Hi Class,
Homework for Tuesday, April 16: Read to page 95 in The White Tiger, then write Journal 3: Is Balram a hero or villain and why?
Feel free to post your favorite music as a comment or as a new post (you need to signed up on OpenLab to write your own post–there are directions for doing on the OpenLab homepage).
Coltan Resources:
Scholarly Articles:
Montague, Dena. “Stolen Goods: Coltan and Conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo.” SAIS Review 22:1 (2002): 103-118. This article can be found by going to our Library website and searching the database: Project Muse
Mapping Environmental Justice in Technology Flows: Computer Waste Impacts in Asia
Global Environmental Politics, Volume 4, Number 4, November 2004, pp. 76-107
by: Alastair T. Iles. This is also from Project Muse.
Youtube films:
1. In Focus: Congo’g Bloody Coltan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3OWj1ZGn4uM
2. The Real Mobile Phone Wars https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQIsLqkuATY
Pachelbel’s Canon in D is one of my favorite classical song.
Sarah Beyroute
http://youtu.be/c1iZXyWLnXg
Ludwig van Beethoven: Fur Elise
One of the most popular compositions of Beethoven, it is in The Book of World-famous Music and also played in movies and TV-shows.
Chopin’s Prelude is my favorite musical piece.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef-4Bv5Ng0w
Classical Song Favorite: Ravel- Bolero