HIST 1002 Lecture Notes - Thesis Statement, The Waste Land, Existentialism
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Benefits + problems of using a poem as a primary source document. Poem"s main message: other 2 points on the analysis of the poem. Eliot"s poetry: the waste land (1922, ravaged society, wwi horrors are looming over society, missing generation. Young men who fought in war either died or came back upset, angry at the older generation who pushed them into war. Not the summary of what happened in wwi. If you"re writing a paper on lives of soldiers in wwi, is the poem a good: representations of the war, otto dix"s flanders, religion & faith, karl barth (1886-1986, rudolf bultmann (1884-1968, christian existentialism. Bauhaus: effective and efficient architecture, gone elaborate excessive architecture, very functional architecture, walter gropius (1883-1969). German architect: the role of the arts in society. The family in bolshevik russia: communal childcare until 1922, moving away from mother + father system to a public education/structure.
