Berlin calling

The drugs are all through the movie, and these mean a lot to the main character Ickarus. Ickarus had changed his attitude on drugs. Initially, he would looking for fun and thrill from the drugs as well as his inspiration for music so that he could avoid those uncomfortable things happened in real life. But things had changed since he took a hallucinogenic drug. Then he stated to get treated in a psychosis department. Finally, when he was cured, he found out the drugs were nothing but poison to him. He took some light drugs as dancing outreach and so on since Icklus' mother passed away. And at that time, he stated his life in those clubs. Once, the drug dealer sold him something like ice drug that caused him sick. That was a bad timing when his new work was almost done. His own album was about to publish but this case delayed it. He even got fired and made a scene in his boss' office.

When comparing this movie's character with real people from my hometown, it was pathetic. Because DJ is not an official job admitted by the government. Those people were not musicians in China. Those people do not have their own albums to sell and only work in pubs. By the way, there were not that many drugs in China, since all crimes related to drugs are very serious, some might lead to a death penalty. 

In my eyes, the young generation of Germany are not like the old days. Those diversity of jobs made it possible to develop a new kind of economy. This movie showed us about the musicians and a wise boss who buried the past.At least, I do not think a boss could bare someone the humiliated him or her before. 

Presentation for 19th century health and sports

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19th century and 20th century was the time when the medical cares well developed. German scientists had made several breakthroughs during the 19th and 20th century. There were many outstanding scientists, for example, the most influenced one in 19th century would be Rudolf Carl Virchow(1821～1902).  He was a German doctor, anthropologist, pathologist, prehistorian, biologist and politician, known for his advancement of public health. Referred to as "the father of modern pathology", he is considered one of the founders of social medicine. Virchow is credited with many important discoveries. His most widely known scientific contribution is his cell theory, which built on the work of Theodor Schwann. He is cited as the first to recognize leukemia cells. He was one of the first to accept the work of Robert Remak, who showed the origins of cells was the division of pre-existing cells.
The pace of medical advances quickened on all fronts in the 20th century. Breakthroughs came in biology, chemistry, physiology, pharmacology, and technology, often in converging or overlapping ways. New understanding of diseases brought new treatments and cures for many of these conditions. However, even as most of the killer epidemic diseases were conquered—and in the case of smallpox erased—new diseases emerged, such as AIDS.A pioneer in pharmacology was the German scientist Paul Ehrlich (1854-1915), who—after much trial and effort—synthesized the arsenic-based compound Salvarsan, the first effective treatment for syphilis, in 1909. Ehrlich, who coined the term "chemotherapy," thus created the first antibiotic drug. A generation later, another German, Gerhard Domagk (1895-1964), who worked for Bayer, produced the first useful sulfa drug (another antibiotic). This drug was used to treat streptoccal, or strep, diseases, including meningitis. Many new drugs followed in the 1950s, including cortisone, a steroid hormone that reduced inflammation and suppressed the immune system response. The first effective drugs for the treatment of mental illness also appeared in this era.

Source:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18696145, 11/14/2012
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_Virchow, 11/14/2012