Music Genre

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        Zydeko= Kokou

• start in 1928
• origin southern Louisiana
• French creole speaker

    Buckwheat Zydeco

    https://youtu.be/MH2eRRh4Bls?t=5

Team project

  Attempted Assassination of Ronald Reagan

                      The attempted assassination of the United States 40^th president Ronald Reagan occurred on March 30, 1981, 69 days into his presidency. While living a speaking engagement at the Washington Hilton hotel in Washington D.C, president Reagan and three others were shot and wounded by John Hinckley, Jr. His motivation for the attack was to impress actress Joddie Foster, who had developed an obsession over seeing her in the film Taxi Driver.

                     Reagan was shot in the chest, below the left underarm. He suffered a punctured lung and heavy internal bleeding but, prompt medical attention allowed him to recover quickly.

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                                                                           Team Project

                                                 Attempted Assassination of Ronald Reagan

                      The attempted assassination of the United States 40^th president Ronald Reagan occurred on March 30, 1981, 69 days into his presidency. While living a speaking engagement at the Washington Hilton hotel in Washington D.C, president Reagan and three others were shot and wounded by John Hinckley, Jr. His motivation for the attack was to impress actress Joddie Foster, who had developed an obsession over seeing her in the film Taxi Driver.

                     Reagan was shot in the chest, below the left underarm. He suffered a punctured lung and heavy internal bleeding but, prompt medical attention allowed him to recover quickly

Pop Culture in my Culture

Toofan
 A musical group from Togo, the group Toofan is compose with Master Just and Barabas. they are very famous in Africa with their songs and dances. they are influenced by the Europeans and Americans cultures. In 2011, they became very famous with their title "c'est magic". From that time they are still famous by making at least one single a year with a good video.

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My Pop Culture

champion of freedom. After 27 years in prison Nelson Mandela was free in 1990 and negotiated the end of apartheid in S A bringing peace to a radically divided country and leading the fight for human rights around the world.

Fad

Fad of 1990

Movie Genre

Film Noir

-Hollywood crime dramas

-Cynical attitude and sexual motivation

-Low-key black and white

Reflection Unit 2

            Reflection Team Project

                For this project, everybody tried to give the best of himself. First when got my topic in this project I didn’t know a lot about 1980s events but I decided to take it anyways. When I was doing my research, I was surprised that there was an attempt assassination against the 40^th president of the U.S. Ronald Reagan, so I decided to work on it. Team project is not easy to do because everybody doesn’t have the same schedule, so it is difficult to meet after class. Most of my classmates’ projects were very good, their organizations and presentations inspired me. Working together was the hardest part of this project. One member of our team was supposed to send us a link via blackboard to collect each part of the project and organize it in the weekend but, he didn’t do it. On Monday too, we could not meet after class because one of our team had another class. As I me too I was not available on Tuesday, they decided to meet without me and make the power point. So I gave them my research. I was surprise that they didn’t meet that day as agreed. That messed up a little bit our organization. Even that, my team did a good job, so my contribution 33%.

 

Unit 1 reflection

Reflection

In the beginning of this course I did not know anything about culture and diversity. In the past, I have experienced a lot of culture shocks when I came to the US in the first months and I was marked, I felt like I was lost. But when the course started and we got our first worksheet about “introduction to the culture” and, when I read it, I started to understand something. And when we had a discussion in the class the following day about it with my classmates who shared their experiences, I knew I was not alone in that case, so share my too and I was relieved it was fun. I learned too from my classmates, who talked to me about their culture.

           My Aha moment was when the teacher drew an iceberg explain how people are ethnocentric and, later become cultural relativism. Because me too I thought my culture is superior and better than others and later I can view, understand and even like other culture on my own terms.   

         If I will create a bumper sticker, it will be “Everything in one”. Because thanks to course on the culture, I can understand the cultural wealth of the US. The United State is really like a salad bowl.

         I didn’t know that think that one’s own culture is superior to another is not good because every culture is good and nobody can judge any culture from his own. Now I know how to deal with any culture.

diversity movie reflection

Diversity Movie Reflection

         Bent it Like Beckham.

The story is taking place in Great Britain. It about an Indian young girl Jesminder, whose passion is playing soccer and she wants to play like her idol David Beckham. She lives with her parents and her sister. Jesminder used to play soccer in the park with boys but her parents don’t like that she plays soccer because they say soccer is for men, they want her to act like a girl ,know how to cook and find man to marry.

 One day while she was playing is the park, she was spotted by Juliet, a young girl who herself play in a woman’s soccer team. But to go to the workout she had to hide. One day while the team has a match in Germany, she lied to her parents but they found it out. She was spotted by the recruiters from the US who will come attend the final but there is a problem. The date of that final coincides with her sister wedding. So she decided to give up the soccer and attend her sister wedding. But in the wedding ceremony her father noticed that she was not happy, so he decided to let her go play the final .On the playground she helped friend score a goal, and she marked one too and they won. As result she was offered a scholarship to go study in Santa Clara (USA)  

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Nelson Mandela

Champion of freedom. After 27 years in prison Nelson Mandela was free in 1990 and negotiated the end of apartheid in S a bringing peace to a radically divided country and leading the fight for human rights around the world.

Biographical sketch

Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela

-Born July 18, 1918 was a South African anti-apartheid revolutionary, politician, and philanthropy.

- 1962 he was arrested and sentenced to life in prison.

- 1990 he was released after 27 years in prison.

-1994 he won the presidential election.

-1999 he stepped down after one term as president.

- 2013 he died at age of 95

Achievements /failures

Following his release from prison in 1990, his advocacy of a policy of reconciliation and negotiation helped lead the transition to multi-racial democracy in South Africa. Mandela received more than 260 awards over 40 years, most notably the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993.

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