Precis: Plauen used to be the smallest market town, and then at the end of the nineteenth century, came a textile industry. The city's population trippled. Plauen had the most suicides, and highest unemployment rate at the time. The U.S. Army bombed Plauen, and took over. Plauen was considered lifeless to some people.
Gems: "At the end of the war, 75% of Plauen lay in ruins."(p.227)
Thoughts/Questions: It's amazing(in a bad way) how someplace so known and beautiful could become almost basically lifeless. This isn't good, and it is partially America's fault.
Ruben,
ReplyDeleteYou were able to consistently do the book responses. That's better than a lot of students manage and a basis for important learning and progress.
Unfortunately, the chapter responses (and most of your other work) are also consistently poorly written (you give no context for the location of Plauen?), superficial (the "gem" isn't one), and need proofreading ("trippled"). I hope you can do better.