Supplements to Today's Viewing and Discussions

Refugee Crisis Grows as Darfur War Crosses a Border
http://tinyurl.com/jfrjx

NSA Site (with primary documents) on US & Rwanda:
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB53/

Frontline Rwandan Genocide Site (to accompany the documentary we saw):
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/evil/

Frontline: Ghosts of Rwanda (the web site that accompanied the Frontline
documentary commemorating the 10th anniversary of the Rwandan Genocide)
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/ghosts/

The Responsibility to Protect:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/ghosts/etc/protect.html

Earth & the Independence of India

You will find a discussion of the movie, Earth, and the moment in history it retells, at the film education site. You can explore additional links to a brief history of India, and a discussion of Indian literature.

Site Visit Assignment

The whole shebang!

Final Proofing of Photo Essays

Tips for Successful Web Publication
Troubleshooting Common Problems

1) Please do remember that everything you wish to publish in your photo essay on the web must be saved in exactly the same place. As you created a public_html folder for your web material on your jump drive at the beginning of the year, that directory is the logical place to save all the elements for your photo essay. Do not save items in different folders, and do not insert images/graphics etc. until you have saved the page on which you are working and given it a .html name.

2) When you run your final check on your photo essay (making sure that links work, pages load, images appear, etc.) do not run the check on the computer on which you composed your essay. If your links point to files on the computer on which you are working, instead of to the file name alone, the browser will pick up material on your local computer and your pages/essay will look complete. Always check your work on a computer other than the one on which you created the work.

3) Finally, make sure that I can go to your index.html page, follow a link to your NCLC 130 page, and then follow a link to your photo essay. I need to be able to access your essay to read & view it.

Professor Karush's Table

Here's the information about US interventions in the Caribbean basin in the period before World War II:

Table 1. U.S.	Military Interventions in the Caribbean Basin, 1898-1934
Country	Interventions
Costa Rica	1921
Cuba	1898-1902,1906-1909,1912,1917-1922
Dominican Republic	1903,1904,1914,1916-1924
Guatemala	1920
Haiti	1915-1934
Honduras	1903, 1907, 1911, 1912, 1919, 1924, 1925
Mexico	1913,1914,1916-1917,1918-1919
Nicaragua	1898,1899,1909-1910,1912-1925,1926-1933
Panama	1903-1914,1921,1925

Source: Adapted from William Appleman Williams, Empire as a Way of Life (New York: Oxford University Press, 1980), pp. 136-142, 165-167.

Site Visits (Tuesday, 21 February)

We'll be sending out more information on next Tuesday's site visits this week-end, but I just wanted to let you to know that NO early starts are scheduled, and that, as all the site visits are museums on the Mall, all are accessible by public transport.

Key Texts

As I'm working through last week's essays, I realize that some of you are simply not engaging with the more theoretical texts of each week. At the beginning of the week, we read key theoretical text(s) (the short, clear definition of ideology provided by John Lye, for example, and Professor Bernard's presentation on ideology) which provide both definitions and terminologies that structure the rest of the week, and offer you specific vocabulary for more nuanced discussions of ideas. It's not a vocabulary that tells you what to think - it's a vocabulary that helps you to analyze contemporary society more precisely. It's an analytical vocabulary.

This week, that key text was Mary Louise Pratt's essay which we read and discussed on Monday. For this week's analysis, you need to make sure that you fully understand Pratt's article, and that you deploy the precise conceptual vocabulary she offers us in your analyses of resistance. And the same goes for the Anderson readings on Monday morning - they provide your key to the issues for the rest of week five. So please, if you don't understand anything about the theoretical readings at the beginning of the week, ask and ask until you are fully comfortable with them.

Site Visit Assignments, Week Four

Workers and Tenants Support: Groups 2, A1
Teatro de la Luna: Groups 3, B1, E1
SEEC: Groups 4, D1
Latino Economic Development Corp.: Groups 5, F1

Assignment and Further Information

History, Movie & Ideology Help

To Live - historical and movie analysis (Part I & Part II)
Ideology - Professor Bernard's presentation