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Can you name these
dictators?
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10.Draw
your own picture of Big Brother.
Answers:
1.Hitler
2.Truillo 3.Stalin 4.Castro 5.Mao 6.Hoxha 7. General
Abacha 8. Duvalier 9.Omar
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1984, by George Orwell: Fact or Fantasy?
1. First draft is due ---------. 2.
Final draft is due ----------------, typed and printed or
delivered on a disk by 2:30 PM. 3. Also the essay must be
posted under "documents" on nicenet.org by
------------ and 4. on a web page by -----------. (Check evaluation
rubric to see how you will be graded.)
Answer this question in an essay: How do the human
rights violations and the totalitarian government that
you read about in 1984 compare to human rights
violations in one other country past or present?
To start: Read 1984 and
take notes on the human rights violations that you notice
and how the totalitarian government functions. In fact,
make sure you have written quotations from the book to
prove your points.
Next:
A. Choose a country (present or in
the past) to compare to 1984, and do research
to find human rights violations. ( I will give you
some time on the Internet during class.)
A partial list of possible
countries and time periods: Hitler's Germany
1933-1945, Stalin's USSR, Argentina during the
military dictatorship, Cuba, Afghanistan's
Taliban, China, African countries that are under
dictatorships now or previously, Latin American
countries that were under military dictatorships,
Bosnia, Serbia, Dominican Repbulic's Trujillo
B. How to find information on the
Internet
1. Use http://google.com
Under search type in the name
of the country or the country's dictator + human
rights abuses or totalitarian government, for
example: Hitler + human rights abuses.
2. Use your public library card
number to find articles in magazines and
newspapers. Type in the URL: brooklynpubliclibrary.org or queenslibrary.org. Find online databases such as Proquest
and then you need to type in a library card
number.
3. Go to research.htm for more help on how to do Internet
research.
C. When you find articles take
notes on how the human rights abuses and totalitarian
governments is similar to 1984. You can also
copy and paste the URL's onto a microsoft word page
and print it to take home to use at home. NO PRINTING
OF ARTICLES IS ALLOWED on school printer.
D. Write down your sources in a
bibliography.
E. Make an outline before you write
your report.
F. Write down quotations from the
book to prove your points.
Finally: Write a report
comparing the human rights violations and totalitarian
government of the country you chose to 1984.
Make sure you include quotations from the book.
Other Possible Links
hrw.org (human rights watch) information from
1980's to the present
Afghanistan
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/23/international/23WOME.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/23/international/23SCHO.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/27/opinion/27HERB.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/26/international/asia/26STAD.html
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,185647,00.html
China
http://www.fiu.edu/~fcf/humrts.html
http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/1999/china.50/red.giant/
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/teachers/featured_articles/19980930wednesday.htm
Cuba
http://www.hrw.org/reports/1999/cuba/
Dominican Republic under Rafael
Trujillo -
http://www.jlhs.nhusd.k12.ca.us/classes/social_science/latin_america/dominican_Republic.html
Nazi Germany
http://www.ushmm.org/outreach
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/detoc.html
USSR under Stalin
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/rutoc.html
In general
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/international/january97/human_rights_1-30.html
http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/people/Farer/farer-con00-4.html
http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/people/Stover/stover-con99-2.html
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