INTL 101 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Operation Wetback, Human Capital Flight, Gendercide
2 Jul 2018
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INTL 101 Study Guide for Midterm #1
The exam is 40 points or 20% of your course grade. It will consist of approximately 15-20
multiple choice questions, 4-6 identification terms and possibly a short essay question. The
exam will weigh lectures and readings with equal importance. (Lectures include the videos
and guest speakers.)
Videos
“Control Room”
●Central Command is the #1 Way the US gets media service from the War
●Saadam wants US to always feel as though they’re threatened
●US bombed N Iraq and killed many bystanders
○Anti-American Sentiment, Civilian Casualites
●Centicom = biased towards Saadams regime
○Shows only US troops and violence
○No footage of Saadam using civilians as human shields
○Al Jazeera supports and protects Saadam even though he’s killed the most
Muslims
●Al Jazeera plays propaganda: after a bomb hits they grab women and children and put
them in front of the camera
●Any war has human cost
●Bush says he expects the POWs to be treated humainly
●Al Jazeera broadcasts footage of POW, shown in America
●No journalists can be “objective” about the war, its a mirage. All broadcasts have an
agenda
●Al Jazeera = open and lets American public officials speak on their network
●Media can instill a false sense of hope and triumph
●Arab nationalism = anti-americanism
●Our responsibility to reach out and understand the Arab perspective and hope they do the
same
●Not a long history of being able to say whatever you want in Iraq, so Al Jazeera is
breaking bounds
●Pack of cards with Arab most wanted for military to refer to… said they would be
available to press then JK (55 members of regime the US wants dead or alive)
●US cant give out too much intel to the press or the Arabs will know where troops are
●Saadam is trying to come between American liberators and Iraq people
●Soon there will be no more room for calm people, all Arab footage is screaming people
●US thinks precision bombs justify killing civilians bc it kills less people
●Arabs use kids as propaganda, screaming things in Camera
●U.S. military bombs Al Jazeera office and they get footage of it - what should journalists
do to surrender? Journalist killed. People are scared bc media isnt supposed to be
targeted.
“Silent Killer”
Silent Killer: The Unfinished Campaign Against Hunger
Cost, taste, convenience, social interaction, tremendous amount of meals are eaten in
automobiles, where food comes from and means production, social justice, vitamins, nutrition,
seasonality, enriches culture to only eat certain things at certain time of year.
Found online (we only watched a little bit in class): Narrated by National Public Radio's Scott
Simon, the film begins in South Africa's Kalahari Desert, where razor-thin Bushmen use the
Hoodia cactus to fend off hunger. But now, a drug firm has patented the Hoodia's
appetite-suppressant properties and is using it to make a diet product for obese Americans and
Europeans. Hoodia is a metaphor for a world where some people die from too much food, but
millions more die from too little.
“Paying the Price”
Migrant farmers in the toxic fields of Sinaloa.
Millions of people in Mexico have to leave their families to go find work in agrobusiness
About a camp in Sinaloa that is much like the other 200 in the region. Fruits and vegetables
grown to be exported to the US and Canada. People are displaced, work a lot and still cannot
save enough. Man at agrobusiness camp wants to give people more money so he has them work
on the weekends and long hours during the day. Lots of kids don’t have the opportunity to go to
school, school for workers has been shut down, the result is illiterate children who end up too
embarassed to go back into the school system because they are so far behind.
Notes I took from watching in class:
Dependence on chemicals to grow. Political parties trapped farmers in. No money, you have to
work/or you can’t eat, everything is drying up. Displacement. No future, dispossessed people,
looked down upon because indigenous. Guerrero to Good year farms takes 35-45 hours. Farm
sells to Canada and the US. Oriental food. Work season is four to six months. $12 a day for 10
hours of work.
Questions to consider:
While the video “Control Room” focuses on media and the 2nd Gulf War, what does it
imply about coverage of international issues in general?
●All media is bias. They gear towards their own countries nationalism. Propaganda. You
will never see the same story on the same issues from different countries or major news
stations. They all gear their stories towards something different.
●Al Jazeera: Any war has a human cost, they care for the Iraqi people
●Al Jazeera showing both sides the death of soldiers and the deaths of the Iraqis.
●Defining objectivity seems unclear as only the higher up seem to know. As seen
countless times from the Iraqi side they show how bush does not provide freedom as he
states but rather, destruction.
●Even people who were trying to be objective steer toward their pre conceived notions and
stereotypes or rather offer vague glimpses in as to the reality of the war as seen in the
multiple press conferences held by the American Troops. It also implies how there are
two sides to every story
●news director had modified the network's coverage of the Iraq war in response to pressure
from the United States. showing how power can dictate the perceptions of news that
people see
●Coverage tends to favor the country that is covering it. Ex: Al-Jazeera covered many
bombings of Iraq that the U.S. kept quiet about
In the age of mass communication, what factors make it possible for affluent people to
ignore the plight of the world’s poor?
●Media doesn't cover issues in poor countries that can't afford to support the media so the
affluent people don't get to see the issues in poor countries. They get to ignore because
they don't see it everyday and don't realize it's happening. Affluent people don't want to
hear things that could negatively affect them.
●in America if the price of wheat doubles bread prob. goes from 2$to2.10$ bc it mainly
pertains to shipping and transport costs, but when people have to make their own bread in
say india prices do indeed doubles
●developing countries have to rely on traditional farming practices that are labor intensive,
with low yields, while affluent countries can afford commercial farming styles
●stories of famine and death don't affect the majority of the affluent therefore they can
keep on living their lives with their own worries about the economy when people are
starving on the other side of the country.
●The news and mass media coverage don't tend to focus on issues surrounding the world's
poor. Instead they pick big stories that are guaranteed to attract large audiences.
Therefore natural disasters, disease outbreaks (ebola) and large protests are more popular
due to their nature to attract more people. In general they're more exciting to viewers
compared to the depressing reality of widespread world poverty. As a result it's easy for
affluent people to ignore this reality since the media doesn't focus on it.
Describe the current relationship between food production, population, and food prices.
●The supply and demand cycle means that the more people there are eating, the more food
that needs to be produced, the more expensive the crop becomes. They’re directly related.
What factors contribute the rise in global food prices?
●Increasing oil prices
●Ethanol Production
●Shortages in grain harvests from key grain exporting countries
Document Summary
The exam is 40 points or 20% of your course grade. It will consist of approximately 15-20 multiple choice questions, 4-6 identification terms and possibly a short essay question. The exam will weigh lectures and readings with equal importance. (lectures include the videos and guest speakers. ) Central command is the #1 way the us gets media service from the war. Saadam wants us to always feel as though they"re threatened. Us bombed n iraq and killed many bystanders. No footage of saadam using civilians as human shields. Al jazeera supports and protects saadam even though he"s killed the most. Al jazeera plays propaganda: after a bomb hits they grab women and children and put them in front of the camera. Bush says he expects the pows to be treated humainly. Al jazeera broadcasts footage of pow, shown in america. No journalists can be objective about the war, its a mirage.
