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The Known World essays are in and students are ready to move on. If any revisions are still required, turn them in ASAP.
Social Entrepreneur Essay
Our last essay, the Social Entrepreneur Essay planning is due mid-November for peer review. Choose an artist who is using their work for social change, to interrupt the status quo re: entitlement and privilege especially entitlement based on race, gender and class.
The Angry Black White Boy
This essay will be our final and is due with the portfolio, so there will still be a social entrepreneur essay due. This essay will profile an artist who is using his or her work for social change.
I will give you essay questions in December for the Angry Black White Boy. In the meantime, we will read the play based on the novel.
Portfolio
We will start reviewing the portfolio process in November. We will not have an in-class final. The portfolio is due by December 15 via email coasabirenglishB@gmail.com
More later on the portfolio.
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Shonta Jones
Professor Wanda Sabir
English 1B
8, November 2010
Mexico is the name of the video I watched on frontline world. It talked about the business of saving trees. The social entrepreneur that is profiled is Patricia and everyone calls her Patte. The problem that the community was facing was the people of the village had nowhere to dump their garbage so they would dump it in their own river nearby.
The name of the organization that patte started was called Viva Sierra Gorda and the people of the community help plant trees and by selling a little piece of their property the state will pay them $360 a month to harvest trees on their land. Since the Viva Sierra Gorda organization has trees with carbon dioxide which helps to produce air, they have been selling there trees to some of the wealthiest organizations and other states who have no trees that produce this precipitation or green vegetation environment.
Patte relationships with the community is a very good and healthy one, she helps the people stay informed about their environment and how the garbage is making the water polluted and how it messes with the wild life and the ego system up stream. Patte also educates her people on how the trees with the carbon dioxide helps there ego system and by allowing the state to harvest trees on their property they will receive a profit. That healthy drinking water is the best drinking water.
Patte decided to address this issue along with others for the simple fact that there are no jobs in Sierra Gorda and most men leave the community at a young age to go seek a job. Patte also decided to address this issue along with a lot of other supporters around the nation is because the ground use to be so dry and unmanageable to grow anything on, Patte and a crew came and planted a few trees and replanted some trees elsewhere and the vegetation and greener in the environment just flourished.
The local component in this video is the Sierra trees and how they help the community raise money to manage their community and raise jobs/money for the man and women of the community, so the money stays in the community. The community owns the process by learning how to take care of their town and also by the people of the community being allowed first hand and first pick on what job they would like to work for in a community they grew up in since kids and watched their parents do the same thing.
Shonta Jones
Professor Wanda Sabir
English 1B
8, November, 2010
The video I watched on Frontline World was Tibet: Eye Camp and it was about the cataracts on the senior members of the community who were suffering and the young Tibetans depending on them to do certain work in the family. The Tibetans lived at an altitude of 12,000 feet and this had very bad usage on their eyes, some had to watch the sheep or just cook y the heat of the sun outside their homes.
The social entrepreneur discussed in this film was Mark Lieberman and his assistant Melvin Yogiberg went to Tibet to help the Tibetan surgeons learn how to perform perfect and more effective surgery on their patients. Mark Lieberman dedicated his life and his time to help all those in need of a good cataract surgery who lives in the most rural places and have no medical or the medical hospital is not of high standing.
The biggest problem in Tibet was the seniors of the community who have unhealed and untreated cataracts that are making them ill or in pain. The Tibetan people of the community would lose their vision or eye because they could not get treated before that time. The seniors of the community were dependant a lot by their families who needed them constantly to do the main chore of the day which everyone in the Tibetan house had the same chore and that chore stayed the same for generations.
The name of the organization Mark Lieberman formed was called Eye Camp and his main focus was to get as many eye camps around Tibet so that all who needed cataract surgery or check- ups could go into to one of his camps and get medical treatment. The organization also came to train the medical staff in Tibet on how to perform a perfect and more effective cataract surgery on their patients so that Mark and his team would not have to come out all the time, they knew the hand on skills they need to know to do the surgeries themselves.
The relationship that Mark and his team had with the community was a healthy and loving one; the community praised them for coming to their town of Tibet and saving the eye sight of the elders and for coming and teaching their staff to do the surgery without them. By the end of the classes that Mark and his assistant were giving to the staff, the staff performed the surgery faster and more effective than the teacher, this helped them to serve more people in a day and in a month.
Mark decided to address this issue because he loves medicine and wants to help others to know good medicine and a more effective way to help the patients they took an oath for. Mark is a moral man who has a heart and feels for the elder people of Tibet who can’t sew, knit or crochet a blanket, tent or clothing for their family.
The local component in the Tibetan community is Eye Camps and how valuable they are to the senior people of Tibet and the people of Tibet because of the high altitude in which they live in. The community helps this program by making sure that all the elders in their family come to the doctor and wait in line for two weeks just to make sure they get an appointment and get surgery done. The people of the community love one another and hope and pray nothing happens to the doctors who treat so many a day and give sight to those who were in darkness.
Mauricio Cavero Alprecht
English 1B
Professor Wanda Sabir
8 November 2010
Frontline World: Engaged Citinzenry Cyber-Assignment
Tibet: Tibet Vision Project
Dr. Marc Lieberman is an ophthalmologist and a social entrepreneur that goes to a little town in Tibet twice a year to perform cataract surgeries to the less fortunate people that live far away from the city.
Dr. Liberman saw that chronic eye disease, blindness and cataracts are a major problem for the people in a far region in Tibet. This is because that region is located 12,000 feet above the sea level where there is little protection from the solar radiation making blindness rates one of the highest in the world.
The organization, lead by Dr. Liberman, started with some American ophthalmologists and their will to do something right for a community in dire straights. The organization is called the Tibet Vision Project. They act as a catalyst for Tibetan ophthalmology programs by transferring the technology and skills of modern eye care to the poorest populations of Tibet at an affordable cost. Their main goal is to eliminate blindness caused by cataracts among the people in Tibet by the year 2020.
What Tibet Vision Project does is gives new technology and teaches their local Tibetan staff of ophthalmologist to be able to do microsurgery on patients with cataracts and some other chronic eye diseases in a fast and successful way. In Dr. Liberman’s own words he says “I’m working myself out of a job.”
Nowadays, we see many of the Tibetan ophthalmologists performing their own eye surgeries, making them experts in the matter. They perform as many as 15 eye surgeries per doctor a day. There are still not that many Tibetans doctors able to perform surgeries but, now the Tibetans doctors act as Teachers to the new generations of Tibetans ophthalmologists, like Dr. Liberman once did years ago with them.
Mauricio Cavero Alprecht
English 1B
Professor Wanda Sabir
4 November 2010
Frontline World: Engaged Citinzenry Cyber-Assignment
2) Rwanda –Millennium Village Project
The social entrepreneur profiled is Josh Ruxin.
The problem that Josh identified was the extreme poverty that Neanje, a village in Rwanda, was going through.
The name of the organization that they started is called The Millennium Project.
At the beginning of the project, Josh was concentrated on the health care of the village, trying to provide bed nets to prevent malaria. Malaria was the cause the 60% of child death in the village.
The Government of Rwanda took a unique approach towards Josh’s project and wanted a full partnership and offered a full commitment to the social entrepreneurship. Now the community is pretty savvy about health care and health prevention, the child death rate has been cut two thirds and the first term of Josh’s goal is made.
Nowadays, the Millenium Village Project in Neanje is focused in business management for the population. Josh turned an arid desert to a farm land that as some investors said it will be like Southern California. Some farmers are expected to be earning as much as five hundred dollars a month for their crops. This is an increment of five hundred percent because five years ago they were not earning any money at all.
The community is still engaged to the hand of Josh but they are learning to be independent with their new businesses. The population are started to engage the idea of working together for the common good of the community and there is a project that will be bringing many tourists.
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