Current event: afghan women and the return of the taliban
1. "Afghan Women and the Return of the Taliban"
2. Author- Aryn Baker
3. Time Magazine (link to the article at the bottom of this)
4. July 29th 2010
5. Aisha was 18 years old when she was punished for running away from her abusive in-laws. The Taliban took her to a clearing near her village and cut off her ears and nose and left her to die on the side of a mountain. Luckily she didnt and she now lives in the somewhat safe Kabul after getting care from U.S. forces. Now she sits numbly, listening to the news on a small radio. The only think makes her react emotionally is news of the Afghan government considering accomodating to the Taliban. "They are the people that did this to me" she says, touching the jagged bridge of scarred flesh and bone where her nose used to be.
Unfortunately that is exactly what the government wants to do, and there have already been talks of negotiations. The main issue on everyones mind seems to be an exit strategy for the war. Everyone seems to agree that some sacrifices will have to be made if the war is to end soon, but the question is who will have to make the sacrifices? The women of Afghanistan fear that it will be them.
6. A possible solution would be trying to completely get rid of the Taliban and perhaps put most of them in jail for their terrible crimes. The article talked about a program about re-integrating low-level Taliban members, which sounded sort of good. However, the article also metioned it would be like putting people who were ordered and carried out Aisha's punishment back into society without having to account for their actions.
7. Unsurprisingly there is evidence of bias, in fact I think I'd be more surprised if there wasn't bias. Anyway one example is the whole article only talks about the bad things the Taliban did and not much about perhaps the reasoning behind their actions. Also the article talks a lot about womens rights and how if the international forces leave the women in Afghanistan could be put in a lot of danger and their situation could become distorous.
8. A significant event in this article would be when Aisha's face was disfigured because the article talks about that a bit and starts off with it. A significant people would be the Taliban because the whole article is about all the horrible things the Taliban have been doing to women and women's rights.
9. I would relate this to the Holocause and WW2 because the Taliban reminds me of the Nazi's and how they restricted the rights of Jews and did horrible crimes to them.
LINK- http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2007238,00.html
2. Author- Aryn Baker
3. Time Magazine (link to the article at the bottom of this)
4. July 29th 2010
5. Aisha was 18 years old when she was punished for running away from her abusive in-laws. The Taliban took her to a clearing near her village and cut off her ears and nose and left her to die on the side of a mountain. Luckily she didnt and she now lives in the somewhat safe Kabul after getting care from U.S. forces. Now she sits numbly, listening to the news on a small radio. The only think makes her react emotionally is news of the Afghan government considering accomodating to the Taliban. "They are the people that did this to me" she says, touching the jagged bridge of scarred flesh and bone where her nose used to be.
Unfortunately that is exactly what the government wants to do, and there have already been talks of negotiations. The main issue on everyones mind seems to be an exit strategy for the war. Everyone seems to agree that some sacrifices will have to be made if the war is to end soon, but the question is who will have to make the sacrifices? The women of Afghanistan fear that it will be them.
6. A possible solution would be trying to completely get rid of the Taliban and perhaps put most of them in jail for their terrible crimes. The article talked about a program about re-integrating low-level Taliban members, which sounded sort of good. However, the article also metioned it would be like putting people who were ordered and carried out Aisha's punishment back into society without having to account for their actions.
7. Unsurprisingly there is evidence of bias, in fact I think I'd be more surprised if there wasn't bias. Anyway one example is the whole article only talks about the bad things the Taliban did and not much about perhaps the reasoning behind their actions. Also the article talks a lot about womens rights and how if the international forces leave the women in Afghanistan could be put in a lot of danger and their situation could become distorous.
8. A significant event in this article would be when Aisha's face was disfigured because the article talks about that a bit and starts off with it. A significant people would be the Taliban because the whole article is about all the horrible things the Taliban have been doing to women and women's rights.
9. I would relate this to the Holocause and WW2 because the Taliban reminds me of the Nazi's and how they restricted the rights of Jews and did horrible crimes to them.
LINK- http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2007238,00.html
current event: children orphaned because of japan tsunami
1. "Plight of Japan's 'tsunami orphans' "
2.Kyung Lah, CNN
3. website: www.CNN.com http://www.cnn.com/search/?query=japan%20orphans&sortBy=date
4. June 7 2011
5. A tsunami hit Japan on MArch 11th leaving many children orphaned and homeless. Even three months after the disaster Japan is still counting the number of orphans. In the beginning there were many donaitons coming in across the globe to help Japan out. Unfortunately the donations have severly dwindled as the world forgot about Japan and the tsunami. A group of Japanese children oprhaned by the tsunami are going to New York to ask for donations and that the world not forget that Japan is still rebuilding and needs still lots of help.
6. I think the children going to New York is a good solution. I think they should continue to raise international awareness about the damage Japan still has to repare.
7. There is a little evidence of bias, but you can hardly blame the author. For example, they put a lot of quotes from this one orphan, Sayaka Sugawara , I think to like make you feel bad/sympathy and connect to the orphan because you're reading her own words. Also the whole article has a very sympathetic tone.
8. The orphan Sayaka Sugawara was very significant throughout the whole article. The whole thing has a lot of quotes from her and is sort of based around her story of survival.
9. I think I'd relate this to the Holocaust because it was a story about survival and the Holocaust was horrible like the tsunami and people tell survival stories about both.
2.Kyung Lah, CNN
3. website: www.CNN.com http://www.cnn.com/search/?query=japan%20orphans&sortBy=date
4. June 7 2011
5. A tsunami hit Japan on MArch 11th leaving many children orphaned and homeless. Even three months after the disaster Japan is still counting the number of orphans. In the beginning there were many donaitons coming in across the globe to help Japan out. Unfortunately the donations have severly dwindled as the world forgot about Japan and the tsunami. A group of Japanese children oprhaned by the tsunami are going to New York to ask for donations and that the world not forget that Japan is still rebuilding and needs still lots of help.
6. I think the children going to New York is a good solution. I think they should continue to raise international awareness about the damage Japan still has to repare.
7. There is a little evidence of bias, but you can hardly blame the author. For example, they put a lot of quotes from this one orphan, Sayaka Sugawara , I think to like make you feel bad/sympathy and connect to the orphan because you're reading her own words. Also the whole article has a very sympathetic tone.
8. The orphan Sayaka Sugawara was very significant throughout the whole article. The whole thing has a lot of quotes from her and is sort of based around her story of survival.
9. I think I'd relate this to the Holocaust because it was a story about survival and the Holocaust was horrible like the tsunami and people tell survival stories about both.