The Courage Poster by UNHCR has many aspects to hit that portray it to be a artifact that can go through narrative analysis it hit all 4 characteristics with a unified subject, a casual relationship, a stative or active component, as well as events being in time order. The narrative encourages the brave nature and the fearlessness refugees go through to migrate out of their countries. We tend to overlook the life and death situations that they face being comfy in America where food, water, and shelter is almost handed to us. Where as these refugees escaping from these countries are fighting just for basic human rights. The narrative in which the poster is from UNHCR there main priority is to protect these refugees there values are very humane and sees people as people and not some alien or outside being trying to colonize their territory. Where media views refugees as either dangerous, virus like, and foreign UNHCR gives home and empowerment to refugees seeing them as courageous and brave. The narrative portrays ethical standards in a different form by explaining what refugees go through being attacked, dehydrated, starving, and attacked tugging on our heart strings and using our imagination to only imagine what they go through. By explaining in detail the process a refugee goes through to even escape the country they are from we create out own ethical standards in our head because we wouldn’t want to go through even half of what they go through. One question I have on the after seeing the poster is the after on the person life it would inspire even more people and change other peoples opinions on the negative thoughts that come with the word refugee. Showing how they are just people like me and you and who is reading this, where we have access to even read about their lives.
Some artifacts I found interesting
- First one is an interview with Joe Biden
- Second Speech by Maximo Alvarez
- Third a children book by Anna Kim
Joe Biden Outlines Immigration Plan For First 100 Days In Office | NBC News
From <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPr4f-DIP1o&ab_channel=NBCNews>
- Talks about fixing where Donald Trump left off (undoing damage)
- Modernizing the immigration system
- Provide a road map for citizenship for 11 million undocumented immigrants
- Immediate action to protect the eligible 100,000 dreamers
Cuban Immigrant’s Teary-Eyed Speech About His Love For America Sends SHOCKWAVES Across Nation
From <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbWQHiamkfY&ab_channel=BlazeTV>
- Maximo Alvarez emotional and teary eyed speech
- A Cuban Immigrant who became Sunshine’s Gasoline Distributors Founder and President
- Views President Trump as a family man friend and views him as a president who put America first
- Talks about the sacrifices family’s made to come to America to live here and become a citizen death, starvation, etc to run from Fidel’s Castro communist ideals
- Chooses President Trump because of America and Freedom
Danbi Leads the School Parade by Anna Kim
- A children Book – Take on how migration effects children especially in school where they are by themselves and have to deal with the issues that come from being an immigrant
- Language barrier between teacher and student causes trouble in learning ability
- Connecting to other students is challenging as well due to lack of similarities
- Creates a game where her culture and America culture can combine creating an atmosphere all students can play and get along like a melting pot.
Excellent work here Raju. You forgot to include a grade, but you can record a 5/5 for this one. Your artifact examples all sound promising– any of them would make a good fit for the final project.
I appreciate this excerpt: “One question I have on the after seeing the poster is the after on the person life it would inspire even more people and change other peoples opinions on the negative thoughts that come with the word refugee. Showing how they are just people like me and you and who is reading this, where we have access to even read about their lives.” This to me raises the question of when a refugee stops being (seen as) a refugee…at what point in their migration process does this title fade, and how does that language or lack of it influence public opinion. Thanks for bringing this up.