lunes, 19 de abril de 2021

UNIT 8. INTER-WAR PERIOD

 Very interesting period to study about, I give you some of my choices, feel free to find yours!

  • From F. Scott Fitzgerald (1925) "The Great Gatsby", and its namesake movie.
  • Cinderella Man (2005) a movie portraying the Great Depression.
  • Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the lost ark, more related to context than history.
  • A nazi documentary: The Triumph of Will (1935), a propaganda film.
Get me some good songs!

lunes, 8 de marzo de 2021

UNIT 7. THE FIRST WORLD WAR AND THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTIONS

 Plenty to find about this thrilling time! I give you two examples of cinema:

  • For the First World War, the movie "1917" --> https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8579674/
  • To illustrate the Russian Revolutions: "Reds" --> https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082979/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
Leave in the commentary section your own findings.

lunes, 14 de diciembre de 2020

Activity 14/12/2020

 In the earlier epochs of history, we find almost everywhere a complicated arrangement of society into various orders, a manifold gradation of social rank. In ancient Rome we have patricians, knights, plebeians, slaves; in the Middle Ages, feudal lords, vassals, guild-masters, journeymen, apprentices, serfs; in almost all of these classes, again, subordinate gradations.

The modern bourgeois society that has sprouted from the ruins of feudal society has not done away with class antagonisms. It has but established new classes, new conditions of oppression, new forms of struggle in place of the old ones.

Our epoch, the epoch of the bourgeoisie, possesses, however, this distinct feature: it has simplified class antagonisms. Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps, into two great classes directly facing each other — Bourgeoisie and Proletariat.


martes, 1 de diciembre de 2020

UNITS 3 6. INDUSTRIALISATION AND IMPERIALISM

Good morning!

Look for popular culture related to the following topics:

  • Capitalism
  • Class society
  • Labour movement
  • First industrial revolution
  • Imperialism
  • Colonial expansion

martes, 20 de octubre de 2020

UNIT 2. LIBERAL REVOLUTIONS

 Much easier to find content! Give it a try and share with your classmates. Some of the topics of the unit:

  • French Revolution
  • Napoleonic Empire
  • Revolutions of 1820, 1830 and 1848
  • Italian and German unification
  • Restoration
  • Romanticism

martes, 29 de septiembre de 2020

UNIT 1. ANCIEN RÉGIME CRISIS

Drop into the commentary section whatever you could come up with related to the following topics:

  • Ancien Régime
  • Enlightment
  • American Revolution
  • Parliamentarism and the English Revolution
  • Bourbons in Spain
  • Succession War
  • Rococó art