assignment 3/28

Assignment (Due 3/28): Please choose TWO sections from the Weimar Constitution one from the first part on the structure of government, (Art. 1-108) and a second from the section on rights (Art 109-181). Write out the passages, interpret the meaning of them, and then explain why you chose these passages.

Article 104

Judges serving ordinary jurisdiction are appointed for lifetime.

 Against their will they can only be suspended temporarily or forced into early retirement or transferred to another location if a judge decided so, based on reasons and according to procedures determined by law. Legislation may establish an age limit, at which judges retire.

 Preliminary suspension conform with the law will not be affected.

 In case of a change in the institution of courts or their districts the state administration of justice may order the involuntary transfer of judges to another court or out of office, but only under the condition that their salary will be paid continuously.

 These regulations do not affect commercial judges, lay assessors and jury members.

My understanding of this article is that judges who serve ordinary jurisdiction are confining their lives to serve to the court system for an unlimited period of time until that legislation decides when they can retire. I think that it shouldn’t be like that because any person including those judges should have the right of free will and for me it is clear that appointing a judge for lifetime is against free will.

Article 117

Privacy of correspondence, of mail, telegraphs and telephone are inviolable. Exceptions are admissible only if based on a Reich law.

Article 117 clearly states that is it against the law to interfere with any mail, telegraph and telephone communication that corresponds to someone else. I think that article 117 addresses a very important law because no one has the right to know your private stuffs especially when it comes to personal information.

Assignment 3/21

Assignment (Due 3/21 ): Please choose a passage from one of Luxemburg's essays. Write out the passage. Explain the meaning of the passage and how it relates to politics today.

One thing is certain. The world war is a turning point. It is foolish and mad to imagine that we need only survive the war, like a rabbit waiting out the storm under a bush, in order to fall happily back into the old routine once it is over. The world war has altered the conditions of our struggle and, most of all, it has changed us. Not that the basic law of capitalist development, the life-and-death war between capital and labor, will experience any amelioration. But now, in the midst of the war, the masks are falling and the old familiar visages smirk at us. The tempo of development has received a mighty jolt from the eruption of the volcano of imperialism. The violence of the conflicts in the bosom of society, the enormousness of the tasks that tower up before the socialist proletariat – these make everything that has transpired in the history of the workers’ movement seem a pleasant idyll.

I think that this passage reflects what's going on in the world with all the wars that are happening right now. Many countries are in war with each other especially because they are fighting for power and wealth. However, every country defends their interest and their beliefs of what political system is the right one and which one is wrong one. However, what triggers a war between countries is need to obtain power. Many parts of the world are living in a total chaos because a war is not only between the governments but also between all the people who gets affected by the consequences of the war. This passage also points out that it is not only during war that people suffers but as well after it ends because it alters their living conditions

Assignment 3/14

Assignment: Due 3/14 Choose a scene from M and interpret the scene and explain why you picked this scene.

I found very interest the part when the graphology is describing the murderer’s character. The graphology says that according to the murderer’s hand writing he suggests that this man is strong and pathological sexuality. The graphology also says that some of the broken letters shows that the killer has an actor’s personality. His handwriting also shows that he might be a lazy person and that it is very clear that the killer is insane. The reason why I pick this scene interest is that because at the same time that the graphologist was describing the killer’s character he appears looking himself in a mirror with a crazy look in his eyes. In addition to why I picked this scene from the M movie is because only an insane person could do to kids what he was doing. Therefore, the description fit perfectly with the serial killer.

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Assignment 3/7

Paloma Cruz

"The Lavender Song" (Das Lila Lied), music by Mischa Spoliansky, lyrics by Kurt Schwabach (1920)

Round uns alle auf, senden Sie uns weg

  das ist, was Sie wirklich gerne tun

  Aber wir sind zu stark, stolz, furchtlos

  in der Tat haben wir fast schade, dass Sie

  Sie handeln von der Angst, warum sollte das sein

  Was ist es, dass Sie der Angst werden

  Die Art, wie wir uns kleiden

  Die Art und Weise, die wir treffen

  Die Tatsache, dass man die Liebe nicht zu zerstören

  Wir werden unsere Rechte zu gewinnen

  Lavendel Tage und Nächte

Round us all up, send us away

 that's what you'd really like to do

 But we're too strong, proud, unafraid

 in fact we almost pity you

 You act from fear, why should that be

 What is it that you are frightened of

 The way that we dress

 The way that we meet

 The fact that you cannot destroy our love

 We're going to win our rights

 to lavender days and nights

I think that this song expresses an act of courage. I feel that in a way is letting others know that they need to stand up and defend their cause with courage and not letting fear win. I also think that this song shows encouragement and determination to do something because it gives others strength to keep going.

 

"No Time" (Keine Zeit), music by Rudolf Nelson, lyrics by Herbert Nelson (Culture - Cabaret Song)

Nowadays, a person doesn't have a second to spare.

 Yet many even think the pace is too slow.

 If you do business today, you go bankrupt before you have even started.

 People don't want to waste time with the beginning,

 they'd rather skip straight to the end.

 In this day and age, you fall in love in the evening, are engaged at night,

 and get married the next morning.

 At noon you have a fight; by night you're divorced.

 In negotiations between countries, before a treaty is evened signed,

 it's already broken.

 Because nowadays it is considered chic to be quick.

Heute braucht der Mensch keine zweite zu ersparen.

  Doch viele glauben sogar, das Tempo ist zu langsam.

  Wenn Sie der heutigen Geschäftswelt zu tun, gehen Sie bankrott, bevor Sie überhaupt angefangen haben.

  Die Menschen wollen nicht, um Zeit mit Beginn verschwenden,

  sie lieber geradeaus fahren Sie mit dem Ende.

  In der heutigen Zeit, in der Liebe am Abend fallen Sie werden in der Nacht beschäftigt,

  und heiratete am nächsten Morgen zu bekommen.

  Mittags haben Sie einen Kampf; Nacht Sie geschieden.

  In Verhandlungen zwischen den Ländern, bevor ein Vertrag unterzeichnet ausgeglichen,

  es ist schon gebrochen.

  Da heute gilt es als schick, schnell zu sein.

This song’s lyric for me express the chaos people live because they don’t have time to live an orderly life or they don’t make time for what really matters. It seems like people don’t take the adequate time to do things instead is just about doing everything fast. I think that that’s the problem that we have in society now days everyone is so focus into doing things fast that they don’t realize that good things take time