Assignment after reading All Quiet on the Western Front

After I finish reading the novel All Quiet on the Western Front, I found this book has a very strong ideological. It is a great anti-war theme books. It reveals the terrible truth of war to destroyed the so-called " patriotic" mysterious dream. Author want to tell people when the world has human civilization, the world also has the wars. All of the wars, whether it is defeated or win, the people who are suffered the pain are innocent civilians. The bloodthirsty war machines brings the great disaster to the human beings. The war had made the earth became macabre, many people crying, struggling, calling, they want to leave the threat of death, but only released to went down. July 28, 1914, the first world war broke out, then more and more European countries involved in war. There are three main fronts: eastern, western and southern. The most important battlefield is western front, and it was the most deadly battle. At first, most people think it was a short war, but lately, people found it is a long and nightmare war. Now the war is over, but author want to tell people the war brings human blood disaster is not able to forget, that is the spirit and flesh wounds of human beings. All Quiet on the Western Front is small miniature of the World War I. Author want to use this book tell people how terrible the war is, he want tell people a peace world is beautiful and bright.

Three states by our group

Berlin
Berlin is the capital city of Germany and is one of the 16 states of Germany. It is located in northeastern Germany. With the population of 3.45 million people, it is the largest city in Germany. The total annual state budget of Berlin in 2007 exceeded $28.7 billion including a budget surplus of $112 million. The figures indicate the first surplus in the history of the city state. Due to increasing growth rates and tax revenues, the Senate of Berlin calculates an increasing budget surplus in 2008. In 2009, the nominal GDP of the citystate Berlin experienced a growth rate of 1.7% and totaled about $117 billion. Berlin's economy is dominated by the service sector, with around 80% of all companies doing business in services. The unemployment rate had steadily decreased over the past decade and reached a 13-year low in 2008; As of April 2010 unemployment was at 14.2%. Industries that do business in the creative arts and entertainment are an important and sizable sector of the economy of Berlin. The creative arts sector comprises music, film, advertising, architecture, art, design, fashion, performing arts, publishing, R&D, software, TV, radio, and video games. Around 22,600 creative enterprises, predominantly SMEs, generated over 18,6 billion Euro in total revenue. Berlin's creative industries have contributed an estimated 20% of Berlin's gross domestic product in 2005. The German headquarter of Universal Music is based in Berlin.
Bremen
The State of Bremen, located in northwestern Germany is a two-part Hanseatic city. It consists of Bremerhaven, a port at the Wesser river mouth of the North Sea, and the city of Bremen, located 60km south of Bremerhaven. Bremen is about the size of Atlanta Georgia, and has about double the population of St. Paul, Minnesota.
As a port city, one third of Bremen's GDP is from Trade and Shipping. Bremen also has a sizeable industrial sector specializing in shipbuilding, aerospace, and fishprocessing industries. In recent decades, however, the manufacturing industry has grown weak in Bremen, and they have invested in the high-tech and services sectors. Education was expanded to accomodate these changes with the founding of the University of Bremen in 1971, and the expansion of Bremen's Fachhochschulen. Bremen is now regarded as a centre for research and technology.
Bremen is a city of old traditions. One of which is the Freimarkt. First held in 1035, it is the oldest celebreated fair in Germany. It is held for 17 days in the last weeks of October. Events include the Freimarktsumzug parade, made up of over 100 floats among others.


Bayern
Bayern, also know as Bavaria, is in south eastern Germany. It is Germany's largest state with 12.5 million people, which turns out to be 20% of Germany's total population. After WWII it transformed from a poor agricultural state to the center of thriving industrialism. Bavaria holds the headquarters for BMW, Audi, Puma and Adidas. It has the largest columbian brewery and a major dutch brewery. It has the largest and healthiest economy in Germany, in fact, if Bavaria was its own country, only 17 other countries would have a higher GDP. Bavaria was a kingdom from 1806-1918, since then it has been a free state. It has a multi-party government, which the conservative Christian Social Union has dominated since 1945. In WWII it was strongly occupied by Nazi and U.S Troops which concluded that it was heavily bombed. Their relgion is predomanatly roman catholic. They take pride in tradition and celebrate with festivials and dances. Fun Fact: annualy, theres an average of 170 liters of beer consumed PER PERSON!

The Second Homework

Hamburg

Hamburg is one of the three biggest state city in Germany. It is also a very important port city in Germany. The second important Financial center in Germany. Its economic and cultural is strong in north part of Germany.

Hamburg's German name is Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg, it is a very beautiful port city. Its area is about 755,3 square kilometer and it has 1.7 million people. There are two beautiful lake in Hamburg, one is Auszlig enalster and anohter is Binnenalster.

Hamburg is a very important transportation center in Germany, it is called the door that connect between Germany and world. It has more than 1.5 thousand bridges. The important economy in Hamburg are electronic, shipbuilding, oil refining, metallurgy, machinery, chemicals, rubber and food industries. Hamburg is an important railway hub and air station in Germany. Hamburg is the second aircraft manufacturing district follow Seattle.

Hamburg has 12 Bezirke, there are Hamburg-Mitte, Altona, Eimsbuttel, Hamburg-Nord, Wandsbek, Bergedof and Harburg.

The weather in Hamburg is neither cold nor hot. Its average temperature is around 15C.

Hamburg has a famous university in the world. Its name is Hamburg University. It's one of the biggest University in Germany. Hamburg has 11 universities. Most universities have different styles.

The opera in Hamburg is also very famous in the world as the Hamburg University. The first Germany public opera was built in Hamburg in 1678. You can also enjoy the concert in Hamburg.

Hamburg has a very good soccer team. This team has get lots of rewards in German Bundesliga. Its name is Hamburger Sportverein. Its stadium is HSH Nordbank Arena. Hamburger has won 6 times German Bundesliga championships. It is the only team that did not demote in Germany teams.

The electronic sports in Hamburg is very well. There are lots of good FIFA player in Hamburg, they helped German WCG Team won all the FIFA Championships in WCG. There are also some good Warcraft 3 players in Hamburg.