PLEASE READ THIS PAGE CAREFULLY!! **I added material to LECTURE GUIDES Amazing Photography from Israel/Palestine Amazing Photo's from both Israeli and Palestian Photgraphers: please take a moment to review these heart wrenching and remarkable bravery! http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/23/showcase-68/ EXTRA CREDIT: podcast (choose one of two--not both) and write a reaction paper/response paper making connections to the material we covered in class. Do not recap the show...I chose them and am aware of what they are about! CHOICE # ONE (click title) This American Life Episode 322: Shouting Across the Divide A Muslim woman persuades her husband that their family would be happier if they left the West Bank and moved to America. They do, and things are good...until September 11. After that, the elementary school their daughter goes to begins using a textbook that says Muslims want to kill Christians. This and other stories of what happens when Muslims and non-Muslims try to communicate, and misfire. Prologue. In
the 1930s, the designer of the U.S. Supreme Court made a frieze to
adorn the courtroom walls. It depicted eighteen great lawgivers through
ages, including Moses, Solon, Confucius...and Muhammad. The only
problem is that Islam forbids such portrayals of the prophet. Host Ira
Glass talks to Ibrahim Hooper, spokesman for the Council on American-Islamic Relations, about why the frieze is offensive to Muslims, and what they tried to do about it. (7 minutes) Serry
and her husband's love story began in a place not usually associated
with romance: the West Bank. That was where the couple met, fell in
love and decided to get married. Then Serry, who was American,
convinced her Palestinian husband to move to America. She promised him
that in America their children would never encounter prejudice or
strife of any kind. But things didn't quite work out that way. This American Life contributor Alix Spiegel tells the story. (33 minutes) The
New York advertising agency where Shalom Auslander works got an
assignment from the State Department back in 2001: sell American values
to the Muslim world. Now they just have to figure out exactly what to
say to millions of people they know absolutely nothing about. Shalom is
the author of a book of stories called Beware of God. (15 minutes) OR CHOICE # TWO (CLICK TITLE) 204: 81 Words The story of how the American Psychiatric Association decided in 1973 that homosexuality was no longer a mental illness. Prologue. Host
Ira Glass explains that the show this week consists of one long story,
the story of something very small that was part of something very large
in the history of our country. (2 minutes) In
1973, the American Psychiatric Association (APA) declared that
homosexuality was not a disease simply by changing the 81-word
definition of sexual deviance in its own reference manual. It was a
change that attracted a lot of attention at the time, but the story of
what led up to that change is one that we hear today, from reporter
Alix Spiegel. Part one of Alix's story details the activities of a
closeted group of gay psychiatrists within the APA who met in secret
and called themselves the GAYPA ... and another, even more secret group
of gay psychiatrists among the political echelons of the APA. Alix's
own grandfather was among these psychiatrists, and the president-elect
of the APA at the time of the change. (24 minutes) Alix
Spiegel's story continues, with a man dressed in a Nixon mask called
Dr. Anonymous, and a pivotal encounter in a Hawaiian bar. (30 minutes)  |