Quiz 10/16

1. They were living with Fofo because they were about to be sold

2. To the preacher poverty is a gift from God

3. He wants a better education

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In Class 10/16

The Nanfang symbolizes something that meant a lot to Kotchikpa. He uses it to learn how to drive and refuel the motorcycle. He would also play soccer with others that have one using their own Nanfangs. It also never needed repairs. It was something he loved and held onto.

Group Discussion Part 2

The words and images in the movie were portrayed differently based on the point of view of everyone who were involved in the survival and murders of the genocide. The radio stations would broadcast messages about how the Tutsi were threats to the Hutu. The images seen about the Tutsi being attacked showed what the Hutu were doing and how serious it became.

The response from the hotel staff was careless about their jobs. They would hang by the radio and listen rather then working to keep the hotel running. The people across Rwanda depending on what side they were on either ran and hid in fear or patriotically roamed the roads cheering for their pride. The UN would try to avoid conflict between the Hutu and the Tutsi.

The rest of the world could had been busy with their own issues and what went on around them. Not everyone knew what was happening and some may had not think of it as a big deal to them.

The ones accountable for the media were the foreign press. They hold the power to let anything they wanted in or out in their news.

What we expect from the media are news about current and new events. We could hold them accountable by keeping up with current times.

The public responsibility towards issues brought up by the media are very low. A handful of people try to help but they get very little done.

Response #1

Killing a person is wrong. Although in certain cases it's seen as "less wrong." In the story "My Parent's Bedroom"  Monique's father kills Maman in order to save his children. Can this really be seen as "less wrong?" He in fact did the right thing. He saved multiple lives but sacrificed one, a utilitarian would had agreed. He chose the side of the majority's benefits over the minority's benefit. If he were to not kill Maman, she would still be killed along with his life and the children's. The situation he was in, he had to protect others. A survival instinct must had triggered to save himself as well, whether or not killing is right or wrong probably didn't go through his head.

The time he had to think was very short, he had to act fast and think fast. Surrounded by a group of vicious men with weapons in hand, given a machete and told to kill, he had no other choice but to kill or be killed. His actions no matter if he killed her or not wouldn't had mattered. The men wanted her dead, and it would had been better if he killed her in a mercy killing for his family rather then cold blooded murder. Monique's father killing Maman is a case in which the killing of another person could be seen "less wrong." Killing a person is wrong, but in Monique's Father's case his killing is less wrong.

In Class 9/18

I believe that the man in the story and the doctor from the 9/11 article did not feel the same emotion. For the doctor he cut a stranger out to save her life, somebody he didn't know, while the man in the story killed his wife to save his children, his own blood.

The man in the story must had it worse, he had no time to think, and was left the choice to kill his wife or have his whole family die for being a traitor. The doctor knew what he was doing and though he didn't stop he knew it was the right thing to do. The man in the story however, he didn't really know if it was right or wrong. He went with it and left his children behind to appear like he is not a traitor, or maybe to save his own life as well.

H.W 2

The details that helped me identify with the narrator was sound and sight. I could hear and see from her point of view. Each voice, wail, and whisper went through my head as I pictured what happened in her home. Through the story I could picture her ransacked home, the blood spilling, while people shout and yell outside with the sounds of guns going off. 

9/11 In Class Work (Huffington Post Readingsheet)

I agree with the decision the doctor had to make. It could be argued that the woman could had died during the actions being made, but if the doctor didn't remove her spine quick she could had died with a terrible bleed out. If another plan was to be thought up would had taken too much time and would have the woman trapped longer and possibly squished due to rubble, smoke, and possibly thirst.

In my own life I never faced anything as bad but I commit selfless acts all the time. Sometimes they're as simple as offering money when I could had kept it to myself to more important risks I took working like helping a customer instead when my manager told me to do something else, knowing that if I help the customer I could get in serious trouble and jeopardize my job.

The doctor did the right thing, it was painful to think of and must had been difficult to handle knowing if she died the burden would be in his hands. His action was selfless, heroic and inspiring.