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Monday, November 29, 2010
Research Questions for Human Rights Presentation
1. What if the Russian government had told the people of Pripyat what happened?
2. How did the Russian government violate the human rights of the people of Pripyat?
3. Why did the Russian government think it was better to violate human rights?
4. Why was the Russian government not charged with human rights violations after the incident?
5. How did the human rights violation affect the people of Pripyat after the disaster?
6. How much about the negative health effects were known during the time?
7. What safety measures, or lack thereof, were taken in Chernobyl before the incident.
Sources Needed:
Survivor stories, liquidator stories, expert histories, scientific facts,
2. How did the Russian government violate the human rights of the people of Pripyat?
3. Why did the Russian government think it was better to violate human rights?
4. Why was the Russian government not charged with human rights violations after the incident?
5. How did the human rights violation affect the people of Pripyat after the disaster?
6. How much about the negative health effects were known during the time?
7. What safety measures, or lack thereof, were taken in Chernobyl before the incident.
Sources Needed:
Survivor stories, liquidator stories, expert histories, scientific facts,
Sunday, November 21, 2010
Tentative Research Proposal
1. I am interested in researching Chernobyl Disaster because I have some clips and read some information about it, but I would still like to learn more about this event.
2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_disaster, http://www.world-nuclear.org/info/chernobyl/inf07.html, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSRC1_OZPIg, http://chernobyl.undp.org/english/docs/belarus_23_anniversary.pdf, and http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10166374.
3. I don't have any questions.
2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_disaster, http://www.world-nuclear.org/info/chernobyl/inf07.html, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSRC1_OZPIg, http://chernobyl.undp.org/english/docs/belarus_23_anniversary.pdf, and http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10166374.
3. I don't have any questions.
Wednesday, October 6, 2010
Current Events in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
1. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-11480809
This article shows that a huge problem in the Congo today is rape. It is even used as a warfare technique to break-down people psychologically. This relates to the Congo under Leopold because they are also leading their people with fear because they think they will be able to control them more. What I would want to know is the rape statistics in the United States because I would like to know if more rapes occur in the Congo or the U.S. The UN stepping in to arrest the militia leader in kind of like Morel standing up to Leopold. This is different from the previous view because there is no murder, at least the didn't mention it in the article, because of these rapes.
2. http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/africa/10/01/congo.atrocities.un.report/index.html?iref=allsearch
This article releases a report like the one Casement did when he went to the Congo and blames all of these horrible things on the Belgium government or, more specifically, Leopold. This is similar to what happened during Leopold's control because it doesn't blame the Congo leaders, but the soldiers from Rwanda for all of the murders and rapes. The Rwandan soldiers are like the Force Publique of current times. This is also similar to George Washington Williams' book, Open Letter, where he openly criticizes Leopold way of ruling in the Congo which is what the UN is doing here with the foreign soldiers that are occupying the DRC.
This article shows that a huge problem in the Congo today is rape. It is even used as a warfare technique to break-down people psychologically. This relates to the Congo under Leopold because they are also leading their people with fear because they think they will be able to control them more. What I would want to know is the rape statistics in the United States because I would like to know if more rapes occur in the Congo or the U.S. The UN stepping in to arrest the militia leader in kind of like Morel standing up to Leopold. This is different from the previous view because there is no murder, at least the didn't mention it in the article, because of these rapes.
2. http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/africa/10/01/congo.atrocities.un.report/index.html?iref=allsearch
This article releases a report like the one Casement did when he went to the Congo and blames all of these horrible things on the Belgium government or, more specifically, Leopold. This is similar to what happened during Leopold's control because it doesn't blame the Congo leaders, but the soldiers from Rwanda for all of the murders and rapes. The Rwandan soldiers are like the Force Publique of current times. This is also similar to George Washington Williams' book, Open Letter, where he openly criticizes Leopold way of ruling in the Congo which is what the UN is doing here with the foreign soldiers that are occupying the DRC.
Monday, September 20, 2010
ch. 8 Small Group Discssion Wrap-up
1. What is Leopold's Ghost?
When will the rest of the world believe the cruelties that occur in the Congo?
Will Leopold run out of money?
2. I think that our small group discussion worked pretty well. I think that we did a good job using support and at least paraphrasing places if we couldn't find the text. I think we could improve by making sure that everyone is involved equally. I think that we still could support more, but we did a good job incorporating multiple questions into 1 response. We brought 2 questions together to make them more like a super question. I think everyone could pay a little bit more attention to the discussion and not be focused on finding your next comment or support for your comment.
When will the rest of the world believe the cruelties that occur in the Congo?
Will Leopold run out of money?
2. I think that our small group discussion worked pretty well. I think that we did a good job using support and at least paraphrasing places if we couldn't find the text. I think we could improve by making sure that everyone is involved equally. I think that we still could support more, but we did a good job incorporating multiple questions into 1 response. We brought 2 questions together to make them more like a super question. I think everyone could pay a little bit more attention to the discussion and not be focused on finding your next comment or support for your comment.
Tuesday, September 7, 2010
King Leopold's Ghost Reaction pgs. 1-32 and 2 discussion questions
I think that Henry Stanley is a very interesting person. It is really hard to tell what type of character he has because in all of his accounts he never has a consistent story. People at the workhouse describe him as a teacher's pet, but the way he seems to act in writings describe more of a person who wants all of the attention or more of a class clown. I think he is pretty lucky to not have been found out yet that he is from Whales and not New York or St. Louis. I would like to meet him in real life to see if he tries to make everything so fantastic and crazy.
I think that the entire story is pretty interesting because I have never heard about how Europeans massacred millions of Congolese. I also think it is pretty amazing that it took European explorers so long to find the source of the Congo river after finding the mouth of the river.
Questions:
Why were the Africans so welcome to trade with the Europeans in the first place?
Why is the book called King Leopold's Ghost?
I think that the entire story is pretty interesting because I have never heard about how Europeans massacred millions of Congolese. I also think it is pretty amazing that it took European explorers so long to find the source of the Congo river after finding the mouth of the river.
Questions:
Why were the Africans so welcome to trade with the Europeans in the first place?
Why is the book called King Leopold's Ghost?
Sunday, September 5, 2010
Current Events #1
Name: Jimmy Alverson
Source: Future Hiring Will Mainly Benefit the High-Skilled, The Associated Press, The New York Times, 5 September 2010.
Summary: This article discussed the spike in unemployment and the creation of new jobs in the future. Economists predict there to be two types of jobs in the future. High-skill, high-paying jobs or low-skill, low-paying jobs. That leaves less mid-level jobs which used to make up the bulk of the work-force. A further division between the affluent and poor is expected to occur if the type of jobs do become more or less specialized. Currently the unemployment rate is 9.6% or 14.9 million people. This shift in the reduction of mid-level jobs stems from an economy led by manufacturing to one led by service industries. The hardest sector of unemployment has come in the real estate industry. Some of the sectors that are going to see the most growth in the number of jobs are health care professions, information technology jobs, and newly created industries.
Analysis: This is important to the world and, at least, the United States because with unemployment comes reduced spending, and with reduced spending there less stimulation to pull the country out of the recession. People from the United States would also buy less imports as they might cost more due to import taxes and the country that the products are bought from will get less revenue and not help their economic situation. This is also important for the rest of the world because it could show that their is a global movement for less middle-income jobs and more division between rich and poor. This is an interesting development because typically the middle-class, at least in the United States, held the majority of jobs in the workforce. I think, in order to create more jobs, the government needs to give tax breaks to middle to lower income people to create more spending which will then help create more need for labor or employment. As far as getting people to have more knowledge or skill for a job, college should be more affordable to people with lower incomes. The government should also have more initiative for keeping kids in school and showing the benefits of higher education. Another way to create more jobs in the United States is to stop outsourcing jobs to other countries by providing incentives to the companies or put a higher tax on imports.
Source: Future Hiring Will Mainly Benefit the High-Skilled, The Associated Press, The New York Times, 5 September 2010.
Summary: This article discussed the spike in unemployment and the creation of new jobs in the future. Economists predict there to be two types of jobs in the future. High-skill, high-paying jobs or low-skill, low-paying jobs. That leaves less mid-level jobs which used to make up the bulk of the work-force. A further division between the affluent and poor is expected to occur if the type of jobs do become more or less specialized. Currently the unemployment rate is 9.6% or 14.9 million people. This shift in the reduction of mid-level jobs stems from an economy led by manufacturing to one led by service industries. The hardest sector of unemployment has come in the real estate industry. Some of the sectors that are going to see the most growth in the number of jobs are health care professions, information technology jobs, and newly created industries.
Analysis: This is important to the world and, at least, the United States because with unemployment comes reduced spending, and with reduced spending there less stimulation to pull the country out of the recession. People from the United States would also buy less imports as they might cost more due to import taxes and the country that the products are bought from will get less revenue and not help their economic situation. This is also important for the rest of the world because it could show that their is a global movement for less middle-income jobs and more division between rich and poor. This is an interesting development because typically the middle-class, at least in the United States, held the majority of jobs in the workforce. I think, in order to create more jobs, the government needs to give tax breaks to middle to lower income people to create more spending which will then help create more need for labor or employment. As far as getting people to have more knowledge or skill for a job, college should be more affordable to people with lower incomes. The government should also have more initiative for keeping kids in school and showing the benefits of higher education. Another way to create more jobs in the United States is to stop outsourcing jobs to other countries by providing incentives to the companies or put a higher tax on imports.
Thursday, September 2, 2010
Thoughts at the end of class- September 9th
1. I learned about the SPRICER technique. I have never really though about looking at a certain event and looking at all the different kinds of affects that one event could have. I also learned the it is mostly Europe who is doing all of the Imperialism in the time period we are talking about.
2. How long did it take for some of these countries that were affected by imperialism take for them to revolt?
3. I want to learn more about current day imperialism and what type of imperialism is most prevalent around the world today.
2. How long did it take for some of these countries that were affected by imperialism take for them to revolt?
3. I want to learn more about current day imperialism and what type of imperialism is most prevalent around the world today.
Monday, August 30, 2010
Current Event Practice Post #1 with group
Name: Reybren, Chelsea, Harry, and Jimmy
Source: Looking at Islamic Center Debate, World Sees U.S., Thanasis Cambanis, The New York Times, 25 August 2010
Summary: They are discussing whether or not it is a good idea to have the Park51 location where it is. It is discussing whether or not Americans are tolerant of Islamic people. They talk about how there is more heated debate about building mosques outside of the United States in countries like France or Italy. They say that the pivotal issue of religion is that of tolerance and free speech. Some say that the Park51 being placed in its location shows tolerance, and we support free speech because we can't control what people say inside of the mosque. Other people argue that the United States is intolerant and racist.
Analysis: Because it is near to site of a major tragedy for the United States and it is related to the largest religion in the world. It shows how simple things are a really big deal because it relates to religion, and as much as you try to keep religion and politics separate it is very hard to do. It is interesting because it seemed that American public was past racial discrimination, but it is obvious that we are really not past the attack. It is also amazing to think that people in other countries debate more about Park51 than the people inside the United States. It seems that the United States are more tolerant than other countries who don't allow free speech or people to wear clothing of their religion.
Source: Looking at Islamic Center Debate, World Sees U.S., Thanasis Cambanis, The New York Times, 25 August 2010
Summary: They are discussing whether or not it is a good idea to have the Park51 location where it is. It is discussing whether or not Americans are tolerant of Islamic people. They talk about how there is more heated debate about building mosques outside of the United States in countries like France or Italy. They say that the pivotal issue of religion is that of tolerance and free speech. Some say that the Park51 being placed in its location shows tolerance, and we support free speech because we can't control what people say inside of the mosque. Other people argue that the United States is intolerant and racist.
Analysis: Because it is near to site of a major tragedy for the United States and it is related to the largest religion in the world. It shows how simple things are a really big deal because it relates to religion, and as much as you try to keep religion and politics separate it is very hard to do. It is interesting because it seemed that American public was past racial discrimination, but it is obvious that we are really not past the attack. It is also amazing to think that people in other countries debate more about Park51 than the people inside the United States. It seems that the United States are more tolerant than other countries who don't allow free speech or people to wear clothing of their religion.
Current Event Practice Post #1
- What's being discussed in this article?
2. When did the event happen? (Is this breaking news or something that's been analyzed and discussed for a while?) It is pretty recent. The man in Milan has been working for a while, but the proposal of Park51 is really recent
3. What questions do you have that would help make this article make more sense to you? What more do you need to learn about to be able to report on this event?
I want to know what people in the United States think about the location. I would also want to know what the Christians and Jews think about the Islamic countries not allowing them to build churches and synagogues. I want to learn more about the views from Jews and Christians around the world.
Sunday, August 29, 2010
3 newsworthy events from Parents (2 from mom and 1 from dad)
1. Landing on the moon, Apollo 11, 1969 (mom)
She was already in bed, and her parents got her and her brother up to watch the landing. She didn't really think it was a big deal at the time, but looking back realizing it was really big. It served as a benchmark for how old somebody was. This was an example of the United States solidifying ourselves as a world superpower. Looking back on the kind of technology it is kind of scary to think about how basic it really was back then.
2. September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks (mom)
She was at a college counselor breakfast. She didn't know anything had happened until she heard it on the radio driving back to school. She thought about how it was going to change the school day and school week. The school administrators spent time discussing about to talk about it with the students from different grade levels. The older kids understood what had happened, but most of the younger students didn't really understand what actually happened. They thought that the people would all walk out of the building and the planes and be okay. She thinks that this really showed that we really aren't as safe as we think that we are, and we aren't isolated from the rest of the world.
3. Fall of the Soviet Union and the Eastern Bloc/End of the Cold War, 1990 (dad)
He remembers sitting at work, and listening to the radio and being so surprised as all of these countries left the Soviet Union. He also remembers going home at watching all of the news stories about it. It was most newsworthy to him because it was people taking control of their own destiny, and it was a shock that the West outlived the East. It was more of international event than a natural disaster and it was greater than the 9/11 attacks. It was bigger than the moon landing to him because the moon landing was like uniting the earth, but the fall of the Soviet Union affected more of day to day life. It took tension away from the world because people weren't afraid of nuclear fallout and bombings everyday.
She was already in bed, and her parents got her and her brother up to watch the landing. She didn't really think it was a big deal at the time, but looking back realizing it was really big. It served as a benchmark for how old somebody was. This was an example of the United States solidifying ourselves as a world superpower. Looking back on the kind of technology it is kind of scary to think about how basic it really was back then.
2. September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks (mom)
She was at a college counselor breakfast. She didn't know anything had happened until she heard it on the radio driving back to school. She thought about how it was going to change the school day and school week. The school administrators spent time discussing about to talk about it with the students from different grade levels. The older kids understood what had happened, but most of the younger students didn't really understand what actually happened. They thought that the people would all walk out of the building and the planes and be okay. She thinks that this really showed that we really aren't as safe as we think that we are, and we aren't isolated from the rest of the world.
3. Fall of the Soviet Union and the Eastern Bloc/End of the Cold War, 1990 (dad)
He remembers sitting at work, and listening to the radio and being so surprised as all of these countries left the Soviet Union. He also remembers going home at watching all of the news stories about it. It was most newsworthy to him because it was people taking control of their own destiny, and it was a shock that the West outlived the East. It was more of international event than a natural disaster and it was greater than the 9/11 attacks. It was bigger than the moon landing to him because the moon landing was like uniting the earth, but the fall of the Soviet Union affected more of day to day life. It took tension away from the world because people weren't afraid of nuclear fallout and bombings everyday.
Thursday, August 26, 2010
3 Newsworthy events from Jimmy A
1. The terrorist attacks of 9/11/01
This is the first newsworthy event that I remember in my lifetime because it is the only attack on U.S. soil that I have ever witnessed. I remember that when I first heard about the first plane hitting the building, I was eating a bagel in my living room. When dad told me to come to the kitchen and when watched the live news report come in, and as they were interviewing a women you could just see another plane crash into the other tower. I was in third grade at the time, and when I got to school all we did all day was watch the news report and discuss the events that had taken place so far. I think this was my most newsworthy story because of the number of people who died that day and the amount of coverage and support for the victims and their families shown by the American people. There was meaning to the word patriotism again.
2. Hurricane Katrina, 2006
This is my 2nd most newsworthy story because it was not just the hurricane that hit New Orleans, but the fact that the levees broke as well. I had been in New Orleans only a few weeks prior for a family vacation, so I felt that I had a strong connection to the city. I also knew a person who had family down there, but, fortunately, they did leave the city before the hurricane hit. I think that it is newsworthy because of the type of support that everyone who witnessed these events wanted to give to the people to shelter and feed them. That support still continues today by rebuilding all of the houses that were destroyed. I was also newsworthy because of the lack of support from the government who were supposed to be helping these people. The event stuck in my mind because of the overwhelming support shown by the American people.
3. The election of Barack Obama, 2009
This is a newsworthy story to me because it shows how far the American people have come since the time of slavery and how much more tolerant people are of other races. This is very fresh in my mind because we talked about it a lot at school. The entire high school watched Obama's entire inauguration speech, and we spent a lot of time with our history teacher and class discussing how this will change the U.S. and what this means to our country. I even had the chance in the summer of 2009 to visit Obama's neighborhood. So, I feel that I have more of a connection to him. I think that this is newsworthy also because this election just opens up more doors for equality in lots of other aspects of life, and not just including race but sex as well.
This is the first newsworthy event that I remember in my lifetime because it is the only attack on U.S. soil that I have ever witnessed. I remember that when I first heard about the first plane hitting the building, I was eating a bagel in my living room. When dad told me to come to the kitchen and when watched the live news report come in, and as they were interviewing a women you could just see another plane crash into the other tower. I was in third grade at the time, and when I got to school all we did all day was watch the news report and discuss the events that had taken place so far. I think this was my most newsworthy story because of the number of people who died that day and the amount of coverage and support for the victims and their families shown by the American people. There was meaning to the word patriotism again.
2. Hurricane Katrina, 2006
This is my 2nd most newsworthy story because it was not just the hurricane that hit New Orleans, but the fact that the levees broke as well. I had been in New Orleans only a few weeks prior for a family vacation, so I felt that I had a strong connection to the city. I also knew a person who had family down there, but, fortunately, they did leave the city before the hurricane hit. I think that it is newsworthy because of the type of support that everyone who witnessed these events wanted to give to the people to shelter and feed them. That support still continues today by rebuilding all of the houses that were destroyed. I was also newsworthy because of the lack of support from the government who were supposed to be helping these people. The event stuck in my mind because of the overwhelming support shown by the American people.
3. The election of Barack Obama, 2009
This is a newsworthy story to me because it shows how far the American people have come since the time of slavery and how much more tolerant people are of other races. This is very fresh in my mind because we talked about it a lot at school. The entire high school watched Obama's entire inauguration speech, and we spent a lot of time with our history teacher and class discussing how this will change the U.S. and what this means to our country. I even had the chance in the summer of 2009 to visit Obama's neighborhood. So, I feel that I have more of a connection to him. I think that this is newsworthy also because this election just opens up more doors for equality in lots of other aspects of life, and not just including race but sex as well.
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