Mr.Carlyle's Social Justice Blog

Assignment #4. Silence is Consent

mcarlyle — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 19:08:34 +0000

With respect to the reading “The cycle of Socialization” by Bobbie Haro, she writes when explaining how our actions affect predjudice and discrimination, that “our silence is our consent.” (pp 20).

What does the author mean? Explain using examples, possible find articles that speak on this.

Give an example of a time you remained silent. What could you have done instead? What kind of direction for change could you or would you employ in the future? (refer to the cycle of socialization article)

Assignment #3. Explore Human Rights Violations

mcarlyle — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 22:36:34 +0000

Explore current issues of human rights violations in the global sphere. Look through different watchdog organizations websites for information such as The United Nations, Amnesty International or UNICEF.

One website that would be a good place to start is3

http://www.amnestyusa.org/all-countries/page.do?id=1041024

Explore the different countries and the potential human rights violations that are occuring. Write a 250 word summary of an human rights issue and the violations that are taking place in one of these countries. Read each others blogs and comment on how we could help raise awareness on each others blog.

Blog Assignment #2. Bias and Media Literacy

mcarlyle — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 17:31:23 +0000

After discussing the growing importance of media literacy and understaning and identifying bias in our SJ class. I want you to examine a few websites about one of the most important and socially significant activists of the last 100 years. Martin Luther King Jr.

Visit the following websites and try to identify bias, facts and opinion. Answer the follow up questions below about the websites:

1. Does anything immediately come to mind about the website names or domains?

2. Did you find any biases in the websites? Explain how you figured this out.

3. If you were going to write a report on MLK jr. which website would you use? Why? What steps would you take in establishing what is fact and what is opinon?

4. Explain why media literacy is so important during these current times.

http://www.mlkonline.net/

www.martinlutherking.org

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther_King,_Jr.

Social Justice 12. First Blog Assignment. Critical Consciousness

mcarlyle — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 10:06:03 +0000

Paulo Freire created the concept of a “critical consciousness”. Explain what this concept means. (use the links below to help you create a defintion)

http://www.hermes-press.com/freire1.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_consciousness

Why do you think it is important for individuals living in both the developing and developed world to create a “critical consciousness”?

How does creating a “critical consciousness” within ourselves change our lives and our interactions with those around us?

1. Answer these two questions and comment on others answers from our class on each others blog.

This assignment is due monday.

New Social Justice Class Blogs!!!

mcarlyle — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 18:03:27 +0000

Wow everyone has started up their new blogs…. how exciting. This is going to be so much fun. I can’t wait for our first blog assignment on Friday!!!!!!!

Assignment #9. Toward a definition.

mcarlyle — Thu, 19 May 2011 19:23:33 +0000

The term Globalization is often defined in a multitude of ways with both positive and negative conclusions about its impact. One thing that we cannot argue is that our world is becoming more connected and globalization is not slowing down.
I want you you create your own unique definition of Globalization and whether you believe it is a positive or negative force. Obviously, you will be able to find aspects to support both sides of the argument, but choose one and explain why you believe it to be positive or negative.

Use the activities from class and the reading to help support your definition and viewpoint.

Assignment #8. Genders. Can our world have more than two?

mcarlyle — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 15:01:39 +0000

After our lengthy discussions and activities this week about what it means to be male and female in our society we realized how polarized and opposite our definitions of the male and female gender are. Problematic.

Instead, if you think about gender instead as a continuous line with our definitions of our socialized male and female at opposite ends and most of our qualities and who we are lie somewhere in between (think about how similar our questionnaires were).

So the question I pose for you is. What happens to an individual in our society if they fall in between? What about if your sex conflicts with your gender Identity?

Here is a start:

You may be familiar with this story if not check it out:

http://nbcsports.msnbc.com/id/34037724/ns/sports-olympic_sports/

What other stories can you find on gender identity issues? Maybe you know someone?

Think about how our roles are set by being male and female and what happens to someone in our society if they can’t identify with these roles.

What happens to them if their identitied sex (having XX or XY chromosomes) don’t match to their gender?

Conduct some research on gender identity disorder or gender identity problems, find a story about someone and share. Answer the above questions in your post. Take this idea where you want. we will be studying this next week.

Remember this blog assignment is due Sunday evening.

Assignment #7 Hate Crime Legislation

mcarlyle — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 19:43:51 +0000

One of the topics of legislation in BC lately is hate crimes especially toward sexual orientation targeted attacks.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/hatecrimes/

http://www.ctvbc.ctv.ca/servlet/an/local/CTVNews/20100430/bc_kandola_hate_crime_100430/20100430?hub=BritishColumbia

Examine one recent case of hate crime in BC and post a link to the case (or newsreport) and explain who was involved the outcome and the impact on the community involved (not necessarily the gay community). How does this effect the amounts of hate crimes that may take place?

Do you think that the recent hate crime legislation is important for equality? How does it lead to decrease the impact of violence and oppression for minority groups.

Read each others blogs and comment.

Assignment 5. Children’s rights…

mcarlyle — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 21:45:12 +0000

Answer the following in your Blog in a short paragraph.

Why is it important to fight for the rights of a child?

Identify one organization that supports the rights of children and is fighting to end the suffering endured by children in our world.

Describe the organization at it’s efforts. Provide a link for others to learn about this organization.

Comment on another blog and look up the organization they introduce. This blog will be due by the end of the weekend.

Assignment #3 Starting to Read blogs… Examining Perspectives and Contexts

mcarlyle — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 17:30:39 +0000

After our guest speaker, Linda, describing her experiences, I felt it would a good time to start to look at Blogs on the issue to see how perspectives effect our blogs messages. Below are numerous links to blogs that profess different perspectives on the situation in Gaza.

I want you to look at two of the blogs and create a post based on comparision in a multitude of ways.

Compare between two blogs:

What is the background of the Author? What would be their interest in this issue? Do they have a clear understood side in the issue? What is it? How does that effect the way they look at the issue?

Compare two blogs with the above task and then comment on another student in our class’s blog and share some insight into why blogs can be both a positive and negative source of information.

Israeli Perspective on what’s happening in Gaza

http://www.heatherrobinson.net/blog/2009/01/09/an-israeli-perspective-on-what%E2%80%99s-happening-in-gaza-%E2%80%9Cwe-are-doing-everything-in-our-power-not-to-hit-civilians%E2%80%9D/

A Blog by an American Blog writer, journalist and Forum Moderator

http://snuffysmithsblog.blogspot.com/2009/01/israels-behavior-toward-gaza-as-seen-by.html

A Jewish perspective on the Gaza situation

http://healtheland.wordpress.com/2007/06/26/jewish-perspective-on-the-gaza-crisis/

A diary of a Palestinian mother

http://a-mother-from-gaza.blogspot.com/

A Canadian perspective living in Gaza

http://ingaza.wordpress.com/

An American’s explanation of the inequalities

http://rosenblumtv.wordpress.com/2009/01/08/in-gaza/#comments