This film consists of a speech by Arundhati Roy (hailing from India, she is one of the foremost voices of anti-imperialist thought) that took place months after September 11th, prior to the Iraq War, and a moving collage of images and video clips, contributed by an anonymous author.  The result is at most compelling, if not revolutionary; and at least, free.  You can watch it here:
http://www.weroy.org/watch.shtml

This article is a response to those who found Al Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth" to be relevant.  While I don't mean to undervalue the importance

Are there readings for this week!? I don't see any listed for week 8....

Here's a program that should be useful in completing your projects.

FreeMind

Here's a sample:

Let me know what you think of it. I'll also keep looking for more tools.

I'm having trouble with setting up a concept map for my project. I understand the overall concept of a concept map, but the specifics... are escaping me at the moment. Were there any suggestions or specific tips anyone can give me?

Class will be starting at 6:00 pm today due to the Academic Fair.

I thought this article was an interesting contrast in language style to the stuff we usually read.

Vice Magazine: Toxicities

 

Speech Codes, the AHA, and Academic Double Standards

Though often well-intended, speech codes have proved to be detrimental to the academic freedom that is the hallmark of liberal education. So why are codes still so prominent in higher education?

It seems like only yesterday that American institutions of higher education began imposing “speech codes” and related policies on students, faculty, and staff. But twenty years have now passed since the speech code movement erupted in the late 1980s. So it is a good time to assess the status of this movement and its implications for higher education.

note: I know this should be obvious but I do not necessarily endorse anything I post as super-awesome or even "good."

Racial discourse, hate speech, and political correctness

When men open doors for women, they often say with a smile, "I know this is not politically correct but...." The request by groups that the literary canon be expanded to include the works of people of color and women has been denominated an example of political correctness. Efforts to diversify faculty also meet the political correctness charge, and concerns about pornography, hate speech, and sexual harassment are tarred by the same politically correct brush. The now broad usage of the phrase makes succinct characterization problematic, but in general the most serious charge of political correctness is an accusation that one espouses a cramped, narrow orthodoxy, or worse, censorship of free expression. At the extremes, critics of "political correctness" include charges of authoritarianism.

so i was thinking about what i had said in class last week about how freedom doesn't mean anything to me and the whole concept had been bastardized by bush and his overuse/misuse of the word so i decided to do some googling to try to figure out exactly what they did mean by freedom and i came across this which i thought might be interesting to some folks as its a linguistic analysis of bush's second inaugural speech. let me know what you think, do you agree with her? also, a quote from goethe: "None are so hopelessly enslaved as those who falsely believe they are free."

I really enjoyed the articles and the class discussion on the subjet of social framing. I found through the discussions that Framing is both negative and positive. I was in the Prison discussion group and I was amazed at the amount of froaming that was brought from the global to the near personal level, for me. I had no idea the range and how complex the thinking has to be to accomplish the end goal of the framing projects that are taken on in politics. This was very eye opening for me.