A Wild Experience

The last few days have certainly been filled with ups and downs and turns. Since in-person classes were canceled, everyone has scrambled to learn how to to take classes online. You have learned how to be a student online, and your teachers have learned how to better help you online. At the same time, we have heard one story after another of how serious the situation is with the coronavirus.Now we know that you are all going home and your program has been canceled. Everyone is brokenhearted. While we are glad that you’ll be home in the safety of your own country and with your families, we will miss you so much. In this blog, please share your thoughts and feelings at this time. How do you feel about each thing that is happening? What will you miss most about being here? What do you look forward to when you go home?This will be something that we can have forever as a memory of feelings and events we may forget in the days to come.

To Live Forever

Imagine if someone offered you the chance to live forever. Would you accept? Explain your answer. RESPOND once to the prompt and REPLY twice to two different classmates.

Try Something New

What APP would you recommend OTHER THAN Instagram, SnapChat, or Twitter for your classmates to try?  Be sure to explain why they might like it. RESPOND once to the prompt and then REPLY to two classmates.  Make sure your answers are careful and detailed,

Why are two former SSRs so different?

A couple of you asked an interesting question as you summed up your interview with Gulnora.
Since we are missing so much classroom time, I thought we could use our blog to discuss this question. A couple of you asked how it could be that Uzbekistan and Ukraine have become such different countries since leaving the USSR. One seems to have freedom of the press and citizens who are comfortable with their government. The other seems to be a country that has to worry that the press is heavily influenced by the government and other countries. I want you to think very carefully how you might explain this. Respond to the post question and then reply to two classmates. Try not to just agree or disagree. Think carefully about what you are responding to.

Which social media app would be the hardest to give up for 24 hours?

Decide which of your social media apps would be the hardest for you to give up for 24 hours. Give a detailed explanation of why it would be hard for you. After you RESPOND  to the question, REPLY to two of your classmates’ answers. Make sure all of your responses are detailed and not just short, easy answers.

Freedom of the Press

How important is freedom of the press when we have so many ways to get news? RESPOND to this question in detail. Then REPLY to two of your classmates’ answers in detail.

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