Saturday, February 26, 2011
Amazing: Egyptian Uprising
The fall of a modern-day Egyptian pharaoh: Mubarak. In your blog post, answer at least one of the following questions:
1. What will or should be written about him in the annuls of history and in classroom textbooks?
2. If you were a historian decades later, how would you describe the political scene in Egypt during 2011?
3. After 30 years in power, what finally led to the uprising?
4. What's your opinion/perspective on the matter?
5. Lastly, feel free to comment on the video and/or the music (Kanye West, "Amazing" - The lyrics are perfectly synchronized with the video). Which segment/clip of the video stands out to you the most? Let us know by indicating the exact time it appears (for example, 0:02-0:06).
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amazing was... an interesting selection i found it on youtube
ReplyDelete@ Pandora - what made the video interesting to you?
ReplyDeletebtw, Pandora? Are you Celeste?
ReplyDeleteQuestion #3
ReplyDeleteI think there aren't anymore changes. Mubarak isn't doing anything and people still have to pay him taxes. Why do they have to? Where does all the money go? This is what made them angry. There wasn't enough employment in Egypt. The police were the ones attacking the people. Even before the protest! That wasn't the army. The people give them respect. The Tunisian protest was inspiring to the Egyptian people and that gave them the thought that it was time that Mubarak should leave. Another thing is that the rich people became richer and had power like the government officials in Ancient Egypt. The citizens were becoming more poor like the peasants. There wasn't democracy at that time, and that's why Mubarak wanted his son, Jamal, to become president.
That is VERY amazing! My favorite clips where at 0:32 and 1:28, I'm iffy with the song choice since it fits, but I would have perfered something diffrent. This reminds me of the civil rights movement, what with all the people who had more athority trying to break the protesters with force, and violence and the protesters just hanging out there not hurting anyone. Power to the people!
ReplyDeleteQ #3
ReplyDeleteThis uprising started by Mubarak forcing on the taxes for the helpless Egyptians. Also, maybe the people are just tired of him being president for so so long.
Q#4
ReplyDeleteI think that this is wrong. It seems like everybody in the video was getting beat up or suffering. I feel sad that all these people are getting tortured because of this.
Q#4 I think Mumbarak should just get out if so many helpless Egpytians lined up to protest his tyrant ways.
ReplyDeleteQ#4
ReplyDeleteMy opinion for this is that the armies shouldn't use violence to stop this event, they should have other ways of stopping it. If that much people despites Mubarak, he should of just quit the job of president before the most serious part of the uprising.
Q#4 because Mubarak is like making people suffer and they don't even care. People think of him as Hitler.
ReplyDeleteQ#4: I think that the egyptians have gotten bored of him and his ways. They want a change. Mubarak might as well give his position to someone else if no one likes your laws and rules.
ReplyDeleteQ#3:
ReplyDeleteAFTER 30 YEARS my what a long long long long long lllllllllllllooooooooooooooooooonnnnnnnnnnnnngggggggggggggggggggggg reign
The taxes are rising, the people are rioting no one is happy c'mon president person: GIVE UP NO ONE IS HAPPY!
The song was good...
ReplyDeleteand at the end the guy stood up for himself...
4. What's your opinion/perspective on the matter?
ReplyDeleteI think people don't like how he rule because of the unfair things he does with Egypt and its economy?
economy... THEY SHOULD SET SOME RULES !!!!!!!!
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