World News 2.20.16

• ZIMBABWE: President Mugabe's lavish 92nd birthday celebrations will proceed despite an extensive drought throughout the country (Guardian)
• IRAQ: Radioactive device, feared stolen by ISIS, recovered (RT)
• ITALY: Concern rises as 2015 birth rate drops (AOL)
• IRAN: These are some of the young women on the nation's death row (Quartz)
• VIETNAM: Amid rising tensions with China over the South China Sea, Vietnam beefs up its military (MarketWatch)
• CANADA: Thousands of university students seeking "sugar daddies" to supplement their college costs (Yahoo! Canada News)

Week 4: Ivory Coast

Fêtes des Masques, Man

Week 4: Ivory Coast
Tu 2.16/Th 2.18
Read: eR—“Major Parts of World Ignored by U.S. TV News in 2013” (IPS), “Leaving Empire: The Risks of American Insularity” (Religion Dispatches), “Getting to Know the World Around Us” (Chicago Tribune); FOREVERS—Part 1: Undercitizens
Class: Reading Discussion; Lecture—“Persuasion and the Toulmin Method”

Upcoming:

Week 5: Brazil
Tu 2.23/Th 2.25
Read: eR—“Why is America so Culturally Isolated and Insular Compared to the Average Country?(Reddit), “Are You an Insular American?” (DailyKos), “Young Americans Geographically Illiterate,
Survey Suggests” (National Geographic); FOREVERS—Part 2: The Business of Burning
Class: Reading Discussion; Multimedia presentations
Due: TOULMIN ANALYSIS