Freedom Riders Presentation

http://soundcloud.com/alecnewby11/alec-history-project/s-D5WfX

Human Rights Topic Questions

**How has North Korea's lack of Freedom of Press effected the population's ability to be functioning members of a global community?

If there is no Freedom of Press, what kind of Press is the North Korean public exposed to?


What would happen if North Korea was granted Freedom of Press today?

How does North Korea's lack of Freedom of Press compare with other countries that have no Freedom of Press?

Research Proposal

I'm interested in researching North Korea's violations of Human Rights. Such as: Freedom of movement, expression, and religion, or the prison system.




 
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5j9IvosnM2z7n0o6obx1XFDGr5-UQ?docId=CNG.3874fe993b30def2624b5d5207efd481.661

http://www.voanews.com/policy/editorials/Concerns-For-Human-Rights-In-North-Korea-106316759.html

http://www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/article/ALeqM5jAxme2y0zWAO9fNtIQejWlOJkXJQ?docId=4952314

Congo News

In the New York times article, Frenzy of Rape in Congo Reveals U.N Weakness, The journalist describes how rape and piliging have been a huge problem in the Congo for a while now, and the U.N hasn't been effective in stopping the rebel militias. The Congo is being called the U.N's biggest failure. In one instance 150 people were killed within ear-shot of a U.N base.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/04/world/africa/04congo.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1

NPR wrote an article describing the problems that arose when the Rawanda soldiers crossed into the COngo to pursue the rebels, but were targeting civilians as well. Rawanda seems to be causeing a lot of problems for the Congo, and the the Congo seems to be a playground for outlaws.

These articles share a common theme about the disappointment over the U.N's poor effort.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2010/10/01/130271216/new-u-n-report-documents-atrocities-against-democratic-republic-of-the-congo

Today's Class 9/2/10

In class today, I learned about colonialism, imperialism, and about Obama's speech for ending the Iraq conflict.

I learned a lot more about which countries colonized and which countries exhibited imperial power.
I learned a lot of detail about why countries did colonized.

I might think of a question later.

I would like to more about the current conflict that supposedly just came to an end.

News Article Response

1. What's being discussed in this article?

The News article describes the faults within China's one-child policy. The journalist gives a specific example of the policy's problems by using Yang Zhizhu's situation. He also used statistics to show how China's birthrate is significantly lower and the natural gender ratio is imbalanced. 

1. When did the event happen? (Is this breaking news or something that's been analyzed and discussed for a while?)

This is not breaking news. It became a growing problem shortly after the policy was implemented in 1978. Now there is growing concern about who will care for the large number of pensioners.

1. 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?

In order to understand this event a little better I would like to know what China's birthrate was before the policy, what the birthrate should be, the effects of over population, and more explanation about repercussions and exceptions.

Three News Worthy Events in My Life and Three Events from My Father's Life

The earliest news worthy event that I can vividly remember would have to be 9/11. I was in second grade, and I can clearly recall my mother zipping up my jacket before I went to the bus. The News was on and I saw a burning building, and I was watching the T.V another plane hit the other tower. When I went to school the teachers announced that there had been a terrorist attack. I was too young to fully comprehend what was happening so I wasn't worked up. After that day it was on the news for weeks, and I could tell that everyone became significantly more patriotic.  
     The next big event that comes to mind was the Columbia space shuttle explosion. I was in fifth grade, and at I was using the internet at that point. I can remember opening up the internet and the hope page had a big news break about a space ship that had exploded. Being in fifth grade, this sparked my interest. So I read the article, but I didn't understand a lot of the important details. After reading the article the story was on T.V for a while.
Hurricane Katrina was the first big disaster that I found my self surrounded by information about the disaster. I was in seventh grade. At this point of my life I was pretty engrossed with main-stream pop culture, and New Orleans coverage was in all forms of media. When I would watch MTV, or something that was around my age appeal, I would see all these famous telling me how bad the situation was. This was also one of the first times I was able to acknowledge a flawed U.S government. Ever since 9/11 I was surrounded by patriotism.

One of the most important events my father can recall was the firs moon landing in 1969. He remembers watching it with his family and how everyone at school thought it was the greatest thing ever. 

When My Dad was 17 he remembers the official ending of vietnam. He described it as "everyone felt as if a burden had been lifted"

He also said he remembered the Kent State shootings, but he was only 11 or 12 at the time, so he didn't understanding the big controversy.