After you watch the video, answer the following questions:
- What did Damas Gisimba, Carl Wilkens, and Simon Weil Lipman value, and what risks did they take by holding onto their values?
- What values did the children of the orphanage demonstrate?
- As events unfolded, what were Damas Gisimba's concerns?
- What does it mean - as both Simone Weil Lipman and Damas Gisimba state - to "see the other as yourself?"
Think back to the incidents that took place during the Rwandan genocide:
- What role did the international community play during the genocide?
- Does the international community have the responsibility of assisting countries threatened by genocide?
- How can students get involved and make their voices heard against genocide? (For suggestions, visit www.ushmm.org/conscience/alert/students/)
Think about challenges you face in your everday life:
- Have you ever witnessed an incident by which a bystander took the responsibility of offering assistance to someone in need of help? What happened?
- When someone needs help, do bystanders have the responsibility to offer assistance? What do bystanders risk when they intervene and when they do not get involved?
At the end of the film, Damas Gisimba stated that hatred must be "banished" to make the world a peaceful place. Reflect on that and answer the following:
- What is "hatred?" When is it dangerous?
- What are examples of different forms of hatred in the global community?
- Can hatred be banished?
- What would it take to banish hatred?
- Whose responsibility is it to work to end hatred or to respond when hatred provokes violence?
What does it mean - as both Simone Weil Lipman and Damas Gisimba state - to "see the other as yourself?"
ResponderEliminarMeans to love the other one as much as you love yourself so that you can help that person as much as you will probably have done for you.
What is "hatred?" When is it dangerous?
Is the intense dislike. It is dangerous when you hurt others such as the case in Uganda and Hitler’s Arian pure Idea.
The international community did not do anything during the genocide in Rwanda. The United Nations, was supposed to be helping but as soon as everything started they abandon them.
Students can get envolved in groups that run to solve this kind of problematics in their own neighbor, through Internet coperation, by informing themselves (ignorante cant really help), knowing how to vote or following examples from other students in other parts of the World.
I have never experience a case where somebody needs asístanse, so I cant really say anything about but I do think that bystanders have the responsibility to act for human mores. When these last ones do not intervene, its not bad because its not what they are supposed to do but still have the chance to do something, you know?
2-What values did the children of the orphanage demonstrate? They demonstrated love, tolerance and union. The other people wanted to separate them into groups, discriminating them because they wil be killed, but the kids showed force and union and refused to be spilt into groups, showing the soldiers how we are all the same, humans, and not because you belong to a different group means you should be killed.
ResponderEliminarThink back to the incidents that took place during the Rwandan genocide:
1. What role did the international community play during the genocide? Some of them helped, like they said, some police were saving people but others were killing, so I think they were on both sides because some of the community really helped the orphanage.
2. Does the international community have the responsibility of assisting countries threatened by genocide? I think yes, because they are their people, their community, and they have to show union like the children in the orphanage, stay together and support eachother.
3. How can students get involved and make their voices heard against genocide? (For suggestions, visit www.ushmm.org/conscience/alert/students/)
I think first they can find out where are the places where genocide is happening, inform themselves to know the situation, then join gropus or communities that are against genocide, contact governments or improtant associations to let them hear what we have to say, let us help prevent genocide, or at least help the affected places with resources.
Think about challenges you face in your everday life:
1. Have you ever witnessed an incident by which a bystander took the responsibility of offering assistance to someone in need of help? What happened? Well, not big incidents, but for example when we were in Tucson, we were outside of Costco and this old lady suddenly fell on the sidewalk, and she stayed right there, my mom, my sister, and I watched, we inmmediatly went and help her, but as my mom doesn't know how to speak english we managed to ask the lady if she was ok and
everything. She bleed a little, but she was fine. And so, like little incidents on the street that people come and offer their help.
2. When someone needs help, do bystanders have the responsibility to offer assistance? What do bystanders risk when they intervene and when they do not get involved? That's when the Good Samaritan law gets in, you totally have the power to choose whether to help the person or not, but I think that it would be by obvious means to help someone if you see they are in trouble, to be gentle and nice. You're not obligated to help someone of you don't want to, but as you reach to help you risk your life because the person might not wanted to be helped by someone, or if it's a fight, you might get hurted. I think I've heard that if you see like an assault happening, and you
are the only witness, you can get punished or something, but that's just what I've heard.
At the end of the film, Damas Gisimba stated that hatred must be "banished" to make the world a peaceful place. Reflect on that and answer the following:
2-What are examples of different forms of hatred in the global community? The first thing that comes to my mind is racism. It still exists sadly, but in different forms, the most serious ones get to actually hating people that are different, not to tolerate them at any time. Of course there are still countries where they fight against eachother in the same communities like in the Gaza Strip, where they have been fighting all of this years and still not found a solution that not implies violence.
1.- What did Damas Gisimba, Carl Wilkens, and Simon Weil Lipman value, and what risks did they take by holding onto their values?
ResponderEliminarThey value, love itself, life on it’s all sense, to help the ones who needs. They risked their own lives and freedom, because at the time that they chose to follow their conscience they made a commitment with themselves, and there isn’t any worse war than the one that you struggle with yourself, and they kept their commitment until the end, even if they had to lose everything on their way to.
2.- What role did the international community play during the genocide?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_community
Well, I guess the international community that they referred to their group and that they wanted the genocide to stop.
3.- Does the international community have the responsibility of assisting countries threatened by genocide?
No, I mean, using as a reference to the definition, it isn’t an organization, it refers to a dominant group will and it does implies an obligation, it’s more a consciousness thing.
4.- How can students get involved and make their voices heard against genocide?
Join our community of conscience
• Sign up for our Genocide Prevention e-newsletter.
• Subscribe to the Voices on Genocide Prevention podcast.
Contact the media
• 2008 Genocide Prevention Op-Ed Writing Contest.
Communicate with decision makers about the need to provide humanitarian assistance, protect civilians, stop the violence, and promote solutions to the crises.
• United States government
• African Union
• European Union
• United Nations
5.- Have you ever witnessed an incident by which a bystander took the responsibility of offering assistance to someone in need of help? What happened?
No:/
6.- When someone needs help, do bystanders have the responsibility to offer assistance? What do bystanders risk when they intervene and when they do not get involved?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bystander_effect
They responsibility is in the air, and it gets to the one that feels it.
They risk the fact that they could make things worse or being sued.
What would it take to banish hatred?
I think it starts with discrimination and racism, and when it doesn’t exist any kind of respect or tolerance in the people’s values, then when the feeling can’t be controlled it’s when it becomes bigger and it can turn that serious to turn into hate.
It would take a long process of healing and puring humanity from all what it had to witness and lived, trying to make new generations grow with a clean environment, looking back to the past only to see what we’ve done and what we are going to do to improve it or make it better, not to remember or get involve with it again. Make a new culture, becoming more open to change and evolution, and above of everything making things with love and respect.
MARTES 17 DE MARZO DE 2009
ResponderEliminarPart 1
Part 1
As events unfolded, what were Damas Gisimba's concerns?
He was concern about the orphanatory, it's people and it's need such as food, water and their protection.
Part 2
What role did the international community play during the genocide?
in the video it mention us that there were no international comunity helping to end genocyde. They help because they cared about those people.
Does the international community have the responsibility of assisting countries threatened by genocide? yes because there are places who need a lot of help
How can students get involved and make their voices heard against genocide?by internet, newspaper television, telling what they feel about genocyde and acting to finish genocyde such as campaignes to help peolpe.
Part 3
Have you ever witnessed an incident by which a bystander took the responsibility of offering assistance to someone in need of help? What happened?
yes, a couple of years ago we were on our way to Agua Prieta when we saw that a bus crush and get alost destroyed.We saw some people hurt so we take them with us to the hospital in Agua Prieta and we called the ambulance and the police to let them know about the accident.
When someone needs help, do bystanders have the responsibility to offer assistance? What do bystanders risk when they intervene and when they do not get involved? well all of this is like ethical, if you want to help someone who needs it you will help him because you want to no because you being force.There could not be risks but in some cases like the one of the video they could be punished beacuse they help the people.
Part 4
What is "hatred?" When is it dangerous?
is an intense feeling of hostility towards a person.It's dangerous always because such a feeling of dislike could cause alot of trouble and of serious consecuences in some cases deaths.
majooo!! i loooved what u wrote about what the kids showed!.. yess i totally agree in the fact that they cant kill u or separate u just because you dont belong to thaat specific group! cmon!! everythng around was falling in pieces and this soldiers with their orders made by their feet just wanna comme to make out more meess!...
ResponderEliminarwow ..ppl such as the ones that raised the orphanage are real heroes..!
ANNE MURRAY :) dijo...
ResponderEliminarwoow!!.. yeaaah that part where you say that they could have been killed sounded too tough though i already knew... and i think it really sucks that people is being punished for helping others... IS JUST INSANE...!!..
I agree with all of them, there's no reason at all for killing someone, and I also think that the people that stand on their believes against everything, are heroes, although they just felt that here was something to do, and they did.
ResponderEliminar1.-What values did the children of the orphanage demonstrate?
ResponderEliminarThey where very united and didn't want to separate.
Think back to the incidents that took place during the Rwandan genocide:
1.-What role did the international community play during the genocide?
Some helped them because they cared of the kids.
2.-Does the international community have the responsibility of assisting countries threatened by genocide?
No, but they need it and they should help them.
3.-How can students get involved and make their voices heard against genocide? Communicate with the media, get informed and get with the decision makers and talk to them of the need to provide assistance.
Think about challenges you face in your everday life:
1.-Have you ever witnessed an incident by which a bystander took the responsibility of offering assistance to someone in need of help? What happened?
One time me and my mom where on our way home in the car, when we almost get home we saw how a man in a motorcycle hit with a stop sign and fall down, so my mom stop we get out the car and help him.
2.-When someone needs help, do bystanders have the responsibility to offer assistance? What do bystanders risk when they intervene and when they do not get involved?
It's your choice to help, and they can be some risk like if the guilty person run off and you stayed they could say you do it or something like that.
At the end of the film, Damas Gisimba stated that hatred must be "banished" to make the world a peaceful place.
Reflect on that and answer the following:
1.-Whose responsibility is it to work to end hatred or to respond when hatred provokes violence?
Maybe the police or someone like that, or the people they are being hatred.
I agree when they say its good to help but is your choice, it ethical. What these people do was saving kids that they weren't there resposability that is very good. When I can help someone I do it because that is what my parents teach me and I don't do it by force.
ResponderEliminarSet 4
ResponderEliminar(2) Can hatred be banished? (3) What would it take to banish hatred?
I think that not all of it but most of it, there wouldn't be a lot of troubles and deaths. If you feel this way, I would avoid this person so I wouldn't cause any trouble and move on with my life. Hang in there abd be tolerate.
Set 2
What role did the international community play during the genocide?
Basically, they wanted to stop genocide
Does the international community have the responsibility of assisting countries threatened by genocide?
Yes, they are involved in helping other and going to other places where they need help
How can students get involved and make their voices heard against genocide? (For suggestions, visit www.ushmm.org/conscience/alert/students/)
The most common source would be internet, also at school, newspapers, magazines, etc
Set 3
Have you ever witnessed an incident by which a bystander took the responsibility of offering assistance to someone in need of help? What happened?
Yes, I once saw how a person, driving his car, hitted a woman. We called an ambulance and we saw how every person who passed by the accident stopped and helped the woman
When someone needs help, do bystanders have the responsibility to offer assistance? What do bystanders risk when they intervene and when they do not get involved?
No one is forced to it, who can either help pr not, it is up to you
Dominique Aceves
I also agree with everyone about the fact that it is your choice to help a person or not, (ETHICAL).
ResponderEliminarAna cristina said about the values of the children, this really make me so like kind of sad but not, it is really sweet that all the children are together even though most of them don't know each other
dominique