Mandel Freedom Riders Keynote

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Research Questions: Schooling in Somalia

1. If any schooling is available, what part of Somalia does it seem to be growing?
2. Is there a conflict that could lead to violence from more children receiving schooling in Somalia?
3. What does the curriculum consist of in the small amount of schools already there?
4. Where does most of the money for the schools come from, since Somalia is quite poor. >
5. Are the schools protected well?
6. What people, places, charity is trying to help the education in Somalia?
7. How qualified are the teachers if at all?
8. What do the current leaders of Somalia believe about schooling?
9. What are the current leaders doing to help the situation?

topic for International Human rights

The topic I would like to choose is schooling in Somalia. This topic is very interesting due to the low quality of education that is available as well as the low attendance to the schools that are available. Numerous problems had arisen with regard to access to education in rural areas and along gender lines, quality of educational provisions, responsiveness of school curricula, educational standards and controls, management and planning capacity, and financing. The children do not have much of a choice, and educations seems to be low on the priority list. Two links 


arehttp://www.nationsencyclopedia.com/Africa/Somalia-EDUCATION.html


http://www.unicef.org/somalia/education.html


Questions- What leads most places to having almost no education?
Do most places who lack education, been involved in wars?

free write= a question we were thinking about

     A question I had was why do the pigs stand for in the book. I do realize they are Polish, yet I do not understand what the significance of the pig was. I felt that the only option was that the Pigs were suggesting they were doing the "dirty work" of the jews. I felt that their is a significance of the polish being pigs as the jews are mice and the nazis are cats. I feel their is a significant reason why the Polish are pigs and I feel it will become clearer as the book goes on.

Response to first part of Mause 2

I feel the first part of the book was very interesting. I felt that the separating of animals such as the polish were pigs, the Nazis were guards and the jews were mice spoke in many senses. This brilliant writing metaphorically shows the feeling of the era as well as shows how people were looked upon. I feel the going from mice to men wearing mice mask showed that going to the holocaust made them the lowest part of the chain and almost something un human as they were looked upon as. I felt the mask later in the story showed that the jewish people could not forget or be separated from the experience that had once happened to them. I also found it was quite interesting that their was help for knowledge in the fact that the polish guard wanted to learn english which gave the jew new and nicer things in return. Though in this world of a concentration camp everyone was enemies, everybody wanted the same things which is knowledge and freedom and even friendship, even though it was racism that stood in the way of all of these. This book is quite interesting in the fact that all sides of races are somewhat shown except for the nazi, which are made to somewhat monsters when in reality were in a way, when killing millions of jews. The documentation that the lead character Art is documenting is showing that by being stressed, that the situation that had once happened will never leave him or his mind. The horror is being brought back by documenting what happened which is frightening to him physiologically yet necessary for history and for people to know what eventually happened and the torture and the inhumanness that people had to endure during this time period and even somewhat after.  This book is only getting more interesting and so far the comics paint a very clear and frightening picture of what happened to these people and how they were effected and how they dealt with their situation that at the time was impossible to avoid. Incredible metaphoric writing in what the book shows and overall is an interesting intelligently wrote read.

Picture response

1.This picture is showing 3 men and 4 women. This picture also shows, shacks in the background, fences, signs trees, There is one shack with one boarded window. The women are wearing white aprons and the men are wearing standard nazi uniforms.
2. The story that is evoked in this image is, it is lunch time at the concentration camp and the men are in very good moods talking to women and getting ready to go eat, without even a thought of remorse in their mind. The group is not even thinking about what is going on in the concentration camp, they don't even consider the people as human, by knowing that killings happened and they are pleasantly going to lunch.
3. What is their daily job?, What are the women doing?, What do the jews eat while the guards are eating?

statement where my thinking changes,

The statement that made me change my mind several times was " Is torture a right countries should have". This made me think because in one way if you need information and a person is an enemy to your country then you should be able to do as you please with the prisoner. This also can be argued by saying we should not have the right because torture in in humane as well as ineffective. I find it very difficult to decide when cases can be so various.

Find and review 2-3 articles about what's been happening in the democratic repbulic of the congo over the last year or two

Profile: Thomas Lubanga- One thing that has happened in the last year or two in the Congo was the Thomas lubanga in the last two year and even before was sending young kids as young s 15 to war. These kids were fully armed and expected to give their life in battle. He is suspected of instructing a massacre of over 400 people. In the past two years because of these allegations of what he has been doing in the Congo there have been many arrest of the leaders of the group beside himself. Lubanga will be the first to be tries in the International Criminal source.
In 2010 $8 billion debt relief deal approved by World Bank and This is a huge deal that all debt will eventually be paid coming from, no relief what o ever.ThisIMF.http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN0115650720100701


The kind of issues I am finding is children going to war and many as 400 hundred people massacres. I am also finding many articles that have to do with the debt being worked out in the Congo, which is a huge deal. 

2 questions on small group discussion

1. The question I have lingering is - I feel the way they used the whip was quite interesting and cruel. The idea that someone would get with a weapon like that 125 times is outrageous which shows how the African people were treated.

2.  What worked well in our group was going around and letting each person speak. This lets everyone get a chance and this way everyone has to talk. This can be improved by preparing before hand.

Thesis

Thesis : " To see Africa instead as as a Continent of coherent societies, each with its own culture and history, took a leap of empathy, a leap that few, if any, of early Europeans or American visitors to the Congo were able to make." ( pg. 101)

1. " For nearly three centuries Africa has been robbed of her sable sons...... The Negro of this country can turn to his Saxton Brothers." (pg 102)
2. " " Every possible influence was exerted to turn me aside from my mission. An officer of the Kings household dispatched to me for the purpose of visiting the Congo." ( pg. 107)
3. leopold clealry saw that the way to charm this particular visitor was to offer a sympathetic ear to his projects, for in the same article Williams reported that the King " proved himself a good listener" ( pg. 106)

4. " Leopold's establishment of military bases along the river had caused a wave of death and destruction, because the african soldiers who manned them were expected to feed themselves". ( pg.110)

quotes from 33- 60

Stanley quote- " The power possessing the Congo.... he wrote, would absorb to itself the trade of the whole enormous basin behind. This river is and will be the grand highway of commerce to the West Central Africa". ( pg. 55)

Leopold- "Nonetheless, Leopold had, foxlike, gone a step forward. He had learned from his many attempts to buy a colony that none was for sale; he would have to conquer it". ( pg. 46)/ "

"Leopold is subtle and sly, he told one of his ministers he never takes a chance". ( pg. 34)

Response to King Leopold's Ghost chapter one

The first chapter of this book is giving a clear image to what Europeans saw and dreamed that Africa was rich in resources and large. The reading gives detail to when slave first started and then escalades through time. As the slaves at first were not realized as slaves but asked to do something. As time went on they knew they became slaves and eventually there were so many slaves that trade began with not just resources but also with people. These slaves were traded for money and different resources and were kept in terrible conditions most of the time.
Questions- 1. Why was africa such an important place for the europeans to colonize, and what was there motive?
question 2. Why do you think King Leopold does not come to africa to witness the blood shed?

The White Man's Burden- response

This reading mainly responding to the "White man" going to africa and using there resources and hurting the people along the way. In this response the writer is clearly saying that the Africans were exhausted and all resources were being used against there will as well as being treated badly. As the reading says the Africans lived savage lives and always lived on dull routines. The white man always had more weapons and other tactics of taking what they wanted and the Africans were powerless. As it say's at the end " To kill the soul in a people- this is a crime  which transcends physical murder". In my opinion this is true as the white men took everything and left the Africans helpless.

What I learned, questions, something i'm curious about investigating further

There are many thing's I learned today above all else i learned what Imperialism is, which is basically a place of higher power taking over another place to take there resources and eventually take over. I also learned about Afghanistan and when t was colonized and why any other nations would want to colonize it. A question I have is why these places never tried to fight back, because I'm sure a few of them knew what was going on. Though the people taking over were larger then the people they were taking over a issue i believe would still be raised and why wasn't it until later on. Something I am curious about is if the people were making money from zoo's and using it to make there colony bigger and why they would keep humans in the zoo.

Taliban poison attack or mass hysteria ? Chaos hits another Kabul girls' school

1.What's being discussed in this article? This article is discussing a women's High school in Afghanistan, Totia high school was suspected of being attacked by poison gas. Many teens started to run and jump out of first story windows to get away from the smell. Others were carried out and some were unconscious for more then two hours. The question was, is this a attack by Taliban who has been to attack women's education or a mass hysteria of what might have happened and what the Taliban could do.


2. When did the event happen? (Is this breaking news or something that's been analyzed and discussed for a while?) This event happened on August 25, 2010. This article seemed to have been made soon after the attacks but it is very analyzed in describing what happened and the total number of girls who had been hurt and information from previous attacks. 




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?  The information that would make this article make more sense to me is if they would answer the question if there was any security preventing attacks like this from happening around the school.  The other information I would need is a interview in detail of what exactly happened from the view of someone who was literally inside the building.

What are the most news worthy events that have happened during my parents life time?

1. One newsworthy event I was told about by my dad was the U.S. first landing on the moon. The landing on the moon was something that most thought could never be done, and not only was it done but there is proof of it. the famous line that go " One small step for man and one giant leap for man kind" this line was very true in the fact that many more things were to follow this great accomplishment. When Neil Armstrong stood on the moon the world changed and because the space program had done something great so had all the people.

2. "When John F. Kennedy was assassinated the world seemed to have stopped".  The John F. Kennedy assassination was one of the most saddening things that have ever happened in U.S. history. A man thought to change all bad things in the world was taken away for no reason.  " I remember sitting in class and over the loud speaker you heard " The president has been killed, you are dismissed for the rest of the day. Just to come home and see your mom in front of the television set crying her eyes out". " This is the story my dad told of the the day J.F.K. was assassinated and of the hurt that would never go away of a great man being taken away.

3. Having president Obama be elected was one the most memorable moments in my fathers lifetime. Never before had an African American man been elected until now. " Obama being elected was a a great thing that should lead to many more" The election changed all generation and seems to be one of the biggest events that ever happened to the United States. This single change also shows that other changes are possible and with this step forward our country has become a better place.

What news worthy events I remember from my lifetime?

  1. One of the most, if not the most news worthy event that happened during my lifetime is the September 11 attacks. I remember these attacks vividly, though I was just in third grade. When I first found out I was sitting in a third grade classroom and a teacher came in crying and said we had to turn on the T.V. We turned on the T.V. and everyone seemed very confused. It was until later that we had found out that what had happened was an deliberate attack on the U.S. This time was shocking and it is something that will stay with me and I'm sure millions more for the rest of our lives.

2. Hurricane Katrina was a very newsworthy event. Katrina changed the lives of millions of people in the matter of a few days. Many people died and there seemed to be anger in everyone. People believed that the government did everything wrong and that the government was too late to help. Millions of lives were lost and though many helped it was not enough. When first hearing of Hurricane Katrina I felt it was frightening that such an event could happen and there was nothing anybody could do about it.

3.  A very important event that happened in my lifetime was that for the first time in history the people have elected a African American man to office. This was very important. I remember when he was elected very clearly. I worked the election polls for the whole election and spent over 14 hours in a small room assisting people with the machines and casting there ballets. When first hearing that Obama had won the election I felt nice to know that for the first time something has happened in history I was sort of apart of. It was a very exciting time in both my life and in U.S. history.