Monday, October 25, 2010

 

United Nations Association Film Festival Oct. 22-31, 2010

Today in the morning class we watched The Murder of Willie Francis. Do a search in the blog for the assignment and post there.

Continue in SPHE. We are working on Be-Verb essay. Also continue reading your books and working on the Frontline World cyber-assignment.

For the afternoon class we watched two films: The Bicyle and Home Is Where You Find It. Visit www.unaff.org and read the synopsis on the film and taking into consideration the questions posed for the SE essay, respond to the film in three paragraphs. Include an example from the film in each paragraph. Don't forget to include the directors, country filmed and TRT or length.

Comments:
Miguel Ahumada
Professor Sabir
English 201A
25 October 2010

The Bicycle

HIV/AIDS Affects many people, there has not been many people educated and given materials for the disease , therefore the disease transfers to their children and their parents die and they become Orphans. Pax is doctor that attended twenty villages wand gave out materials and educated people about the disease and showed them how to treat themselves. All of the villages are in Southern Malawi. Pax has a big responsibility and he could reach more people only if he had a bicycle ambulance.
One out of five people in Africa have HIV/aids, but only one out of one hundred know they have it. People who have the disease pass it on to their children and they die and leave the children to be orphans. Children have to maintain themselves and other siblings when their parents die. Since they have no resources or medicine they get sick with other diseases and become very ill. The kids then go to a hospital were there is only doctor which is Pax and nine nurses.
One of the sick kids is in the hospital gets treated and he gets the news that he has tuberculoses, which is treatable. He then wants to get a HIV test and he is scared. The nurse confesses that she is HIV positive and that she takes her drug/medicine everyday and was shocking for the kid to hear. There are so many lives out there that have HIV and need treatment and educational resources so that there would be less people dying and the percentage of orphans would go down. Pax needs a bicycle ambulance to get to more people before it is too late and get to mope villages and educate young kids so that more resources would go around.
 
Folami Brumfield
Professor Sabir
English 201
25 October 2010

The Bicycle
Although Aids affects adults in the South African Community Malawi, there is also a great effect on the children, often orphaned when their parents die . Aids is a growing epidemic in the South African community of malawi. Three fourths of the community is HIV positive. Even the health care workers that work in the local clinic suffer from the disease of HIV, but with the proper anti-viral medications they are living a full and productive life. Pax is one of the Health care workers that helps HIV victims get the proper medication to proplong their lives.
The children are greatly affected the HIV epidemic. Once their parents heve died they are most often orphaned. Most of the family is poor and cannot afford to take them in. A lot of these children are HIV positive themselves. Very few of the children get the proper medical attention that is needed to stay alive
Pax the health care worker is not only HIV positive, but he helps his community with current and necessary infromation about HIV. He also wants implement A bicycle service so he can provide this aservice in 20 villages to help his community and surrounding communities.
 
Jimmy Tran

Professor Sabir

English 201A

15 October 2010


The Bicycle

Although Doreen has passed away due to the epidemic spreads of HIV and AIDS, the message was put out the people that this epidemic is happening and that people need to be more aware of this situation. Additionally if Pax was able to fix the information people were receiving, we now know that the whole village of Malawi would be able to know that in order to protect themselves, they would need to know that this spread of disease is happening.
Doreen death on the film makes people more aware about the severe spread of HIV/AIDS. For Example, in the film many people did not know much about this. The film demonstrated that Doreen had an infectious disease on her skin. It also showed that many people in the village were aware that if you were HIV positive, it was a bad thing. In the film, Doreen looked like she was lacking nutrition. All these things that emphasizes on Doreen shows people in the area were suffering also. Parents who has the disease passes this on to their children.
Pax has done a great job on taking care of individuals who needed help on this epidemic in Malawi. For example, the second film showed that Pax wanted more awareness. Additionally what was also touching during this film was the boy, the 16 year old photographer. He had been through so much because he had lost many loved ones. Obviously, this was mean to touch and educate people that many individuals had gone through so much drama because of HIV/AIDS. Poverty was a big cause to the boys struggle. His brother was sent to jail for stealing food trying to feed his family. His father was a good man and the message of this film was to make people more aware of what Pax had did.
 
Bundarin Ouk Jr
Profosser Sabir
English 201a
25 October 2010

The Bicycle

Diseases have taken over the community in Malawi. Where AIDs an HIV run free and nobody can really stop them from spreading unless you make the decision not to have sex. Pax Chingawale is from the community and had joined with expert doctors to help the sick. Pax owns a bicycle and travel over a little bit more then a dozen villages to help the sick. The areas that he covers are Zomba District and southern Malawi.

Pax takes in the hard job and believes in the traditional healing. Three quarters in this region believe in the traditional medicine. But often spread a little more of the diseases. He travels around monitoring all the sick getting treatment from doctors. About 700 people are needed to be treated, so a person like Pax plays a major role in the community.

He is not even a nurse or an expert at what he is doing so he must really care about his people. Traveling to 20 villages and only having a handle full of professional help. But he still volunteers, only having a bicycle and still impacted his community. He sort of knows how the way things work around there; because he knows when you do get AIDs or HIV people would say you deserve it. So he knows how things work and he is young, so there is much potential and I think he is doing the right thing.
 
Kaja Anderson
Professor Sabir
English 201B 1-2:50PM
25 October 2010

The Bicycle

Although Pax manages to deliver HIV/AIDS prevention and educational materials and medicines to 20 villages in Southern Malawi, Africa, he could reach more within the effected community if he had a bicycle ambulance. AIDS is the world’s deadliest diseases and Africa is where it was originated and where most of the deaths occur. The synopsis of this film shows how communities can join together to help people who battle with AIDS.
Pax Chingawale is not a doctor of any kind, but a volunteer who helps out people with AIDS to live longer. He is collaborated with a doctor, Dr. James, and also doctors without order. He pedals a bike twenty kilometers, which is about twelve and a half miles, per day around to twenty villages in Southern Malawi, Africa in search abandoned and ill people and also monitoring those who have AIDS and are being saved by ARV’s (anti retro-virals) a drug treatment that helps people with HIV/AIDS live a longer life. He worked with traditional healers, so that they wouldn’t feel disrespected as though their natural healings weren’t good enough, so he taught them to be more sanitized and clean with using any type of razors.
Pax hopes that forming an organization like this can help decrease deaths and help prevent children from being orphans. Although, ARV’s is not a cure for HIV/AIDS, he anticipates the continuance to spread the drug treatments, so that more families will be able to be together and not spread out and also in hopes of preventing this disease from spreading to more adults and adolescents.
 
Samon Pen

Professor Sabir

Engish 201A

25 October 2010

The Bicycle

Although Pax has managed to reach out to a community about safe practices, he is capable of reaching out to more people then twenty with a car, or by teaming up others. Pax’s reaching out is helpful especially when they need to take their medicines. The problems that Pax is facing are the traveling he would have to take to reach out to a person. Traveling through a town for twenty people is easy, but it would be harder if he had to reach people in different towns.
Pax would be able to travel more out of his distance, if he has more then a bike. The bicycle that he uses is good for traveling in town, but not villages. Pax can help other people then the villagers if he wants. The ways of doing that is if Pax gets a car.
By teaming up with others, Pax can reach out to more people. Teaming up with Dr. James is a great way to help out the people, but he also can help with others.
 
Evelyn Rodriguez-Gonzalez
Professor Sabir
English 201A
25 October 2010

The Bicycle

HIV is a disease that affects many people in the world. This disease wouldn't be so common if people were educated about it. In the village of Malawi HIV is one of the most common diseases around them. 1 out of 5 people from this village are infected with HIV. HIV is a disease that not only targets grown up but kids as well. In the village of Malawi this disease is passed down to the kids by their own parents.
One out of five people from this village were infected with this disease but, but only one out of one-hundred were aware of their disease. The bigger problem in this situation is that many of these people aren't educated about this disease and how it works. Many people from this village believe in traditional healers. But the traditional healers are many of the times the reason why people from this village are getting infected. As the healers perform their tasks they use the same blades or needles they used on another patient. By using the same tools over and over again they are passing down the disease to new patients.
Pax is one of the few from this village that is aware of how this disease works and how it could be controlled. Pax is on a mission to educate more than 20 villages about this disease. Pax works with nine other nurses in a hospital that help those in need. Pax and the nurses help those infected with HIV with ARVs. The hospital that Pax works with serve more than 600 people. Pax is doing a great job in informing people about this disease, but his job would become easier and would be able to get better results if he had a better way of transportation.
 
Ronald Parker
Professor Sabir
English 201B
27 October 2010

The Bicycle
In many places in the world HIV and Aids take a big roll in the lives of people, but we see a vast spread of this in Africa. People who went through as ARV patients who were sick and nearly dying all came back to thir normal selves of being healthy. Their hair grew back and skin looke normal and were finally able to breath again. A central hospital consisted of 9 nurses and doctor and thousands of patients. For this African to have a bike to ride an help people was an amazing act because he helped alot of people lives. i hope this organization can get funded so there can be more bicycles to travel to people who cant make it to a hospital to save their lives. i know this would be something i would be willing to doate to and my friends would also.
 
Ronald Parker
Professor Sabir
English 201B
27 October 2010

Willie Francis
This film for Willie Francis being wrongly accused for crimes he did not committ and being incarcerated for so long was a harsh thing to watch. His most jail time was served was when he was supposed to e in high school, he had went to the electric chair twice by the time he would have been a senior . he also dropped out of high school due to a severe stuttering problem. Incidents like this occur all over the world and race played a major role in this situation. the jury went to the majority of the vote in the beginning because they were all white they wanted to give the black man a sentence with not th least bit of evidence. Willie's life was ruined but his family and friends had stuck by him. he knew he didnt deserve this, but he also understood there were so many racist people in the world and there was nothing he could do about it. This is when i look at today and try and tell people we must stick together because all we have is ourselves. but then again race shouldnt be a issue God didnt. want this in his worl and we are tearing it apart each day
 
Adalie Villalobos
Professor Sabir
English 201B(8-9a.m)
27 October 2010

The Bicycle

HIV/AIDS has affected many people all over the world. There are many people affected in certain countries due to the fact that they are not as privileged as other countries. The country that Pax is in, Africa, does not have many doctors or hospitals as other countries do. One of the main reasons that HIV/AIDS was spread around very quickly was because of their home remedies that they felt was going to help. They give tattoos to those who has HIV/AIDS, which is by using a knife that is not properly sterilized for the next person.
A doctor advises that if they are going to continue doing the tattoos, that they properly sterilize the knives they use. Pax has an enormous responsibility to help those who have HIV/AIDS. He goes through all of the villages in Southern Malawi. Pax could've helped many more people if only he had a bicycle ambulance. All that he has at the moment is a regular bicycle.
The hospital that helps Malawi only has one doctor and nine nurses. Although they help as many people as they could, they are not able to save too many. Becuase a majority of people there do not know that they are infected, by the time they go to the hospital, it is too late for them. One in five people have HIV/AIDS and one in a hundred do not know they have it.Pax is trying the best that he could to try to help as many people out there possible but he is only one man and can do so much.
 
Adalie Villalobos
Professor Sabir
English 201B(8-9a.m)
27 October 2010

Willie Francis

Willie Francis was a sixteen-year-old boy who was falsely accused of killing the sheriff’s brother. When Francis was taken to jail, he waited for his punishment to go to the electric chair. When it was time for him to get electrocuted, something went wrong because he was not dying. He very much alive during the electrocution because he himself said that he was not dying. The counsel heard about the issue and thought about it carefully.
He was released, but soon after a stolen suitcase fell to his feet and because the police could not capture the real burglar, they took him in instead. Yet again, Francis was back in jail and the counsel spent a lot of time deciding how this was going to pan out. The nine counsels spent a long time deciding Francis’s future. One by one, they did not want him to go back to the electric chair. What they had actually felt was reasonable, was that he spend life in prison.
Many people respected Willie Francis who never even met him before. Many people wrote him letters telling him that he was strong and courageous. A lady asked him if he could give her brother his eyes because her brother was blind. Francis’s mother was furious at the fact he considered it so he did not go through with it. Francis died on May 9, 1947.
 
Dulguun Enkhtsogoo
Professor Sabir
English 201A
25 October 2010

Although deadly viruses such as HIV/AIDS affect many people, there have been many children that are orphaned because of the virus. This disease had been taken over Southern African Community Malawi, and in many cases in the community, people who were infected with the virus, dies and their children becomes an orphan. Most of the family in the community are poor, and don’t have access to medication. Their children are also HIV positive few of them have proper medication just to stay alive. Pax, who is a health care worker and a doctor, helps people to get their proper medication to prevent HIV and he hopes to get a bicycle in order to reach more people who need help. He also gives out all the information about the deadly virus to the community, and let them know that it’s deadly. But he can’t reach them all. There are so many lives out there that have HIV and need treatment and educational resources to understand the virus so they can prevent themselves from the disease and less people die from it.
 
Joanne Africano
Professor Sabir
English 201A 8-8:50am
31 October 2010

Willie Francis was a black man who was the first recipient of a failed execution. He went to prison for the murder of his drgustore boss at one time Andrew Thomas. The case had gone on for nine months unsolved until Francis was caught with Thomas' wallet. He was first executed in 1946, by the electric chair, which was a failure. It was said that the chair was set up incorrectly by an intoxicated prison gaurd and an inmate. He was reexecuted on May 9, 1947. After his death, documentaries were based on his life situation.
 
Edwin Peabody
Wanda Sabir
Eng 201A 8-850
28 October 2010

HIV is a disease that affects many people in the world. This disease has become very popular. HIV spreads through blood contact from someone infected with the disease. HIV is a fatal disease that has no cure. In the village of Malawi HIV is one of the most common diseases around them. 1 out of 5 people from this village are infected with HIV. In Malawi HIV has affected women, men and also children. Pax has taken action as a social entrepreneur to help the people of Malawi seek treatment for this painful disease.
Pax uses his bicycle to pedal village-to-village helping those who are infected with the disease of HIV. Pax is also a carrier of HIV and struggles with the disease every day. Many of the citizens of Malawi infected with this disease have given up hope and don’t have any knowledge on how to control the disease of HIV. In the video, there was a women who was infected with the disease and died because she didn’t receive treatment soon enough. Pax acts as a hero and encourages and provides treatment for the less fortunate people of Malawi.
In the videos there is a sick kid in the hospital who received a HIV test. The nurse informed him that she is HIV positive.The kid is very frightened about this outcome of his test. The nurse helps calm him down and tell him that he will be ok. HIV is a terrible disease that is growing all over the world. This disease may not have a cure but there are definitely ways to control this disease.
 
Joanne Africano
Professor Sabir
English 201A 8-8:50am
31 October 2010

The Bicycle
AIDS has effected many people in the world today. In the movie, one man experiences this through his own eyes. Pax Chingawale is a bicyclist who travels twenty kilometers a day, visiting neighbors to neighbors, house to house, village to village. He travels around to view people who are under the the influence of Anti Retro-Virals (ARV), a drug treatement for AIDS. Katerina Cizek is the director and Gerry Flahive is the producer.
AIDS today is a pandemic situation. It is a hard disease to find right away, yet some people can live with it for years.
 
Joanne Africano
Professor Sabir
English 201A 8-8:50am
31 October 2010

Home is Where You Find it

The director of this film is Alcides Soares and the producers are Neal Baer, Arthur Forney, Chris Zalla, and Malena Ruth.
Alcides Soares is a 16-year-old orphan with AIDS. The story shows Soares trying to find a new family and make a new life for himself. He is given a camera by Americans, and films his life. We view other orpahns of Reencontro, who also are taught how to film and photograph. Some of the photography is tragic, yet it is honest and we see what can really go on around there. Alcides finds an elderly woman to live with and, to his surprise, is reunited with his younger brother whom he hasn't seen in ten years.
 
Edwin Peabody
Wanda Sabir
Eng 201A 8-850
28 October 2010

The Murder on Willie Francis was a very shocking film. It told the story of a young black male having his life stripped from him all because he was at the wrong place at the wrong time. Willie is charged with murder and sentenced to receive the death penalty for a crime he did not commit. Although Willie is innocent, he does not complain nor grieve about the situation. Willie walks to his death bed with head up, not shedding a tear. He tells him self and those watching, that he will die as a man. This story reminds me of so many similar incidents that have occured. So many innocent black males going to jail for crimes they did not commit. This was a very sad story.
 
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