Who Are You Online?

1. What do you think it means to be “real” or “fake”?
That if your real identity is out there or the fake person you have created online or in any other social networking account.

2. Do you think it’s easier for people to be “fake” online than in real life? Why or why not?
I personally think that if you expose your real information your are going to be certain with the people you are sharing information with because it is something important that only you should know.

Answer the following questions based on the video...
1. Ramon talks about how some people exaggerate or seem very different online than in person. How do you explain these differences between their online and in-person personas?
They are different than they are in the computer or how you interacted with the person, by knowing the person in real life you will determine how the person is or if they are different than how they said.

2. Are there risks for creating an online presence that is very different than the offline one? Are there benefits?
Well, Im assuming that if you are very protective on your information then you shouldn't expose it in the internet. I think there are beniefits because if something bad were to happen then you wouldnt risk as much you would if you had given your personal information.

3. What are other reasons why people might feel they can act in ways online that they wouldn’t act offline?
Because, for example, you would feel open to a person you are talking to online than you would if you were with them in real life. You are most likely to talk in the internet than in real life.

REVIEW the Key Vocabulary words anonymous and inhibited...
4. Are there any benefits to being anonymous or being less inhibited online?
Yes, because you can hide all your personal information or not expose it to the peoploe that surf the internet .

5. Are there risks involved with being anonymous or less inhibited online?
Yes, because you are willing to put stuff in the internet that in real life you do not do. People will try and critisize you for who you are trying to be.

How was the Rwandan genocide carried out?

1) How long did the Rwandan genocide last?
The Rwandan Genocide lasted for one hundred days
2) Approximately how many people were killed during this time?
Nearly one million people were killed
3) What were the Interhamwe? What did this word mean?
or “those who fight together” had trained prior to the start of the genocide
4) What made the general Hutu civilians (the non-trained group) believe they had to kill Tutsis?
they believed they had to kill them first before they get killed.
5) What happened to Hutus who refused to kill or protected Tutsis?
Hutus who refused to kill or attempted to hide Tutsis were killed as well.
6) What role did radio play in the genocide?
 A nation crazed with fear and desperation heard repeated broadcasts labeling the Tutsi as “cockroaches” and “devils.”
7) What role did the US play in this genocide? How do you think they should have responded?
 The United States refused, stating that it was too expensive and would be against people’s right to free speech. I think they should have helped them because alot of women, men, and children were killed during this genocide.

What are the origins of the Tutsi-Hutu conflict?

1. What percentage of the population do the Tutsis make up? The Hutus? Who owns the majority of the land?
Tutsis Tutsis make up about 15 percent of Rwanda's population

2. How did the Belgians show favor toward the Tutsis?
they were helping them recieve taxes, they were also helping them economically

3. Why were identification cards later used for? How is this connected to the Holocaust?
to determine the people that were sent to a death camp and they were killed.
. If you were a freed slave or an indentured labourer in Mauritius, you had to carry a Card.

4. When did Hutus gain political power?
used ethnic tensions to preserve his own power. Hutu radicals, working with his group (and later against it), co-opted the Hamitic hypothesis, portraying the Tutsi as outsiders, invaders, and oppressors of Rwanda

5. Write two facts about the country of Rwanda.
Rwanda experienced Africa's worst genocide in modern times
atleasty 8000 tutsis have been brutally massacred during this time.

Understanding Genocide

Answer the following questions -
1) Define genocide.
The word 'genocide' was coined in 1944 to name a particularly shocking and horrific crime of violence which it was then believed could never happen again

2) List and DESCRIBE (2 sentences each) at least 2 seeds of genocide.
+During the Holocoust when hitler was anahilating all the jews from the earth.
+NATIONALITY/IDENTITY
3) There have been 8 genocides noted. List what countries they occurred in.
 1904 NAMIBIA
1915 ARMENIA
1932 UKRAINE
the HOLOCAUST
1975 CAMBODIA
1982 GUATEMALA
1994 RWANDA
4) NOT ON THIS WEBSITE - In what country is a current genocide occurring?
Sudan, East Africa

Rwanda Genocide

1. Describe the roles (jobs) between the Hutu and Tutsi group.

    Most of the Rwandan population belong to the Hutu ethnic group,Tutsis tended to be landowners and Hutus the people who worked the land;

2. What effect did the European colonists have on them?
     European colonial powers also introduced modern weapons and modern methods of waging war.  Missionaries, too, came from Europe, bringing a new political twist: the church taught the Hutu to see themselves as oppressed, and so helped to inspire revolution.

3. What is the RPF? What group created it?

1990 RPF rebels seized the moment and attacked: civil war began.
They were preparing soldiers to their rebellion!

4. When was the Rwandan president killed? What were Hutu civillians told to do as a result?

On April 6 1994 the plane carrying Rwanda's president was shot down, almost certainly the work of an extremist. The Tutsis were accused of killing the president, and Hutu civilians were told, by radio and word of mouth, that it was their duty to wipe the Tutsis out.

5. What method was used to communicate the plan of genocide against the Tutsis?
The State provided Hutu Power's supporting organisation; politicians, officials, intellectuals and professional soldiers deliberately incited (and where necessary bribed) the killers to do their work. they were improvising in weapons or other things.

Mara Salvatrucha Background Information

1. In 1-2 sentences, describe the origins/history of Mara Salvatrucha.
They were originally founded in Los Angeles CA, they were then organized in El Salvador.
They are a gang that want Revenge from life and kill people brutally beating them.

2. How has deportation of illegal immigrants contributed to the growing numbers of Mara Salvatrucha?
The people or Members that got arrested and deported then recruit and make a bigger piece of that gang.
People that have been deported also get mad and they release a rage together that runs the streets filled with blood and dead bodies.

3. Discuss TWO of the publicized crimes. What happened? What was the effect
The girl who they mentioned was killed because she ionformed the FBI about some of the Activivities that they did as a Gang.

Week 4 Vocabulary Synonyms, Images, and Sentences

2) Construct - Make, build, create

under 300 men constructed one of the tallest city buildings in "San Diego''

                                                                

1) Identify - Recognize, spot, name

we had to identify a quick image for every vocabulary word we have.

3) Significant - Important, major, noteworthy

the picture in the cover of the aluminum fallacet is important to the owner because if not it would of been beaten up :)