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ARTICLE-Can You Turn A Terrorist Back Into a itizen?

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ARTICLE-Can You Turn A Terrorist Back Into a itizen?

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THEME-You can not volunteer someone if they do not know about it and it is their choice
CENTRAL IDEA-The us starts a K9 core and it becomes very controversial
SOCIAL ISSUES-People were signing up their dogs for the military and you cant get a dogs consent so many people viewed this as animal abuse
EVIDENCE-They said that people thought that this was not ethical
AUTHOR TECHNIQUES-They go through key events in chronological order and say what peoples reactions were

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Susan Orlean tells us about the moment America asked untrained household canines to make the ultimate sacrifice: to serve in World War II. Susan talks to Gina Snyder, who remembers being a teenager when her dog Tommy joined the service. And Susan digs into the national archives to learn the fate of other dogs that fought on the front lines. A version of this story appears in Susan's book Rin Tin Tin: The Life and the Legend. (20 minutes)

Videos: Watch this military dog use training video, and a War Department Film Bulletin, called " Use of War Dogs." (No sound on that second one.)

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Susan Orlean tells us about the moment America asked untrained household canines to make the ultimate sacrifice: to serve in World War II. Susan talks to Gina Snyder, who remembers being a teenager when her dog Tommy joined the service. And Susan digs into the national archives to learn the fate of other dogs that fought on the front lines.

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PODCASTMore Perfect - American Pendulum I

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PODCASTMore Perfect - American Pendulum I

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THEME-Could we tell personal human surprising thought provoking stories about not just the justices but the people and the ideas that get in front of the court and in the process could we give our self's a new way of thinking about this country
CENTRAL IDEA-When something terrible happens you will come back from those dark things like a pendulum if you swing to far one way you will eventually come back for example the roaring 20's were some of the best times for America but when the pendulum came back down the great depression hit
SOCIAL ISSUES-Japanese American internment which was the incarceration in concentration camps of Japanese Americans during world war 2 just because of their heritage
EVIDENCE-They talked kind of about yin and yang and how every thing will equal out
AUTHOR TECHNIQUES-They tell stories and reflect on those stories now that they are older and more informed

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Radiolab Presents: More Perfect - American Pendulum I | Radiolab | WNYC Studios

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If you can’t find justice in the Supreme Court, can you find it someplace else?

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THEME-When you do something that is controversial be prepared for the opposing side to fight back
CENTRAL IDEA-The students of the University of Wisconsin did not want America to get involved in Vietnam and were anti war and a lot of kids went to University of Wisconsin because they wanted to protest but some kids just wanted to stay neutral and study so they did not like what was happening the people who did not like this got the police to send down some officers and they were not gentle to say the least.
SOCIAL ISSUES-People being drafted and America spending huge amounts of money on the war
EVIDENCE-They talked about the students getting drafted if they have low grades and how the kids who did protest were punished
AUTHOR TECHNIQUES-This story is told informatively and in sequential order.

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Student Protesters | American Experience | PBS

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As the Vietnam War escalated, more and more students at the University of Wisconsin were drawn into the demonstrations.

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THEME-People are capable of surviving and dealing with horrible things if they think they have a chance at a better life
CENTRAL IDEA-The living situations in these camps and makeshift camps is less than except able and there is a high chance of death and they do not say this directly but it is implied that we have to do something about these horrible living conditions
SOCIAL ISSUES-85% of the water is contaminated and the average living area is 17.15 sq. m
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AUTHOR TECHNIQUES-They use a lot of facts and diagrams

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Overcrowding, poor sanitation and limited health care in the Rohingya refugee areas of Bangladesh is a "recipe for disaster".

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VIDEO-A (brief) history of the world's trade wars 

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VIDEO-A (brief) history of the world's trade wars 

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THEME-Sometimes when you do something with a good intention people interpret it differently than you
CENTRAL IDEA-A history of the effects of tariffs on foreign goods and how it affected people
SOCIAL ISSUES-Tariffs were affecting people and even contributed to the great depression
EVIDENCE-They were saying that sometimes tariffs can be really helpful but other times they can be catastrophic
AUTHOR TECHNIQUES-They basically went through the history of tariffs in America and how they positively or negatively affected the people

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A (brief) history of the world's trade wars

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Chickens and trucks are just a few targets of recent trade spats. IMF historian Harold James walks through the history of trade wars in the 20th century with CNBC's Elizabeth Schulze in Washington.

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THEME- When people help each other, everyone achieves move.
CENTRAL IDEA- The central idea of this text is that there are so many refugees that everyone needs to help them in any way they can, like converting a western ranch into a sanctuary.
SOCIAL ISSUES- The refugees need places to go and there are so many of them that no one has space, so a cowboy amusement park turns itself into a camp to house them.
EVIDENCE- This video went into the
AUTHOR TECHNIQUES- When they switched between pictures of the different refugees to show that they're all different and human like us.

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As the Syrian crisis continues to rage on in the Middle East, there have been a lot of stories in the news about refugees looking for a home. Here in the United States, it's a topic surrounded by controversy. But, in Sweden-where asylum has been granted to 163,000 refugees-the issues are primarily logistical ones. Quite simply: where will they house all of them? Well, for 500 such people looking for refuge, that place just happens to be a Wild West theme park named High Chaparral.

This is a wonderful short doc-a combination of quirky subject matter (hey, an American-style cowboy theme park deep in a Swedish Forest!) and an emotional topic (families looking for sanctuary in the shadow of war). It's this marriage of sentiment and quirk that really makes High Chaparral stand out. To be honest, as a team, we've screened several short docs about the Syrian crisis. And, while most depict harrowing stories, they often feel overwrought (think meditative voiceover and lots of sad kid imagery). I don't mean to downplay the seriousness of the situation in that part of the world, but High Chaparral just feels fresh in comparison. It's inspiring, whereas so many other films about the subject seem to lack a defining factor. In other words, it's touching but never lugubrious.

"I've got a serious case of bad news fatigue."

Director David Freid elaborates about his motivations behind the film: "As a child of the 80's, with an impressionable head for headline news and charity infomercials, I grew up learning that the Amazon is in trouble, that Ethiopians are starving, that icebergs are melting, and that the Middle East conflict is constant and absolute. I'm older now, not much seems to have changed, and I've got a serious case of bad news fatigue. But there is some good too, and for a few hundred people looking for safety from war, it only takes a handful of Swedish/Lebanese/Syrian cowboys to do something meaningful."

There's an inherent ridiculousness to this situation-refugees living amongst fake old-timey saloons and horse corrals. But, it's also fittingly poetic. These are people who have been forced to flee their homeland, embarking on a journey into the unknown frontier. This is their new beginning. And, in turn, Freid and his team capture moments of simple humanity: the wonder of seeing fresh snow for the first time, or the compassion of the park's owner, Emil Erlandsson, who was willing to turn his family's long running business into a humanitarian Frontierland for the winter.

Like the case of most theme park visits, this unconventional arrangement will eventually have to come to an end. In the spring of this year, High Chaparral will once again need to open for tourist business, and, in effect, its current inhabitants will need to find new places to live. But, for the time being, Freid's great little short documentary manages to capture this strange, but hopeful epoch-a brief time when people forced from their homeland found solace in a modern recreation of the past.

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High Chaparral by David Freid | Short Film

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As the Syrian crisis continues to rage on in the Middle East, there have been a lot of stories in the news about refugees looking for a home. Here in the United States, it's a topic surrounded by controversy. But, in Sweden-where asylum has been granted to 163,000 refugees-the issues are primarily logistical ones.

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PODCAST-North Korea and South Korea made history this week

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PODCAST-North Korea and South Korea made history this week

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THEME-There is always a chance to rebuild a relationship even if you have not always been friendly.
CENTRAL IDEA-North and South Korea are starting to move toward peace
SOCIAL ISSUES-The North Koreans are starving, suffering and prisoners because Kim Jong Un wants a bigger nuclear arsenal
EVIDENCE-They talked about how historic this is and how this is the first step in the right direction
AUTHOR TECHNIQUES-They are very straight forward in this podcast about how they think.

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North Korea and South Korea made history this week

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Kim Jong Un and Moon Jae-in have pledged to work toward peace. Here’s what you need to know, explained in a podcast.

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CENTRAL IDEA- The refugees from Syria moving to Canada have a very different life to get used too.
SOCIAL ISSUES- The refugees get discriminated against very frequently.
EVIDENCE- In the video, Mohamed Alsaleh counsels newly arrived refugees to Canada. He helps them get accustom to the new community they're moving into. During which we see the struggles a family of five Syrian refugees have moving into another country.
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This short film tells the story of Mohammed Alsaleh, a young Syrian refugee granted asylum in Canada in 2014. After fleeing torture and imprisonment by the Assad regime, he is rebuilding his life. Mohammed counsels newly-arrived Syrian refugee families with the same Vancouver-based NGO that aided him during his own resettlement process.