Hi everyone!
This week's blogging assignment will be based on the event that you attend this week (3/10 or 3/11). After attending either the documentary film "The Price of Sugar" or the "Charity in Truth" event, please reflect on and answer the following questions:
1. What were the three main points made in the event?
2. What was something that shocked you?
3. What is something that you learned?
4. How did the event end?
5. What do you think the calls to action should be?
6. How did you feel after the event (hopeful, enraged, inspired, motivated, angry) and why?
7. Other feedback.
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Assignment: Reflections
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1. What were the three main points made in the event?
-people want to help
-be like st. francis and think of everything in the world like your brother and sister.
-we need to decrease our use of plastic and use metal water bottles
2. What was something that shocked you?
-that america canceled haitis debt despite that we're in a recession
3. What is something that you learned?
- this was the first encylical that called for water preservation
4. How did the event end?
i was sick so i have no idea but i think Bishop Howard Hubbard was talking
5. What do you think the calls to action should be?
Clean water & stopping the use of so many plastic bottles
6. How did you feel after the event (hopeful, enraged, inspired, motivated, angry) and why?
i feel hopeful about the event because usually when the church decides to do something it gets done because so many follow
1. I believe three main points that were made were
-each person is necessary and has a dignity that no other person can take away
-we must be good stewards of creation
-The Catholic church has been aware of this and popes have been writing about this in encyclicals for over a century.
2. Something that I found shocking was the church has been teaching this for a really long time, and yet so few people know about it.
3. I learned about the various encyclicals that the popes have issued in the past.
4. Although I left early, I know that Bishop Hubbard was speaking and he most likely said some closing words that called everyone to action.
5. I think each of us is called to become people of respect. Respect towards each other, respect towards ourselves, and respect for the environment.
6. I felt inspired leaving the event. I felt good knowing that the Catholic Church isn't just some big abstract concept, that it's made up of people that want to do good and help one another.
1. What were the three main points made in the event?
-to address developing charity within a globalist economy
-our impact on the environment (plastics)
- the pope and teh encyclical Caritas
2. What was something that shocked you?
- how Haitis debt was cancelled. I also believe that it is odd because it was not really publicized.
3. What is something that you learned?
-what the encyclical caritas was and how the popes have been writing it over the past 120 years
4. How did the event end?
with audience Q & A
5. What do you think the calls to action should be?
To enlighten the younger population and especially the student population about service and charity and its true meaning and its franscian value.
6. How did you feel after the event (hopeful, enraged, inspired, motivated, angry) and why?
I feel that the event dragged on a little too much and was geared toward an older generation and not so much toward the students. But it defiantly got me thinking.
1. Human trafficking is still happening (whether we want to believe it or not), WE have the choice to use products we want to buy, there are people out there who are tryin to help!!
2. I couldn't believe how the people could just run through the streets and burn things and riot the way they did. It all seemed so terrifying, I could not imagine living in the shoes of the Haitians or the Reverend.
3. I learned that not all organic items are free trade!
4. We ended the event by asking questions and having a discussion on what is being done about this within the Siena College Community.
5. I think Siena should continue to move forward on becoming the first Catholic Free Trade School && try to get more people on board on campus.
6. I felt rather motivated! I realized that if the Reverend can help them, so can we!
1. what were the three main points of the event?
The main point of the event was to make people aware of the cruelty that took place in order to make sugar. To inform of us of how we could help stop human trafficking and to us extend the news so others can be aware as well.
2. What was something that shocked you?
Something that shocked me was the fact that this was taking place. I lived in Dominican Republic for about ten years and i never even heard comments about this matter. The mere fact that something like this could be happening never even crossed my mind. Therefore i am aware that there are many people living in D.R. who have no idea of the matter. People living there usually have no light or don't have the resources to be informed.
3. what was something that you learned?
Something that i learned was of the existence of this matter in D.R.
4. How did the event end?
The event ended with lots of questions about fair trade as well as how can the issue be addressed.
5. what do you think the calls to action should be?
I honestly believe that the call to action should be to spread the news since i am sure there are many people who have no idea of what's happening. I for instance went many times to cane yards and never saw any haitians.
6. How did it make you feel?
Honestly at first i was ashamed because i felt that what was being done was wrong and close-minded. I was also a little upset because i felt the documentary was very biased as well. The Dominican Republic is a very poor country. The same way in which many of those haitians lived in bateyes, having their children starving to death and so on. Is the same way many dominicans live all their lives, without a proper meal , and without education. Also i feel like the video failed to consider that many Dominicans have no idea of the matter and that not all dominicans are cruel to haitians. Human trafficking is horrible, and it should be stopped but i don't feel that all dominicans were properly portrayed in the video.
I did not attend because I had an important environmental research opportunity meeting. I will, however, assess the meeting I went to. 1. The main point of the meeting was to address the upcoming salamander and frog breading seasons at Saratoga National Battlefield and how we will be conducting research on those amphibians' populations, behaviors, and habitats. 2. I was shocked by how quickly the research season is approaching. The season starts earlier and earlier every year (Global Warming?). 3. I learned that there are a lot of other people that have the same interest in environmental studies as I do. 4. The event ended with pizza and the arrangement of rides up to the park to receive an orientation and meet with the park rangers. 5. I think that us researchers should go up to the park on every rainy night we can. 6. I felt very hopeful that I will have a fun, experience-rich spring season. I hope to gain a lot of experience working with a professor and hopefully tie it in somehow to Bonner. 7. I'm good.
1. What were the three main points made in the event?
-The Pope and the encyclical Caritas
-To be more environment friendly (Use stainless steal water bottles)
-Make a change, and volunteer your time to make a difference
2. What was something that shocked you?
That the US canceled its debts that Haiti owed to it. Which was a lot of money.
3. What is something that you learned?
About past encyclicals. There was descriptions of each that i found very useful, and i had never learned about them before so that was interesting.
4. How did the event end?
With questions from the audience.
5. What do you think the calls to action should be?
I think the calls are just to embrace the world we live in. We need to treat everyone as equals and help in any way that we can. If we can't give money, we can give time and that is what really matters.
6. How did you feel after the event (hopeful, enraged, inspired, motivated, angry) and why?
I felt good when an older woman came up to us and said "Now you kids go change the world." The event was aimed towards an older audience, but it asked the audience to teach the younger generation to want to make a change. That part was inspiring.
Charity in Truth
1. Giving back to the community, the past popes, problems in undeveloped countries.
2. Nothing.
3. I learned how Fr. Kevin is not really happy with the Siena's involvement in service.
4. The event ended with a question and answer session.
5. Increase awareness on campus
6. I felt unethustiastic because I really didn't care much for the discussion on the past popes.
7. I personally did not take anything from this event because I am not into religion therefore I was automatically turned off.
1. What were the three main points made in the event?
Listen to the pope, service to others is important, and there are many that are less fortunate then us.
2. What was something that shocked you?
That there was a billion plastic bottles floating in the ocean. That doesnt sound healthy to our planet.
3. What is something that you learned?
That the US took away hatis debt to us.
4. How did the event end?
With various questions to the pannelists.
5. What do you think the calls to action should be?
More service from everyone at Siena. Not just from Bonner or various events that people show up to.
6. How did you feel after the event (hopeful, enraged, inspired, motivated, angry) and why?
I felt hopeful about getting everyone to do service like Fr. Kevin wanted to happen but I know that this goal is unfortunately going to take awhile to be met.
7. Other feedback.
The fact that the bishop of Albany was there showed to me how important this pannel was. It is not often that the Bishop gives up his time to talk to only a small group of people
1.. The main points of the film was to inform and make aware what the true cost sugar most of us use daily is. Also, to understand the situation in DR and Haiti in that the people are not fully aware or misinformed, and what we could do in effort for it to stop.
2.. I knew about free-trade products and why they are free-trade but i had never saw a situation that in depth or the struggles and conflicts as to why it is not easy to stop.
3.. I learned about the problems of sugar production, border problems between Haiti and DR, and more information about fair-trade.
4.. There was a QandA talk about Fair-Trade in general.
5.. I think the more people informed, the better. I know of some of my Dominican and Haitian friends who most probably do not know about this. Also, making those little choices such as choosing fair-trade options.
6.. At first, interested because I love Spanish/Latin cultures. As the movie progressed, I felt shocked and sad at the situation in DR not just at what was going on but at how nothing was being done due to fear, or lack of information or even just for an instilled hatred for the other peoples. But then as the movie ended, the priest and some of his parishioners and friends were very inspiring.
7.. I feel scared for all of those in support of the Priest and I am worried that he could get harmed. Also I wanna try to get more fair trade options : )
1. What were the three main points made in the event?
-the amount of haitians that were illegally transported into the dominican republic
-the priest/minister who did everything in his power to help all the haitian people
-how free trade products can make a difference
2. What was something that shocked you?
I was shocked with how poorly the haitians were treated at the sugar cane estates, because I did not know that kind of stuff was still happening in todays society.
3. What is something that you learned?
That free trade products are better to buy and often are the same ice as name brand products but you are guaranteed to know that people weren't treated poorly at picking sugar cane
4. How did the event end?
We had a discussion with the women who presented the video and things that siena college can do as a whole to help the free trade movement
5. What do you think the calls to action should be?
Our college in general should definitely continue working on becoming the second college in the united states to become a free trade college
6. How did you feel after the event (hopeful, enraged, inspired, motivated, angry) and why?
I felt inspired by the priest and his willingness to help others and how far he went to make them happy.
7. Other feedback.
The movie was real footage which really touched my heart. I couldn't believe the process of human trafficking and the hate between the Dominican Republic and Haiti.
1. -follow the franciscan way
-think outside the box in terms of vacations and volunteering
-do your part to serve in the community
2. -the canceling of haiti's debt
3. -the history of encyclicals all follow the way of st. francis, and institute real and meaningful tenets
4. -with a question and answer session
5. -continue, as bonner service leaders, to give back into the community but also be aware of the actions the catholic church is taking around the world
6. i wasn't very captivated by the event, and i was confused by a lot of the terms and encyclicals used and cited, but i appreciated that an event like this was going on at st. rose to connect service and spirituality
1. ~Reduse. Reuse. Recycle to help conserve the environment
~follow the franciscan way
~do your part to serve in the community
2. ~That there is a ball of plastic the size of Texas floating in the Pacific
~Canceling of haiti's debt to us
3. ~St. Francis paves the path for the history of encyclicals
4. ~With a question and an answer session
5. ~As bonner service leaders- continue to give backto the community, but also be aware of the actions the catholic church is taking around the world
6. ~Leaving the event I was inspired. It is comforting to know that the community of the church is working to help solve the issues of the world.
As Margaret Mead once stated, "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has."
1.What were the three main points made in the event?
a)The Father's role in the Dominican
b)The illegal human trafficking of Haitians.
c)The media and governments' connections.
2. What was something that shocked you?
I was shocked at how the native Dominicans had misconstrued what the Father was actually trying to do because of the media and government's influence.
3. What is something that you learned?
A lot about Dominican culture as well as Haitian strife.
4. How did the event end?
We got free fair-trade sugar packets and we got to ask questions about fair-trade.
5. What do you think the calls to action should be?
I think we, as a Bonner team, should help with making Siena fair-trade friendly.
6. How did you feel after the event (hopeful, enraged, inspired, motivated, angry) and why?
I was extremely inspired and motivated to do something for this cause. Considering the work that I already do with immigrants and refugees, I felt a personal connection with the Haitians and felt extremely moved to help out with the goals that Siena has to hopefully increase our usage of fair-trade products so that these people wouldn't be living in such squalor.
7. Other feedback.
Let's do something!
: )
Also, I would just like to add onto Jahnna's comment about how the Dominicans were represented. The point of documentaries is to unearth or show a hidden facet of human life, but does not always consider both sides. I think she makes a good point in highlighting that most Dominicans likely don't know what is occurring in the cane fields.
The Price of Sugar
1. -Power comes with Wealth, Everyone has an advocate, and Modern day salvery takes place.
2. The fact that a government can allow modern day slavery took place.
3. The cost of procudtion to the well-being of other.
4. N/A left 15-30mins early for meeting
5. Spread awareness of how products are produced.
6. I felt overwhelmed. This is because I felt that there could be more awaremess spread.
What were the three main points made in the event?
In the wonderful Thursday event it was interesting to hear the different view point from not only the president of the college but also business professors. It was interesting to hear the view point of an economist. In the books of economics we are told that everything has sacristy, which means that in the world there are not enough resources to support everyone. However, it interesting that the rich only want more and more instead of giving back to the community. All resources are limited however it is up to all humans to give to people in need. I think that in order to truly be helpful everyone should just have what they need not just take and take. In the United States of American grow up thinking that it should always be about the individual. Everyone needs to go to college and make money only for themselves. After a person is wealthy all the think about is gaining more money. In return resources for people still in the developing world have even less. I believe it is important to note that in the event there was a call for increasing service at Siena, to work with the environment and understand that everyone needs to do their part in taking care of the earth.
2. What was something that shocked you?
I think one thing that shocked me was how helpful The United States has been with Haiti I am from the Dominican Republic and I have strong ties with the Haitian culture and people. The United States forgave all the debt owed by Haiti, this makes me feel really happy and it is such a positive message to the world that we can support each other in times of need no matter what the situation and that boards do not stop us from being helpful to people in need.
3. What is something that you learned?
I learned a lot about the President of our college I think that he spoke well and I really like the fact that he was not satisfied with the amount of service in Siena and how he wanted to increase awareness of the issues.
4. How did the event end?
The event ended with the presenters talking about what they think can change and calls to action. How does
5. What do you think the calls to action should be?
I think that people in Siena and all around the world should know more increase their knowledge about how to think not only about themselves but others. I think it is important to learn about the world and how one person can make a difference.
6. How did you feel after the event (hopeful, enraged, inspired, motivated, angry) and why?
I felt good I was really hopeful because I think I had more information to relay to my friends. I think that it is important to hear the important issues when it comes to service, global warming and calls to action. I am more knowledgeable therefore I am able to talk to other people about it and make a difference.
7. Other feedback
1. What were the three main points made in the event?
The three main points of the movie revolved around how poorly the Haitians were treated on the plantation, how the family owners rule the plantation and the area surrounding with fear and power, and how the Haitians are trapped without anyway to lv these plantations.
2. What was something that shocked you?
How much hatred the people of the country had for the Haitians
3. What is something that you learned?
I never even knew any of this was going on. I am taking a Latin American class and we are learning about how poorly the land lords had treated their workers. It has not changed much at all.
4. How did the event end?
It ended talking about the threats that are being made to the priest that is trying to reform the Haitian's living. If the priest is ever to leave the country everything will revert to how it was and the people that followed him will be killed
5. What do you think the calls to action should be?
Nations need to step it up and refuse to buy products that are made from plantations that treat their workers like slaves. With out buyers the owners will be forced to reform.
6. How did you feel after the event (hopeful, enraged, inspired, motivated, angry) and why?
I felt all of these emotions. I was angry at the way the Haitians are treated and trapped, angry at the way the people of that country have so much anger toward them. I was inspired by the priests stubborn refusal to accept these conditions even with threats to his life.
7. Other feedback.
The panel discussion that we went to was on social justice. It was shocking to find out that there is a bunch of free floating plastic swimming around in the ocean. I learned that it is important to reach out of my comfort zone and to interact with people who are different from myself. One speaker told a story about how she knew someone who would take family vacations to third world countries so his children could experience different cultures. That was something that really stuck with me. The event ended with questions from the audience. The call to action is to try and something to make a difference. To get up and do something even if it’s a little act, every little bit counts. I felt inspired after Ieft because eit made me motivated to continue what I’m doing.
!. -The Pope and the encyclical Caritas
- people should do what they can
-environmentally friendly
@. there are a like a BAJILLION plastic bottles in the ocean!
#. I learned about encyclicals in general. I had never even heard of this type of thing.
$. with questions to the panelists.
%. I think there needs to be more groups like Bonner with different missions so that we have larger groups working on things. power in numbers; its great to have support.
^. Im not gonna lie, I felt a little bored, but i also felt hopeful that maybe we can do something about it.
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