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“The 100” Text Review

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“The 100” is a series on Netflix, in this series land was no longer safe due to radiation so they lived in space for a long period of time. When they started to run low on supplies they decided to send 100 teenagers and kids down to land to see if it was livable. When the reached land and realized it was sustainable they then had to form a functioning society.

Like any functioning society they formed a type of government and a clear set of rules. They had to find food, water and build shelter. They found people who survived the radiation called “grounders”. They had been there the whole time the 100 children were up in space so the grounders did not want people on their established area. Conflict happened very quickly between the grounders and teenagers, they would set traps and even kill one another. Overtime when they managed to co exist with one another. The rest of the adults on the ship were running out of supplies they had came down to land. Once the adults arrived they tried to take over and do things their way and establish a new type of government, the adults recreated a conflict between the grounders.

This is something we have seen in many text this semester. The result of colonization and activities such as that. A functioning society was formed and then new people with their own set of cultures and ideas came in and tried to do things their way since they thought it was the most ideal way to live. Throughout the series when they come upon new people/tribes there is always conflict where one group is essentially trying to overthrow the other in order to survive. I think the author was causing its audience to think about what happens when a new culture or group comes into a pre established territory and tries to take over. Though the series is fiction that type of activity was prominent throughout history.

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Week #15 (Susan Sontag’s Regarding the Pain of Others)

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This week we read Susan Sontag’s “Regarding the Pain of Others”. This was her last writing before her death in 2004, it is a connection to her essays published 26 years prior on Photography. War photography started in 1855 to promote a positive setting. Sontag reviews military photographic documentation around the world and how the difference in technology has affected photos overtime. She explores depictions of war and violence in todays culture. She examines images from Yugoslavia, Rwanda, Israel, and Palestine and examines how this media affects us and the purpose for them. The relationship between photography and ideology can be closely related.

Normally photography should be something that is not manipulated and translated in other other way than what it directly is. Now that concept is easily manipulated and has an agenda. For example a picture of suffering or deceased children could be used for either sides of the war to show how it is affecting their children. Now it is common for photography and pictures to be overly dramatic or manipulated to get the best reaction out of others or to promote their media source. With technology it has been easier to manipulate photos and has drifted from the original concept of pictures, a documentation of an event just how it is with no room for interpretation other than what it truly is.

I think this can relate to a lot martial we have covered in this class, we often see how the media portrays countries or wars in certain ways and cause us to view it in a certain way. This can cause us to think that country is poor, dysfunctional, damaging or hurting children when in reality it could be a completely different scenario. We see this in big news channels trying to promote an agenda or a certain stance, specific pictures will be used to suggest whatever they are trying to put out.

 

“Regarding the Pain of Others, by Susan Sontag.” Garage, https://garagemca.org/en/programs/publishing/susan-sontag-regarding-the-pain-of-others.

 

Ohio State Student Enrollment – Diary of Systemic Injustices Showcase

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An article from The Lantern states that African-Anerican male students make up less than three percent of Ohio State University student population and less than two percent first year students. An analysis done from 2013 to 2017 on Ohio State’s Columbus campus data shows that the university has enrolled less than 130 African-American men in each class out of the 7,136 first year enrolled students. African-American women make up around 3.2 percent of Ohio State’s student population, which is 263 more students than black men.

Numbers of enrolling black people have gone up over time but so has the student population number. Ohio State uses a common application with hopes of more minorities applying however a certain question on the application has posed that it might be an unfair question for minority school districts. The questions ask if you have been found responsible for disciplinary violation at any education institution you have attended from ninth grade forward. This question can be unfair to minority schools who have a strict disciplinary policy. School districts differ in the actions they take for academic misconduct. In schools made up of mostly white individuals the action for misconduct may not be as severe compared to a school of mostly minorities. 

The college of engineering at Ohio State is also a white male dominated field, females do not account for a large percentage of engineering students let alone black women. There were no black women in the program in 2014. This is common for many academic programs and it is also common to have a lack of diversity within professors/faculty. Monica Cox, the Department Chair of OSU’s college of engineering explains the importance of being a black woman teaching in a predominantly male field. These are little steps to create a more diverse environment at Ohio State. (I attached a video of an interview with Monica Cox along with a picture)

While reading this article I was very shocked by the information. Where Ohio State includes in many of their platforms it is a diverse campus. I expected the numbers to be more even with different races. The majority of Ohio State’s student population is white. I think Ohio State does a lot for its minority population however there is a lot more that can be improved. I could imagine black students at Ohio State do not feel the type of support as other students. I believe this would make black students feel as if they are “other”.

 

Ohio State not “the very best” in racial diversity, continues to improve – The Lanternhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_7h-uw5oCo

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