Tuesday 8 June 2010
Saturday 15 May 2010
Iwo Jima & Fallujah
The United States attack Fallujah on month following the 2003 invasion of Iraq. It was led by United States Marine Corps against Iraqi insurgency in the city of Fallujah.
The battle of Iwo Jima was a battle in which the United States fought for and captured Iwo Jima from Japan. The picture, that raising of the U.S. flag on top of mountain by five Marines and one Navy corpsman, become iconic image of the battle.
Fallujah and Iwo Jima both are Marine battle and it had heavy casualties.
The Fallujah video is describe enemy of soldiers, high-tech weapon and America forces step in to reclaim the city for Iraqi people. It said that along with the marines, the army is placed in crucial role in the invasion.
Korea is related with Fallujah. Fallujah was outbreak after Iraq war and Korean troops were sending to Iraq. At that time Kim Sun-ill, who was a translator and Christian missionary was kidnapped. Iraq demands cancel its plans to send 3000 more troops to Iraq and withdraw military and engineers already there. However Korea refused to meet their demands and Kim Sun-ill was beheaded. So through this case, people make organization and have demonstrate about send troops. Public opinion has been sharply divided over the troop dispatch but government was kept fighting.
I think making peaceful world by eradicating the war completely and immediately is hard but it shouldn’t make the human loss involved in a war through only for national interest and political economic. The war only can mark by severe human right violations and caused widespread destruction and humanitarian crisis.
The battle of Iwo Jima was a battle in which the United States fought for and captured Iwo Jima from Japan. The picture, that raising of the U.S. flag on top of mountain by five Marines and one Navy corpsman, become iconic image of the battle.
Fallujah and Iwo Jima both are Marine battle and it had heavy casualties.
The Fallujah video is describe enemy of soldiers, high-tech weapon and America forces step in to reclaim the city for Iraqi people. It said that along with the marines, the army is placed in crucial role in the invasion.
Korea is related with Fallujah. Fallujah was outbreak after Iraq war and Korean troops were sending to Iraq. At that time Kim Sun-ill, who was a translator and Christian missionary was kidnapped. Iraq demands cancel its plans to send 3000 more troops to Iraq and withdraw military and engineers already there. However Korea refused to meet their demands and Kim Sun-ill was beheaded. So through this case, people make organization and have demonstrate about send troops. Public opinion has been sharply divided over the troop dispatch but government was kept fighting.
I think making peaceful world by eradicating the war completely and immediately is hard but it shouldn’t make the human loss involved in a war through only for national interest and political economic. The war only can mark by severe human right violations and caused widespread destruction and humanitarian crisis.
Saturday 8 May 2010
Hurricane Katrina
Hurricane Katrina of the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season was the costliest hurricane, as well as one of the five deadliest, in the history of the United States. Among recorded Atlantic hurricanes, it was the sixth strongest overall.
Hurricane Katrina was set to become one of the most powerful storms to strike the United States, with winds of 257 kilometers per hour (160 miles per hour) and stronger gusts. The air pressure, another indicator of hurricane strength, at the center of this Category 5 storm measured 902 millibars, the fourth lowest air pressure on record for an Atlantic storm. The lower the air pressure, the more powerful the storm.
Communication project# 12
1.The earth is 6378 km in radius, and light would travel seven times around the earth in one second if it could travel in a circle like this.2. The moon is about one-quarter the diameter of the earth, and is 1.25 light-seconds away—corresponding to about 30 earth diameters.
3.The sun is 109 times the diameter of the earth, and about 8 light-minutes away
Olympus Mons: 27 km
Mount Everest: 8,849 m
Olympus Mons is three times as tall as Mount Everest
Katrina: 175 mph (280 km/h)
The red spot on Jupiter: about 25,000 ~ 40,000kilometers
Red spot is three times bigger than earth.
Valles Marineris: 4,000 kilometres (2,500 miles)
Grand Canyon: 446 km(277 miles)
Valles Marineris is about nine times as long as Grand Canyon.
VV Cephei is an eclipsing binary star system located in the constellation Cepheus, approximately 2,400 light years from Earth.
Earth: 12,742 km
Sun: 1,393.000 km (865,570.0707 miles)
VV Cephei: 1600-1900 R
2000 times bigger than our Sun.
Saturday 24 April 2010
Case study# 11
Prepare the remote operated video enhanced receiver (ROVER) to receive a video signal from the MQ-1 Predator unmanned aerial vehicle in Fallon.Actually I don’t have much knowledge about military issues but I think remotely operated video enhanced receiver (ROVER) is good for provides sensor data on the ground.
As our technology is getting developing and now completely change every years, and even knowledge of existing, knowing what and who is our enemy is a big deal.
As the power of drone armies are increase, it has to open up more targets with more vulnerability to hacking. However, at the same time, I think that it has possibility that evoke moral issue.
Sunday 18 April 2010
Case study # 3
The rate that media exposure is different depending on the each situation. Also media press stories depending on bias. Some crime not really allowed pressing through media. Media try to keep the story quiet. I think there is no love crime and media should cover all stories equally.
Even though hate is one of the human emotions, like love, hate can evoke jealousy or anger.
Usually crimes are committed for reasons of ethnic or gender hatred rather than reasons of love. If the world is full of love, there will be more peace and becoming safe place.
Here are the stories about crime.
1. Rodney king and Reginald Denny
On March 3, 1991, video tape captured Rodney King, an African-American, being repeatedly beaten by a group of LAPD (Los Angeles Police Department) officers. More than a year later, on April 29, 1992, all four officers (three white and one Hispanic) were acquitted when the jury could not reach a verdict. The result sparked outrage about racism across the country, especially in South Central Los Angeles and South East Los Angeles where a largely African-American mob took to the streets shouting "Black justice!" and "No justice, no peace!" in what became known as the 1992 Los Angeles riots. Reginald Denny, a white construction truck driver was beaten nearly to death by a group of black assailants who came to be known as the L.A. Four(The L.A. Four was a nickname given to the first four men charged with the attack on Denny). The attack was captured by a Los Angeles News Service helicopter piloted by Bob Tur and shot by Marika Tur. The video was broadcast live on US national television.
2. Channon Christian
Channon Christian and Chris Newsom were kidnapped. While Channon was forced to watch, her boyfriend was raped prison style and then his penis was cut off.
She was beaten and raped in many ways and gang separated her dead body to five trash bags and threw it away.
3. Abeer Hamza
A 14 years old girl, Abeer Hamza, was gang-raped and murdered after her family was murdered. Five United States Army soldiers of te 502nd Infantry Regiment were charged with the crimes.
4. James Byrd
The three men beat Byrd behind a convenience store, dumped their victim’s mutilated remains in the town’s black cemetery. Byrd’s murder was strongly condemned by Jesse Jackson and the Martin Luther king Center as an act of vicious racism and focused national attention on the prevalence of white supremacist prison gangs.
Even though hate is one of the human emotions, like love, hate can evoke jealousy or anger.
Usually crimes are committed for reasons of ethnic or gender hatred rather than reasons of love. If the world is full of love, there will be more peace and becoming safe place.
Here are the stories about crime.
1. Rodney king and Reginald Denny
On March 3, 1991, video tape captured Rodney King, an African-American, being repeatedly beaten by a group of LAPD (Los Angeles Police Department) officers. More than a year later, on April 29, 1992, all four officers (three white and one Hispanic) were acquitted when the jury could not reach a verdict. The result sparked outrage about racism across the country, especially in South Central Los Angeles and South East Los Angeles where a largely African-American mob took to the streets shouting "Black justice!" and "No justice, no peace!" in what became known as the 1992 Los Angeles riots. Reginald Denny, a white construction truck driver was beaten nearly to death by a group of black assailants who came to be known as the L.A. Four(The L.A. Four was a nickname given to the first four men charged with the attack on Denny). The attack was captured by a Los Angeles News Service helicopter piloted by Bob Tur and shot by Marika Tur. The video was broadcast live on US national television.
2. Channon Christian
Channon Christian and Chris Newsom were kidnapped. While Channon was forced to watch, her boyfriend was raped prison style and then his penis was cut off.
She was beaten and raped in many ways and gang separated her dead body to five trash bags and threw it away.
3. Abeer Hamza
A 14 years old girl, Abeer Hamza, was gang-raped and murdered after her family was murdered. Five United States Army soldiers of te 502nd Infantry Regiment were charged with the crimes.
4. James Byrd
The three men beat Byrd behind a convenience store, dumped their victim’s mutilated remains in the town’s black cemetery. Byrd’s murder was strongly condemned by Jesse Jackson and the Martin Luther king Center as an act of vicious racism and focused national attention on the prevalence of white supremacist prison gangs.
Absolutist and Golden Rule
Absolutist
The decision not to run a photograph in a newspaper of a mother grieving over a child who has been injured or killed by a drunk driver would be an example of the absolutist ethical principle.
The golden rule
the ethics of reciprocity. Treat others as you would like to be treated (or, as as George Bernard Shaw implied in 1903, the Golden Rule can be oppressive. He said: "Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.") In this model, the photographer treats people as s/he would expect to be treated in return. The Golden Rule has a reference in all the world's religions and can be seen as the root of all core values. In an ideal world, if everyone applied the golden rule to the way they conducted their lives there would be no conflict, war or atrocity to photograph.
The decision not to run a photograph in a newspaper of a mother grieving over a child who has been injured or killed by a drunk driver would be an example of the absolutist ethical principle.
The golden rule
the ethics of reciprocity. Treat others as you would like to be treated (or, as as George Bernard Shaw implied in 1903, the Golden Rule can be oppressive. He said: "Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.") In this model, the photographer treats people as s/he would expect to be treated in return. The Golden Rule has a reference in all the world's religions and can be seen as the root of all core values. In an ideal world, if everyone applied the golden rule to the way they conducted their lives there would be no conflict, war or atrocity to photograph.
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