- What did Damas Gisimba, Carl Wilkens, and Simon Weil Lipman value, and what risks did they take by holding onto their values?
- What values did the children of the orphanage demonstrate?
- As events unfolded, what were Damas Gisimba's concerns?
- What does it mean - as both Simone Weil Lipman and Damas Gisimba state - to "see the other as yourself?"
Think back to the incidents that took place during the Rwandan genocide:
- What role did the international community play during the genocide?
- Does the international community have the responsibility of assisting countries threatened by genocide?
- How can students get involved and make their voices heard against genocide? (For suggestions, visit www.ushmm.org/conscience/alert/students/)
Think about challenges you face in your everday life:
- Have you ever witnessed an incident by which a bystander took the responsibility of offering assistance to someone in need of help? What happened?
- When someone needs help, do bystanders have the responsibility to offer assistance? What do bystanders risk when they intervene and when they do not get involved?
At the end of the film, Damas Gisimba stated that hatred must be "banished" to make the world a peaceful place. Reflect on that and answer the following:
- What is "hatred?" When is it dangerous?
- What are examples of different forms of hatred in the global community?
- Can hatred be banished?
- What would it take to banish hatred?
- Whose responsibility is it to work to end hatred or to respond when hatred provokes violence?
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ResponderEliminar3. Gisimba was worried about the orphanage, and his own children as well. He feared not seeing them again.
4. It means to treat others as equals. To picture you're in their place and what would you want to be done if you were them. If you see someone in trouble you know he or she would really appreciate help, as would you.
SET 2
1. They were supposed to help, but they let them down. The only one who stood all the way through it was Carl Wilkens.
2. I think it's responsible to a certain point, but as seen in the video it's a little useless.
3. - Communicate with decision makers about the need to provide humanitarian assistance, protect civilians, stop the violence, and promote solutions to the crises.
- Get engaged in your community.
- Contact the media
Have you ever witnessed an incident by which a bystander took the responsibility of offering assistance to someone in need of help? What happened?
ResponderEliminar· No, I haven't witnessed anything like that but a long time ago, me and my family were in a car accident in Chihuaha and our cellphones didn't work. A family there let us borrow theirs and we could make a call for more help.
When someone needs help, do bystanders have the responsibility to offer assistance? What do bystanders risk when they intervene and when they do not get involved?
· I think they should do it. It's not mandatory but if you can help, why not do it? See others as yourself.
set 2.
ResponderEliminar1) well, it didn't help at all.
2) yes and no. yes because when thigs like this happens we have to help, but is not an obligation, is more like a moral law.
3)to give protection to everyone we can, to make sure the community knows what's going on.
set 3.
1)kind off. one day, near my house, a car walk all over a man, and he left, but another man that was specting there help him, and took him to the hospital.
2) is not an obligation, but if you have to opportunity to help someone, you should help because fisrt of all, you feel good, and everything you do in this life comes back to you, so if you're in trouble, some bystander will help you :)
set 4.
1) is a intense feeling of dislike, and its dangerous when you can't control that feeling and you try to finish with that thing you don't like.
2)to black people, to mexicans, in WWII to jews, to women, etc.
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ResponderEliminar1. Nothing relevant,they were "helping" but just "quit" after things got harder.
2. Yes, they should care and do something about it.
3.
- Find out more about places at risk of genocide or related crimes against humanity.
- Contact the media
- Communicate with decision makers about the need to provide humanitarian assistance, protect civilians, stop the violence, and promote solutions to the crises.
- Get engaged in your community.
SET 3
1.Not that I can remember in this moment, but I have something "similar." The other day a bunch of dudes wanted to beat up 1 guy and many people went there and tried to separate them. One guy even offered to be in his place and fight back but well, nothing happened.
2.Bystanders don't have the RESPONSIBILITY to intervene, they don't really have to do it but it involves more like moral and stuff. Poeple should help other people if they're able to even if they don't know them. What would they risk? It dependes on the situation but it often involves just time but it could even be their life that they're risking.
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3. I don't think so, it's like asking for violence to be banished. It will never happen.
4. It would take to make the impossible come true. No, really, it can't be done! It would take an intense determination of the people all around the world. Like reaching world peace.
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ResponderEliminar1. They valued human life and specially those of the children, and they risked their own lives to save the kids.
Set 2
1. Carl Wilkens, an American working with another organization came to Damas’ aid and helped him save the children.
2. Yes they do according to the charters of the United Nations which seeks to help preserve human rights among the world.
3. Finding out what’s going on in the world through international news, educating yourself to the thing that are happening and once you have the information you can start educating others of the thing that are going on in the world and see what you can both do together.
Set 3
1. I personally haven’t witnessed anything of the sort but this is what happened to my brother: once he was with his friends a long time ago and they were hanging out and suddenly this car bumps into my brother and my brother doesn’t pay much attention to it and turns is back to the car, then out of the nowhere this guy brakes his beer (cahuama) on my brothers head and leaves him unconscious and his friend (who wasn’t involve) come to his aid and fights this guy for my brother so that he wouldn’t be in it on his own.
2. No they don’t have the responsibility to get involved because it’s a choice. They risk getting hurt, but if they don’t get involved then they might feel the guilt for not helping someone in need. There is really no easy answer to this questions cause some way or the other it can still affect the bystander. Example: when someone is drowning and a bystander helps there have been cases where the bystander drowns but save the person that was drowning.
Set 4
5. I think it is society’s responsibility to end hatred. To enter in action and try to find peace and equality among human being because behind the term of “genocide” exist also “racism” and that is something after so many years we still have and we really need to take consciousness so that future generations do not fall in the same hole generations past have fallen into.
I agree with you Maria Antonieta, that helping others is not an obligation, but is something that if we have the opportunity to help someone, to make him feel that he's not alone, the feeling you have after you do that is nothing comprare to any thing we have done, it feels so good :)
ResponderEliminarMARIANA JIMENEZ B. Q'S
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1.-What did Damas Gisimba, Carl Wilkens, and Simon Weil Lipman value, and what risks did they take by holding onto their values? They saved people, they didn't cared
about the risks, they just saved them from the enemies.
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Think back to the incidents that took place during the Rwandan genocide:
1. What role did the international community play during the genocide? Well, not a lot, people just helped if they wanted to, but internationally, not too much.
2. Does the international community have the responsibility of assisting countries threatened by genocide?Sort of yes, they need more help than we think.
3. How can students get involved and make their voices heard against genocide? By media, like right now froma lot of sources, internet, tv and mainly just doing somehting
about it.
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Think about challenges you face in your everday life:
1. Have you ever witnessed an incident by which a bystander took the responsibility of offering assistance to someone in need of help? What happened? Well, once when I
went to tuscon, I was outside a Costco and I saw from far away an old lady that tripped and fell, and no one was around, so I went and helped her to get up, asked her if
she was ok, the my mom came and gave her some kleenex because she was bleeding a little. Then his husband came and took care of the situation, but yes I sort of
assisted her.
2. When someone needs help, do bystanders have the responsibility to offer assistance? What do bystanders risk when they intervene and when they do not get involved?
Well yes, they do, if they want to be helped if they were in those situations. Also it's like help to your fellow. You risk that you can hurt more than help, but the intention is
what counts, and also you've to be careful when you help.
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1.- What is "hatred?" When is it dangerous? It's a feeling you've to a person, but not a good one, is dislike to someone, it can be dangerous when expressing your oppinion,
yopu can cause fights or stuff like that.
I also agree with Maria Antonieta when she said that bystanders are in no oblogation to help but then she said something that cought my attention when she said "see others as yourself", that makes me think a bit further and realize that we should see other individuals lives as important as we see our own.
ResponderEliminarOmg Priscilla, I know your brother is fine now but, did anything happen to him? that's so noble of your brother's friend to get in and defend him, like César's example where one guy wanted to be in the place of another guy who was being threatened.
ResponderEliminaroh and Mariana, I'm proud of you! Haha helping that lady was so nice of you :)
ResponderEliminarand thank you Cynthia, you know I'm always right... just kidding
Treat others just as you would like to be treated.
wow Mariana that was a really nice thing you did for the old lady I can imagine thelping her made you feel really good about yourself. I wish a situation would present so I can also help out, meybe it has and maybe I have helped but I don't remember in this moment.
ResponderEliminarYes my brother if very alright thank God!, and that happened I would say years ago and yeah it was noble of his friend, I think it was easier for my brothers friend to help my brother because they were best friend.
ResponderEliminarWell, I always help out Cinemark's security guard with his cellphone because he doesn't know how to use it, does that count as a good and noble action like Mariana's? :)
ResponderEliminarWell I think Mariana's a hero! or heroine or whatever, imagine what would the old lady have done if Mariana would've not been there???
TRY THIS! if you have a turtle, or a friend of yours has a turtle, pick it up, then flip it over and leave it there... now that's representing the old ladia Super Mariana helped out... what can the poor turtle do?? Ok maybe it can get back on its feet but it'll be kinda hard for it!
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ResponderEliminarI really think hatred can't be banished, I just wanted to repeat that.
Pris I'm glad your brother turned out fine, and Lissette, curse that dude who ran the guy over and just fled but thank God someone else was there to help him out!
About all that altruist actions, people that help other people out shouldn't be expecting something as a reward, still, sometimes it comes. Haven't you seen TV?? For example, there's people that help out, let's say, an old lady get her cat off a tree. The old lady turns out to be rich! and gives a nice amount of cash to the people that helped her. I bet those people didn't know they were going to be rewarded, but they still helped the lady because they were able to do so and they wanted to do it.
I like to help people myself, it makes me feel good. I know this has nothing to do with hatred or genocide or whatever but I think it's important. Helping out others is fun! Just to hear them say THANK YOU even if they're not rich and don't reward you with a Mercedes Benz, it's rewarding enough to see them fine and just say "thank you" or "thanks" or something like that.
The bad thing is when you're "too good" and 'bad' people note that and use it to their advantage and then instead of doing good you're just like a fool.
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