Please watch this video and draft a comment in Google Docs. Once you have perfected your response (aware of grammar and spelling issues) please post to the Wide Angle "comment" page and send Ms. V a copy of your comment via Google Docs.
This project will be graded as part of your "mid-term assessment" --grammar and spelling errors will be taken into consideration, so make sure you triple check your comment!
Here are the steps:
1)Go to the video "China Prep"
2) Watch the video in FULL
3) Once you have finished watching the video you must "comment" about the video--draft the comment in Google Docs and send Ms. V a copy as well.
** You must watch the entire video---this means including details in your comments that are not already presented by another viewer. If you steal someone's ideas or comment parts you will automatically receive an F.
1 comment:
Ms. Ventura, i forget you email address so i put my response to the video here instead of e-mailing it so you can read it. Sorry it was late...
I think that the attitude towards education and life in general portrayed in the video is disgusting. The fact that people are brainwashed into thinking that their only worth in life is to become financially successful is terrible. The country of China is basically trying to breed a race of super-humans when it comes to academics, the problem is they forgot the human part. It all comes down to the idea that the government still controls everything even though the country is no longer communist officially. The government is totalitarian, the schools are totalitarian, the way people think is totalitarian. The mind set that is established in the people growing up in this environment is an all or nothing philosophy, which is so harmful to the pursuit of happiness in life. They are taught to see the world in black and white, failure and success. In reality life has so much more to offer, not only the shades of gray in between, but also all the colors and hues that make life worth living and existence bearable. Children are taught that the best thing they can be is a rich but overworked business executive with no time or desire for creativity or emotion. This is simply not true. Creativity and emotion are what make us human, they are what make the beating of our hearts more than just a countdown to our deaths. Life is short and happiness is fleeting, you might as well actually live while you’re here. The main problem lies in that the government forces a culture that doesn’t value the actual valuable thing in life on the people living there.
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