One more time, just in case

Here are the guidelines for the Social Justice Statement.

This follows your Works Cited page. It is a synthesis of and reflection on your experiences and thinking-processes in this class.

In 1-2 double-spaced pages, answer these questions:

Without repeating yourself, how do you feel, as a critically thinking and informed student (and, now, with the completion of your SJ Doc Proj, as a historian!), about your topic?

How does it mesh with your other ideas, experiences, beliefs?

How is your topic, in your opinion, connected to other social justice issues we have addressed in class?

How are both your SJ Doc Proj and Research Paper contributions to history?

How are your ideas about the relationship between writing and social justice different after completing all this work?

What is your final, personal definition of Social Justice?

Presentations

Please keep it to 5 minutes.

Mon Dec 1
Huda
Lia
Sanel
May
plus a tech-test day for everyone

Wed Dec 3
Sapana
Razi
Ellie
Erik
Mehrnoosh

Fri Dec 5
Chintan
Jazmin
Christine
Connie
Janette
Jessica
(Huda)

Mon Dec 8
Fernando
Samantha
Marta
Vanessa
Derrick
Evie

Justice or Not

Hi everybody,

I found this video on Bosnian radio-web station which has video of prison riot in Guatemala.
The riot broke out between rival prison gangs and seven people got their heads cut off.
Video is censored so there wont be any blood, but there is something you have to see for yourself.

http://www.radiosarajevo.ba/#modt_h=action%3Anews%2Ckategorija%3A2&modr_h=action%3Anews%2Ckategorija%3A2&modm_h=action%3Anews%2Ckategorija%3A2%2Cid%3A11861&modl_h=action%3Anews%2Cid%3A11861


The second link is to news article at NY Times page about this incident.

http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/world/international-guatemala-prison.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

What will happen to the prison systems around the world when we can't afford to maintain them?
What kind of justice is achieved if people are put in jails where they can't be controlled or for that mater they can't feel secure?
What kind of thoughts go trough our heads when we see something like this happening?