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This article, published in Time Magazine 2 years ago, is an overview of the different methods school boards and administrators have used with the goal of creating more diverse schools (high school) . It starts by discussing the most recent try, with two school districts trying to get the O.K. to choose which school a student would attend based on their race, which was of course shot down. Other approaches in the past have been basing admission on socio-economic status (low-income, free/reduced lunch need, etc.), trying to advertise certain schools to certain types of students and families, letting parents choose, etc. Some of these methods have had good results, but no single way completely keeps a diverse environment in existence.
This article covers diversity in an educational aspect. The administrators WANT greater diversity in classrooms because they say students learn better in more diverse areas. The author is pretty non-biased; the article is probably also a subtle way to get parents to maybe make a better choice on where they send their kids to school. If many people read this article, I really think it would have some affect on parents and their choice of schools. I also think that if more intelligent high school students read this, they may understand a better meaning of why their classrooms are set up the way they are. This is important because it really addresses a big problem. This isn't as much of an issues in smaller cities as I'm sure it would be in a heavily populated area.
I think it's very important that students learn in a diverse problem, but it is EXTREMELY hard to decide if and how they should be divided. It would be unfair to say that they should be dispersed by race, but I have a feeling it would work. But, of course, this would be extremely bad, because students have the choice to go to the school of their choice, if they qualify. Overall, I just think this is a good article that opens some eyes to this issue that they maybe hadn't considered before.
Monday, December 14, 2009
Thursday, December 3, 2009
song analysis
lyrics HERE
song: GUANTANAMO
artist: wookiefoot
genre: reggae
Nobody knows how it goes in guantanamo
Terror level orange fear fall like dominoes
Leap but not looking let's jump geranamo
Nobody knows what goes in guantanamo
Machiaveli Machiaveli then i found a quite compelling
Story that the Prince is telling now becoming foul smelling
Justified and over selling listen to your own gut feeling
Conscious screaming now it's yelling
Good's not dealt from dirty dealing
Machiaveli Machiaveli you can call us yellow belly
But from Bali to New Dehli people see what your revealing
See them rising from their kneeling
waking up from their unfeeling
Machiaveli's been dispelled by
trading vengence in for healing
Nobody knows how it goes in guantanamo
Terror level orange fear fall like dominoes
Leap but not looking let's jump geranamo
Nobody knows what goes in guantanamo
Ration the lies so international spies
can rise above the law
while we all close our eyes
Cold war, cold sores, hide behind the closed door
commit the crime that we all know that we would bomb them for
RELEASED WITHIN THE LAST 3 YEARS
The artist is talking about how Guantanamo is looked past by many people because they don't know the severity of what happens there. The treatment and laws that have been changed, they say, are bad and really, we're doing something that if any country did it, we'd be extremely upset with them. This song was written probably in 2006 or 2007, so it was right during the war that's still going on today, before President Obama was elected. You can tell that they are against the whole ordeal through certain words or phrases, which I have italicized above.
RESEARCH
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Guantanamo Bay is a prison on the island of Cuba, meant for detaining prisoners of war who are believed to have involvement with terrorist acts. They are allegedly being treated unfairly- intense ways of getting the prisoners to talk, pepper spray, poor conditions, etc. Also, they are being held there for an extended amount of time without any hopes of a fair trial or interrogation. They are basically being held without any basic rights, which any other prisoner in America would have.
Even before reading through these articles, I knew that this subject was a very controversial one. My mom talks about it a lot (she's actually the one who introduced me to this band!) , and tells me about whats been happening at this "prison."This SHOULD have an effect on every American, but many don't know whats happening. I'd like to think that everyone is opposed, in general, to this ordeal, but obviously people agree that it's just to hold prisoners without any rights. It is pretty intense, though, because these prisoners are being treated extremely unfairly. Imagine if another country was holding American soldiers as prisoners; we'd probably go over there and start a war just for that.
The good thing is, since this song was written, President Obama has been elected and almost immediately after, created something that will order the prison to close within a year, and to start treating the prisoners more fairly.
This song is written by a band who may never be heard by a large public, but I don't think that's why they wrote it. They play for whoever will listen to them, and for those people, it makes a difference. The lyrics are very intense and they make a lot of sense; they are speaking for all those people who agree, but don't know how to express their feelings about such a controversial topic. It also could very easily have opened many people's eyes to this controversy, as if they didn't know before listening; I knew nothing about this until I heard the song, so it mus tbe effective.
song: GUANTANAMO
artist: wookiefoot
genre: reggae
Nobody knows how it goes in guantanamo
Terror level orange fear fall like dominoes
Leap but not looking let's jump geranamo
Nobody knows what goes in guantanamo
Machiaveli Machiaveli then i found a quite compelling
Story that the Prince is telling now becoming foul smelling
Justified and over selling listen to your own gut feeling
Conscious screaming now it's yelling
Good's not dealt from dirty dealing
Machiaveli Machiaveli you can call us yellow belly
But from Bali to New Dehli people see what your revealing
See them rising from their kneeling
waking up from their unfeeling
Machiaveli's been dispelled by
trading vengence in for healing
Nobody knows how it goes in guantanamo
Terror level orange fear fall like dominoes
Leap but not looking let's jump geranamo
Nobody knows what goes in guantanamo
Ration the lies so international spies
can rise above the law
while we all close our eyes
Cold war, cold sores, hide behind the closed door
commit the crime that we all know that we would bomb them for
RELEASED WITHIN THE LAST 3 YEARS
The artist is talking about how Guantanamo is looked past by many people because they don't know the severity of what happens there. The treatment and laws that have been changed, they say, are bad and really, we're doing something that if any country did it, we'd be extremely upset with them. This song was written probably in 2006 or 2007, so it was right during the war that's still going on today, before President Obama was elected. You can tell that they are against the whole ordeal through certain words or phrases, which I have italicized above.
RESEARCH
link one
line two
Guantanamo Bay is a prison on the island of Cuba, meant for detaining prisoners of war who are believed to have involvement with terrorist acts. They are allegedly being treated unfairly- intense ways of getting the prisoners to talk, pepper spray, poor conditions, etc. Also, they are being held there for an extended amount of time without any hopes of a fair trial or interrogation. They are basically being held without any basic rights, which any other prisoner in America would have.
Even before reading through these articles, I knew that this subject was a very controversial one. My mom talks about it a lot (she's actually the one who introduced me to this band!) , and tells me about whats been happening at this "prison."This SHOULD have an effect on every American, but many don't know whats happening. I'd like to think that everyone is opposed, in general, to this ordeal, but obviously people agree that it's just to hold prisoners without any rights. It is pretty intense, though, because these prisoners are being treated extremely unfairly. Imagine if another country was holding American soldiers as prisoners; we'd probably go over there and start a war just for that.
The good thing is, since this song was written, President Obama has been elected and almost immediately after, created something that will order the prison to close within a year, and to start treating the prisoners more fairly.
This song is written by a band who may never be heard by a large public, but I don't think that's why they wrote it. They play for whoever will listen to them, and for those people, it makes a difference. The lyrics are very intense and they make a lot of sense; they are speaking for all those people who agree, but don't know how to express their feelings about such a controversial topic. It also could very easily have opened many people's eyes to this controversy, as if they didn't know before listening; I knew nothing about this until I heard the song, so it mus tbe effective.
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