http://ricwmst.forummotion.com/media-artifact-f13/-t1.htm What are they saying in the media? Wed, 01 Apr 2009 19:34:11 GMT 10 http://members.cox.net/histeria/riclogosmall.jpg http://ricwmst.forummotion.com/media-artifact-f13/-t1.htm http://ricwmst.forummotion.com/media-artifact-f13/women-as-perpetrators-in-nazi-germany-t152.htm amelikian "Revealed: Women's Role in Nazi Crimes" German historian Kathrin Kompisch released a book in February called Female Perpetrators: Women Under National Socialism with the purpose of revealing the secret history of the role of German women in perpetrating violence against targeted groups during the Holocaust. Kompisch explains in this article with the Telegraph that the history of Nazism in Germany largely focused on placing the blame on men as the sole perpetrators because ... Media Artifact Tue, 10 Mar 2009 23:28:44 GMT http://ricwmst.forummotion.com/media-artifact-f13/women-as-perpetrators-in-nazi-germany-t152.htm#864 http://ricwmst.forummotion.com/media-artifact-f13/women-as-perpetrators-in-nazi-germany-t152.htm http://ricwmst.forummotion.com/media-artifact-f13/the-legacy-of-chernobyl-t154.htm dread6354 http://inmotion.magnumphotos.com/essay/chernobyl [PLEASE GO TO THIS SITE AND PLAY THE SMALL MOVIE, IT EXPLAINS EVERYTHING] http://www.kiddofspeed.com/chapter1.html[center] http://www.belarusguide.com/chernobyl1/chfacts.htm My media artifact is about the Chernobyl Nuclear disaster that occurred April 1986. I think this relates to our class because the upper government of the Soviet Union hid the truth about what was happening, how bad the contamination was, and how to survive. They hid ... Media Artifact Fri, 13 Mar 2009 19:01:28 GMT http://ricwmst.forummotion.com/media-artifact-f13/the-legacy-of-chernobyl-t154.htm#880 http://ricwmst.forummotion.com/media-artifact-f13/the-legacy-of-chernobyl-t154.htm http://ricwmst.forummotion.com/media-artifact-f13/meryl-streep-in-sophie-s-choice-t194.htm erenaud82 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYQjsbn4KCM I decided to post this harrowing clip as my media artifact for three reasons: 1. we mentioned it briefly in class one week when discussing 'choiceless choices'; 2. the scene, for me, epitomizes the dehumanization and degradation suffered by victims of the Holocaust, Jewish or no; and 3. Streep's performance in this film is often considered one of the greatest screen performances in the history of motion pictures, and this scene is the 'selling point' ... Media Artifact Wed, 01 Apr 2009 19:34:11 GMT http://ricwmst.forummotion.com/media-artifact-f13/meryl-streep-in-sophie-s-choice-t194.htm#1178 http://ricwmst.forummotion.com/media-artifact-f13/meryl-streep-in-sophie-s-choice-t194.htm http://ricwmst.forummotion.com/media-artifact-f13/sylvia-plath-reads-daddy-t147.htm hrobinson I chose this poem to post for a few reasons. Sylvia Plath wrote this poem and read it on the BBC radio shortly before committing suicide. She was born in 1932. Many of her poems are considered "confessional poetry". This poem isn't blatant because she transforms herself into a Jew and her father into a Nazi. She describes her father and herself equating the characters to the Holocaust. She tries to get the reader to understand the oppressor/oppressed dynamic that she and her father ... Media Artifact Thu, 05 Mar 2009 23:49:11 GMT http://ricwmst.forummotion.com/media-artifact-f13/sylvia-plath-reads-daddy-t147.htm#838 http://ricwmst.forummotion.com/media-artifact-f13/sylvia-plath-reads-daddy-t147.htm http://ricwmst.forummotion.com/media-artifact-f13/darfur-is-dying-t149.htm kroy While I was searching for a media artifact online, I came across a game that people can play that shows and explains the crisis in Darfur. I found this to be a very interesting and it is put forth by MTV. They are in partnership with Reebok Human Rights Foundation and the International Human Rights Group. “This is an unprecedented competition bringing together student technology and activism to help stop the genocide in Darfur.” I think this is a great way to bring people together for ... Media Artifact Mon, 09 Mar 2009 16:39:48 GMT http://ricwmst.forummotion.com/media-artifact-f13/darfur-is-dying-t149.htm#853 http://ricwmst.forummotion.com/media-artifact-f13/darfur-is-dying-t149.htm http://ricwmst.forummotion.com/media-artifact-f13/so-you-think-you-can-dance-artifact-t139.htm abeaulieu_1847 That is a dance done by the top six of season two of So You Think You Can Dance. I am a dancer and dance is very important to me. When you dance you feel through your dance and I think this number shows what the performers are feeling very well. I think that through dance many pieces, especially this one, can say a lot in one number. Dance is a way of helping people deal with emotions and in this dance it shows. Notice in the beginnig when the dancers have their hands on each others shoulder. ... Media Artifact Sun, 01 Mar 2009 18:55:51 GMT http://ricwmst.forummotion.com/media-artifact-f13/so-you-think-you-can-dance-artifact-t139.htm#745 http://ricwmst.forummotion.com/media-artifact-f13/so-you-think-you-can-dance-artifact-t139.htm http://ricwmst.forummotion.com/media-artifact-f13/should-the-holocaust-be-taught-in-grade-school-t158.htm jmoorby http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/16/world/europe/16france.html?_r=1&scp=11&sq=holocaust&st=cse The article that interested me spoke of whether it was apprpriate to teach the lessons of the Holocaust in grade school. In this case it was fifth graders in the country of France. President Nicolas Sarkozy revised the school curriculum in that he wanted every fifth grader to learn the lifestory of one french child who was killed by the Nazis. It was relevant to me because recently ... Media Artifact Tue, 17 Mar 2009 00:25:46 GMT http://ricwmst.forummotion.com/media-artifact-f13/should-the-holocaust-be-taught-in-grade-school-t158.htm#904 http://ricwmst.forummotion.com/media-artifact-f13/should-the-holocaust-be-taught-in-grade-school-t158.htm http://ricwmst.forummotion.com/media-artifact-f13/a-bishops-denial-t176.htm rozyfromoz Link here Editorial: Bishop Williamson’s denial 01:00 AM EST on Saturday, February 21, 2009 It was with surprise and dismay that much of the West — Catholic and otherwise — greeted Pope Benedict XVI’s decision to lift the excommunication of a Holocaust-denying bishop, Richard Williamson. Pope John Paul II had excommunicated Bishop Williamson, a Briton, and three other bishops belonging to the controversial Society of St. Pius X in 1988. They had been made bishops without Vatican ... Media Artifact Sat, 21 Mar 2009 15:00:03 GMT http://ricwmst.forummotion.com/media-artifact-f13/a-bishops-denial-t176.htm#989 http://ricwmst.forummotion.com/media-artifact-f13/a-bishops-denial-t176.htm http://ricwmst.forummotion.com/media-artifact-f13/zanne-farbstein-s-story-t169.htm efecteau_4447 I watched a short video on a woman Holocaust survivor. Her name is Zanne Farbstein and she was the youngest of three sisters who were on a train going to Auschwitz. There were another 1,000 women on this train and on March 22nd they would be the first Jews to arrive at Auschwitz. Birkenau was not even completed according to the poles when she and her sisters arrived. Zanne lived for three years in Auschwitz with the knowledge and fear that she knew she was going to die. She said that was the ... Media Artifact Thu, 19 Mar 2009 18:10:47 GMT http://ricwmst.forummotion.com/media-artifact-f13/zanne-farbstein-s-story-t169.htm#967 http://ricwmst.forummotion.com/media-artifact-f13/zanne-farbstein-s-story-t169.htm http://ricwmst.forummotion.com/media-artifact-f13/leona-antonio-on-dr-death-t171.htm efecteau_4447 http://video.nytimes.com/video/2009/02/04/world/1231547084511/nazi-doctor-s-egyptian-escape.html?scp=1&sq=nazi&st=cse (I am using Eamon Fecteau's login because there is something wrong with mine). Dr. . Aribert Ferdinand Hein, an elite SS officer and doctor at several concentration camps, was known as “Dr. Death” to the inmates of Mauthausen. Dr. Heim was similar to Dr. Mengele in that he enjoyed using his victims in gruesome experiments. He performed operations on ... Media Artifact Thu, 19 Mar 2009 19:27:32 GMT http://ricwmst.forummotion.com/media-artifact-f13/leona-antonio-on-dr-death-t171.htm#974 http://ricwmst.forummotion.com/media-artifact-f13/leona-antonio-on-dr-death-t171.htm http://ricwmst.forummotion.com/media-artifact-f13/picture-is-worth-a-thousand-words-t168.htm bbert_4538 http://i89.servimg.com/u/f89/13/69/35/80/shoes11.jpg This photograph is from a Holocaust Art Exhibit at the University of Florida. It is titled "Memorial Art at Auschwitz--One small section of the "mountain" of shoes on display at the camp." The picture shows an extremely small piece of the wall of shoes that exists. The shoes represent one pair for each person that was murdered at Auschwitz. I chose to use this as my artifact because I think that in some cases photographs ... Media Artifact Thu, 19 Mar 2009 16:54:53 GMT http://ricwmst.forummotion.com/media-artifact-f13/picture-is-worth-a-thousand-words-t168.htm#966 http://ricwmst.forummotion.com/media-artifact-f13/picture-is-worth-a-thousand-words-t168.htm http://ricwmst.forummotion.com/media-artifact-f13/dc-fixing-hate-crimes-t167.htm dantonetti The video discusses first on how D.C. cops did not help solve any hate crimes. In the video it discusses statitics in Virginia report a large amount of hate crimes then D.C. only had two. The police officers are taken part in a seminar on giving awareness to the community and to teach cops that homosexual people are not giving enough attention to hate crimes. This is a new form of community policing to help make their jobs more efficent. This has been going on for five years now and the success ... Media Artifact Thu, 19 Mar 2009 16:41:15 GMT http://ricwmst.forummotion.com/media-artifact-f13/dc-fixing-hate-crimes-t167.htm#965 http://ricwmst.forummotion.com/media-artifact-f13/dc-fixing-hate-crimes-t167.htm http://ricwmst.forummotion.com/media-artifact-f13/police-brutality-goes-unpunished-amadou-diallo-t170.htm kclavette http://cagle.msnbc.com/news/diallo/diallogifs/dialloracialprofilingkirk.jpg Amadou Bailo Diallo (September 2, 1975 – February 4, 1999) A 23-year-old immigrant to New York City from Guinea worked legally via temporary United States visa selling gloves, purses, etc on the streets of the city. Traveling much of his life, he went to New York to save up and pursue a college education, after his prior education in Guinea, London, and Microsoft's Asian Institute. On February 4, 1999, four ... Media Artifact Thu, 19 Mar 2009 18:32:56 GMT http://ricwmst.forummotion.com/media-artifact-f13/police-brutality-goes-unpunished-amadou-diallo-t170.htm#969 http://ricwmst.forummotion.com/media-artifact-f13/police-brutality-goes-unpunished-amadou-diallo-t170.htm http://ricwmst.forummotion.com/media-artifact-f13/alive-with-the-glory-of-love-t165.htm eowen I have yet to hear a song about the Holocaust until Say Anything’s Alive With the Glory of Love.This song is an interesting take on love with in the Holocaust. Although it does not talk about their survival I think this song reflects what many Jewish poeple went through during this time. The song speaks to the idea that their love is a form of resistance. The idea of hope, companionship and love for another has been seen as motivation to survive camps thought history. I also think the biblical ... Media Artifact Thu, 19 Mar 2009 13:32:13 GMT http://ricwmst.forummotion.com/media-artifact-f13/alive-with-the-glory-of-love-t165.htm#960 http://ricwmst.forummotion.com/media-artifact-f13/alive-with-the-glory-of-love-t165.htm http://ricwmst.forummotion.com/media-artifact-f13/a-little-known-feminist-movement-t148.htm Gianna526 I am writing my final Seminar paper on women’s resistance movements in Afghanistan, particularly during the Taliban regime. In my research, I came across this website: www.rawa.org RAWA, (the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan) was founded in 1977 while Afghanistan was under Soviet occupation. The founder, known as Meena, has become a symbol of women’s liberation all over the Middle East, but especially in Afghanistan. She started her career in social activism ... Media Artifact Fri, 06 Mar 2009 17:08:22 GMT http://ricwmst.forummotion.com/media-artifact-f13/a-little-known-feminist-movement-t148.htm#847 http://ricwmst.forummotion.com/media-artifact-f13/a-little-known-feminist-movement-t148.htm http://ricwmst.forummotion.com/media-artifact-f13/examples-of-artifact-t134.htm spatterson blog from last year. You'll find some great examples here.]]> Media Artifact Thu, 26 Feb 2009 22:08:04 GMT http://ricwmst.forummotion.com/media-artifact-f13/examples-of-artifact-t134.htm#711 http://ricwmst.forummotion.com/media-artifact-f13/examples-of-artifact-t134.htm http://ricwmst.forummotion.com/media-artifact-f13/in-hungary-roma-get-art-show-not-a-hug-t132.htm spatterson from The New York Times A show of contemporary Romany art just closed on Sunday here at the National Gallery, Hungary’s grandest museum. The exhibition was the latest nod to Europe’s most despised, and this country’s largest, minority. It came and went uneventfully, which itself was an event, considering the rise this autumn of the Hungarian Guard, a right-wing extremist group, which has made much news dressing up in paramilitary outfits recalling the Nazi era, ranting about ... Media Artifact Thu, 26 Feb 2009 17:07:34 GMT http://ricwmst.forummotion.com/media-artifact-f13/in-hungary-roma-get-art-show-not-a-hug-t132.htm#700 http://ricwmst.forummotion.com/media-artifact-f13/in-hungary-roma-get-art-show-not-a-hug-t132.htm