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.