Video testimonies are very different from written testimonies. When watching the videos, I saw the expressions and feeling run across their face as they told their story of being in camps. That is a big difference between video and written. You are allowed to see the expressions of the suppressed people. They're voices change as they get to different parts of the stories and you can tell them reliving it but they really want to tell what it was like living under those conditions and thinking you were going to die at the hands of fellow human beings.
videos:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ges-Od4tR0I
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgyKx37D2j4&feature=relmfu
Tuesday, January 3, 2012
Research Question 2 for Harlem [2]
The difference between civil rights and human rights are:
Civil rights are the rights that constitue free and equal citizenship.These rights include your personal, political, and economic rights. These rights can not be denied to you based on race, sex, religion, color, national origin, or disability.
Human rights are rights that protect people everywhere from political, legal, and social abuses. An example of human rights is the right to choose your religion and to a fair trial.
Sources: http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/rights-human/
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/civil-rights/
Civil rights are the rights that constitue free and equal citizenship.These rights include your personal, political, and economic rights. These rights can not be denied to you based on race, sex, religion, color, national origin, or disability.
Human rights are rights that protect people everywhere from political, legal, and social abuses. An example of human rights is the right to choose your religion and to a fair trial.
Sources: http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/rights-human/
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/civil-rights/
Monday, January 2, 2012
Research Question 2 for I Will Bear Witness
The Nuremburg laws of 1935 restricted Jews of their rights and dehumanized them. The laws state that they can not marry someone who was an Aryan. Aryan is someone who has blond hair and blue eyes and is of germanic heritage. To protect the German people if someone wanted to get married they had to get a certificate called Certificate of Fitness to Marry. People fought among themselves about who was considered a Jew and who was not. Germans tried to settle it by handing out instructional sheets with pedigrees on them.
http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/timeline/nurem-laws.htm
http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/timeline/nurem-laws.htm
Wednesday, December 14, 2011
Research Question 1 for The Stalin Epigram and the Arrest of Osip Mandelstam
Mandelstam was arrested in 1934 for writing poetry about Stalin. He was tortured in prison and later exiled with his wife to remote villages. He tried to commit suicide but it did not work and his exile was lessened to banishment from larger cities. He wrote a poem for Natasha Shtempel which was about women mourning. He was again arrested in 1938 for going against the revolution because he wrote another poem and was sentenced to five years in a labor camp. He died later on from madness and starvation on December 27, 1938. The conditions in the camp must have been horrendous because he died of starvation. He also was crazy when he died so the Russians must have tortured him physical as well as mentally.
Source: http://kirjasto.sci.fi/mandelst.htm
Source: http://kirjasto.sci.fi/mandelst.htm
Monday, December 12, 2011
Research Question 3 for Independence v Swaraj
The ethical guidelines for journalism are easy to follow:
Journalists should by honest and fair when gathering information.
Test accuracy of the information obtained.
Support the open exchange of views.
Journalists should show compassion.
Be sensitive when obtaining and looking for information that is sentimental.
Avoid conflicts.
Be brave and show valor
Refuse gifts, free travel, and fees.
Encourage audience to voice problems within community.
admit mistakes if made and correct them promptly.
Source: http://www.spj.org/ethicscode.asp
Journalists should by honest and fair when gathering information.
Test accuracy of the information obtained.
Support the open exchange of views.
Journalists should show compassion.
Be sensitive when obtaining and looking for information that is sentimental.
Avoid conflicts.
Be brave and show valor
Refuse gifts, free travel, and fees.
Encourage audience to voice problems within community.
admit mistakes if made and correct them promptly.
Source: http://www.spj.org/ethicscode.asp
Saturday, December 10, 2011
Blogging notes on Ken Kesey's One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
1. Personal liberation in the book seems to be defined as finding one's self and purpose and not being brought down by conformity. The book doesn't seem to be anti women more like anti bossy women. "good female characters are females who aren't afraid to flaunt their feminism and body.
2. Nurse Ratched's name is significant because Ratchet mean set of teeth on a bar wheel allowing motion in one direction only and I'm pretty sure her name comes from that because there is only one way in the ward and it is her way.
3. America in this era was a matriarchy because women in this time period were discovering themselves and developing. They were doing new things that women have never done before so at this time women were running the world one step at a time.
4. This book has a lot of racial slurs but i really do not think it is racist just that he is trying to catch the dialogue of that time. During this time Blacks were not really accepted as first class citizens.
5. When McMurphy was about to get electrocuted he asked for his crown of thorns so that alludes to Christ and the patients looked up to him like a God. I guess Candy would be the Virgin Mary even though she is not exactly a saint.
6. The Mental hospital is like a mini version of America because it shows a person in charge who wants their citizens to conform to their rules and terms and hippies revolted against that.
7. The parallels suggested between communism and liberalism is that both need to be destroyed so people do not have to conform to rules and regulations that are not necessary. Most of the communist behavior is displayed by Nurse Ratched.
8. Chief Bromden is a reliable narrator to me because he tells the story accurately and tells a little about himself. Being Indian is significant because it seems Indians have been fighting to conform to whites for centuries and since this is a book about fighting conformity Indians need to be in it.
9. Freudian Theory and thoughts seem to be about unconscious thoughts dealing with repression and psychoanalysis. Sigmund Freud believed that people repressed painful memories into their unconscious. Since the book is dealing with repression Freudian seems to go hand in hand. Source: http://www.iep.utm.edu/freud/
10. Since this book is about the evils of these drugs then Hippies were using dangerous stuff. If this book really reflected how drugs can change a person then Hippies were in danger because these drugs were really powerful and back things doctors would approve anything.
11. It is like a manual for people trying to rebel against conformity. Almost like a bible of sorts to the rebels just starting out. Showing them that you can defeat conformity because McMurphy did it.
12. This is a powerful theme because not a lot of people criticized America because most people were afraid to speak out. Kesey thinks modern America went wrong when they started making people conform to unnecessary rules and when they started being double standard and hypocritical.
13. It seems cynical about democracy because when the patients were in the meeting and everyone voted to use the tub room but Nurse Ratched pretty much vetoed them even though it was in the interest of the patients. So maybe Kesey's believes democracy does not truly exist since the government think they make the right choices for us.
14. They gloried criminals and lunatics that should be self explanatory why the 1960s radicalism went wrong. They made them seem like misunderstood people and some of them are but most are really crazy and irrational.
15. McMurphy sees gambling as a chance to control everything for once. He can control what he does in the game but he can not control the outcome just the input.
16. Big Nurse is genderless, mechanical, and unemotional. Big Nurse symbolizes a machine.
17. The book portrays liberation as leaving the hospital when they are ready not when they are healed in the Nurse's terms. They feel like they can join society once more.
18. I actually could not really tell when he was on LCD in certain parts in the book maybe the part when Bromden was remembering his childhood after being shocked toward the end of the book because everything seemed crazy.
19. Laughter makes all the problems go away. well not go away but it makes people forget stressing things such as problems and just live a little.
20. The Loonies are more healthier than the sane because they are taking the time to actually think about the problems in their life while people on the outside repress their problems because they feel they have other things going on in their lives. insanity is the only sane response to a crazy world.
21. The arguments that Kesey seems to being forward is to laugh, fight conformity, and live. Which is great for a society because conformity can be suffocating and make people turn into loonies.
22. The author uses a lot of imagery and similes. It paints a picture in my mind when I read it and he uses diction very well.
2. Nurse Ratched's name is significant because Ratchet mean set of teeth on a bar wheel allowing motion in one direction only and I'm pretty sure her name comes from that because there is only one way in the ward and it is her way.
3. America in this era was a matriarchy because women in this time period were discovering themselves and developing. They were doing new things that women have never done before so at this time women were running the world one step at a time.
4. This book has a lot of racial slurs but i really do not think it is racist just that he is trying to catch the dialogue of that time. During this time Blacks were not really accepted as first class citizens.
5. When McMurphy was about to get electrocuted he asked for his crown of thorns so that alludes to Christ and the patients looked up to him like a God. I guess Candy would be the Virgin Mary even though she is not exactly a saint.
6. The Mental hospital is like a mini version of America because it shows a person in charge who wants their citizens to conform to their rules and terms and hippies revolted against that.
7. The parallels suggested between communism and liberalism is that both need to be destroyed so people do not have to conform to rules and regulations that are not necessary. Most of the communist behavior is displayed by Nurse Ratched.
8. Chief Bromden is a reliable narrator to me because he tells the story accurately and tells a little about himself. Being Indian is significant because it seems Indians have been fighting to conform to whites for centuries and since this is a book about fighting conformity Indians need to be in it.
9. Freudian Theory and thoughts seem to be about unconscious thoughts dealing with repression and psychoanalysis. Sigmund Freud believed that people repressed painful memories into their unconscious. Since the book is dealing with repression Freudian seems to go hand in hand. Source: http://www.iep.utm.edu/freud/
10. Since this book is about the evils of these drugs then Hippies were using dangerous stuff. If this book really reflected how drugs can change a person then Hippies were in danger because these drugs were really powerful and back things doctors would approve anything.
11. It is like a manual for people trying to rebel against conformity. Almost like a bible of sorts to the rebels just starting out. Showing them that you can defeat conformity because McMurphy did it.
12. This is a powerful theme because not a lot of people criticized America because most people were afraid to speak out. Kesey thinks modern America went wrong when they started making people conform to unnecessary rules and when they started being double standard and hypocritical.
13. It seems cynical about democracy because when the patients were in the meeting and everyone voted to use the tub room but Nurse Ratched pretty much vetoed them even though it was in the interest of the patients. So maybe Kesey's believes democracy does not truly exist since the government think they make the right choices for us.
14. They gloried criminals and lunatics that should be self explanatory why the 1960s radicalism went wrong. They made them seem like misunderstood people and some of them are but most are really crazy and irrational.
15. McMurphy sees gambling as a chance to control everything for once. He can control what he does in the game but he can not control the outcome just the input.
16. Big Nurse is genderless, mechanical, and unemotional. Big Nurse symbolizes a machine.
17. The book portrays liberation as leaving the hospital when they are ready not when they are healed in the Nurse's terms. They feel like they can join society once more.
18. I actually could not really tell when he was on LCD in certain parts in the book maybe the part when Bromden was remembering his childhood after being shocked toward the end of the book because everything seemed crazy.
19. Laughter makes all the problems go away. well not go away but it makes people forget stressing things such as problems and just live a little.
20. The Loonies are more healthier than the sane because they are taking the time to actually think about the problems in their life while people on the outside repress their problems because they feel they have other things going on in their lives. insanity is the only sane response to a crazy world.
21. The arguments that Kesey seems to being forward is to laugh, fight conformity, and live. Which is great for a society because conformity can be suffocating and make people turn into loonies.
22. The author uses a lot of imagery and similes. It paints a picture in my mind when I read it and he uses diction very well.
Wednesday, December 7, 2011
Research Question 2 for Slavery on the Henequen Plantations of Yucatan
There are tons of sweatshops in China. They usually make American goods like shoes, clothes, and toys. They have low wages, horrific working hours, and no air conditioning. The factories are dirty and not well taking care of. They are refused the opportunity to create labor unions to protest for better working hours, conditions and pay. The bosses of the companies ignore workers complaints because they want to save as much money as they can and if workers do complain they can be replaced easily with other unemployed people. There are efforts to change the troubling conditions but nothing is set in stone since they are their own country and can do whatever they like.
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