Category Archives: English 10

Public Broadcasting Introduction

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Public broadcasting is television and other electronic media outlets whose primary mission is public service. The CBC is Canadas public broadcaster. The original name for the CBC was CRBC and it was founded in 1932. In 1936 the CBC was born and was changed from CRBC. A big advantage that public broadcasting provides is the fact that they are not completely driven by money and may produce something knowing it will not have a financial return but will provide a lot for the community and the minority. Although I believe public broadcasting is good for Canada some people believe otherwise because it costs around 1.2$ billion of taxpayer money and private broadcasting is also here. In modern society today, public broadcasting is good for the minority of people and may be willing to go for a higher risk, higher reward type idea where they risk money and time for the community, for ex. Investigative journalism.

Missing

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“Missing” is a podcast created and hosted by Mason Kleim and London Brown. In this episode we go over the disturbing murder case of Sandra Johnson, an 18-year-old, Thunder Bay resident. Sandra was murdered on the night of February 13th, 1992. We go over the disturbing and tragic facts about how Sandra was taken from her family forever. With her family left to ponder about how the young Ojibwe girl was killed. To this day Sandras case has gone unsolved, the murder left a stain on Thunder Bay that may never be erased. Not only do we go over this disturbing murder, but we also talk about the facts of Murdered and Missing Indigenous Women. To create this podcast, we used: Blue Snowball microphones, Audacity, Bensound.com. We learned a lot from this podcast. After doing research on MMIW we learned the disturbing truth about the amount of Indigenous women murdered in Canada. We also learned about the lack of help from the Canadian government and how many cases are left unsolved because the case doesn’t take priority. Overall, this project was a great learning experience for the both of us, it was a great project because usually we are learning about the crimes of the Residential schools and our past mistakes, but with this project we discuss how indigenous women have been killed without answers in the past and even recently.

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Title: Speculative Fiction – Dystopia

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This is a speculative dystopian short film called “our censored future”. It describes a future world where cell phones are mandatory and the government watches and listens to everything you say or do. Technology rules everything and no one can live without it. We are introduced to a man who accidentally drops his phone in the toilet and, while waiting for a replacement that will be automatically sent to him, he wakes up the harsh reality that everything in his life is manufactured and controlled. The environment in this film is extremely degraded and is filled with buildings, with not a tree in site. Speculative fiction is a story based on a possibility of what the world could become in the future. Are we already on our way to using our phones to the degree described in this film? It is dystopian because everything, including curfew, what you can buy for groceries, where you can go for dinner, or what topics you discuss are controlled by the government. This film is made to excellent standards and is a great example of a fictional future dystopian world. One of the biggest names in speculative fiction and creator of The Handmaids Tale, Margaret Atwood, said this about aspirating speculative fiction writers “If you’re interested in writing speculative fiction, one way to generate a plot is to take an idea from current society and move it a little further down the road” (What is Dystopian 2021).  Thank you so much for reading and enjoy the rest of you day!

FEC questions

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FEC Questions 

 

Question #1 Why are the boys so upset about the girls carrying the water. 

  • The boys are upset because they believe it is their tradition and do not want to share it 

 

Question #3. Who is telling the story? What does she think of Ms. Ralston and the conflict over the water? From what point of view is the story told? 

  • Alma is telling the story. Alma is proud of Ms. Ralston for helping her efforts and the story is 3rd person limited. 

 

Question #4 What is the setting (provide evidence). How does the setting intensify the conflict? What kind of conflict is it? (Person vs. Person – Person vs. Self – Person vs. Society) Provide evidence for each conflict 

  • It is estimated to be around 1950s because National Geographic is around and there is still some racism and discrimination. They also must go get water from a well and have no outside information other than Magazines. The setting intensifies the conflict because if they were in a first world country in 2021 there would be no well and therefore no conflict. 

 

Question #5 Who is the Protagonist? How do you know? 

  • The Protagonist is Alma because she is the main character fighting for the greater good. The story is written to make Alma sound like a good guy because she is. 

 

Question #6 In what way has everything changed that Friday? What is the significance of Ms. Ralston’s action in the last paragraph? What is the massage (theme) the author is exploring? 

  • Everything changed because finally, the girls are breaking away at old and bad traditions like girls not being able to carry the bucket of water or that girls can’t play sports, ext. The significance in the last paragraph is amazing. Just like the sentences before this the girls might finally be recognized as humans, rather than some twisted type of male supremacy. The message is Woman equality.