Letter Response

In this forum, students who asked questions will get responses from the story in the Handout. Students in this forum will respond to questions asked by students and impersonate as the person in the story. For other responses from other students, see the comments section of this post.
Here is your contribution to the forum: Letter to Tadashi Tei
Dear Tadashi,
Funny that you should ask about the government. I have to admit, the government is very cruel. So yes, I dislike their behavior. They came on various transportation: by car, by tanks, by horse, by camel, and on foot. There were so many casualties in the village. The militia group additionally burned our houses, and stole our food. We had nothing to survive the threat. Fortunately, I escaped - the battle was so terrible. Some girls and women were kidnapped; some were never seen again.
To answer your second question, the government-linked militia group attacked our village for food, our livestock, and our properties. Not only that, but the reason they attacked us is to terrify us. Maybe, they should also attack us to recruit more people in their army, acquire materials and weapons, and to expand their territory.
Finally, the relationship between our village and government, you ask, I believe that they are hostile. They just want to obtain more items for weapons, more food, and recruit more people into their army. They additionally wanted to terrorize us. The reason why they attack our village, I think I explained that before. It is just that I don't understand the government very much and they shouldn't attack any village at all. They should spend their taxes (In fact, the government has money, so why not spend them?) for the food, the weapons, and to recruit people into the army.
Thank you for asking Tadashi, this is what I believe.
Sincerely,
Mohammed

Nelson Mandela's Symbol

Nelson Mandela is a symbol of freedom. This mountain and the star represents freedom. In this website, Nelson Mandela stands in front of the snow covered mountains, and it conveys the symbol of freedom.

Selecting the Champion of Justice

Champion of Justice Ranks
1. Nelson Mandela
2. Nicanor Perlas
3. Walden Bello
Nelson Mandela is a Champion of Justice who has been elected president of the ANC, (African National Congress) at the first national conference at the ANC. Nelson was put on trial for betrayal of the country and was considered innocent in 1961. Nelson was sentenced to life imprisonment because he had overthrown the government by violence. While Nelson was in prison, his status grew; he was proudly accepted as the black leader of South Africa and he is a strong symbol (the symbol will be on Homework #4, if Nelson Mandela is selected to be my Champion of Justice) that represents fine resistance as the fine-apartheid movement gathered strength.
Source: "Nelson Mandela - Biography." Nobelprize.org. Web. 30 Nov. 2009. .

Marie: Shadow of the Lion Summary of Chapter 1-3

Marie is a very intelligent and courageous person. She is friends with Joseph and Agnes. Her teacher, Mr. Alazzar may be a mediocre teacher, but somehow, in another day, Mr. Alazzar vanished. When Marie and Joseph went to their home, Marie's parents reported her that the rebels are coming, and they have to hide from them for they were dangerous, and can kill people. Marie is scared because she and her parents have to escape the rebels and conceal themselves from killing them.
Martin Luther King made a speech declaring that everyone should be treated equally. That is why the black skin people may now enter US. Unfortunately, he was assassinated, but he is one of the most memorable person who declared that people should be treated equally according to the color of their skin.

Own Perspective on the Implicit Test

For my test, I took the Religion Implicit Test. The ranks of the religions are placed in a positive to negative scale. What I have learned was the other religions basic concepts. For instance, Abraham was the founder of Judaism and the Judaism is the religion of the Jews. This religion has its basis in the Bible and the Talmud. In Judaism, God is the creator of everything and the source of all goodness. (www.microsoftoffice.com)
My results:
Most positive on Christianity
Moderately positive on Islam
Partially positive on Judaism
Neutral/partially negative on Hinduism
Maybe the results were this way to indicate how well the person knows their religion. If they were fast on knowing their religion, that religion shall be considered most positive on their results graph. It may be biased in some way because the graph may not interpret the person exactly true, but close to what it gets.

Summary of Food Security Article One

This is a forum for discussion. You can see the other students' paragraph. You may compliment and criticize their paragraph. This is where you summarize the Food Security article. My paragraph is as shown below.
My article is from the World Food Programme; the programme is inviting students and people who want to be a film maker to create a video about world hunger through the international video competition, called "Hunger Bytes". According to Drew Barrymore, Ambassador Against Hunger, states that "Creativity and a desire to benefit the material, social, and spiritual welfare of humanity are a powerful combination to add in the video."

How Food Shapes our Cities

Write in a short paragraph explaining the video saw from Carolyn Steel and mention three pieces of evidence you collected from the video. Imagine you have one minute to explain the video.
My paragraph is as shown below.
In Carolyn Steel's introduction to the presentation, she first stated a question, "How do we feed a city?" She then states a that this is a question that is it occasionally asked. The video is basically about where food comes from, for instance, just like meat and chicken coming in from the north to London, from Scotland and Wales. (Carolyn states that animals enter the city) I have collected pieces of evidence from the video that there are approximately 7 billion carnivores (people) in the world. As plenty of meat is consumed, 19 million hectares of forest is destroyed each year, and 20 million hectares of existing arable is degraded. In addition, 1/2 of food produced in the U.S. is discarded. Carolyn also uses connections with different languages like "utopia for good place or no place" and "sitopia for food place". She believes that the world is a sitopia because we have plenty of food to produce and it is sufficient to feed the whole world, but the food is unequally distributed. In the slide that Carolyn used for what sitopia looks like looks very foundational because a food place shows a place that has food, whether cooking in a residence, in a restaurant, etc. Therefore I repeat what the the presentation is about like in the introduction, Carolyn talks about answering the question, "Where does food come from?" given with facts and statistics.