The Rabbit Proof Fence

The Rabbit Proof Fence is a very interesting film. I was able to view it throught YouTube after searching for hours online, Netflix, the library. I was also informed that we may be watching this film in class? Anyways, Tommy and I had recently done a project on the Australian Frontier Wars and we came across this video and thought that it would be very fitting to our topic at hand. This film is about a couple of young aboriginal, native, girls who come along to a fence. This fence was said to be over five thousand miles long. I believe, after watching the video, that this fence was made in order to seperate the aborigals from the white European settlers. I think this because in the film, this white settler that is in control of this orphanage for aboriginal children, has a main purpose of trying to get these children to lose their or form of tongues and tries to get them to only speak English. He also, I think this is very sick and wrong if you ask me, but He also believed that you could absolutely rid the “black” within the aboriginal people of Australia. He thought that you could keep breeding the black natives of Australia with a white person over and over again and everntually completely remove that trait from within these people. We all know that this is not true since we have all taken some sort of genetics in a science class. Anyways these two girls do their best to escape this “orphanage” in order to return to their mother. The first time they don’t get far before they get caught but the second time they make it. They eventually make it back to their mother. The big reason on why Tommy and I chose to use this film as a part in our presentation is because it really goes along with what may have happened after the Frontier Wars had ceased.

Hotel Rwanda

Okay, so we have recently started watching Hotel Rwanda. This movie is absolutely incredibly made. Not incredible, though, being that this is a film about the countless brutal murders of the people of Rwanda. This movie follows one family of a Hutu hotel owner. He does his best to keep the hotel up and running and to keep his family safe. He seems very upset that he has to tend to all these Military Generals and authority that he all-to-well knows that they are the ones responsible for the ordering of nearly a million people to be murdered senselessly. The genocide, so they are calling it, was mainly broought to with the use of machetes. Many machetes were illegally imported into Rwanda for the rebels according to this film. The whole issue at hand was that the government was killing many people for absolutely no other reason than THEY thought that these group of Tutsis didn’t look right. This is ver similar to what went on here in America long ago between the whites and the blacks, though machetes weren’t the main source of killings but we’re getting besides the point here. Tutsis were catagorized by certain features. It may have been that they had blue eyes or a large nose or small ears or bushy eye brows or absolutely anything that the government decided they didn’t like about them. It was only an excuse to murder nearly a million people and to stupidly show that THEY were the “power” of the land and they people MUST do as they say otherwise you would be killed. I really don’t think that any of this was necessary. I am speechless when it comes to thinking about what the natives Rwandians might have been thinking at the time or thinking about what they might have had to see like their family getting hacked to death by your local Rwandian people. It’s absolutely horrifying to think about!

Bombardier

Bombardier Inc, the world’s third largest planemaker has just sign over a $7.8 billion dollar order with VistaJet for 142 global aircraft for this Canadian Company’s success. The company is planning to make this a very historical order for Bombardier. They had placed an order a few years ago that had then brought their stocks up by 8 points. Bombardier plans to have the planes start shipping out by 2014. Now, what would YOU do with that much cash to spend? Do you think they did the right thing for the company? Is this the best decision they could make to expand the planemaking business? I think this was a huge investment! I also think that they did do the right thing by purchasing that many aircraft though because once your company has a high enough demand for your product, in their case to build an aircraft, you then have to have a higher supply that will then level out with the profit maximization point. Therefore, if they do not have enough aircraft to fly all the demanding customers, then business we decine because they are not maximizing their profit. They are below the market equilibrium of their aircraft sales. In order for this company to stay in business or at least keep expanding they need: more orders or demand, and increase in labor (creating more jobs for local people), increase in supply (the amount of already built aircraft), and satisfactory quality in the aircraft they sell in the market. Now, this is a global scale company. That then entails that they have a ton of people wanting to purchase an aircraft and while still being at least in the top three planemaking company in the world. This huge investment will not put them farther away from their competitors but actually ahead because it will boost their business and increase their maximized profit.

The Alchemyst

My plan for a end of the Independant Read, project:

I haven’t read too far into the book so far, but I am thinking that a project pertaining to either a comparison to another book that I have read, or some sort of an artistic picture that I can represent The Alchemyst’s meaning and how it pertains to the core subjects we are trying to relate to in this class. I also believe, that, with what I have read thus far, one of our four main questions might apply to what this book is about. I was thinking the, “Why must we take in consideration of what goes on around the world?” I mean this book is perfect for that. This book has everything to do about what is going on around the world. Grant it is fictional though it does have to do with what might be the world’s resulting outcome between the disputes of two very powerful warlocks.