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- Abstract: The Middle East conflict and terrorism are issues we hear about almost daily in the news. This lesson will use video clips from WIDE ANGLE's 'Suicide Bombers' (2004), Internet sites, and primary sources to examine the roots of the Middle East conflict. The video contains interviews with young Palestinians who participated -- or intended to participate -- in suicide bombings. These young Palestinians share the personal, religious, political and emotional reasons behind their participation in these suicide operations. This lesson could be used to review information about the three major monotheistic religions and their connections to Israel, to relate post-World War II policies to the current political state of the Middle East, and/or to get students to understand the roots of the terrorism that threatens the world we live in.
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- Abstract: Examines the development of the western intellectual tradition from the fall of the Roman Empire through the High Middle Ages. Basic premise is that the triumph of Christianity in Europe was not the inevitable outcome it appears from hindsight. Attention is therefore focused not only on the development of Christian thought and practice, but on its challengers as well. Particular emphasis devoted to Nordic paganism, the rise of Islam, Byzantine orthodoxy, indigenous heretical movements, and the ambiguous position of Jews in European society.
- Subject:
Humanities, Social Sciences
- Grade Level:
Post-secondary
- Collection:
MIT OpenCourseWare
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- Abstract: The Rise and Fall of the Second Reich - Fall 2007. This course provides the essential foundation for understanding the catastrophic history of Germany in the 20th Century, as well as some of its successes. A central theme is the struggle to define and impose a single national identity on socially, culturally, and religiously diverse peoples in an age of Great Power conflict. Although the region now known as Germany will be the focus of our investigation, considerable attention will also be paid to the Hapsburg Empire, for until 1866 Austria was officially a part of "Germany" and remained, for nearly a century thereafter, culturally and in popular consciousness a part of a "Greater Germany." Some of the topics discussed will be: the Prussia of the Soldier-King, Frederick the Great; the culture in the Enlightenment and Romantic eras; the revolutions of 1848; Bismarck's wars and state-building; religious and ethnic conflict (especially anti-Catholicism and antisemitism); cultural effervescence and political crisis in Vienna; the rise of radical nationalism and of the most powerful Socialist movement in Europe; and the origins and course of the First World War--which brought the defeat of both Hapsburg and Hohenzollern Empires. Readings include biography, memoirs and other contemporary documents, short stories, a novel, as well as political, military, and diplomatic analyses. We will also spend some time analyzing painting and architecture.
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