Words

Geopolitics- Geopolitics is concerned with politics and the way that geography affects politics or relations between countries.

Genocide- Genocide is the deliberate murder of a whole community or race.

Colonialism- Colonialism is the practice by which a powerful; country directly controls less powerful countries and uses their resources to increase its own power and wealth.

Discrimination- Discrimination is the practice of treating one person or group of people less fairly or less well than other people or groups.

Apartheid-Apartheid was a political system in South-Africa in which people were divided into racial groups and kept apart by law.

Separating- If one thing is separate from another, there is a barrier, space, or division between them, so that they are clearly two things.

Propaganda- Propaganda is information, often inaccurate information which a political organization publishes or broadcasts in order to influence people.

Tribunal- A tribunal is a special court or committee that is appointed to deal with particular problems.

Refugee- refugees ate people who have been forced to leave their homes or their country, either because there is a war there or because of their political or religious beliefs.

Holocaust- A holocaust is an event in which there is a lot of destruction and many people are killed, especially one caused by war.

Nelson Mandela- Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela served as President of Africa from 1994 to 1999, and was the first South A frica president to be elected in fully representive democratic election. Before his presidency, Manela was an anti-apartheid activisr, and the leader of Umkhonto we Sizwe, the armed wing of the African National Congress. Following his release from prison on 11 February 1990, Mandela led his partyin th negotiations that led to multi-racial democracy in 1994. As president from 1994 to 1999, he frequently gave priority to reconciliaction, while introducing policied aimed at combating poverty and inequality in South Africa. In South Africa, Mandela is often known as Madiba, his Xhosa clan name or as tata. Mandela has received more 250 awards over four decades, including the 1993 Nobel Peace Prizes

Our Discussion

 Should we come to the aid of victims of genocide? 
-Genocide is general illegal obligation and we have to stop doing that, because they have human rights so we have to protect their human rights.

 Are we legally obligated to stop genocide?
-Genocide is general illegal obligation, so we have to stop genocide.

 Can we even afford to help those whose human rights are being violated in plain sight of the world?
-No, we can't. First of all, we weren't protect their human rights, so it doesn't make sense




United Nation does not have obligation.
genocide general illegal obligation

Class Blog(Monday)

We began our unit on geopolitics with a discussion of genocide, discrimination, colonialism, and apartheid, among other things, and we are to fill out the reverse side of the handout. we most talk about genocide and we also talk about Nelson Mandela.

Nelson Mandela
Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela served as President of Africa from 1994 to 1999, and was the first South A frica president to be elected in fully representive democratic election. Before his presidency, Manela was an anti-apartheid activisr, and the leader of Umkhonto we Sizwe, the armed wing of the African National Congress. Following his release from prison on 11 February 1990, Mandela led his partyin th negotiations that led to multi-racial democracy in 1994. As president from 1994 to 1999, he frequently gave priority to reconciliaction, while introducing policied aimed at combating poverty and inequality in South Africa. In South Africa, Mandela is often known as Madiba, his Xhosa clan name or as tata. Mandela has received more 250 awards over four decades, including the 1993 Nobel Peace Prizes

Friday's Class-Test

We have a test about each other country's culture on Friday's class.
I think that little bit hard, but easier than last test.
I believe that my test score going to be excellent.
I hope so.

Culture - some definitions

•         learned, shared behavior that is held in common by a group of people, empowering them with a "way of life"

•         systems of knowledge shared by a relatively large group of people

•         learned behavior of a group of people, generally considered to be the tradition of that people, transmitted from generation to generation

So many definitions, so much confusion

these definitions have a few things in common:

•         "groups of people"

•         "learned knowledge"

•         "shared behavior"

•         "held in common"

•         "traditions"

•         "transmitted from generation to generation"

What is learned, and how?

•         speech

•         religion

•         livelihood

•         value systems

•         technology

•         housing

•         foods

•         music

•         and on, and on, and on..

Let's narrow it down to a few elements

•         language

•         values, norms, and beliefs

•         social activity and interaction

•         arts and sciences

Language

•         a set of symbols used to assign and communicate meaning

•         spoken words

•         written symbols

•         these enable us to name or label the things in our world so we can think and communicate about them 

This is language.                              이것은 언어입니다.

 Este es el lenguaje.                   यह भाषा है.

   這是語言。                  Ceci est la langue.

(English, Korean, Spanish, Hindi, Chinese, French)

Values, norms, and beliefs

Values:

•         democracy

•         capitalism

•         education

Norms:

•         how society should conduct its business

•         how individuals in society should behave

•         norms have the "should" idea

•         what is "normal" ? 

Beliefs:

•         religion

•         faith

•         family

Social activity and interaction

groups, organizations, institutions

•         Ravens fans

•         the Republican Party

•         war veterans

•         German-Americans

•         the Lost Boys of Sudan

•         social studies teachers

•         the Methodist Church

•         marathon runners

•         the Directors Guild of America

•         Facebook members

Arts and sciences

literature

•         novels

•         poetry

•         plays

performing arts

•         dance

•         music

•         film, television

visual arts 

•         drawing

•         painting

•         photography

•         iconography

Video
I understand culture as a treasure that is a part of our collective memory, of our perception of ourselves.

Culture is us
We make it
We shape it as we love it to be

The more we know about the cultures of others, the more open minded tolerant and global we become.
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Our cultural traits, value and beliefs are different and diverse.

Culture Project.

Today, some students brought in food of their country.
So, we could eat some foods.
we can also heard about some groups presentation.
there are two country, United Kingdom and Brazil.
I taught that the United Kingdom is very interesting country, they have lots of sports, good religion, and very many excellent TV shows and films.
If i have a chance, I want to go to the United Kingdom.
I believe, the Korea presentation also will be interest.

Culture Project

Culture Project

Today, we start the Culture Project.
Mr. Schick gave each other country to us, South Korea, United Kingdom, Japan, China, United States, Saudi Arabia, Brazil, India, France.
My group's country is South Korea.
On this occasion, I want to spread out the nation of  Korea of my hometown.

Culture Discuss

We had a disscusion time about culture's definition of my opinion.
We heard seven students definition of the word "culture".
Most student's definition, the culture is different each other nation's religion, manner, arts, language...
and the culture is pass down among the generation. The culture also pass down to you.
My opinion about the "Culture Definition" is under the one nation, traditionally, they have been keeping their arts, letters, mannersm scholarly pursuits, religion and humanities. like different between the Korean and the United States.
then, constantly, they are creating their arts, letters, mannersm scholarly pursuits and humanities.

Video Assignment- Did you know?

Did you know?

 The part of the video, “Today’s 21-year-olds have Watched20,000 hours of TV” It is about 2years, “Today’s 21-year-olds have played 10,000 hours of video games” It is about one year, and “Today’s 21-year-olds have talked 10,000 hours on the phone” It is about one years. Definitely, the something like I.T  are very development and useful but I’m not sure that the electronic machines are useful unquestioningly. The 4-year-olds even used a computer more than 70%.  Although we need electronic machines for our convenient life, the electronic machine is very bad to our health. So I think about the using electronic machine is negative.

 But I’m positive about development something like I.T. We can search the information on the diverse websites. For example, there were more than 2,700,000,000 searches performed on Google. For that reason we can find more information and can be much smarter. We also sharing the information can be more convenient. And the internet is developing in our life, there are more than 540,000 words in the English language about five times as many as during Shakespeare’s time (widget, web-surfer, blog, e-learner, internet). So I think about the development Internet is positive.

 When I watched the video, I like this kind of we didn’t know about it. The video mostly deal with Internet and I.T. The first commercial text message was dent in December 1992 and the number of text message sent and received today. And while predictions further out than 15 years are hard to do 2049 a $1,000 computer will exceed the computing capabilities of the human race. Thus, the Internet and I.T are very developing in our life. So we should make good use the Internet and I.T in our class and studying. The John Carroll high school now are using  a laptop. Although we close to electronic machines, we should make good use the Internet for our class and studying. If we use the laptop well, we can expect good effect in our study.

Culture Definition

Culture Definition

 Culture is a term that has many different inter-related meanings.
 First, Excellence of taste in the fine arts and humanities, also known as high culture.
 Second, An integrated pattern of human knowledge, belief, and behavior that depends upon the capacity for symbolic thought and social learning.
 Third, The set of shared attitudes, values, goals, and practices that characterizes an institution, organization, or group.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture)

 Culture is the quality in a person or society that arises from a concern for what is regarded as excellent in arts, letters, manners, scholarly pursuits, etc.
(http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/culture)

 Then, my opinion about the "Culture Definition" is under the one nation, traditionally, they have been keeping their arts, letters, mannersm scholarly pursuits and humanities.
then, constantly, they are creating their arts, letters, mannersm scholarly pursuits and humanities
and they will be creating their arts, letters, manners, scholarly pursuits and humanities,
so the cultures represent their country to the another country and they also export their culture.
Culture is the systems of knowledge shared by a relatively large group of people.
Therefore, the culture is very important to the country, so we have to protect and we have to create our culture, we also study and understand our culture.