Rwanda

In the article 10 years later in rwanda it shows a much more horrific picture in comparassion to the article Children or the genocide because it is more descriptive, it describes the scene in the church as well as how the bodies were preserved this whole time. It also tells us of how 800,000 people died as in comparrision to the other article where it says that only 500,000 people died and there are many different numbers as they are all estimates as to how many died. Although they both convey evil very well depending on the reader, for instance to a mother or father the children in rwanda article would be much more scary as it depicts children with dead families and the thought of their families in this condition could be quite scary, but to someone who is squemish the thought of a woman without a forearm would be much more graphic then the children. The EQ i would like to refer to this article "Does evil or fear lead one to the following; experience of violence, infliction of violence and/or observation of violence" and it leads to all of these as the fear or the genocide is what makes the tutsi keep these bodies preserved for future generations and the evil in the hearts of the hutu extremists lead them to kill many many people.

Rwanda Genocide

In the article "Children of Rwanda's Genocide" published by the new york times, you are told of the Genocide in Rwanda and how the whole world wanted to turn a blind eye to it. The author tells us how more then 500,000 of the Tutsi a minority in Rwanda were killed by the Hutu extremists. The use of pictures was what was used to convey imagery as the text is not to descriptive but rather informative, there is however a case where they describe the children combing through garbage so that they can continue to live. The author is conveying a sense of darkness by telling us how 125,000 people are in jail for their crimes or how the world refused to consider the murders in Rwanda a genocide but let it be merely a civil war. It also tells us statistics such as how 90% of children in Rwanda have seen massacres and 86% had lost at least one family member from the massacres in Rwanda. The story keeps going from facts to a more descriptive wording, it is also biased against the governments of the world for not sooner acknowledging the crisis in Rwanda and merely dismissing it. The thing that impacted me the most in the article was the astonishing numbers of people killed as well as the governments negligence. The shocked me because we say it is human to help others and care and yet many leaders of the world refused to help the Tutsi who were being slaughtered at a rate of 5000 a day and merely turned a blind eye to the situation.

response

You have selected good points to show how power corrupts MB. I like how you define your concept and you begin to show what he was like prior. I would develop this area a bit more and then you can show more how the power has corrupted him.You also mention he is insane. How do you define insane? Was Mb really insane or just extremely power hungry and a leader who murdered many. be sure to explain all your terms. Overall well said.

EQ for Macbeth

How does power corrupt??

Power is something we all seek in one way or another. Whether it is power in a relationship or power over people we all seek power and depending on the person power can corrupt them. In the play Macbeth you see many good examples as to how power corrupts and the aftermath. One good example is Macbeth himself, in the story he has the power of knowing what is going to happen in the future. He meets the witches and they say "Hail to thee Thane of Cawdor" and tell him "[he] [shall] be King.." neither of which he was and even though they had told him he would be he did not believe them until he was told that he had been made the Thane of Cawdor. Knowing what else the witches had said he used the power of "knowing" and killed the King. The power of knowing corrupted him because before hand he never would have killed the King and this began his insanity and the corruption caused by this power. Another way power corrupts is the second time he goes to see the witches and they tell him "Laugh to scorn the pow'r of man, for none of women born born shall harm Macbeth". The power in this case is once again knowing, or at least the belief that he "knows", from "knowing" that none of women born shall harm him he goes crazy and kills all of Macduffs family, knowing that no one could hurt him. Without a consequence he is given full power and this is what corrupts Macbeth.

Presentation questions.....

1) We chose to present ours as a video because it is easier to do it this way. Through skits you do have the ability to perform publicly but also it requires much more practice, planning, and rehearsing then just making a video out of it. We used the simpsons instead of the original macbeth characters so that children of our generation could more easily relate to the characters.

2) Our influences for this presentation were mainly television as well as our teachers. Through grade 10 we were taught to appeal to our audience, our audience is teenagers most who watch tv and shows such as the simpsons so using this method was nearly the most logical thing we could do.

3) Yes it was. Through most of my presentations we have not used actual clips of characters but we filmed ourselves and made that into a video.

4) This presentation was easier then other presentations as it took less practices and retries seeing as you cannot screw up something that was not done by a person multiple times. Getting someone to act something exactly right is much harder then using animation.

5) More on my private blog because it is easier I prefer to keep my work to myself more so then show everyone else, also using the class blog to post things makes it harder for others to find the homework so I do it out of courtesy for everyone else.

Metacognition Blogging

In this class we have taken a most unorthodox path to our learning. Straying from the traditional paper and pencil path, we have chosen to use the internet and blogs in order to post our assignments. Although it is very convient to be able to look back on your homework in such an organized way this method does lack some qualities such as in depth class discussions. Although the information is always there for us to look back on, it is impossible to ask a computer for anymore information than what it knows, meaning that the only group discussions we can have are those that we already posted, no more no less. The unit we are currently doing is Macbeth, we are learning to decipher the meaning of the book and put it into a more modern form so that we may understand it better. Although the internet is handy for somethings it is not good for imaginative ideas thus the learning is somewhat strained as there is a lack of class human relation and the only thing we have to rely on is the cold hearless words written on the blogs themselves. The internet overall has had a negitive impact on my learning seeing as most of the information is used over and over again and it is hard to ask questions to a vacant screen. The class activites we have done have a much greater impact on my learning but in a positive way. By communicating with my classmates face to face we are able to continually produce new ideas and compare the old ones to the new ones. By talking in class we are given the chance to ask questions of one another with a almost immiediate answer, unlike through blogging which again has only a limited source of information. For instance in class we were told to answer an esstential question using one of the acts. My partner and I chose to use Act1 scene3 and answer the question "What is integrity". Although it was still blogging I had a classmate there to help me formulate ideas and build on them instead of just having to look at the examples of other students, which for the most part were either very hard to follow or had nothing to do with my piece. Another way I make sense of Macbeth or of the other stories was by thinking about them very carefully and reading between the lines. Although the short stories were very simple to follow Macbeth was not. The internet provided some videos but they were very hard to follow as it was extremely hard for me to go back and read again so that I could make sense of it. The book was much better and much easier to follow. Looking back on my previous projects my progress and growth as a learner has not been very high. Although the experience was somewhat fun it was very hard to follow and thus left me confused with many questions as I am not very good with computers. My goals for next term are to simply do better, build a better understanding of our next novel and learn to ask more questions so that I am not left confused with only a computer screen to help me. Although some of my work has been strong("what is integrity") many of my pieces on this blog have been very weak and uninteresting("what am I learning", what do I desire most...."). I unfortunately only see this helping me next term as a source of error, although we learn through our mistakes the amount of mistakes on this blog is fairly disgusting and I will use this to teach myself to become more attentive so that next term I may do better.

What I am learning

In our english class we are currently learning about Macbeth and how some of the questions you may relate to it relate to our present day situation. We have learnt alot not only through Ms.Caldwell's teaching but also through these blogs. I understand much of Macbeth because the whole class has been blogging about it making it easier to see not only my view on it but also the whole classes making it much easier for me to form my own opinions by looking at the examples of my classmates.