Week of 03/16
PLEASE READ CAREFULLY
FOR FRIDAY'S MEETING
PERIOD 2 - READ - CH 12 - Kosovo: A Dog and a Fight
Kosovo: A Dog and a Fight
1. Who were the targeted people in the genocide?
2. What were the effects of the Albanian settlement in Kosovo?
3. What did the US do in response to the massacre of thousands of Kosovo Albanians?
4. Why did the Albanians retaliate?
5. Under what circumstances did Milosevic surrender after the NATO bombing?
6. Who was Wesley C. Clark and why was he important?
7. What began to happen as the West was more familiarized with the atrocities happening in Kosovo?
8. What was Operation Horseshoe? Was NATO to blame for this?
9. Why were there so many questions about this being a genocide? What did Milosevic do to hide these atrocities committed?
10. Why was autonomy so important to the Albanians in Kosovo?
PERIOD 3 - READ CH 9 - Bosnia: No More than Witnesses at a Funeral
Guided Reading Questions for Bosnia:
1. Should a country be allowed to secede even if the population has a large populus of the country they are seceding from? (Croatia and Serbia)
2. Why did the EC take more of a protective stance in regards to Bosnia?
3. Does the use of the terms ethnic cleansing instead of genocide change the publics reaction to these events?
4. How accurate is the Holocaust metaphor? Why did it get the conflict so much attention?
5. Should the public have been as responsive to refugee testimonies as it was to photos coming from the concentration camps?
6. Is the threat of “another Vietnam” enough to deter military action?
7. Why did some people consider what was going on in Bosnia a civil war, not a genocide?
8. Why did three diplomats leave the State Department in one month in 1993?
9. What did McCloskey realize about Clinton after their encounter at the fund-raising dinner in Washington?
10. Why did the US government avoid using the term “genocide” when referring to Bosnia?
11. What were some of Eagleburger’s recommendations for action to be taken against the Serbs?
12. Where did the US send humanitarian aid instead of Serbia?
MAD
Final Assessment
Due – June 5, 2015
William Proxmire (D – Wisconsin):
Responsible, respected, prestigious supporters of the treaty rarely discuss it. When they do discuss it, they talk about it in factual, low key, unemotional, reasonable terms. This doesn’t excite anyone. The overwhelming majority of Americans agree with the treaty’s supporters but they aren’t excited about it. They are not moved emotionally. They rarely listen. So what’s the result? We go home to our States. The only time we hear the Genocide Treaty brought up, it’s brought up by intense, bitter people who know the treaty only through what they read in Liberty Lobby’s Spotlight or some publication of the John Birch Society.
After spending a semester arguing:
Who is responsible?
What is our responsibility?
How is this our fight?
At what cost?
Your final assessment is one in which you take action!
While I am not trying to turn you into intense bitter, individuals, I do want you to become individuals that make an impact.
Your generation – Generation Z – is characterized as multi-tasking whizzes that are lazy, unaware and apathetic. You are less engaged in politics, have short attention spans and don’t care about weighty issues that confront your generation, the nation and the world; you’re more interested in technology and celebrities than your communities and school.
You are to find an issue/problem/organization that you have an interest in and that you feel the rest of us NEED TO KNOW ABOUT. Look at the local level, national level, or even the international level. The goal is to expose your classmates, student body and of course me to something we should care about or at the very least know about.
You will present your findings to your classmates and perhaps the student body on June 1, 2015.
In addition to being graded on your presentation you will create flyers/brochures about your topic for distribution. But Most Importantly – YOU WILL TAKE ACTION!
Seniors – please note you will present on June 1st.
This is an individual project and there are to be no two projects that are the same.
FCW – Rock n Roll and History
DUE - May 28th
You will select 6 songs that cover a historical event/theme.
All the songs must be burned onto a CD or a CLOUD based sharing system additionally you will submit the lyrics to each of the songs.
You will present your topic and one of the songs you analyzed and explain its historical significance.
You will submit a 2 page paper describing the historical event/theme covered by the songs you have selected as well as provide analysis of the songs selected.
Identify the artist and when the songs were written
Your presentation will be graded on its content, organization, your speaking skills and eye contact –when presenting your song you will have the lyrics on the overhead
Southern Cone
Salvador Allende was the first freely elected Marxist leader………..Two years later the Allende Marxist Government was overthrown in a CIA backed military coup……. In an effort to raise public consciousness about what had happened in Chile …….organized an event called An Evening with Salvador Allende, held on May 9, 1974 …………2,279 persons who disappeared during the military government were killed for political reasons or as a result of political violence, and approximately 31,947 tortured....................... Pinochet's name will forever be linked to the Desaparicidos the Caravan of Death, and the institutionalized torture that took place in the Villa Grimaldi complex……………….. The Human Rights Now! Tour wasn’t permitted into Chile in 1988. Two years later, after General Pinochet was gone, a special Amnesty concert took place in Chile to celebrate the restoration of human rights….. young people were taken from their homes and murdered because of their views…. Mothers wanted to know where the bodies of their children and husbands were……….their form of protest …..dance outside of government buildings, a traditional dance normally done with a man and a women…would dance with an invisible partner…..
Victor Jara - words by Adrian Mitchell, music by Arlo Guthrie
Victor Jara of Chile
Lived like a shooting star
He fought for the people of Chile
With his songs and his guitar
His hands were gentle, his hands were strong
Victor Jara was a peasant
He worked from a few years old
He sat upon his father's plow
And watched the earth unfold
His hands were gentle, his hands were strong
Now when the neighbors had a wedding
Or one of their children died
His mother sang all night for them
With Victor by her side
His hands were gentle, his hands were strong
He grew up to be a fighter
Against the people's wrongs
He listened to their grief and joy
And turned them into songs
His hands were gentle, his hands were strong
He sang about the copper miners
And those who worked the land
He sang about the factory workers
And they knew he was their man
His hands were gentle, his hands were strong
He campaigned for Allende
Working night and day
He sang "Take hold of your brothers hand
You know the future begins today"
His hands were gentle, his hands were strong
Then the generals seized Chile
They arrested Victor then
They caged him in a stadium
With five-thousand frightened men
His hands were gentle, his hands were strong
Victor stood in the stadium
His voice was brave and strong
And he sang for his fellow prisoners
Till the guards cut short his song
His hands were gentle, his hands were strong
They broke the bones in both his hands
They beat him on the head
They tore him with electric shocks
And then they shot him dead
His hands were gentle, his hands were strong
Repeat first verse
They Dance Alone - Sting
Why are there women here dancing on their own?
Why is there this sadness in their eyes?
Why are the soldiers here
Their faces fixed like stone?
I can't see what it is that they dispise
They're dancing with the missing
They're dancing with the dead
They dance with the invisible ones
Their anguish is unsaid
They're dancing with their fathers
They're dancing with their sons
They're dancing with their husbands
They dance alone They dance alone
It's the only form of protest they're allowed
I've seen their silent faces scream so loud
If they were to speak these words they'd go missing too
Another woman on a torture table what else can they do
They're dancing with the missing
They're dancing with the dead
They dance with the invisible ones
Their anguish is unsaid
They're dancing with their fathers
They're dancing with their sons
They're dancing with their husbands
They dance alone They dance alone
One day we'll dance on their graves
One day we'll sing our freedom
One day we'll laugh in our joy
And we'll dance
One day we'll dance on their graves
One day we'll sing our freedom
One day we'll laugh in our joy
And we'll dance
Ellas danzan con los desaparecidos
Ellas danzan con los muertos
Ellas danzan con amores invisibles
Ellas danzan con silenciosa angustia
Danzan con sus pardres
Danzan con sus hijos
Danzan con sus esposos
Ellas danzan solas
Danzan solas
Hey Mr. Pinochet
You've sown a bitter crop
It's foreign money that supports you
One day the money's going to stop
No wages for your torturers
No budget for your guns
Can you think of your own mother
Dancin' with her invisible son
They're dancing with the missing
They're dancing with the dead
They dance with the invisible ones
They're anguish is unsaid
They're dancing with their fathers
They're dancing with their sons
They're dancing with their husbands
They dance alone
They dance alone
Mothers of the Disappeared – U2
Midnight, our sons and daughters
Were cut down and taken from us.
Hear their heartbeat
We hear their heartbeat.
In the wind we hear their laughter
In the rain we see their tears.
Hear their heartbeat, we hear their heartbeat.
Night hangs like a prisoner
Stretched over black and blue.
Hear their heartbeats
We hear their heartbeats.
In the trees our sons stand naked
Through the walls our daughter cry
See their tears in the rainfall.