30 days numba 1 4-3

I.             For example, Jerusalem is the 3500 year old spiritual and national center of the Jewish people, where important early Jewish Temples stood, and the religion developed. It is also considered holy land in the Islamic and Christian religions. The land began being called Palestine by the Romans after the destruction of the second Jewish Temple of Jerusalem. There are those, who because of that, believe that the first Palestinians were the Jews, and the land should still be theirs to govern. After that, the early Christian Religion was also centered there, and more and more Christians made pilgrimages to the Holy Land, eventually added to the settlements there, and hold a strong connection with the area, as well. The Islamic religion is just as closely tied to the area as are the Jewish and Christian religions.

N.p., n.d. Web. 15 May 2011. <http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Why_do_Palestinians_want_Jerusalem>.

Web. 15 May 2011. <http://planetgreen.discovery.com/tv/30-days/images/30days_659x305.jpg>.

II.            This week in class we watched a 30days episode where a very Christian man stays with a Muslim family. The deal was the man would do everything the Muslim family did in order to learn more about their community. The point of this was to make the man and the world see that not all Muslims are terrorists. Terrorist is an extreme.

                Something I learned in Mr. Doyle’s leadership class was that Islamic extremists is to Islam as KKK is to Christianity.  One thing that I learned during the video was that Islam believe in the same god (they don’t believe that Jesus was the son of god) but the main god is the same. One thing that bugged me during the video was that he wouldn’t pray with them. I understand not knowing what they’re saying but I felt he could have prayed to his religion at the same time they were praying so he wasn’t just standing there staring at them.

III.           What is the main different between the two religions?    

N.p., n.d. Web. 15 May 2011. <http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Why_do_Palestinians_want_Jerusalem>.
Web. 15 May 2011. <http://planetgreen.discovery.com/tv/30-days/images/30days_659x305.jpg>.

Promises 4-2

I.                    How many children that receive the implant have two deaf parents? This is a hard question to be answered. Because of the laws of patient doctor confidentiality hospitals cant release any information regarding their patient or their family’s hearing status. They families can put out he information themselves if they choose. There were many websites of people angry about deaf parents not wanting their children to get the implant and angry deaf community not wanting children to get implants. Their however was no statistics that I could find of deaf parents allowing their children to get the implant.

N.p., n.d. Web. 27 Apr 2011. <http://www.enotes.com/everyday-law-encyclopedia/doctor-patient-confidentiality>.

II.                  This week in class we watched a documentary called promises. It was about kids in different parts of the holy land. The film started with getting the children’s opinions on politics. Some of the children are Jewish and some of them are Palestinian. The children have been taught not to like each other. At first the children refuse to talk with each other. After a little persuading two Jewish boys and a Palestinian boy meet. The boys start to learn about each other’s opinions and become friends. At the end of the visit the boys get upset because they realize the directors of the movie will be leaving and they won’t be able to see each other.

It was sad to think that even though some of the next generation wants their worlds to change there doesn’t seem to be an end in sight. The twin boys ended up joining their military and the Palestinian boy moved to America. To us it seems crazy that people could fight this long over land they could easily live together in. But both sides belong the land should belong to them.

III.                What are the reasons they feel the land belongs to them?

N.p., n.d. Web. 27 Apr 2011. <http://www.enotes.com/everyday-law-encyclopedia/doctor-patient-confidentiality>.

Web. 27 Apr 2011. <http://dvdboys.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/promises.jpeg?w=482&h=361>.

Mind change

I.                    How many people have gotten a cochlear implant? The National Institutes of Health estimate that as many as 59,000 people worldwide have received cochlear implants, with roughly half of those in the pediatric population.

N.p., n.d. Web. 3 Apr 2011. <http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/02/100201091620.htm>.

II.                  This week in class we finished the movie “Sound and Fury”. At the end of the movie the family with two deaf parents decided that their daughter would not get the implant and moved to a deaf community. That way they could live in their own safe world.

I was very mad at the parents by the end of the movie. I couldn’t understand why the parents wouldn’t want better for their daughter. They went through the struggles of trying to live in the hearing world and they didn’t want to help her through that. It really upset me.

After we finished we watched a fallow up video of the family a few years after. I’m very glad we watched it because the way the movie ended I couldn’t stand the parents.  The fallow up video showed that after a few years the parents changed their minds and let their daughter get the implant. The mother even got one. If the family had given it to her earlier her speech would have been better but I’m glad they still did it. What some people didn’t understand was you don’t have to leave your deafness behind. Take it off and you’re deaf again. She could help bring the two worlds together.

III.                How many children that receive the implant have two deaf parents?

N.p., n.d. Web. 3 Apr 2011. <http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/02/100201091620.htm>.

Web. 3 Apr 2011. <http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/af/Sound_and_Fury.jpg/220px-Sound_and_Fury.jpg>.

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>.