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Sin Nombre
We watched Sin Nombre on October 5th, 2011! The movie centers on a girl named Sayra, a Honduran teenager trying to illegally immigrate to America to be with family in New Jersey. Most of the movie...
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Week 9 Lectures
Tuesday – Topics discussed included: More about how the Toulouse shootings are affecting the French elections A few years ago, the French banned the burka How Sarkozy doesn’t really like Turkey Nuclear...
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Lumumba
World Regions students in Spring 2012 gathered to watch Lumumba, a movie made in 2000 that is in French. It centers around the true story of the independence of the Democratic Republic of Congo, which...
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Week 11 Lectures
Tuesday – Topics discussed included: Boyer has a moustache! North Korea might be shooting a rocket into space AND doing an underground nuclear explosions test! Fighting in Syria has overlapped into...
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5 Days of War
This 2011 action film is really a piece of propaganda, but it’s a story about the Russians invading Georgia (the country, not the US state) in 2008. American journalist Thomas Anders is saved in Iraq...
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Rabbit Proof Fence
Another movie night, and this time we skipped over Blind Shaft and watched Rabbit Proof Fence instead! It was made in Australia, set in Australia, and it’s in English, so nobody had to pay attention...
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Week 13 Lectures
Tuesday – Topics discussed included: We’re getting close to the end of the school year! How to cheat in all your other classes Sudan and South Sudan are doing air strikes on each other How no one takes...
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Week 1 Lecture
Hello, Fall 2012! Your GEOG 1014 blog is back in action! World Regions kicked off once again for a new set of students, and after a fun first class, here’s what information was covered in the second...
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Week 3 Lecture
Week 3! There were Red Bulls under all the seats! Topics discussed in this lecture included: Nations, states, and nation-states, Part 2! What is sovereignty, and how do you get it? China rich! The UN –...
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Week 4 Lecture
Topics discussed in this lecture included: Protests in China and Japan over the Spratly Island dispute! And this whole conflict is going on because of national pride, and their location! Japan doesn’t...
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