Blog 7

In the article “The Issue – Rwandan schools bear the weight of history: news”published in TES Global Limited, author Jackson Twagirayezu describes how being a teacher at a Rwanda  school can extremely difficult and uncontrollable at times, but it is on the path to success. The article starts off with the author explaining imagine what it would be like if your parents, brothers or sisters had committed genocide. Teachers, including the author found it very difficult to teach this subject. The reason the teachers struggled teaching this disturbing subject was because they to overcome their own nightmares and grief from what happened in 1994. Therefore genocide was not taught for a while in Rwanda schools for the reason of personal issues with the teachers that had to go through it. In 2007 a debate took place on the issue of genocide and how it should be handled in schools in Rwanda. They only teach genocide between the ages of 11-14 for certain reasons of maturity. The author tells how teachers had to be careful with the subject and not go into detail about the events that took place. It is important in the culture that the kids do learn and acknowledge genocide, but to an extent.

 


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This article is hard to understand and had to do research on the subject "genocide" before actually typing this blog. I can see where it is a disturbing subject to teach to kid who in my opinion aren't mature enough to fully understand the subject of genocide. Teachers in Rwanda have it a lot harder then other teachers I my eye's. They have to know exactly what they are talking about when it comes to genocide I understand and agree that the kids do need to know about what happened in 1994, just like our kids need to know about 9/11 or the wars that took place in 20th century. I  would personally find it very difficult to be a student and having to learn about genocide.

Blog Post 6

In the article, “TV Star’s Plastic-Surgery Disaster Tests Brazil” published by Time Magazine, the author who is anonymous talks about how a TV star got put into the hospital for the destruction that happened to her after her plastic surgery. Urach was an ugly ducking before she started getting plastic surgery, then she turned into a Brazilian beauty. When she was 27, she was getting a surgery done on her thighs, when all of a sudden she went into septic shock and was placed on life support. After that tragic event took place in her life, she started to wonder about the risk women will take to achieve beauty. A 39 year old women lost her life to injections into her buttocks. Brazilian women are now thinking these surgery's are adrenaline rushes for some women. People are now using untested materials, methods as long with unlicensed practitioners. Going into the facts about Brazil and plastic surgery, Brazil surpassed the U.S. in surgery's with 1.5 million surgery's in 2013. Urach said that with these plastic surgery's happening in our everyday life, that it will more than likely affect the Brazilians go about their lifestyle. 

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I think this article is an eye opener for a lot of people that are receiving plastic surgery. People look at celebrities and think that they got all these operations done to there body, so why can't I. People shouldn't have to spend millions of dollars so they can look beautiful or whatever it is that they are going for. i believe plastic surgery is a joke and should only be used if the person has been injured. I don't know why people care so much about what other people think of them. Brazil in my eye's is the problem when it comes to celebrities and from celebrities down to our youth today. The youth today see's people with big breast or a nose job and think that they will look like that if they have the surgery done to them.