10/29/10

Today we took a quiz on God Grew Tired of Us and worked on our projects

Starting Our Magazines

Today we started working with our partners on our magazine articles.  Tasha and I have the refugee camps, which will be kinda interesting.

Finishing Up God Grew Tired of Us

Today we finished watching the movie.  In the end John reunited with his mother and sister.  Every ended up doing something good for the world. Panther wants to start a school in Sudan and John Bul Dou started a medical clinic.  Daniel is still attending college.  After it ended we talked about Manute Bol.  He was a basketball player and humanitarian.

Notes on The Lost Boys of the Sudan

Today in class we watched God Grew Tired Of Us.  Heres some of the notes on it:

• The boys were told that they can't travel in groups
• after a year the boys miss their friends and families back in Africa
• Some of them enroll in college
• One of them learns some of his family is still alive in Uganda
• One of the boys is missing and found 2 days later and was pronounced mentally unstable
• They all go somewhere to reunite with people from Sudan that went all over the country

We also went over our definitions, summary, and paragraph about the Sudanese War.

The Civil War of Sudan

The Civil War of Sudan started in 1983 and ended in 2005.  It was the second war they had.  It was located in Southern Sudan.  It was one of the longest and deadliest wars in the later part of the 20th century.  About 1.9 million civilians were killed and 4 million southerners were forced out of their country.  The fight was between the southern non-Arab populations and the government.  The war started because some of the states wanted to overthrow the Sudan Government.  They wanted to put in its place an opposition group.  Sudan has two major cultures.  They are Arab and African American.  So this caused major opposition between the two groups.  Most of the Northern parts of Sudan (cover most of Sudan) are Arab speaking Muslims.  The southern region had no independence and was neglected seriously.  A Peace Agreement was signed in the end on January 9, 2005.  It said that the south will have freedom for six years, followed by a referendum on secession, they will merge their armies together to make a strong army if referendum doesn't work out, money from the oilfields is to be split evenly, jobs split according to varying ratios, and Islamic laws remain in the north and they get to make up their own in the south.  That is the The Second Sudanese Civil War.

Info:
http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/Second_Sudanese_Civil_War
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/war/sudan.htm
http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/5424.htm

Definitions For God Grew Tired of Us

• In-migration- to move into or come to live in a region or community especially as part of a large-scale and continuing movement of population (http://mw1.m-w.com/)
• Out-migration-  to leave one region or community in order to settle in another especially as part of a large-scale and continuing movement of population (http://mw1.m-w.com/)
• Forced migration- refers to the coerced movement of a person or persons away from their home or home region
• Net Internal Migration- crossing into a country or state and staying there for a long time
• Movers from abroad- movers from a foreign country
• Internally Displaced Person-  someone who is forced to flee their home but who, unlike a refugee, remains within their country's borders (http://www.wikipedia.org/)

Summary of The Lost Boys of the Sudan

We started when the guys were on the plane.  They were fascinated by the electricity and our way of life.  When they got to their apartment someone had to explain how to use everything.  They had to learn how to use a light switch, a refrigerator, a trashcan, a sink, and a bathroom.  They were shocked that they didn't have to share a bed; that they only had to share a room.  Then they went to the grocery store.  They had to ask someone who worked there what everything was.  They were excited about everything they saw.  They were also very upset to think about the people they left behind.  When they got there the US government had to pay for everything: the apartment, food, clothes, and all their living expenses.  After 3 months though they have to get a job and be able to support their selves.  Buy the sixth month they have to be paying the government back for their flight to get to the United States.  The person that I saw on the video had two jobs. One at a factory and one at McDonald's.  That is where we left off in the movie.