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.

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.

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.

Vietnam war photo

Eddie Adams was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American photographer noted for portraits of celebrities and politicians and as a photojournalist having covered 13 wars.

"General Nguyen Ngoc Loan executing a Viet Cong prisoner in Saigon," won a 1969 Pulitzer Prize for its photographer Eddie Adams.

Dust bowl

The Dust Bowl was a period of severe dust storms causing major ecological and agricultural damage to American and Canadian prairie lands from 1930 to 1936
The phenomenon was caused by severe drought coupled with decades of extensive farming without crop rotation, fallow fields, cover crops or other techniques to prevent erosion.

A farmer and his sons walk through a dust storm in Cimarron country Oklahoma, United States during the Dust bowl period
For eight years dust blew on the southern plains. It came in a yellowish-brown haze from the South and in rolling walls of black from the North. The simplest acts of life-breathing, eating a meal, taking a walk -were no longer simple. Children wore dust masks to and from school, women hung wet sheets over windows in a futile attempt to stop the dirt, farmers watched helplessly as their crops blew away.

Poor agricultural practices and years of sustained drought caused the Dust Bowl. Plains grasslands had been deeply plowed and planted to wheat. During the years when there was adequate rainfall, the land produced bountiful crops. But as the droughts of the early 1930s deepened, the farmers kept plowing and planting and nothing would grow. The ground cover that held the soil in place was gone. The Plains winds whipped across the fields raising billowing clouds of dust to the skies. The skies could darken for days, and even the most well sealed homes could have a thick layer of dust on furniture. In some places the dust would drift like snow, covering farmsteads.

The war of the world

It happened the day before Halloween, on Oct. 30, 1938, when millions of Americans tuned in to a popular radio program that featured plays directed by, and often starring, Orson Welles. The performance that evening was an adaptation of the science fiction novel The War of the Worlds, about a Martian invasion of the earth. But in adapting the book for a radio play, Welles made an important change: under his direction the play was written and performed so it would sound like news broadcast about an invasion from Mars, a technique that, presumably, was intended to heighten the dramatic effect.

As the play unfolded, dance music was interrupted a number of times by fake news bulletins reporting that a "huge flaming object" had dropped on a farm near Grovers Mill, New Jersey. As members of the audience sat on the edge of their collective seat, actors playing news announcers, officials and other roles one would expect to hear in a news report, described the landing of an invasion force from Mars and the destruction of the United States. The broadcast also contained a number of explanations that it was all a radio play, but if members of the audience missed a brief explanation at the beginning, the next one didn't arrive until 40 minutes into the program.

As it listened to this simulation of a news broadcast, created with voice acting and sound effects, a portion of the audience concluded that it was hearing an actual news account of an invasion from Mars. People packed the roads, hid in cellars, loaded guns, even wrapped their heads in wet towels as protection from Martian poison gas, in an attempt to defend themselves against aliens, oblivious to the fact that they were acting out the role of the panic-stricken public that actually belonged in a radio play. People were stuck in a kind of virtual world in which fiction was confused for fact.

People in these days are accustomed to often unbelievable nonsense on television so if the radio war of the world is air now, it is not enough to believe. However, if I put myself in the shoes of listeners who turned in 1939 to The Mercury Theater on the Air's performance of The War of the Worlds, it might be one of the big issues.
I imagine that I am sitting in living room and listening radio.
I start to get uncomfortable when listening; "Ladies and gentlemen, this is the most terrifying thing I have ever witnessed...Someone's crawling out of the hollow top...The whole field's caught fire...It's coming this way. About twenty yards to my right—".
I don’t know whether I running out to the street or cry because I convinced that it’s the end of the world. Because

Case study#2 Pastor John Macarthur

John MacArthur is fifth-generation pastor, a bestselling author and a popular conference speaker. He is also the president of Grace to You and the featured teacher of the "Grace to You" radio program which airs more than 800 times daily on stations around the world.

"When God abandons a nation"

When abortion, sexual sin, vulgar entertainment, corruption, and anti-Christian hostility come to dominate a nation, you have to wonder when God's judgment will start.John MacArthur points out that God sometimes judges a nation by abandoning it to its sins, letting sin run its deadly course. Sin isn't merely something He punishes-sometimes it is the punishment. So what does it look like when God abandons a nation? Is that where we are today? What hope do Christians have in making a difference in the world if God, Himself, has given up on it?In John MacArthur's bold new message, "When God Abandons a Nation," you'll find biblical insights into the state of the nation today. You'll be comforted by the fact that even when everything around you seems to be hopelessly spiraling out of control, God is in perfect control. Even in the midst of judgment, He knows, loves, and protects His children.

Jang Ja-yeon was an actress who had been starring in the KBS television drama series Boys Over Flowers. She was being forced to sleep with chaebol business men. She had been suffering from depression, and a police investigation concluded that her death was a suicide.

Jang Ja-yeon was found hanged to death at her home. Jang had complained to her sister about the "overwhelming stress" she was under, saying that she "wants to die". A police investigation concluded that her death was a suicide, and found no evidence of foul play. An alleged suicide note left by Jang describes how she was beaten and forced to entertain and have sex with several program directors, CEOs and media executives, causing considerable debate about relations in the entertainment industry, as well as a police probe into her management agency.

When I heard the news that she committed suicide, I was very shocked.
I am also one of the big fans of the drama Boys over flowers and I cannot believe that.
What audiences can see through television is only celebrities’ pretty smile face with beautiful clothes. However, in behind, the situation what we couldn’t see is an immoral society. The judge said there are no evidences that she was being forced to sleep with business men so, the court declare not guilty. At the ceremony of awarding prizes, which is held the year-end, what people remember was not her poor death but beautiful actress who got prizes. The media still spotlighting famous celebrities.