Chuck E. Cheese has taken up the patriotic frenzy by including a two minute video clip of soldiers in Iraq that is broadcast during little kids' birthday parties:
t r u t h o u t - Victoria Harper Babes in Warland
According to journalist, Dr. Michael I. Niman, the above story is , indeed, true, although some of the details are not exactly accurate.
Chuck E. Cheese is showing a two minute (not five minute) clip of American soldiers distributung toys and candy to Iraqi children and then sequencing to images of tanks and war planes.
The clip was not funded by the Department of Defense, Chuck E. Cheese Productions created this video segment on their own!
Would someone please tell me what the dink is going on?
Read more of Dr. Niman's work here:
Critical Media Studies Resources
Saturday, March 18, 2006
Thursday, March 16, 2006
#38 - Women in History - Eve - Word Origin
I have been prowling around the vastness of the internet in search of the word origin for evening.
My presumption has been that evening was named after our lovely sister Eve.
No such luck.
The word eveing was coined in c. 1440 and it originally looked like this:
cwildtid
Go figure.
The darn word doesn't even LOOK like evening!
And, of course, our Biblical Eve gets no credit for this lovely word... evening.
I have to do some more digging about.
In the meantime, if you do have an interest in word origins (entymology) please stop by here:
Online Etymology Dictionary
My presumption has been that evening was named after our lovely sister Eve.
No such luck.
The word eveing was coined in c. 1440 and it originally looked like this:
cwildtid
Go figure.
The darn word doesn't even LOOK like evening!
And, of course, our Biblical Eve gets no credit for this lovely word... evening.
I have to do some more digging about.
In the meantime, if you do have an interest in word origins (entymology) please stop by here:
Online Etymology Dictionary
Wednesday, March 08, 2006
#37 Women in History: Eve - Our African Ancestor?
Last week I introduced the topic of Eve.
Who is this lady and why are men the ones writing about our sister?
I included some really good links to picture of Eve in history.
NEWS ALERT:
No matter what is portrayed in those museum picture links....
Eve is not some white gal with flowing blonde hair covering her whatevers.
The majority of researchers now contend that Eve originated from Africa.
No one is arguing that data.
But, what is currently under question is if we came from one genetic pool ; a single African ancestor.
The current contention is, "NO."
This goes completely against the writings of the Old Testament, Genesis.
Researchers are finding that humanity developed into different races to adapt to different environmental conditions.
This required more than one gal to create such diversity.
With the advent of DNA science... technically we should all have some African mitochondrial DNA.
But, scientists discovered remains in Australia over 60,000 years old that did not.
How could this be?
Specualtion is that our original homo sapiens may have intergrated with primitive people and thus the genetic diversity.
Who knows?
Is this important?
I would say yes for the simple fact that Eve, who has been considered the originator of a load of humanity's problems has been shouldering a large burden for millenia.
All is not what it appears to have been.
History truly is malleable and as the researchers continus to plunge into the origins of our ancestry... it will be interesting to find what (if any) changes may occur on the icon known as Eve.
Read more here:
National Geographic News @ nationalgeographic.com
Who is this lady and why are men the ones writing about our sister?
I included some really good links to picture of Eve in history.
NEWS ALERT:
No matter what is portrayed in those museum picture links....
Eve is not some white gal with flowing blonde hair covering her whatevers.
The majority of researchers now contend that Eve originated from Africa.
No one is arguing that data.
But, what is currently under question is if we came from one genetic pool ; a single African ancestor.
The current contention is, "NO."
This goes completely against the writings of the Old Testament, Genesis.
Researchers are finding that humanity developed into different races to adapt to different environmental conditions.
This required more than one gal to create such diversity.
With the advent of DNA science... technically we should all have some African mitochondrial DNA.
But, scientists discovered remains in Australia over 60,000 years old that did not.
How could this be?
Specualtion is that our original homo sapiens may have intergrated with primitive people and thus the genetic diversity.
Who knows?
Is this important?
I would say yes for the simple fact that Eve, who has been considered the originator of a load of humanity's problems has been shouldering a large burden for millenia.
All is not what it appears to have been.
History truly is malleable and as the researchers continus to plunge into the origins of our ancestry... it will be interesting to find what (if any) changes may occur on the icon known as Eve.
Read more here:
National Geographic News @ nationalgeographic.com
Wednesday, March 01, 2006
#36: Women in History: Eve
I decided to start from the very beginning (to quote Maria von Trapp in the Sound of Music)...
So our first woman of note in herstory would, of course, be Eve.
I thought... oh, I will just spend an hour or two reading up on our gal of origin and have something to add.
NOPE.
This is going to be quite an undertaking.
I googled Eve.
Do you know the biblical Eve didn't show up until page 2?
And that was in reference to sex.
Maybe that shouldn't have been a surprise.
Here's a link:
And Adam Knew Eve: A Dictionary of Sex in the Bible
and no surprise here....
the author is male.
What's up with that?
I think if I continue to go poking around with this topic... just call it a hunch, but I have a feeling that men have had more to say... or at least to publish about Eve than her sisters.
Anyway... the above website offers some wonderful links to art resources. Do stop by, search for EVE and you are going to find that history painted her as chubby, blonde and caucasian.
Hmmmm....
More to come.
So our first woman of note in herstory would, of course, be Eve.
I thought... oh, I will just spend an hour or two reading up on our gal of origin and have something to add.
NOPE.
This is going to be quite an undertaking.
I googled Eve.
Do you know the biblical Eve didn't show up until page 2?
And that was in reference to sex.
Maybe that shouldn't have been a surprise.
Here's a link:
And Adam Knew Eve: A Dictionary of Sex in the Bible
and no surprise here....
the author is male.
What's up with that?
I think if I continue to go poking around with this topic... just call it a hunch, but I have a feeling that men have had more to say... or at least to publish about Eve than her sisters.
Anyway... the above website offers some wonderful links to art resources. Do stop by, search for EVE and you are going to find that history painted her as chubby, blonde and caucasian.
Hmmmm....
More to come.
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