church, of which she became the Supreme Governor. This Elizabethan Religious Settlement held firm throughout her reign and later evolved into today's Church of England. She never married and became famous for her virginity.
* Oliver Cromwell (25 April 1599 Old Style– 3 September 1658 Old Style) [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_Cromwell]He was one of the commanders of the New Model Army which defeated the royalists in the English Civil War. He is best known for his involvement in making England into a republican Commonwealth and for his later role as Lord Protector of England, Scotland, and Ireland from 1653 until his death in 1658.
* John Locke (29 August 1632 – 28 October 1704) [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Locke]Was an English philosopher and is widely regarded as one of the most influential Enlightenment thinkers who influenced Voltaire and Rousseau, as well as the American revolutionaries. This influence is reflected in the American Declaration of Independence. Locke defined the self through a continuity of "consciousness" and maintained that people are born without innate ideas.
* Adam Smith (5 June 1723 – 17 July 1790) [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Smith]Was a Scottish moral philosopher, a pioneer of political economy and one of the key figures of the Scottish Enlightenment. Smith book The Wealth of Nations, is considered his magnum opus and the first modern work of economics. Smith is widely cited as the father of modern economics.
* Abraham Lincoln (12 February 1809 – 15 April 1865)[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Lincoln]was the sixteenth President of the United States (elected in 1861). He successfully led the country through the American Civil War, saving the Union and ending slavery. He issued his Emancipation Proclamation in 1863 and promoted the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution. He became the first president who was assassinated in 1865 and is seen as a martyr for the ideal of national unity.
* Charles Darwin (12 February 1809 – 19 April 1882)[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Darwin] was an English naturalist, who realised and demonstrated that all species of life have evolved over time from common ancestors through the process he called natural selection. The fact that evolution occurs became accepted by the scientific community and the general public in his lifetime and had a great impact on cultural theory.
* Karl Marx (5 May 1818 – 14 March 1883)[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Marx]credited as the founder of communism. Marx argued that capitalism, like previous socioeconomic systems, will produce internal tensions which will lead to its destruction. Just as capitalism replaced feudalism, capitalism itself will be displaced by communism, a stateless, classless society which emerges after a transitional period, the 'dictatorship of the proletariat'.
* Queen Victoria (24 May 1819 – 22 January 1901) [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_Victoria]Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and the first Empress of India until her death. Her reign as Queen lasted 63 years and seven months. The period centred on her reign is known as the Victorian era. This era represented the height of the Industrial Revolution and was marked by a great expansion of the British Empire.
* Thomas Alva Edison (11 February 1847 – 18 October 1931)[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Alva_Edison]Was an American inventor and businessman who developed many devices that greatly influenced life around the world, including the phonograph and the long-lasting, practical electric light bulb.
* Cecil Rhodes (5 July 1853 – 26 March 1902) [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cecil_Rhodes]was an English-born businessman, mining magnate and politician in South Africa. He was an ardent believer in colonialism and was the founder of the state of Rhodesia, which was named after him and became Zambia and Zimbabwe respectively. Rhodes wanted to expand the British Empire because he believed that the Anglo-Saxon race was destined to greatness.
* Henry Ford (30 July 1863 – 7 April 1947)[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Ford]was the American founder of the Ford Motor Company and father of modern assembly lines used in mass production. His introduction of the Model T automobile revolutionized transportation and the American industry. As owner of the Ford Company he became one of the richest and best-known people in the world
* Mahatma Gandhi (2 October 1869 – 30 January 1948) [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahatma_Ghandhi]was a major political and spiritual leader of India and the Indian independence movement and inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world. Gandhi led nationwide campaigns for easing poverty, for expanding women's rights, for building religious and ethnic amity, for ending untouchability, for increasing economic self-reliance and for achieving Swaraj—the independence of India from foreign domination.
* Nelson Mandela (born 18 July 1918)[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelson_Mandela]was the first President of South Africa to be elected in a fully representative democratic election, serving in the office from 1994–1999. Before his presidency, Mandela was an anti-apartheid activist and because of that Mandela had to serve 27 years in prison, spending many of these years on Robben Island. In South Africa and internationally, Mandela's opposition to apartheid made him a symbol of freedom and equality for many.
* Henry Kissinger (27 May 1923)[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Kissinger]He served as National Security Advisor and later concurrently as Secretary of State in the Richard Nixon administration. Kissinger emerged unscathed from the Watergate scandal, and maintained his powerful position when Gerald Ford became President.
* Martin Luther King, Jr.(15 January 1929 – 4 April 1968)[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther_King]was an African American clergyman, activist and prominent leader in the American civil rights movement. His main legacy was to secure progress on civil rights in the United States and he is frequently referenced as a human rights icon today. King's efforts led to the 1963 March on Washington, where King delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech. There, he raised public consciousness of the civil rights movement and established himself as one of the greatest orators in U.S. history. King was assassinated on April 4, 1968, in Memphis, Tennessee.

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Talk:2008-09 BM1 Assignment 2: Drama

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I just read the new assignment and wonder what the "blaue Modulzettel" is?
Thanks for your answer!