Tuesday, December 11, 2007

"Hotel Rwanda" Feedback

"Do these sources support or contradict the views of events in Rwanda shown in the film?"

The sources support the veiws of events in the film. In source A, it says that the U.N. peacekeeping forces were disorganized. This was demonstrated in the film. For one thing, the peacekeepers couldn't even shoot. Also in the movie, there were refugees that
were hinding in the hotel. Then French U.N. forces came, but they only evacuated foreign nationals,
and abandoned the bulk of the refugees. This agrees with source B. Source C talks about machetes being imported into Rwanda from China. This is also in the film. The man the hotel manager meets with is importing them.

Monday, December 3, 2007

Feedback November 26-30


The main visual elements are Africa and the footprint on it. It is about the Europeans taking a lot of resources from Africa. The cartoonist thinks that what the Europeans did is bad and was harmful to Africa. I think the cartoonist thinks this because at the bottom of the depression of the footprint, the ground is white and parched. It is cracked dry ground. To improve the cartoon, the cartoonist could have made the footprint look like it had been made by a shoe with spikes on the bottom.

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