My third lecture was on Albert Speer by Bruce Dennett. *squeals* He was able to engage the audience in such a creative way. Linking in with persuasive and logical evidence to support his argument = truly superb. Allowing us to see another side to Speer. However, his comments were highly biased, but effectively justified. Revealing a more in depth analysis of what Speer would've been like. Considering he was the man responsible for writing out the modern history HSC Syllabus. I have to give him credit for being so charismatic. Dennett imitating Hitler? Wow.That was a shocker in a humorous sense. This lecture alone resulted in Aaron and me going to his next lecture on Leni Riefenstahl. We had no idea who she/he was until we were fifteen minutes into the lecture. Dennett was just that good. You know the really sad part of this lecture. None of us had studied the topic. E.G Going on Wikipedia 2 minutes before the lecture starts doesn't exactly help.Since she was one of the personalities our school didn't select. We still went anyway. Aaron doesn't even have Modern History.

Really unnecessary information overall, but the lecture was epic. Half way through the lecture, he was beginning to become incredibly sexist towards Leni. His purpose? To drum up the historian's argument. When a female attendant pointed this out. He ran up to her seat and applaud her for noticing. He meant well, I think. Can't help but feel like he actually meant some of the things that he supposedly claimed while "acting out of character". From his discussion it pretty sums up:

• Women like Leni (in power) will always be looked down upon.
• She was successful and therefore shunned and projected a negative image
• Unlike the movement and propaganda of Nazi Germany, she did not meet the quota of being the "idealist" proper German women.
• She was career orientated and self claimed narcissistic
• She took part in a male dominated career.
• Reserved Male Historians on Leni? = Highly Sexist
• Look above and beyond. How truthful are these sources on her?

As you can probably tell by now. I'm "not" being biased. *coughs* The last lecture kind of gave me a mixed feeling on Dennett. His lecture on Albert Speer was more powerful I guess. I will post one of his lecture on youtube. Sadly, the Albert Speer lecture wasn't recorded. I forgot that I had technology on me. By the time I was done. I ran out of space. T_T" We had a twenty minute for lunch break in between the third and fourth lecture. However the only food stores opened were tightly packed. The queue kept growing and so did our stomachs. Aaron, the easyway fanatic cried when the store was closed. The line for Subway was tremendous. I choose to starve instead of lining & so we attended all of the lectures first. Finally at around 4pm I was able to eat. Two good lectures in a day? I can't complain. Aside from waking up at six am on Saturday morning. Then travelling to Redfern, walking in the rain. Everything was A-Ok. I did get to try something completely new today. I'm content.