As a comment, write one paragraph about what you are interested in working on for this class + your name + contact info
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Minami Coirin
1/18/2012 07:38:41 am
After reading through the Art classes' comments I found Liz Brownstein's idea to be very interesting.
cissyross
1/20/2012 05:42:02 am
Good idea. I'm sure you can find people to interview among people you know as well as folks a the UCSB Career and Counseling office.
Lesly
1/18/2012 08:08:03 am
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Andrea Napoli
1/19/2012 05:22:57 am
Hi,
Cissy Ross
1/20/2012 05:43:45 am
Good connections! Get together and discuss the possibilities.
Cissy Ross
1/22/2012 09:17:22 am
It's fine to try to interview a professor, but you are still going to need many more interviews. Who? You will also have to include some information from academic studies, so some of the info you get from a professor might also be the information in a study that he or she has written. I'm not discouraging you. It's a great topic! Just be aware you can't depend on faculty for your major sources. You have to get to the workers and others directly involved.
Rafael Sanchez-Cruz
1/19/2012 05:12:37 am
Having discussed in class our ability to go beyond our borders and pick anything I thought of maybe picking up an idea that I have had in the back of my head for quite some time. Last year I studied abroad in Mexico City and I became interested in what is called "la nota roja" that can be translated into the "The red story". This is the name given to stories found on the cover of the most affordable daily newspapers in all of Mexico that display horrific and graphic (for an American outsider) images of accidents or dead bodies. The headlines on the images tend to be a mockery of how the person died and to get a laugh. It was so strange for me to understand these, especially because Mexicans were not phased about it when I would ask them about it.
Rafael
1/19/2012 05:14:19 am
I would be really interested in a photojournalist to help me to analyze the images that I gathered and maybe help me to create a compilation of these that is as impacting as the images themselves.
Cissy Ross
1/22/2012 09:22:28 am
This idea has promise! Let's discuss how you can craft this into a journalistic article rather than an academic report. You will need some interviews. Do you have readers or journalists you can interview?
Carly McMaster
1/19/2012 06:34:30 am
Initially, I was thinking that I would do my features project on the larger, global issue of religious justifications for violence because of a class I am currently taking on modern global conflict.
Cissy Ross
1/22/2012 09:14:11 am
Is there an angle you can pursue that might yield something besides dueling ideologies? What's new..or at least different or unexpected? Try to do a couple of interviews and test your ideas. I did hear a great piece recently where women from both sides got together to explore any common concerns. What the interviewers found out is that the women didn't change their stands, but at least saw each other as individual people with some good traits, not just the enemy.
Kalie Wertz
1/19/2012 01:02:18 pm
I'm going to be doing my feature on human trafficking, specifically in the United States, but it definitely spans across most countries abroad. I want to focus on justice for the young girls that are typically subject to this form of slavery that is still going on. I'm going to focus on information that I find from projects such as CNBC's film, Crime Inc, Amnesty International, humantrafficking.com, United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime's Blue Heart Campaign, polarisproject.org, and notforsalecampaign.org. Also, there were some local issues of human trafficking in 2010; one published in the Santa Barbara Independent of a man arrested for human trafficking, and another story covered by KCOY news television about a couple in Paso Robles arrested for human trafficking. If anyone wants to collaborate or has any other information or contacts, please let me know!
Cissy Ross
1/22/2012 09:24:48 am
Good. But you will need to develop some contacts for interviews. When you say trafficking, what ethnicities are you focusing on? Is this just smuggling people over the border or holding them in servitude once they arrive? Who will you interview?
Kalie Wertz
1/23/2012 08:35:42 am
I would like to focus on sex trafficking, probably particularly latina and native american women. This will also bring in instances of rape and violence. I can talk to the the Santa Barbara Rape Crisis Center, and the Amnesty International group in Ventura. Also, Westmont College in Montecito has a human trafficking research program, I could talk to them as well.
Kiran Dhillon
1/22/2012 05:11:08 am
After reading some of the ideas proposed by other students I am very interested in writing a piece on working conditions in sweatshops. I watched a documentary on sweatshops in Saipan, a U.S. commonwealth in the western Pacific, and was shocked. Many of the workers come from China, pay an initial fee of 3,000 dollars believing they will pay it off quickly, but quickly realize that is not the case. They are essentially indentured workers, trapped on the island, unable to pay off their debt. I realize Saipan woud be a stretch for my feature, but Melissa Chan from the photo journalism class has suggested looking at an American Apparel sweatshop in LA. I think that would be a great collaboration!
Cissy Ross
1/22/2012 09:27:57 am
Several students have mentioned sweatshops. One intriguing counterpoint is the controversial writing on this by New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof. See his wikipedia page for background:
Lesly Chan
1/23/2012 11:51:51 am
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Mackensie Minniear
1/22/2012 09:36:50 am
I have been thinking about how to make my topic more related to justice while still pertaining to eating disorders. I had a conversation with someone who believe that people with eating disorders need to simply "snap out of it", which is a sentiment I've heard a lot of especially in college. When I was thinking about it, I wondered if this was a fair assessment of not only people with eating disorders, but people with depression as well. Or what resources are available to people with mental illness beyond anti-depressants or just therapy. I was researching art therapy and eating disorders,and it turns out that there are many outlets, but not a lot of knowledge. It's a very rough idea, that needs some fine tuning. I've talked to one photo-journalist in the other class who seemed interesting, but if any one else has ideas or wants to collaborate, please let me know.
Abby Whyte
1/22/2012 03:35:28 pm
Hey, Im very interested your ideas involving depression, I was going in an anti-prescription direction with my topic and I think focusing on alternatives is an interesting angle. I was at costco recently and theres a whole aisle of different ibuprofen and aspirin brands. Maybe we can do something about "medicating america."
Jessica Oliveira
1/22/2012 12:58:01 pm
Last week in one of my courses my Professor was able to get the UCSB Reads book to every student in the class, Moby-Duck. The book is about a true story where thousands of plastic rubber ducks got lost at sea and begun showing up over a span of years all around the world. The book begins to bring up the topic of the garbage patches in the Pacific ocean, which brings me to my topic of the plastic bag ban. I'm thinking of interviewing some of the workers at the co-op as they have a reusable bag system there and have banned plastic bags even there even though the law did not go through. I was also thinking of interview someone from the UCSB Plastic Pollution Coalition.
Tessa Tapscott
1/22/2012 01:56:14 pm
I have met with a student in the photojournalism class that is also interested in animal rights issues to discuss a collaboration on this project. As I have thought about various animal rights related topics my ideas have evolved and divulged from one another. Taking Dr. Ross's advice I have begun looking into cases of horse neglect in the area as that seems to be an unfortunately common occurrence in the Southern California area. The cases involve starving, abandonment and often times hoarding, I want to know why these situations arise, why purchase the horse if you cannot support it? I plan to be in contact with the ASPCA, as well as some other more controversial organizations like PETA, auction organizations and race tracks.
Abby Whyte
1/22/2012 03:45:53 pm
I think I am going to be doing my project on depression and the negative stigmas attached it. I could also investigate the explosion of either depression, or over-diagnosis. There are multiple directions I could take this. Maybe just stigmas about mental illness in general. Or I could research corruption in the pharmaceutical industry or over-diagnosis.
Joel Dickenmann
1/23/2012 03:13:08 am
After two weeks of contemplating the meaning of the word justice, I reached the conclusion that I am primarily concerned with the meaning of the word in a social context. When reading other students’ ideas, I came across a comment made by Chris Jasinsky from the sociology 108 class:
Denna Taherzadeh
1/23/2012 05:26:55 am
I would really like to explore how our consumption choices here affect people's human rights across the world. I would particularly like to look into conflict minerals such as, the 3 T's (tantalum, tin and tungsten) used in electronics that fuel the conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. I not only want to focus on the horrific war in the DRC but also make a strong connection between the the victims and the consumers, as too often it is very difficult to see how much of an influence we as consumers may have. 1/23/2012 09:37:51 am
I am still interested in writing about yoga & meditation in prison systems. Unfortunately, I did not have the opportunity to visit or interview anyone with knowledge about this subject when I visited San Francisco this last weekend. I hope to schedule interviews within the next couple of weeks with yoga instructors who have taught yoga & meditation in prisons.
Minh N Nguyen
1/23/2012 12:49:24 pm
I am also interested in researching on job equality, but my justice project would revolve around discrimination and equal opportunities for LGBTQ members in the work environment. I will gain my resources from the director of the RCSGD and maybe talk to career services and human resources like Professor Ross suggested in the first post.
Alexis Kafkis
1/23/2012 02:34:02 pm
I studied in Italy last semester and found myself fully engaged in my Women in Italian Society course. Prior to this course I had no knowledge of the political corruption in Italian society and the media revolution. Aside from limited freedom for the media, the gravest results of the media revolution are the repercussions for women in Italy. Italy is ranked 84th in the world for gender equality. In 2010 they were placed 74th behind Kazakhstan in the World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Report. In the World Freedom Press index Italy was rank 77th regarding their ability to exercise freedom in press coverage. In 2003 Freedom House rated Italy as “partly free”, one of only 2 nations (along with Turkey) in the European Union. The organization found that media freedom in Italy remained constrained by the dominant authority of former prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi. I would have never guessed this was the social situation in a developed country such as Italy if I had not studied there.
Tanner Gore
1/24/2012 02:03:19 am
Hello fellow collaborators. For my Justice feature I am still undecided and contemplating a few ideas. I have been considering the Internal Affairs Bureau which is the division designed to police the police. Another idea that I have been considering is the horrific instances when a drunk driver survives a crash but kills other people. I have a few personal experiences with this and the injustice of the drunk driver walking away while others are dead still bothers me to this day. Also, because I am a huge sports fan I have considered the injustice of steroid use in professional sports that leave those who play by the rules out of the record books and in some cases out of jobs. My final idea and the one that I think pertains the most to this class's definition of justice would be when the justice system needs to step in to take custody of children whose parents are deemed unfit.
Tanner Gore
1/24/2012 02:04:46 am
I forgot to add my contact info on my original post so here it is. [email protected]. 714 552 5907 cell#
Cailin Nomad
1/29/2012 10:53:51 am
I have thought a lot about doing a subject that is really close to me and I have finally decided to dive head first into it. I have grown up in an affluent predominately white community my whole life. When I came to UCSB I fell for a soccer player from Ghana and my perspective changed completely. Suddenly we were a mixed race couple and it was a lot harder to deal with that I ever thought possible. We got pulled over once just so a cop could ask if I was "okay" presumably referring to the fact that I was in a car at night with a black man. This idea of race and racial injustice became more and more apparent as we dated. We faced multiple situations in which he was questioned without reason and many snide remarks and grimaces when we were out together including some from my own family. Also, a friend of ours got accused of rape a few years ago and it was a typical story of racial injustice. I used to visit him all the time until he got moved to a prison in Arizona but as the case played out it was clear that it was as simple as black and white. I love the idea of collaborating with Clare on her idea of Whiteness and what it means to be white today as well as talking to my friend in prison and understanding his opinion of how the world works. I think I could get a lot of good different perspectives on this idea and formulate a good thesis on the injustice of just being a different color in the United States.
Mariana Prestigiacomo
1/30/2012 03:16:34 am
Before I was thinking of the homeless but now I am more interested in low-income and homeless children. My dad is involved in an organization involving low-income and abused children; I thought he could give proper insight. I also talked to David Inocencio after his lecture and got his contact information. I plan on e-mailing and interviewing him along with my dad and getting other contact information through them. I also have a contact at Casa Esperanza who I could also interview along with interviewing homeless families in Casa.
Hannah Meade
1/30/2012 11:55:07 am
I'm thinking about looking into justice, or lack there of, in relationship with the elderly. From despicable nursing homes to their particular susceptibility to manipulation of many forms. This interests me primarily because our American society refuses to acknowledge or even respect the elderly, the dying precess and is generally terrified of death. We have created a culture obsessed with youth and vitality, turning our cheeks to the inevitable truth: we all get old and die.
Mariana
2/1/2012 06:29:09 pm
This made me think of the elderly in Asian cultures where grandparents live with their children and grandchildren rather than retirement homes. AND they're considered wise and respectful rather than sickly and pathetic. Such a contrast to the U.S.! 9/10/2012 02:40:28 pm
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