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The dedication it must have taken for Thích Quảng Đức to take his own life in such a manner.

Tom Melling History 354 April 18, 2015 1 Comment »

Although here in the US we are beginning to see more political action, these seem to be small and short term in scale. Even the Occupy movement seems to have all but disappeared from the media. As cold-hearted as it may sound the citizens here are just not desperate enough to be able to affect […]

Ich Bin Ein Berliner

genevieve gara History 333 April 3, 2014 1 Comment »

What struck me about this week’s readings was that anti-German sentiment was still running strong roughly 20 years after the end of the Second World War. Brose recounts President Kennedy’s trip to Berlin in 1963 and remarks, “this residual anti-Germanism trickled down to White House staffers, who began making fun of the Berliners as the […]