Contacting Indigenous Populations

"In 2011, more than a hundred tribes around the world choose to reject contact with outsiders.

Many of them will be aware of the violence and disease which ravage isolated communities following contact. All have the opportunity to encounter the outside world but choose not to.

Until recent times, uncontacted peoples who succumbed to outsiders' diseases and violence simply disappeared. Today most of their lands are protected -- at least on paper -- and invasions of their lands are seen as a major human rights violation.

Survival continues to put pressure on governments and corporations to respect the rights of uncontacted and isolated peoples throughout the world." says the http://www.survivalinternational.org/goodnews.

If we start contacting these people they will have better medical treatment, will be able to preserve the land that they call home, and they will be able to have a better understanding of how to protect their human rights. Part of their human rights are to decided to not to be contacted again by humans yet at least they know their options. We want to help them grow and keep such a unique way of life alive and well. Some indigenous populations will want the help while others may not, yet as a society we cannot wonder what they are thinking and wanting, because we extended the "hand" and they just now need to take the support. 


An example of this can be the pilgrims and the indians of American. If the pilgrims didn't help the Indians one winter they would have possibly all died off. Yet, Indian culture of America is still preserved they have the opportunities just like the rest of the society. 

Indigenous People

http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/edumat/studyguides/indigenous.html 

Chomsky vs. Foucault Debate

After watching the well developed debate between Chomsky and Foucault I can came to the conclusion that Chomsky's ideas and Foucault's ideas are opposing of one another. Chomsky right away makes a clear thesis to his point of view by stating that, "the fundamental elements of human nature are the need for creative work, creative inquiry, free creation without the obituary effects of coercion institutions." This statement clearly explains his view and he immediately backs his idea up with supportive reasoning. After Chomsky makes his point, Foucault immediately explains that this cannot be the case. Foucault believes that the society is not a democracy and he says we are living under the dictatorship of class, that is imposed by violence. 

At times this argument was so deep that is was hard for me to comprehend everything the two men we saying, yet I could clearly tell that they had strong evidence to support each of the main points that they made and there reasoning for thinking this to be true. Both men also let each other talk, and they both listened with great intent before making their own next point. I think that this is why the argument was successfully and respectfully done.

Chris Jordan

Chris Jordan spoke over some shocking stats. He speaks slowly and explains every detail. I want to make sure I do this in my own presentation. He also has everything memorized and just uses the photos to spark his next main point. I appreciate the silence that he leaves so that the audience can think. Jordan's slow and study movements keeps my attention, yet isn't a distraction. 


I hope that I can take these good characteristics of his speech and add them into my speech so I can have a successful presentation.

The Voice Commercial

The Voice Super Bowl Ad 2012 featuring Cee Lo Green, Christina Aguilera, Blake Shelton, and Adam Levine. The TV show has a very neat sense of humor to show the audience what the show is all about. These four stars are looking for the best voice out there.

Homework Feedback

I feel as if assignment 2 for English 250 feedback was very negative. I understand that my summary was not exactly the professional level that Victor Santos is seeking yet I feel as if I have only seen things that went wrong in my paper and others in the classes paper. I guess I'm not at all the level of writing that I thought that I was. It's a complete disappointment and I got the assumption that everything that I did in my paper was a weakness, and I believe that now than ever I have no strengths when writing a paper.


I wish I had my old english professor so she could at least give me positive and constructive criticism so that I'm not afraid to ask questions and I'm not cut to the core saying my entire paper is a fail. As much as we are told that our paper was a disappointment the feedback seemed to meet the same level of that expectation. 

Impressions of Class

So Far I have truly enjoyed the English 250 cross cultural class. I have enjoyed the bases of the class and the book "Aims of Arguments". English 250 has been able to keep my interest a lot better than many of my other english classes I have had to take in my educational career. The free spirited feeling that is brought into this class really lets me to express my opinions, if the class was serious based I feel as if I would not freely express myself. My absolute favorite part of the class is all the diversity!! I have never had a class ever have so many different cultural backgrounds and I absolutely LOVE it! I am so excited to see how the rest of the semester unfolds.