What are the motivations of people who travel (and people who do not).
What problems/disappointments/frustrations can travel cause?
What are the long-term effects of travel-- how does it impact our future and who we are as people? Does it change us? Does it change the location to which we travel?
An analysis of 6 films:
1. Crossing Over
2. Under the Tuscan Sun
3. Into the Wild
4. The Time Traveler's Wife
5. Titanic
6. The Holiday
03 September 2010
02 September 2010
The Role of Media in our Lives
How much influence does the media have on our lives?
Do we, as the human race, have the power to block out what they are telling us and make our own decisions and choices?
Who is ultimately responsible for what the media "feeds" us?
Think about "messages" that the media has given you in the past about a story or a situation or a group of people. Have any of these messages ever angered you?
How far does a journalist go to "get a story"; or how far SHOULD he go to get a story?
And now the 6 million dollar questions:
SHOULD THE MEDIA EVER BE CENSORED?
What about this example of a regular radio broadcast in Rwanda prior to the genocide of 1994:
"You have to kill the Tutsis; they're cockroaches.
All those who are listening, rise so we can fight for our Rwanda. Fight with the weapons you have at your disposal: those who have arrows, use arrows. Those who have spears, use spears. We must all fight.
We must all fight the Tutsis. We must finish them, exterminate them, sweep them from the whole country. There must be no refuge for them.
They must be exterminated. There is no other way."
Your task for next class:
Bring in a news story (in Danish or English) that is somehow connected to HUMAN RIGHTS (can be a violation of or a preservation of). Read this article before class and be prepared to share the story with your group as it relates to these questions:
1. How does this article make you feel when you read it?
2. Do you think the reporter did a good job reporting the story from a human rights' perspective?
3. Why or why not?
4. Could this article have an influence (positive or negative) on the reader?
Here is an example... MOSQUE AT GROUND ZERO
Do we, as the human race, have the power to block out what they are telling us and make our own decisions and choices?
Who is ultimately responsible for what the media "feeds" us?
Think about "messages" that the media has given you in the past about a story or a situation or a group of people. Have any of these messages ever angered you?
How far does a journalist go to "get a story"; or how far SHOULD he go to get a story?
And now the 6 million dollar questions:
SHOULD THE MEDIA EVER BE CENSORED?
What about this example of a regular radio broadcast in Rwanda prior to the genocide of 1994:
"You have to kill the Tutsis; they're cockroaches.
All those who are listening, rise so we can fight for our Rwanda. Fight with the weapons you have at your disposal: those who have arrows, use arrows. Those who have spears, use spears. We must all fight.
We must all fight the Tutsis. We must finish them, exterminate them, sweep them from the whole country. There must be no refuge for them.
They must be exterminated. There is no other way."
Your task for next class:
Bring in a news story (in Danish or English) that is somehow connected to HUMAN RIGHTS (can be a violation of or a preservation of). Read this article before class and be prepared to share the story with your group as it relates to these questions:
1. How does this article make you feel when you read it?
2. Do you think the reporter did a good job reporting the story from a human rights' perspective?
3. Why or why not?
4. Could this article have an influence (positive or negative) on the reader?
Here is an example... MOSQUE AT GROUND ZERO
FTKMF Part 4- Journal
Timed Writing
Part 4 (Chapters 10-13)
Part 4 (Chapters 10-13)
On page 108 Loung says, "My heart hardens at her words, knowing I cannot allow myself the luxury of hope. To hope is to let pieces of myself die."
How has this little girl changed since we first met her? How has survival, the mere fight to live, affected her?
How has this little girl changed since we first met her? How has survival, the mere fight to live, affected her?
30 August 2010
FTKMF Part 3 Journal
Timed Writing
Part 3 (Chapters 7-9)
Part 3 (Chapters 7-9)
Describe the Angkar's view of Capitalists and why the Western World was seen as such a threat. Was there any validity to their claims?
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