: About Me

So I'm a singer-songwriter, and I found Helium via an advert on MySpace, (check out my songs (http://www.myspace.com/joedixonmusic)) and it began there. I love music, I also hate music, I'm sure that's not too uncommon.

I intend to write about things relating to current affairs. I am also a bit of a history buff.

I am currently studying War and Society at Swansea University. My plan for the future is to move the US and study to teach in the US education system. I think that the American education system is much more effective than the British system.

I am working on a novel, a whydunnit.

I also have a website which offers writing tips and time management advice: www.joedixonblog.com

I am passionate about spelling and grammar, language and learning.

My passion is ...

music, writing and personal development

I know too much about ...

music

My parents always told me ...

stop jumping on the furniture!

My childhood ambition ...

actor, soldier, nurse, army medic, musician, cyclist, chronologically, currently, teacher

My favorite memory ...

seeing dolphins swim next a boat I was on

Why I write ...

because I can

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

All sorts of things/TED talks/Podcasts

My first job ...

Paper round, best job ever!

My best moment ...

putting my first tracks on MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/joedixonmusic

My inspiration ...

music and injustice

Arts & Humanities > European History Did the German people benefit from Nazi economic policy?

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At the end of the First World War, Germany was a defeated nation. The peace treaties that followed, in particular the Treaty of Versailles, were incredibly harsh on Germany. She was denied an air force outright and allowed only a small navy, with none of the submarines that had been so devastating in the war years, and an army of only 100,000 men with no tanks or artillery. Perhaps the most telling of the terms was the 6,600 million of reparations demanded to repair the damage caused to the defeated nations during the fighting. The unrealistic nature of the reparations and the loss of the ...

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