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Post by catalinaestay on Nov 9, 2014 1:46:03 GMT
Despite Good Intentions, a Fresco in Spain Is Ruined
What exactly is endangered in this story?
The ecce homo a fresco of Jesus crowned with thorns before crucifixion. It was painted in the 19th century by Elias García Martínez.
What things are threatening it?
Moisture on the church’s walls has flaked off parts of it. A woman called Cecilia Gutierrez tried to restore the fresco but she did not do it very well.
What has been done so far to protect it?
It was not protectec because it was in the church and everyone could see it and even destroy it. That is why Cecilia Gutierrez tried to fix it by herself.
Is that a realistic strategy for protecting this thing, and what are the complications– the factors that could make preservation difficult in this case?
There is no a realistic strategy for protecting this thing. That was not protected at any time, and that is why the "good intentions" of Mrs. Cecilia ruined and destroyed the whole history that was on it.
Is it worth preserving at all, or at the cost? Why or why not?
Yes it is, I think it is part of the Catholic church and it history. It should be in a museum.
Is That Just Some Game? No, It’s a Cultural Artifact
What exactly is endangered in this story?
Videogames and hardwares which have remained over time.
What things are threatening it?
The advance of technology is leaving them aside, and today with a computer we have access to all the games without buy them.
What has been done so far to protect it?
A committee made a list of 10 most important games of all time.These video games represents the beginning of a genre, and have marked generations. These games will be part of the Library of Congress.
Is that a realistic strategy for protecting this thing, and what are the complications– the factors that could make preservation difficult in this case?
Yes, I think it is realistic because allows new generations to know how the games were; simple but at the same time fun as today's games.
Is it worth preserving at all, or at the cost? Why or why not?
I think is worth to preserve these games because these games are part of history. In my case, I played all of them when I was younger and are part of my history too.
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Post by catalinaestay on Nov 9, 2014 1:52:53 GMT
4. Is that a realistic strategy for protecting this thing, and what are the complications – the factors that could make preservation difficult in this case? Ii think it is a good way to preserve music, it makes them more interesting to young people. I agree with you Karen, it is a very good strategy to make this music interesting to young people |
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Post by sofiasp on Nov 9, 2014 2:20:04 GMT
A1.- A painting "The Fresco" was destroyed by a woman with good intentions , but none of the community make sure that the restoration of the painting was professional. The method used for the protection of the painting was complety useless, and in my opinion preservervation is unfeasible because the painting is not longer recognisible, that is why preservation is worthless, unless you want to preserve human mistakes.
A2.- Old games and new games are just worth to preserve for some people, I would probably preserve a few, like the tenth games they named. And I think it is a great idea the way they are protecting them. The hardest part of preserving games is that you have to preserve the consola also, and in some cases even the television.
A3.- I think that if you are going to preserve something it has to be good for all the people in the community, i desagree with the waythey are preserving the Mosque, because it is making people unconfortable, it not that they can change everything but not to have a shower it too much for me.
A4.- Language is one of the most important thing to preserve because is what put society togetherand what make a society beautiful, it is what join diferent types of people together. Also languages are complety worth to preserve, it is a important quality of human kind, because only humans have this ability. Siletz tribe made an effort for preserve their language. It is valiable that they used technnology for conserve their language, it is a big change that tribes try techology.
A6.- The moon and human trademarks had been protected by a group of organizations, not necessary us, as a culture or as a tradition. I think it is valiable just for some people, probably from The United States. I think a lot of people feel like it is a USA achivement mora than a humanity one, and because of that it is not worth to preserve to all people.
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Post by milenaramirez on Nov 9, 2014 2:58:37 GMT
Im disagre with the idea of mixing manganiyar music with contemporary music. We should keep the traditional music like its origins. Its not necesarry to modify it in order to make it more attractive to people. We should appreciate it like it is. If we change it, we will change the meaning of the songs and the historical meaning will change too. YOu have to consider that that music was actually dying. It is better trying something than losing everything, isn't it? I'm agree with you Felipe. It's "better trying something than losing everything", but I'm agree with Jasna too. For me the modern music is one, the traditional music is another, and the mix between both is another. Three differents kind of music. I think that mix modern music with traditional music, it's not going to be "traditional music" anymore because it's going to loose its soul. |
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Post by matias on Nov 9, 2014 3:13:18 GMT
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Post by paolatorresr on Nov 9, 2014 3:19:01 GMT
A1
Preserving Culture in Changing Times
What exactly is endangered in this story?
The preservation of the music from the Mangariyars, a group of Muslim musicians.
What things are threatening it?
The industrialization of music and develop of the country, because times are changing and the music does also. The new age of people is not listening to old ancient muslim music because new music and modern musicians are very popular. They and other traditional musicians have not written any record yet so this makes even more difficult to get to preserve traditional music.
What has been done so far to protect it?
They are interested in commercialize the music making a mix of the traditional music with the electronic music. In this way the traditions of the country will in some way be preserved and known by the next generations.
Is that a realistic strategy for protecting this thing, and what are the complications – the factors that could make preservation difficult in this case?
Well I believe that it is a realistic strategy to preserve in some way the traditional music, but it has complications such as not remember how it really was the music. It would be more difficult to access to the real music and it would not preserve the real emotion that the songs have.
Is it worth preserving at all, or at the cost? Why or why not?
I believe that its better to leave something to the next generations rather than nothing. It's a good option if you think in that way. But it would be better if they could preserve the real essence of traditional music.
A2
“Despite Good Intentions, a Fresco in Spain Is Ruined“
What exactly is endangered in this story?
A fresco of Jesus called “Ecce Hommo“, in Santuario de la Misericordia, a Roman Catholic church in Borja, near the city of Zaragoza. Which an 80 years old lady tried to fix and paint it, but unfortunately she was not good at painting.
What things are threatening it?
The paint of Jesus has being damaged by the pass of time and also the people who can have freely access to the painting like the 80 year old lady called Cecilia Gimenez that tried to fix it, but instead of that she ruined it.
What has been done so far to protect it?
The descendant of the painter have tried to make a donation toward its upkeep. The Borja authorities that established as their priority to try to return the work to its original state, under the guidance of art historians and they were looking to take legal actions against the woman.
Is that a realistic strategy for protecting this thing, and what are the complications – the factors that could make preservation difficult in this case?
I believe that its not because the paint is already ruined. Instead of that action they should care about being more careful of the valuable art around the city and work to protect it. On the other hand it is good that they are looking to return the work in the original state.
Is it worth preserving at all, or at the cost? Why or why not?
I believe that it is better to tried to fix it. It can't be worst than it already is.
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Post by jasnac on Nov 9, 2014 11:15:10 GMT
It was not protectec because it was in the church and everyone could see it and even destroy it. That is why Cecilia Gutierrez tried to fix it by herself. Is that a realistic strategy for protecting this thing, and what are the complications– the factors that could make preservation difficult in this case? There is no a realistic strategy for protecting this thing. That was not protected at any time, and that is why the "good intentions" of Mrs. Cecilia ruined and destroyed the whole history that was on it. Indeed it was an irresponsable act what she did with the paint but, some people on internet believed that she inspired in primitive expressionism, specifically in Francisco de Goya and other figures like Ensor, Munch, Modigliani or Die Brück group. Maybe She did it on purpose and the new image of the ecco homo wasnt an accident. I dont know much more about art and the techniques that they use to restore paints and I cant say that She ruined the paint because I feel that Im ignorant in this topic. |
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Post by paolamassardo on Nov 10, 2014 3:48:49 GMT
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Post by paolamassardo on Nov 10, 2014 3:51:39 GMT
It was not protectec because it was in the church and everyone could see it and even destroy it. That is why Cecilia Gutierrez tried to fix it by herself. Is that a realistic strategy for protecting this thing, and what are the complications– the factors that could make preservation difficult in this case? There is no a realistic strategy for protecting this thing. That was not protected at any time, and that is why the "good intentions" of Mrs. Cecilia ruined and destroyed the whole history that was on it. Indeed it was an irresponsable act what she did with the paint but, some people on internet believed that she inspired in primitive expressionism, specifically in Francisco de Goya and other figures like Ensor, Munch, Modigliani or Die Brück group. Maybe She did it on purpose and the new image of the ecco homo wasnt an accident. I dont know much more about art and the techniques that they use to restore paints and I cant say that She ruined the paint because I feel that Im ignorant in this topic.
You have to think that we are talking about an elderly woman. She want to do the best. I agree with Catalina.
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Post by jasnac on Nov 11, 2014 13:37:03 GMT
Like I said before, Maybe She did her best and she actually used a type of technique in the ecco homo, but I dont know anything about art techniques. Also Im totally agree with you that she is too old and maybe she put a lot of effort in the paint, but the result was a huge disaster. Finally some people actually supported her with the result so I don't know what to think about this. |
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Post by jasnac on Nov 11, 2014 14:22:55 GMT
Im disagre with the idea of mixing manganiyar music with contemporary music. We should keep the traditional music like its origins. Its not necesarry to modify it in order to make it more attractive to people. We should appreciate it like it is. If we change it, we will change the meaning of the songs and the historical meaning will change too. YOu have to consider that that music was actually dying. It is better trying something than losing everything, isn't it? |
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Post by rominaaedo on Nov 16, 2014 18:58:46 GMT
Romina Aedo Morales...
| What exactly is endangered in this story? | What things are threatening it? |
What has been done so far to protect it?
| Is that a realistic strategy for protecting this thing, and what are the complications- the factors that could make preservation difficult in this case?
| Is it worth preserving at all, or at the cost? Why or why not?
| A1 Preserving the Passion of India’s Roots Music
| Some people want to record Manganiyar music to preserve it and popularize it.
| Trying to popularize Manganiyar music is a hard task in India because of most young people would prefer download any other type of music than listen to an ancient folk music.
| These two Indians men, has recorded an ancient man who sings ancient folk music with a kamancha, an ancient stringed instrument played with a bow that is a signature of the Manganiyars. They spent three days in this man’s house to record his singing at any time of the day.
| It is a realistic strategy by technology, but the problem here is that it maybe won’t be suitable in terms of commercializing it due to all this new music styles. It may be not engaging for the young people. Although, the music will be recorded, so it will be preserved.
| In terms of costs, it doesn’t worth due to all the equipment and travelling that it involves. In terms of tradition, absolutely it worth. Through technology, nowadays, it is possible to preserve a lot of ancient traditions, most of them forgotten.
| A2 Despite Good Intentions, a Fresco in Spain Is Ruined
| The preservation of a century-old “ecce homo” fresco of Jesus crowned with thorns.
| A local woman tried to restore it, but she failed. Now the painting looks awful, and she gave Jesus a monkeylike appearance.
| The authorities are trying to return it to its original state, under the guidance of art historians. They also are taking legal actions against this woman.
| I believe they should have done something before this happened, so the strategy they are applying maybe won’t work because the “restoration” seems to be made by a 10 years-old kid.
| Yes, it worth. This painting reflects one episode of Jesus in Earth and how he suffered by the people’s skepticism.
| A3 Is That Just Some Game? No, It’s a Cultural Artifact.
| Preserving video games icons as a cultural and historical significance.
| The significance of these video games and it influences through years, it is seen as less important and pointless to some people.
| These men made a list of the 10 most important video games of all time; same thing made for the preservation of films.
| I think it is realistic in somehow, but pointless because it’s just a list. Maybe that’s why some people think it’s not as important as they think it is.
| By making a list of video games, I don’t think it worth. Maybe if they make a compilation or preserve the original video games, it will be better and more significant.
| A4 Mali City Rankled by Rules for Life in Spotlight
| The problems of the citizens of Djenné due to the city is in the World Heritage list made by UNESCO, so they can’t make any structural change in their houses because can alter the originality of houses.
| The anger of people living in these houses in poor conditions and without any dignity, has caused several public manifestations and strikes in the city.
| Unesco has tried to make some reconstructions in houses, but as they are made of mud, it’s difficult to fix them without altering the original architecture of it, causing the anger of the citizens living in these houses.
| As the restriction of not making any structural changes to the houses is so hard, has become a real problem even for those from Unesco, so the strategy to protect this thing is useless in times of raining.
| If these people are living in poor and bad conditions, I think it doesn’t worth to preserve the architectural of this city. Of course, it provides more tourism, but they are making a huge effort on trying to raise children and for living in those conditions, exposing to diseases and extreme cold.
| A5 Tribe Revives Language on Verge of Extinction
| Incorporating the Siletz language into the modern world, with a dictionary and classes in school to preserve this ancient language.
| There isn’t any living person who as it as a mother tongue.
| Bud Lane has been working on a dictionary to preserve this language, including recordings of himself.
| A completely realistic strategy to preserve the language and foment it by classes in school mandatory included in the curriculum of Oregon’s schools.
| It worth any penny spent on trying to preserve this language because there aren’t many people interested in these kind of things sometimes due to they get embarrassed of its cultural backgrounds, for example in Chile there are some people who embarrasses of its Mapuche background, which is our whole history.
| A6 To Preserve History on the Moon, Visitors Are Asked to Tread Lightly
| Preserving items left in the moon by the expedition made by Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin in 1969, mainly footprints.
| The uninterested from NASA in preserving these items due to they signed the Outer Space Treaty, in which they agree not to claim sovereignty over any part of the moon.
| Beth L. O’Leary, a professor of anthropology at New Mexico State University thinks it is humanity’s heritage and she has moved a lot of pieces to be heard and preserve these items.
| It’s a good strategy for preserving these items, but I think is unnecessary to own something which is not even in Earth. Maybe it is important to preserve it but as a global issue, not as a national one.
| I don’t think it worth because in a not long time, there are going to be other expeditions to the moon by other countries and U.S.A. I’m sure, is going to claim about these items they are preserving now, which may end in a war.
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Post by davidsaldanopinto on Nov 23, 2014 1:22:45 GMT
PART 1.Switzerland is located in west central Europe, bordered on the north by France and Germany, on the east by Austria and Liechtenstein, on the south by Italy, and on the west and south-west by France  There are twenty two spoken languages in this country: German, French, Italian, Romansh, Albanian, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Croatian, English, Dutch, Greek, Macedonian, Portuguese, Serbian, Slovenian, Spanish, Tamil, Turkish, Ukrainian, Swiss German Sign Language, French Sign Language and Italian Sign Language. From those languages, only nineteen exist in written form (German, French, Italian, Romansh, Albanian, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Croatian, English, Dutch, Greek, Macedonian, Portuguese, Serbian, Slovenian, Spanish, Tamil, Turkish and Ukrainian). From those spoken languages also, nineteen are official ones for the country: German, French, Italy and Romansch, and the 96,3% of the population is competent in those countries (German 65%, French 18%, Italian 10%, Romansh 1%). In Swiss schools the languages of instructions are German, French, Italian or Romansh, depending on the language region, though Romansh-language municipalities represent a special case. In Swiss schools is included in curriculum the language “Swiss German”, because it represents not a single language but a wide range of local and regional dialects. Also, Switzerland is a country well known for promoting acceptance of different linguistic and racial groups, so there are not illegal or discouraged languages. Swiss people have been able to live in harmony and share a common national identity. Language rights are enshrined in the constitution. German, French and Italian have had the status of national and official languages since 1848, whereas Romansh was recognized as a national language in 1938. The constitution was further amended in 1996 so as to grant the status of official language to Romansh, thus allowing Romansh-speakers to communicate in their language with the government (Swissinfo.ch 2006). Article 70 of the constitution states that each canton can decide its official language(s). There is thus no official bilingualism at the local level: four cantons are French-speaking (Geneva, Jura, Neuchâtal and Vaud), three are bilingual in French and German (Bern, Fribourg and Valais), and one is Italian-speaking (Ticino). Romansh is an official language only in the trilingual (German, Italian and Romansh) canton of Graubünden (Swissworld.org 2010b). Establishment of linguistic variety was the central issue at stake in the revision of the constitution in 1999. The new constitution places a larger emphasis on the equality of all national languages (Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe 2003). Changes in the constitution have further led to the implementation of a new law on language, effective in July 2010, which regulates the government’s use of official languages and its support for multilingual cantons, focusing specifically on the protection of Italian and Romansh language and culture. This law replaces and expands on a previous law from 1995 (Loi sur les langues, 2007).
PART 2.I think Swiss language policy is great. The fact that language learning has an important role in this country is fundamental to develop respect and culture in the big number of different linguistic and ethnical groups. The rule that all students learn at least two languages during their compulsory school years help them to break borderlines with other countries. That is why I think also that Switzerland is a develop country in this way. The language policy is fair for me, because of these facts. It is promoting progress in language without leaving in oblivion important facts like immigrants, and their own languages. It will help citizens to love better lives, especially if we focus on learners, because in Switzerland education receives a high priority, and the educational process and organization is very rigorous. That is why they have one of the world’s highest literacy rates
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