...The main point was to make Joseph Kony famous to the world for what terrible things he was doing to children in Africa in hopes to gain support from other countries to help in the lead to his arrest. Joseph Kony was part of a guerrilla group (LRA) who killed, kidnapped, raped, and beat people. Children also had their body parts forcibly removed by witch doctors. Kony kidnapped children then made girls into sex slaves and boys into child soldiers. The child soldiers were also forced to kill their own...
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...Jason Russle is the creator of Invisible Children Incorporation and the short film Kony 2012. Jason's goal was to make Joseph Kony famous by encouraging supporters to plaster the United States cities with posters, in order to make the fight against the Lord's Resistance Army an issue of “national interest” to Washington. In the short film Kony 2012 it is said that in Uganda Joseph Kony has abducted an estimate of 66,000 children, some of which have became soldiers or sex slaves. Several Ugandans are out raged about Jason's film because he has mad accusations that numerous things are happening in Uganda right now, and that we need to stop him by 2012. When really Joseph isn't even in Uganda anymore and the war has already subsided. “There has not been a single soul from the Lord's Resistance Army here since 2006. Now we have peace, people are back in their homes, they are planting their fields, they are starting their businesses. That is what people should help us with” (Unknown). Having looked over many articles and videos it shows that Ugandans are upset about Jason's video he has made without any real evidence to back him up on his accusations. Jason didn't even get enough research in to know what Kony's name actually is, it's pronounced “Kohn”. How are we suppose to be convinced by his video if Jason can't even get the name right. “My response to KONY 2012” by Rosebell Kagumire. Rosebell is originally...
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...many children. Many people are unaware of the inhumane and wretched experiences that happen in Uganda. Families cannot sleep peacefully at night because of unwanted attacks from rebels who torture and abduct their children. These children are then forced to be placed into an army, comprised mostly of children in an environment that radically changes their soul. Like the quote from Olara Otunnu, children are used as objects to carry forth actions that certain adults feel towards their civilization. If one is fortunate enough to escape or rescued then they must deal with the cruel effects of reintegrating into society. Research confirms that it is immoral to have child soldiers in Uganda because war-related experiences inhibit a healthy growth as a one suffers from psychological and physical trauma. Known to be one of the worse humanitarian crises since World War II, the epidemic in Uganda began over twenty years ago. This came about due to a man name Joseph Kony and his ideology of establishing a government based on the Ten Commandments (Benter 1). He believed with a large enough army, he would be able to overthrow the current system residing in Uganda today. One usually associates the idea of an army with adults; men and women who voluntary commit to serve their country for a certain amount of time. Kony believed he represented the people of Uganda, the Alcholi people, but his support dwindled and people ceased to join his army. In the article A Child’s Hell in the Lord’s Resistance...
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...How did the video Kony 2012 by Invisible Children Inc. become so popular within a few days and why was the hype over just as quickly? Abstract This short paper is concerned with the popularity of the video Kony 2012. We will both analyze the popularity of and the criticism on the content of the video, by examining how the video became so popular, focusing on the usage of social media, and how the criticism on the video evolved. Next to the explanation of the popularity of the video and the criticism on the video, we will address the positive and negative aspects of Kony 2012. Introduction There is one video on YouTube, launched on the 5th of March 2012, with more than 93 million views, evidenced to be the “fastest spreading viral video of all time” (Steel in Cavanagh, 2012). This video is named Kony 2012, after the man Joseph Kony, number one criminal in the world (Invisible Children, 2012). Kony 2012 focuses on the war in Northern Uganda, between the Lord’s Resistance Army founded by Joseph Kony and the citizens of Uganda. In 1988, Joseph Kony founded the LRA, with the aim to clean the nation spiritually (Blattman, 2009). Because not many people joined the army by free will, the army started abducting people. When in 1995 the recruitment got stronger and stronger, they started to abduct on a larger scale. From 1995 to 2004 they kidnapped 60,000 to 80,000 younger people (Blattman, 2009). In the video, Joseph Kony is accused of abducting youth, forcing them to kill their parents...
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...advantage of? This issue can strongly relate to the “KONY 2012” video that has been recently released. Many of the facts related to the conflict have been either modified or completely left out. So the question we must ask ourselves is: should Invisible Children, within their KONY 2012 video, be responsible for misrepresenting and diluting the overall complexity of the issue in order to raise money for their campaign? Ugandan History Uganda and Central Africa for that matter; have had conflict for many years. Due to its’ complex history there have been many reasons for the creation of the LRA and other rebel groups. Since 1962 divisions, due to ethnic conflict, armed rebellion has been seen by many groups in Uganda as the sole and legitimate means to express political grievances and attain political power.3In 1986, Yoweri Museveni took power over Uganda through his rebel army called the National Resistance Army (NRA). This was expected to end the division and rebellions during this period and long line of dictatorships but instead his rise to power perpetuated it. Since 1986 there have been at least 22 rebel groups created solely for resistance against Ugandan government; one of these groups was called the Uganda People's Democratic Army (UPDA). This group was created in southern Sudan to try and protect the Northern Ugandans from the NRA, which is the most impacted area of violence from these rebel groups. This rebel group gained popularity but despite this the UPDA ended up...
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...I. Exhortation A. Statistics 1. The LRA imprisoned over 65,000 children and created one of the world’s biggest displaced populations, well over two million people. 2. In a HIV test of 384 people, 107 (28%) were former child soldiers (61% were young men and 39% were young women). The median age of participants was 20 and the median age of abduction was 13. 3. 66,000 young people between the ages 14-30 were abducted by the LRA. 4. 250,000 young people are currently involved as child soldiers in conflicts in 14 countries or territories across the globe. B. Extra Facts/ Info 1. “Evil Africa” has good, pure, children caught in the midst. 2. One man preventing millions of people to go home, keeping kids hostage, abducting, and killing them. 3. Video from Invisible Children went viral, social media helped a lot, Oprah Winfrey and Rihanna supported on Twitter II. Narration A. People and their stories 1. Sam 2. Nicholas and Ninety 3. Catherine 4. Brother and Sister 5. Justin Isa 6. Patrick Chengo 7. Grace Aracha 8. Children B. Invisible Children 1. Video, how it went viral 2. About, solutions, problems C. Statistics 1. See *D* for it, lots of facts III. Partition A. Arguments/ Problems 1. Persuading Kony to retire 2. Children die, lots of casualties 3. Work together, Change 4. Social Change 5. Reconstruction, Time, and Effort IV. Refutation A. Proof ...
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...don’t realize is that this isn’t the motive. Children are traumatized by their family’s death, but they only want to survive. Although children are the ones pulling the trigger, it might be easy to forget that they are, first and foremost, children. Children can be easily manipulated, causing this to be a reason for the decision of taking a life. Even if a child is handling a gun, they were manipulated by adults to use it. Lastly, some may say that it is the child’s choice of joining, but most children are blinded by the opportunity of food, water, and shelter. They don’t take into account that at the price of this, they must be willing to kill. “Almost one in five children across the region – 28 million in all – now need immediate humanitarian assistance. More than 90% of these children live in countries affected by conflict, and in some cases families are sending their children to fight.” (McVeigh, Karen). Clearly, children are forced into military since it provides “free” water, food, and shelter. Drugs given to young children act like a parasite; it controls its host and their decisions. In the end, child soldiers should be given...
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...US AND ITS INSATIABLE DESIRE FOR OIL US IS SENDING ITS TROOPS WHEN KONY ALREADY GONE There are several reasons to believe that US troops are hunting for oil in Uganda and not for Joseph Kony. Kony is the leader of the rebel group LRA (Lord Resistance Army). They had been notorious for kidnapping children from villages, forcing the boys to become soldiers and using girls as sex slaves. In October 2011, the US government sent a hundred soldiers to Uganda with the excuse of helping these children escape from the revolutionary group’s abuse. The problem is, the LRA been gone from Uganda for more than six years. Nowadays, there seems to be a tendency from the US to invade countries like Iraq, Libya and now Uganda; countries with political problems, high corruption and poverty. Countries that are usually rich in oil. To illustrate, the US army invaded Iraq on March 18, 2003. This country had the world’s fourth-largest oil reserves according to The World Factbook by CIA (cia.gov, Internet). The official reason for the attack was to disarm Sadam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction. Nine years have passed and they found only basic weapons. Many believe that they were really hunting oil. The fact that Exxon, Mobil, Shell, Total, BP, Chevron and a number of smaller oil companies got no-bid millionaire contracts to service Iraq’s largest fields seems to support this. Before US invasion since 1973, these companies were obligated to leave the country excluding them from the Iraqi...
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...advertising, as well as elections. In one case, Ramsey Clark was challenging Jacob Javits for his New York Senate seat. Clark used position papers to reach out to the public and show them his policies. Javits mainly used thirty-second television commercials. The commercials appealed to the instantaneous public: "He [Javits] won the election by the largest plurality in New York State history" (Postman 130). Society would much rather watch commercials and let them become the basis of its opinions than read researched position papers. The media wins out. This can also be seen in the modern day with so-called humanitarians attempting to help those who are miserable. A prime example is a viral video entitled KONY 2012. In this film advertisement for Invisible...
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...films including Lincoln and Spotlight. FOLLOW US Takepart Share Facebook Twitter Email App Google +1 Tumblr Your Reach Take Action A U.S. Special Forces service member and a soldier with the Uganda People's Defence Force search the area near Pambayamba, in the Central African Republic, for indicted war criminal Joseph Kony, leader of the Lord's Resistance Army, on March 30, 2016. (Photo: Andrew Craft) takepart #longform Hunting Joseph Kony U.S. Special Forces searching for a rebel leader indicted for war crimes discover a different mission could prove even more important. May 6, 2016 Kevin Maurer is a journalist and coauthor of No Easy Day: The Firsthand Account of the Mission That...
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...Syria and many other countries in the world there are still children being recruited to war. (according to Reliefweb) In fact, child soldiers are used for fighting. For instance, kids are forced to take part in wars, forced to kill, and commit other acts of violence. In addition,the children are used as cooks, porters, messengers, informants, spies or anything their commanders want them to do. Many people believe that child soldiers should not be given amnesty, however, I believe that these juveniles should because they are forced to take part in the military, are also not old enough to know how to make the right decisions. Also these adolescents do not have 100% control over their...
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...By promoting collective collaboration, we are shaping the guidelines to live by that we are most comfortable with. When individuals strongly disagree with the majority’s point of view, they are influenced to carry out deviant acts to prove a point. Moral crusades may occur to fight back certain deviant acts or deviant people to try an bring back the social norm. A recent story has gone viral on the internet entitled Kony 2012. This video features a human rights activist group called the “Invisible Children” and their attempt to capture Joseph Kony, the founder of the LRA which is also known as the Lord’s Resistance Army. Jason Russell, the co-founder of Invisible Children, was the narrator of the viral Youtube video. In this video, he attempted to explain the purpose of Invisible Children and their main motive into tracking down the LRA and capturing Joseph Kony. According to an article posted on CNN’s website, Joseph Kony was labeled as a “specially designated global terrorist.” Evidence and years of research reveal that Joseph Kony began this group in an attempt to become a powerful political figure. He did this...
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...what is youtube? YouTube is a video sharing website that has changed the way we share and receive information, entertainment, education and advertising across the globe. YouTube was founded in February 2005 by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen and Jawed Karim, ex employees of net banking system "PayPal."Within one year of its launch, in November 2006, YouTube was sold to Google for $1.65 billion. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/6034577.stm Since then it has become a worldwide phenomenon. Four billion hours of video are watched each month with 72 hours of video uploaded every minute. http://www.youtube.com/yt/press/statistics.html YouTube has become embedded within our culture. How does it work? what does it have to offer YouTube is designed to let people share videos with the world. According to the websites own definition: "YouTube allows billions of people to discover, watch and share originally-created videos. YouTube provides a forum for people to connect, inform, and inspire others across the globe and acts as a distribution platform for original content creators and advertisers large and small. Users create an account and can start uploading any video file they may own. It offers the ability to browse videos based on channel and popularity, giving a central location to search videos on the internet. YouTube helped pave the way for video blogs . Giving people the ability to record and upload their opinions and/or information on a regular basis with extreme ease. In terms...
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...2011|Certificate in Protection of Human Research Participants - Extramural Research |National Institutes of Health-USA| 2009|Certificate in Public Health|Makerere University| 2009|Certificate in Ethics and Integrity|Kyambogo University| 2009|Certificate in Monitoring and Evaluation|Makerere University| 2004 – 2005|Uganda Advanced Certificate of Education (UACE)|St Kizito S.S, Bugolobi-Kampala| 2000 – 2003|Uganda Certificate of Education. (UCE)|St Joseph’s College, Layibi-Gulu| 1993 – 1999|Primary Leaving Examinations (PLE)|Bishop Angelo Negri Primary School| Biography Nono Denis, 29 Gulu, Uganda Denis has 3 years of experience in both the non-profit and government organizations in Uganda. Denis grew up in the middle of the 26-year Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) war that claimed thousands of lives in Northern Uganda. Denis joined the U.S Peace Corps in 2011 as a Cross Culture Facilitator representing Northern Uganda where he worked closely with 46 U.S Peace Corps volunteers. He was the only Facilitator selected to develop the Calendar of Training Events (COTE) and the Acholi Language Training Manual by the U.S Peace Corps, Directorate of Training and Development. In the last eight months, he was working for a World Bank Project coordinated and implemented at Gulu University, monitored by Tridos Facet (Netherlands) named “Consolidation of Peace through Strengthening Women Economic Associations in Northern Uganda” as a Project Officer (Women’s...
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...Johnathon Henderson HSSU 300 Section 06 Final Project Portfolio 1. This is the list of my other courses and the grades that I expect to receive. Course Title Expected Grade BSAD 0225 |Business Diversity and Ethics | B+ BSAD 0400 |Business Government Relations | B MRKT 0370|Retail Management | A POSC 0200 |American Government Survey | A MIS 305 |Business Application of Software and Networks | B 2. Skills and tips that I have learned from this class that has helped me in my other classes consists of how to properly construct an outline, tips on time management, useful study habits, tips on managing stress, tips on test taking, etc. 3. This is the list of time management strategies that I have used. a. Broke down strategies into small portions b. Set start and end scopes of projects c. Rewarded myself after my hard-work to stay motivated d. Stuck to my plan 4. The personal contributions I have made to the class was during the open discussion of topics I actively participated and gave my point of view which were different from the other students in attempts to trying to bring diversity to the classroom. A list of strengths and weakness of this course include: Strengths a. Gives students a platform to discuss issues from different perspectives and gives an opportunity for students to learn from each other. b...
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