of your chosen book? Explain your answer. The dictionary definition of the word fascinating is simply ‘extremely interesting’ and that is exactly what Timothy Garton Ash’s The File; A Personal History is. It is a compelling excavation of the Stasi and the people who came into contact with it‚ including his younger self; for‚ as a student and journalist working and living in East Germany‚ he was placed under surveillance and his movements tracked and filed. It opens when he returns to East Berlin
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NEVER NOTICED WERE THERE “ . REASONS : 1. FUNDER’S DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF STASILAND THROUGH THE USE OF IMAGERY VALIDATES THE ABSURD WORLD OF THE “BROWN LINOLEUM PALACE” AND THE DÉCOR SYMBOLIC OF THE STASI REGIME e.g how the streets were decorated “halfway up”‚ Alexander Platts Station‚ the Stasi Mueseum 2. ANNA FUNDER’S CHRONICLES OF STASILAND UNEARTHS THE PROFOUND SYMMETRY OF THE CURRENT CONDITIONS OF WHICH ITS VICTIMS AND PERPETRATORS DECIDE TO LIVE WITHIN TO THAT OF THEIR HISTORICAL EAST GERMAN
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innocent people. Then‚ the Stasis gained power due to the addition of the Berlin Wall (which separated East Germany from West Germany) and their job was to watch and stalk innocent people. In The Reader‚ Bernhard Schlink accurately portrays the Nazi regime through a love story between a young German boy and an older German woman (who happened to be Nazi). Stasiland by Anna Funder describes the time period in which Germany was split through her stories from ex-Stasis‚ as well as stories of those
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Stasis Doctrine as Invention The inheritance of a stable rhetorica from the Greeks gave the Roman rhetoricians of the first century BCE‚ the structure on which various new appendages were attached‚ one of which was the theory of stasis which was first formalized by Hermagoras of Temnos in the late second century BCE. Although the notion of stasis predates Hermagoras‚ Antoine Braet writes that he is due credit for developing “the doctrine of stasis as a closed procedure of inventio” (79) and that
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The Stasi The Stasi were the primary intelligence and security agency of East Germany also known as The German Democratic Republic (GDR) during the cold war. They had a large amount of informants‚ agents and military trained police. They focused on espionage and political security. In its 39 years at least 1/3 of the East German population came under Stasi surveillance‚ arrest‚ detention‚ or torture. The East German government‚ with the assistance of the Soviet intelligence community‚ established
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On Aristotle’s view‚ stasis represented an arrest of the political processes of a healthy polis. The health of the polis corresponded directly to the participation of its citizens in political friendship‚ homonoia‚ which is correctly translated‚ according to‚ as "together-mindedness or like-mindedness. Greek’s usage usually prefers the impersonal verb form which "conveys the meaning of a conflict that includes the entire polis‚ not just its factioneers. To provide a broader context for the Aristotelian
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Foundations Of Traditional Chinese Medicine Megan McGlade - 200343933 Case Study Patient: Female‚ 41 Assessment: The patient has wind-cold from work she was doing outside‚ and blood stasis due to a recent surgery. She spent a good length of time assessing tree damage a week pervious. The weather while my client was working was cold‚ windy and the season is winter. The weather effected her body and the pathogen developed. Its possible the patient was previously yang deficient‚ from her surgeries
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Word count: 2927 minus 446 = 2479 words Issue (3pts): Female Genital Mutilation/ Cutting II. Kairos (4pts): In July 2013 UNICEF published the largest report yet into the extent of FGM. (Report “Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting: A statistical overview and exploration of the dynamics of change.”) In July 2013 Germany also passed the first law against FGM‚ including a maximum penalty up to 15 years jail sentence. With this newly introduced law Germany is now considered to be among the strictest
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remarkable use of symbolism which enables her to go beyond mere conversation delve into the complexities of not just other’s but her own experience in Stasiland. The use of physical motifs such as Hagen Koch’s Stasi plate are representative of the unrelenting oppression and control used by the Stasi and featured throughout Stasiland‚ as well as the courage of many of those who attempted to defy the SED. Funder’s more abstract use of light and dark is symbolic of her vulnerability‚ at times‚ as she delves
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Funder shows that the victims of the Stasi were never fully healed following the collapse of the East German regime. Discuss. When we go through a traumatic event‚ none of us ever truly heal. Anna Funder demonstrates this right through Stasiland showing the reader that the victims of the Stasi were never fully healed following the collapse of the East German regime. She does this by sharing stories of ‘human courage’ with the reader‚ showing that some of the people involved‚ such as Herr Winz want
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