Notes
1. Brain MacArthur, ed., The Penguin Book of Twentieth-Century Speeches (New York: Viking, 1992), v.
2. Iyengar, Shanto and Simon Jackman. Technology and Politics: Incentives for Youth Participation. Circle Working Paper 24, 2004, p4. "Not only are the young especially adept with new technologies, but they have also integrated technology into their personal lives as never before. From carrying out school assignments, chatting with friends, playing games, listening to or creating music, to downloading and watching the latest movies, "multi-tasking" with a personal computer is a core element of contemporary youth culture."
3. Dudley Andrew, Lecture to "Stories Around the World in Film" seminar at Yale University, 6 July 2006.
4. Timothy Corrigan, and Patricia White, The Film Experience: An Introduction, Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2004, p. 408.
5. UNICEF, "Information by Country," 9 July 2006, http://www.unicef.org/infobycountry> (9 July 2006)
6. Lemmer, Eleanor, and Joan Squelch. Multicultural Education: A Teacher's Manual. (Atlanta: Southern Book Publishers, 1993), 109.
7. Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, "History of South Africa in the apartheid era," 9 July 2006, http ://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apartheid> (9 July 2006).
8. Nelson Mandela, "Nelson Mandela's Nobel Peace Prize Address," http://www.anc.org.za/ancdocs/ speeches/nobelnrm.html>> (9 July 2006).
9. Pat Friend, "Travellers-An Irish Minority Group," http://www.allaboutirish.com/library/issues/ travellers.shtm>
10. Exchange House Travellers Service, "An Examination of Discrimination and Racism in Ireland," http://www.exchangehouse.ie/ireland.htm#An%20Examination%20of%20Discrimination%20and%20Racism> (23 July 2006).
11. Sinéad ní Shuinéar, "Apocrypha to canon: Inventing Irish Traveller History," History Ireland, Vol. 12 No. 4 Winter 2004.
12. Department of Health and Children, "Traveller Health: A National Strategy 2002-2005", 2002.
13. Interestingly, the site features four "icons of resistance," Jan Karski, Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, and Nelson Mandela. Exchange House Travellers Service, "An Examination of Discrimination and Racism in Ireland," http://www.exchangehouse.ie/ireland.htm#An%20Examination%20of%20Discrimination%20and%20Racism > (23 July 2006).
14. University of Victoria Faculty of Law, "Equality in Afghanistan," Women's Activism in Constitutional and Democratic Reform, http://adhoc25.org/gpage6.html> (9 July 2006).
15. Women are instrumental in protecting the honor of their family and tribe to the extent that their behavior is monitored by all men of the household, but they are also expected to remember insults to the family and demand satisfaction. Dorronsoro, Gilles, Revolution Unending: Afghanistan: 1979 to the Present, Translated by John King, London: Hurst & Company, 2005, p. 293-4.
16. Anne Nivat, The Wake of War: Encounters with the People of Iraq and Afghanistan, Boston: Beacon Press, 2005, p. 163.
17. Osama, DVD, dir. Siddiq Barmak, 83 min., MGM, 2003.
18. Arthur E. Dewey, "China's "One-Child" Policy Coercive, State's Dewey Says," International Information Programs, USINFO.STATE.GOV, 14 December 2004, http://usinfo.state.gov /eap/Archive/2004/Dec/14-629545.html> (9 July 2006).
19. The film is characteristic of contemporary global cinema from China that tell "metaphorical stories critical of current society." Corrigan, Timothy, and Patricia White, The Film Experience: An Introduction, Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2004, p. 378.
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