http://courseweb.hopkins.k12.mn.us/mod/resource/view.php?id=13385
Last year, CNN.com ran a hilarious TV marketing campaign, placing CNN's on-air talent in Spinal-Tappish situations. It's nice to see CNN let down their hair a little.
Here’s hoping we all let our hair down a little as well, before we get down preparing for the AP Test (s), 31 days away as of last Friday.
We will start Amanpour’s birthplace – E-Ran on Thursday. Attatched here are links to great review sites for both the Comparative and American Government tests. During the last two weeks of class, we will use the review format from the Hopkins High School (MN) site.
Go to: http://courseweb.hopkins.k12.mn.us/course/view.php?id=434
and focus on the FRQ Writing Guide under General Course Documents, as well as the Practice MCQs & FRQs and the Election Systems Review Chart
Follow the blog regularly for other links and posts to review for both tests on May 5.
3 comments:
Although i can't agree with Wolak that the marketing campaign was hilarious, it was certainly different then the usual CNN ad. I do think though that it made a good point, no just that the people of the West don't correctly pronounce E-ran, but that in general, Americans know very little about the true people of the Middle East, for the media often highlights them as terrorist, extremists, and disliking America, which I think we saw from the short video clip today that is far from the truth
lol, yeah -- It's a pretty good indicator of how much Westerners respect the Middle East when we don't even bother to learn how to pronounce their countries' names correctly.
Jenny brings up some great points about the level of Western understanding about Middle Eastern life. We can't even pronounce their names, let alone get along with them. I think the clip highlights how undereducated Westerners are about such an important group of people. And like Jenny said, so many Americans misjudge Middle Easterners as anti-American extremists. This just adds to the long list of clashes between the regions, when in reality, we need to be focusing on peace and cooperation.
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