Sound or no Sound?

I.                    How many kids are underage on facebook? It’s no secret that kids love social networking sites like Facebook.  But a new study by the Pew Internet & American Life Project found that many of those kids aren’t supposed to be there at all. It turns out that tens of thousands of them are too young to be lingering in this cyber-hangout.  The report says that 46 percent of 12-year-olds in the United States are on Facebook despite the fact the social media site expressly prohibits anyone under the age of 13. The problem with that, of course, is that all a young person has to do is lie about his or her age. And, apparently that’s what a lot of them do. In fact, the Daily Telegraph in Australia reports that Facebook is kicking some 20,000 youngsters off the site a day.

N.p., n.d. Web. 27 Mar 2011. <http://jjie.org/kids-parents-and-the-law/facebook-banning-underage-kids-every-day>.

II.                  This week in class we watched a video on an implant that can make some deaf people hear again. There was a fully deaf family whose 5 year old daughter wanted the implant. There was also a fully hearing family who had twins and one of the twins was born deaf. The fully deaf family was first offended that their daughter wanted the implant. They felt as if she was rejecting them, that the way they are wasn’t good enough. The hearing family wanted their baby to get the implant.

It’s hard for hearing people to understand why a deaf person would not want to be able to hear. One thing we learned that I never thought about was that someone whose always been deaf, once they can hear again, doesn’t mean they can understand all of a sudden. It takes a long time before people are just making noise, if they ever do learn to understand. Heating people see being deaf as something horrible, but deaf people see it in a completely different way. I could understand however how they family with the twins wouldn’t want one of them to feel like they are anyway behind the other one.

III.                How many people have gotten a cochlear implant.

Web. 27 Mar 2011. <http://www.willmar.k12.mn.us/kennedy/sites/default/files/deaf2.jpg>. 

 N.p., n.d. Web. 27 Mar 2011. <http://jjie.org/kids-parents-and-the-law/facebook-banning-underage-kids-every-day>.

Grownig up on the Internet

I.             Does anyone know the name of the Tank man? Tank Man, or the Unknown Rebel, is the nickname of an anonymous man who stood in front of a column of Chinese Type 59 tanks the morning after the Chinese military forcibly removed protestors from in and around Beijing's Tiananmen Square on June 4, 1989. The man achieved widespread international recognition due to the videotape and photographs taken of the incident. Despite his anonymity, he is commonly (though not necessarily correctly) referred to in Chinese as Wang Weilin (王維林), as dubbed by a Sunday Express article. This was reported by only one journalist, and no credible other source has emerged since then (1989). It might remain a mystery forever.

N.p., n.d. Web. 27 Mar 2011. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tank_Man>.

N.p., n.d. Web. 27 Mar 2011. <http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_the_name_of_the_tank_man>.

Web. 27 Mar 2011. <http://www.impactlab.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/teens-online-53.jpg>.

II.            This week in class we talked about kids growing up on the internet. We watched a documentary of parents being too strict about their kids on the internet and some being too loose. There was one girl who was post pictures of herself in lingerie. When her parents first caught her they made her delete it but later we learned that they let her make a new cite and put them up again. We also learned about a mom who put their computer in the kitchen so she could always see what her kids were doing on the computer. She also was trying to get their kids passwords to their facebook so she could log on and read everything on it. In my opinion both these parents are crazy. There is much better ways to handle your kids on the internet. Because parents didn’t grow up with it they don’t always understand it. Some parts of the internet can be scary like your daughter posting pictures of herself in lingerie. They way my parents handle it is they have facebook and have me as a friend. They can see what people post on my wall but they can’t write anything as me. They also realize what people post on my wall isn’t something I said so they don’t blame me if one of my friends writes something they wouldn’t want me to say. I feel like my parents are less controlling over my use of the internet if the understand it, so I teach them how to use it.

Web. 27 Mar 2011. <http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/01402/girlLaptop_1402818c.jpg>.

III. How many kids are underage on facebook?


Web. 27 Mar 2011. <http://www.impactlab.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/teens-online-53.jpg>. 

 

 

Tank Man

I.                    What are the differences between the Tutsis and the Hutus? More recent studies have de-emphasized physical appearance, such as height and nose width, in favor of examining blood factors, the presence of the sickle cell trait, lactose intolerance in adults, and other genotype expressions.

N.p., n.d. Web. 15 Mar 2011. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origins_of_Tutsi_and_Hutu>.

II.                  This week in class we watched a movie on china. The video was about how a small group of protesters grew into a large group. The group stayed peaceful but the government didn’t. The small protest ended up turning into a full out massacre of innocent people. One person we learned about was a man they called “Tank Man”. A fleet of tanks were driving into the city to “clear it out”. An everyday man stood in front of the tanks. They stop for a short time. When they started to move and he stayed in front of them. After a few minutes he was rushed out of the street and the tanks moved forward.

Even though the man in the story could stop the massacre, he risked his life to try. He knew that what was about to happen needed to stop so he did what he thought needed to be done. The tanks could have easily run over the man. They were sent to kill the people any way, but for some reason they stop. China is a place you don’t think about a massacre happening, because now they seem so advanced.

III.                Does anyone know the name of the Tank man?

Web. 15 Mar 2011. <http://www.thestandard.org.nz/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/tank-man.jpg>.

N.p., n.d. Web. 15 Mar 2011. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origins_of_Tutsi_and_Hutu>.

Rwanda

I.                     Last week’s question was do you think there is enough food in the world to feed everyone? There are enough resources in the world for everyone to get 4.3 pounds of food a day.

n. pag. Web. 7 Mar 2011. <http://www.stophungernow.org/site/PageServer?pagename=learn_facts>.

II.                  This week in class we talked about Rwanda. We watched a video on the situation between the Hutu and the Tutsi. We learned that the reason for the discrimination was because the Belgians told them they needed to choose a race. There isn’t even a huge difference in the way the look. And yet the races are trying to eliminate each other.

It’s crazy to us that these two groups are trying to kill each other for what seems like no reason at all. But what is even harder to believe is that it seems as if there is nothing anyone can do to stop it. We received a time line of all the major events that happened in the Genocide. It seems as if the help gets pulled out of Rwanda more than it gets put in. However it’s always hard to judge military actions when you aren’t really in the situation with all the information. They could have been, and most likely were, doing what was best for the situation.  

III.                What are the differences between the Tutsis and the Hutus?

n. pag. Web. 7 Mar 2011. <http://www.stophungernow.org/site/PageServer?pagename=learn_facts>.

Web. 7 Mar 2011. <http://polosbastards.com/pb/wp-content/uploads/2006/07/Boys%20in%20Rwanda.jpg>.