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Current Events - Week of March 7 Please share a current events story ** OR ** your analysis of a political cartoon (your choice) for the week on this page. To add your post to this page, click the "Edit this page" button on the top right of the page, add your post, and then click "save." Be sure to refresh before typing and try not to type at the same time as someone else so you do not overwrite someone else's text. You are encouraged to comment on someone else's post. Please be sure to add your name before your comment and change the font color.

1. Article/story date: 2. News link (URL): 3. List three of the most important or compelling pieces of information for this story or article (in your own words): • •  •
 * News Stories -** this [|link] will be a helpful resource for locating current events articles about **Asia**.
 * Please copy and paste this template into the section next to your name below: **

4. Choose one of the following options (copy/paste only the option you choose): Option 1. Why is this story significant? How do the events in this story affect the people of this region or the rest of the world? Option 2. Ask thoughtful questions that you would like to explore further based on reading this article. Option 3. Include a quote that you found interesting in the article and discuss it.

1. Paste in cartoon and provide link (URL): 2. Choose one of the following six techniques used by the cartoonist and explain how the artist used this technique. Please identify which cartoon elements you're analyzing and make specific reference about how this element is used in the cartoon. (You do not need to copy/paste the table.) 3. What overall point do you think the cartoonist making? (Please write at least one complete sentence.)
 * Political cartoon -** these links ([|link 1], [|link 2], [|link 3]) may be a helpful resource for locating political cartoons - look for those connected to **Asia**.
 * **Symbols:** What objects are used as symbols? What do they symbolize? || **Caricature:** What features or expressions are exaggerated or distorted? What point does this make about the person/people? || **Exaggeration:** What objects or ideas are exaggerated? What point is made by exaggerating/distorting them? ||
 * **Stereotypes**: What generalizations are presented? How do these add to the point of the cartoon? || **Humor**: This could be a variety of things - often a play on words, using a famous line or slogan from another context, etc. || **Irony:** Does the cartoon present irony (what you would expect to be true is different from what is true)? If so, describe it and the point it makes. ||

Christina:

Corina:

Nate: [|http://cartoonbox.slate.com/static/37.html] This Cartoonist uses Irony in this Cartoon. He uses it in a way to show how the democracy movement that has been causing problems in the Middle East in moving into Asia and the Chinese are saying we don't take imports playing on the fact that china hugely just export there goods. The overall point of this cartoon is to show that China is not ready or willing to become a democracy yet.

Billy: **Bangladesh eyes $700m fund to help steady stock market:**  2. News link (URL): http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-12672384

3. List three of the most important or compelling pieces of information for this story or article (in your own words): *Backed by eight state financial institutions *Investors have been rioting for the past few months, Dhaka stock exchange lost 40% in value or in other words 16 billion dollars. *Before decline the Dhaka index was one of the best in the world raising 80% in 2010 

4. Choose one of the following options (copy/paste only the option you choose): Option 1. Why is this story significant? How do the events in this story affect the people of this region or the rest of the world? This story is important because Bangladesh is one of the world's most populated countries. It is key to some exports to the Americas and around the world. Now they are trying to make the stock market steady and heal the economy in the country.



Sean:

Carter: 1. Article/story date:

2. News link (URL): http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/08/business/global/08drought.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss

3. List three of the most important or compelling pieces of information for this story or article (in your own words): • Wheat is a huge crop that helps to feed the growing Chinese population • It has not rained for 50 days and this mix of snow and rain came at just the right time to save the spring wheat crop • It's the driest winter in 200 years in China.

4. Choose one of the following options (copy/paste only the option you choose): Option 1. Why is this story significant? How do the events in this story affect the people of this region or the rest of the world? This story is significant because when you have a massive population, you need a ton of food. If this wheat crop failed, China would have to import a huge amount of wheat and that would affect both the Chinese population and the rest of the world.

Molly:

**2. News link (URL):** [] • Muhammad Yunus was fired from the bank that he founded • The bank states that he was fired because he was working there illegally • Muhammad has received a Noble Peace Prize for the work he has done in lending money to the poor
 * 1. Article/story date: ** Bangladesh Resumes Grameen's Yunus Court Hearing, March 7
 * 3. List three of the most important or compelling pieces of information for this story or article (in your own words): **

I think that this story is significant because Mr. Yunus' work has benefited numerous poor families and allowed them to partake in higher quality lives. If Mr. Yunus is not permitted to continue his generous work to help the people of Bangladesh the country will be forced to revert to their impoverished lives.
 * 4. Option 1. Why is this story significant? How do the events in this story affect the people of this region or the rest of the world? **

Smythe: “China Imposes Tibet Travel Restrictions” March 8th, 2011 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-12673461


 * -**Top Chinese officials have restricted travel to Tibet by foreign tourists. Overcrowding and cold weather are their reasons for keeping travelers out of the country.
 * -**Two years ago in March, violent anti-China protests swept Tibet which was the worst turmoil there for twenty years. The riots started in Lhasa, the capital of Tibet, and spread to other western communities of China. China’s response was a vicious military crackdown. China says 18 people were killed, yet Tibetan rights groups contradict this statistic by saying about 140 people were killed.
 * -**This recent travel restriction in the same month as the 2008 riots reflects the sensitivity Chinese authorities still have over Tibet.

This story is significant because it highlights the continued tension between China and Tibet and resurfaces, in the words of the Dalai Lama, the “cultural genocide” that has been occurring in Tibet. In addition to foreign tourists, the Chinese does not allow foreign journalists clear and unhindered access to Tibet making it difficult for the outside world to know what is going on inside the country. By putting limitations on all foreign entrance, outside knowledge of Tibet is even more obstructed.
 * Option 1. Why is this story significant? How do the events in this story affect the people of this region or the rest of the world?**

Connor: 1. Paste in cartoon and provide link (URL):

http://0.tqn.com/d/politicalhumor/1/0/P/1/3/obama-asia-trip.jpg

2. Choose one of the following six techniques used by the cartoonist and explain how the artist used this technique. Please identify which cartoon elements you're analyzing and make specific reference about how this element is used in the cartoon. Exaggeration: What objects or ideas are exaggerated? What point is made by exaggerating/distorting them?

The cartoonist is using exaggeration to prove the point that the China plays a major role in the American economy. Obviously President Obama would not have to visit China just to check on the American economy. However, the cartoonist uses that “concept” to show that the two countries are closely related.

3. What overall point do you think the cartoonist making? (Please write at least one complete sentence.)

The cartoonist believes that America is not only heavily reliant on the Chinese economy, Americans, namely President Obama, are oblivious to the fact that that is at all an issue.

Josef: =China's intimidation of the foreign press 7 March 2011  = http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-12666701 3. List three of the most important or compelling pieces of information for this story or article (in your own words): • china's governments is afraid • there is a pressure on foreign journalist

• they are bother the personal freedom of journalists from whole world and the media has a huge power

4. Choose one of the following options (copy/paste only the option you choose):

Option 3. " Fears about the revolutions in the Arab world spreading here seem to have induced a state of paranoia in the internal security services." This is like amazing news. I am not sure that I understood right, but if it's mean that china's government is afraid of revolution, it's like huge chance to really do a revolution, because the fear is huge weapon and the people can be inspired by surrounded world. I am just not sure if they know what is happening in the rest of the world. But the communism is the same as Gaddafi or Mubbarack. So we will see what is going to happen.

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