Adil Najam
The story told in this video takes around seven minutes to tell. But it will haunt you for much longer.
What do you make of this story? About the commentary on the story? About what it says about technology? About us as a society? About our notions of morality? And, indeed, about how violence and criminality gets legitimized in the confused clash of all of the above?
GEORGIA PERIMETER COLLEGE WRITERS INSTITUTE ANNOUNCES FACULTY AWARDS
US Fed News Service, Including US State News September 1, 2009 ATLANTA, Aug. 26 — University System of Georgia of Georgia Perimeter College issued the following news release:
Georgia Perimeter College Writers Institute recently awarded its 2009 fellowships and grants to GPC professors working on a variety of publishable projects. The awards show the depth and breadth of the scholarly and creative writing by faculty at the two-year college, said Rob Jenkins, director of the Writers Institute.
The competitive awards give faculty members blocks of reassigned class time during the academic year to complete their projects; they are funded through the college’s part-time faculty budget.
Awarding the fellowships and grants “creates opportunities for our faculty to spend a year writing and conducting research,” said Jenkins “The result is good for them, and good for the college, because their scholarship helps them in the classroom and enriches the classroom environment for their students.” Fellowships, which give faculty members four courses of reassigned time, were awarded to Charles Fox, humanities professor, to complete his textbook helping students use creative strategies to revise their compositions; and Andrea Hendricks, online mathematics professor, for her series of algebra textbooks for college students. in our site creative writing prompts
Grants, which give faculty members two courses of reassigned time, were awarded to Lawrence Hetrick, humanities professor, for his work on a collection of poetry; Dr. Louvincey Brown, communications professor, to revise her doctoral dissertation on Gullah culture into a book; Elizabeth Cranford, humanities professor, for her poetry; Paul Hudson, history professor, for his article on Hazel Raines, Georgia’s first female pilot; and Chris Moser, humanities professor, to write a script for a television documentary on the Scotch-Irish in America.
Fox’s textbook working title, “Creative Control: Creative Writing Prompts for Controlling Ideas,” is slated for publication in 2010. “I’ve been accumulating the prompts for at least 10 years; the idea for the book came after talking to several colleagues at GPC and other colleges,” Fox said.
Hendricks is working on a textbook, “Intermediate Algebra for College Students,” which is to be published in November 2011.
This is the fifth year the GPC Writers Institute has awarded fellowships and grants. Since the program began, seven recipients have published books or have had their work accepted for publication. They include three authors of published nonfiction books: George Pabis’s “Daily Life Along the Mississippi”; Robert Alderson, “This Bright Era of Happy Revolutions: French Consul Michel-Ange-Bernard Mangourit and International Republicanism in Charleston, 1792-1794″; and former faculty member Margaret Keiley-Listermann, for “Sinn Fein Women.” To qualify for a fellowship, applicants must be full-time tenured professors and must already be at least a third of the way finished with their book, and there must be clear evidence that the work will be published upon completion, said Jenkins. creativewritingpromptsnow.net creative writing prompts
“I feel so honored to work for a college that values the professional development of its faculty, said Hendricks. “Receiving the Writers Institute fellowship is life-changing. It has afforded me the opportunity to complete a project that has consumed much of my time over the last several years. Having this kind of support is overwhelming. I am forever grateful to the Writers Institute and to GPC.” Rebecca Rakoczy, 678/891-2691.
Disgusting way of discussing this thing on this program, which already uses an eclectic mix of quite cheap humor and fake intellect.
The exaggerated faux sympathy displayed by the discussants on the TV show made me nauseous.
Very poignant, everyone is to be blamed from the guy who made the video, the girl who allowed him to do so, the guy who posted it on internet and the so called journalist who published it and the mammo.
Its 110% true that if you want respect learn to give respect
What makes me angry is that so many here are blaming the victim. As if it was the girls fault that her criminal mamoo killed her!
What beasts we can be!
The exaggerated faux sympathy displayed by the discussants on the TV show made me nauseous.
This story makes me sick at so many different levels, including the bizarre way it’s being discussed in this video.
More comments from the ATP Facebook Page:
- “One should not be propagating only the wrongs in our society under the banner of ATP.We may like to learn a bit or two from our neighbor India, which projects all things positive about it and very suavely covers the wrongs.Anyway,it is a very morbid tale of putting technology to bad use instead of improving humanity which is what the application of technology should be.”
- “i think the real sinner is mamoo (who killed the girl)
n also the parents off girl n boy too”
- “also our society bcz we delay our children marriage so much n the result is we go on wrong way”
- “when ALLAH can forgive so why we cant ………………”
- “i watched this episode,i even wrote an entry about it on my blog http://chutkus.blogspot.com/2010/02/human-beings-screwing-up-at-their-best.html”
- “I think sub se Major galti girl k uncle ki hai, koi b achi ya buri habits le k paida nhi hota, it rlays on the person who is taking care of him/her. & at the end he murderd his nice. So Uncle was wrong from the start n till the end. Other parents and guardians shud learn from this story….”
- “conclusion never ever store data on phone memory and store data on Memory card when u sell ur mobile keep the damn card with u”
- “Wel said on your blog i totaly agree with u”
- “Ohhh so sad!”
- “Good Post ATP, I had watched this episode. This man is doing good work except pampering zardari sometimes.”
- “very stunning … sad & …. no words 2 say ”
- “WEll not surprising in a sense that you can recover everything from a deleted Phone, Hard drive memory card wven wen things are deletd.. very easy to recover them specially for Forensic People.. but very sad as how some ppl dnt respect others and keep it a secrete Shamefull …”
- “it’s a chain of mistakes … sorry for the girl n her family”
- “In an illiterate society, the target is always the weaker one and those are women and girls …….. y not that guy have been killed who made the video ….. as the real culprit is the one who left the clue for the crime “
If it wasnt for the technology and free media, we would have never heard about this and do something about it. This honor killings has to be stopped. There is no honor in this, its a shameful act.Mamoo forgot his younger days, when his harmones were running a muk.
There is a girl got murdered here!
Why the girls always have to take the major brunt? Because they are weaker so take it out on them? If it was a boy, would the mamoo kill his nephew as well? No
Major flaw in the culture.