Charlie Chaplin's star on rise again

This article is about the great actor Charlie Chaplin. He was not only one of the greatest actors of american movies, he was one of the best actors in all of the world. The article is talking about how in Switzerland Michael Chaplin is trying to use his fathers house that he was exiled to when he left America during the Mccarthy era in the United States. He lived the last 25 years of his life there.
   The Swiss people loved him just as much as Americans did and the rest of the world. His house is pretty much the same way as he left it 25 years ago this year when he passed away early christmas day. there has been different arguements as to where this museum should be, with France and Hollywood as being the other two places that have been in consideration. His son would prefer that it was the one in Switzerland. i was surprised in the fact that he was as popular, if not more than he was here in America in the sense that there is even a consideration. It is strange to see also that they are so into movies in the same way that we are.

http://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/specials/extraordinary_exiles/Charlie_Chaplins_star_on_rise_again.html?cid=12814

Stasi chief's office reopened in new exhibition

   The Stazi was created in order to spy on the East German people from 1957 until 1989. This Museum is an interesting one because it gives a glimpse into what the cold war was like from the Allied controlled West Germany. the interior of the office shows that even though the rest of the world saw the area as black and white and that the people inside Germany also saw it as black and white, that there was color in the strangest places. The German government has invest about 14 Billon dollars or about 11 euros into renovating the office and making it into a museum.
    The thing that surprised me the most was the color scheme on the inside of the office. The carpet was bright red and the furniture was a real bright blue. Besides pictures being black and white i just always have imagined the Cold War era in Germany as a dark and dismal place and then in the heart of one of the biggest spy offices, there was this array of colors. The fact that it was revealed that the office was spying on the East Germany people that was communist run and that seems to go with everything i have heard and studied about there being espionage.
    The cultural aspect about this is that the German People who saved the furniture and thousands of papers in the 80s wanted to immortalize what they had went through for the future generations to see. The German people have had a lot happen to them since the beginning of the 20th century and they know that they can not run and hide from the past and they also know that learning about the past is the only way to not repeat the past. This museum is a great piece of history for them.
This Article byMarcel Fürstenau can be read at http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,15667988,00.html

Differenting Cultures

American culture is different in many ways from German. In Germany they are more comfortable with there bodies more than people in American culture are. Germans have nude beaches and nude clubs in which they are nude while Americans tend to be more clothed in public than not. In germany drinking is more social and more accepted than it is in America, where we tend to look down upon people who drink too much.
     What i think German culture is, is that they are a proud country and have one of the most respectable economies in all of europe. they have been instigators of two world wars and were even divided in almost half by the allies after the second one, but in the end they came back like they had always done and thrived as a democratic power in the world and they are a key ally to America in the modern era. They are set in their ways and often get a bad rep from the rest of the world based on history.
  Also it seems that it would be very hard and that there are few people who choose to be a vegan in Germany and then here in America it seems to be more and more common because in Germany meat eating seems to be more sporty and a stable in meals than it is here.
   Just from learning about the culture in class and using information that i have already known about Germany through history classes i feel that my thoughts are pretty well valid and some of it may be a little on the exaggeration side.