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1. Evaluate the intercultural connection of the Lost Boys of Sudan.

Lost Boys of Sudan is perhaps a full documentary film. Orphaned as juvenile young men in the Second Sudanese Civil War they endured lion attacks and militia gunfire to come to a refugee camp in Kenya along with thousands of other children. Much has occurred in the South Sudan and especially those of us called the Lost Boys that in alignment to for us to maintain our identity there should be constructed communal experiences through storytelling, the education of the community and the visual expression of our past. This presents communal and morale support through distributing knowledge of refugee life, sustaining open lines of communication, and no less significant, facilitating of the resettlement of communities of Lost Boys. These ongoing attachments are at the heart of what art means to the refugees of the South Sudan. The documentary's name Lost Boys of Sudan was initially the title granted to the assembly of Southern Sudanese youth by United Nations help employees who were supervising their air journey from Sudan.

 

2. Keim's as articulated in Mistaking Africa

An engaging and now freshly revised investigation of the sources of American stereotypes about Africa, where they emerge in our culture, and why they persist. Keim in “Mistaking Africa” locations the most common myths and preconceptions about Africa, and illustrates how they avert a factual comprehending of the varied peoples and heritage of Africa.

For numerous Americans the mention of Africa directly conjures up images of safaris, fierce animals, oddly clothed tribesmen, and impenetrable jungles. Although the occasional bulletin headline alerts us to genocide, AIDS, malaria, or civil conflict in Africa, most of us understand very little about the continent. However we still convey powerful mental images of Africa, which are echoed in American advocating, videos, amusement reserves, cartoons, and numerous other bends of our society. Few believe to inquiry these insights or how they came to be so profoundly lodged in the collective American consciousness. Curtis Keim's Mistaking Africa examines at the chronicled evolution of this mindset and examines the function that well liked media play in the creation of our mental images of Africa. Keim locations the most common myths and preconceptions and illustrates how these avert a factual comprehending of the tremendously varied peoples and cultures of Africa.

All cultures that live today, and all through annals, have addressed the topic of the connection between persons and ...