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Freshman English(2nd Semester)

Students’ Handouts

Name: ____________

Class: ____________

Student ID #:

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Lesson OneGet Your Act Together

A woman from Japan was telling a friend about her trip to the United States. The woman had visited major businesses and __________ companies in New York City and Chicago.

"I studied English before I left home," she said. "But I still was not sure that people were speaking English." Her ________ is easy to understand. Americans in business are like people who are in business anywhere. They have a language of their ________. Some of the words and expressions _________ with the _________ areas of their work. Other expressions are borrowed from different kinds of work such as the __________ and movie industry.

One such saying is get your act together. When things go wrong in a business, an employer may get angry. He may shout, "Stop making __________. Get your act together." Or, if the employer is __________, he may say, "Let us get our act together."

Either way, the meaning is the same. Getting your act together is getting organized. In business, it usually means to __________ a calm and __________ plan of action.

It is difficult to tell __________ where the saying began. But, it is probable that it was in the theater or movie __________. Perhaps one of the actors was __________ and made a lot of mistakes. The director may have said, "Calm down, now. Get your act together."

Word expert James Rogers says the expression was __________ by the late nineteen seventies. Mister Rogers says the Manchester Guardian newspaper __________ it in 1978. The newspaper said a reform policy __________ that the British government get its act together.

Now, this expression is heard often when officials of a company meet. One company even called its yearly report, "Getting Our Act Together."

The Japanese visitor was __________ by another expression used by American business people. It is cut to the chase. She heard that expression when she attended an important meeting of one company. One official was giving a very long __________. It was not very interesting. In fact, some people at the meeting were falling asleep.

Finally, the president of the company said, "Cut to the chase." Cut to the chase means to stop spending so much time on details or unimportant material. Hurry and get to the good part.

__________, this saying was started by people who make movies. Hollywood movie producers believe that most Americans want to see action movies. Many of their movies show scenes in which the actors chase each other in cars, or in airplanes or on foot.

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Cut is the director's word for stop. The director means to stop filming, leave out some __________, and get to the chase scene now.

So, if your employer tells you to cut to the chase, be sure to get to the main point of your story quickly.

Questions for Discussion1. What is the main idea of the lesson?2. What is your reflection on the lesson?

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Lesson TwoSakena Yacoobi and the Afghan Institute of Learning

When Sakena Yacoobi was a child in Herat, Afghanistan, she saw many women suffer. They had no education and little or no ________ care. Many died in childbirth.

In the 1970s, she came to the United States. She became a ________ and health consultant. But in 1992, she visited Afghan ________ camps in Pakistan. What she saw persuaded her to return to her ________.

In 1995, she started the Afghan Institute of Learning. The organization began by serving Afghan women and girls in the camps in __________ Pakistan.

At that time, the Taliban controlled most of Afghanistan. The ________ would not let girls go to school. Sakena Yacoobi risked her life to set up eighty ________ schools in Afghan homes. About three thousand girls attended these schools.

American-led forces ________ the Taliban from power in late 2001, after the ________ attacks on the United States.

Today Sakena Yacoobi says her organization avoids the most dangerous ________. It operates education and health centers and traveling ________. The institute has trained more than fifteen thousand teachers and has provided health education for ________ a million women. Seventy percent of its four hundred fifty________ members are women.

The group invites men as well as women to discussions on the Koran's teachings about the ________ of the sexes.

In 2003, to educate women, the institute established Gawhar Shad University in Peshawar, Pakistan. The university ________ has about one hundred eighty students. Around the same number already have graduated. The university offers degrees in education, business, ________, health education, math and computer science.

Each year, the Afghan Institute of Learning ________ about three hundred fifty thousand women and children in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Sakena Yacoobi has received many awards, ________ this year's two hundred fifty thousand dollar Henry R. Kravis Prize in Leadership. In ________ the award from Claremont McKenna College in California, she said: “Every day, I see the ________ of education, and that’s the force that keeps me going on.”

Questions for Discussion1. What is the main idea of the lesson?2. What is your reflection on the lesson?

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Lesson ThreeWant to Grow a Root? Beets Are Hard to Beat

Beets are a tasty root vegetable that do not require much work to grow. People

think beets are always dark red. But they can also be pink, yellow or white. Beets with circles of red and white are known as candy cane or candy stripe beets.

Beets are high in nutrients folate, iron and fiber. They can be eaten or frozen, canned or pickled. And not just the root but also the tops can be eaten. The make good salads when the plants are young, and the greens can be cooked when the plants are older.

Beets like cool temperatures, sixteen and eighteen degrees Celsius. They grow best in full sun and in loose soil that is not too wet.

Remove stones from the soil preparing the ground. And test the soil before lime and fertilizer. Some experts say the best fertilizers for beets are

in nitrogen. Beets need the acidity level in the soil to be six to seven and a half.

Beet seeds can be planted as soon as the soil is to be worked at the start of the growing season. Planting them every two or three weeks would a continuous harvest into the fall.

Iowa State University horticulture specialist Cindy Haynes suggests planting the seeds one and one- centimeters deep. They should be planted in rows that are thirty to forty-six centimeters apart.

A beet seed is a fruit containing several seeds. Overcrowding the plants will that the roots cannot spread out and grow. Thin the beets removing the smaller ones. These can be used as greens.

Cindy Haynes says little or no fertilizer is needed in fertile soils. But once the seeds are planted, she does covering the soil with a little mulch to protect it during rains and dry periods. She also suggests putting a fence the plants to keep away rabbits and deer.

She says the only work needed once beets have been thinned is weeding and, when the weather is dry, a watering.

For best results, beets should be picked when the roots are two and one-half centimeters around. Beets much larger that can be tough and have to be cooked for a long time.

Some people like beets prepared in butter. Others like to cook them with cinnamon and ginger.

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Lesson FourDriven by a Business Plan, but How Far Will It Get You?

A business plan, in the words of the Small Business Administration in Washington, is a tool with three basic purposes. As a communication tool, it can show possible investors how well you have your ideas. As a management tool, it can list goals and ways to progress. And as a planning tool, it can help a business around problems.

For people starting a new business, the biggest problems involve financing. Entrepreneurs often seek venture capital. This is money from _______ individuals or investment _______ for the purpose of building new businesses.

Each year, entrepreneurs with ideas for the “next big thing” _______ venture capitalists with business plans. But John Mullins of the London Business School, writing in the Wall Street Journal, says most business plans are never even _______ read.

A good business plan, he says, must define a _______ that the new business will solve. Many plans fail to show how a _______ or service meets a need.

Also, business plans often _______ it will be easy to gain a share of a large or fast-growing market. Professor Mullins _______ entrepreneurs to do market tests so they have real numbers to _______their claims.

And he says _______ about possible problems with the plan is important. Successful businesses often change plans as conditions change.

Business students spend hours and hours learning how to write a business plan. But even a good one has its limits.

A new study _______ that venture capitalists rarely consider the business plan when _______ whether to invest in a new company.

David Kirsch is an associate professor at the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland. He and others _______ more than seven hundred requests made to an American venture capital firm. He says he was startled to find that planning documents have such little _______.

Professor Kirsch tells us that venture capitalists instead talk to people who know the entrepreneur. They talk to business experts, lawyers and other _______ people. The study appeared in the May issue of Strategic Management Journal.

David Kirsch considers business plans a good way to organize an entrepreneur's ideas. But, in his words, “A smart entrepreneur should _______ his time developing the business rather than the business plan.”

Questions for Discussion1. What is the main idea of the lesson?2. What is your reflection on the lesson?

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Lesson FiveForeign Student Series: Paying for School in the US

Governments are not the only ones having to re-examine their budgets. The financial ______ has many families ________ about how they will pay for college. This week in our Foreign Student Series, we discuss costs for higher education for international students in the United States.

Prices differ from school to school, but ______ colleges and universities usually cost less than private ones.

A big state university in the western United States will _____ as our example. The University of Colorado at Boulder has one thousand two hundred international students from more than eighty countries.

Tina Tan is the ________ of international student and scholar services. She says international students are paying a _____ of forty thousand two hundred dollars for this _______ year. The university _______ that the cost for next year will _______ by four hundred dollars.

The university does not offer financial aid to international students. This is _________ true of American schools, especially at the undergraduate level. _______ and state financial aid can only go to American _______.

The University of Colorado does, however, offer some help for international students. For example, it _________ them the same _______ rate for all four years of undergraduate study. And it offers four scholarships for international students with special skills or _______.

Tina Tan says the federal government requires international students to show on their ___________ how they will pay for their first year of school. This ________ is a signed statement from whoever is paying for it, and __________ from a bank or lawyer.

Some colleges might _______ international students to show that they can pay for all four years. But the University of Colorado requires only evidence of financial support for the first year.

Educational ________ say foreign students should keep enough money in a local bank to pay for at least two months of spending. Students have to ________ not just tuition but also housing, meals, books and other costs including social __________.

___________ rules _______ employment for international students in the United States. So what kinds of jobs are they _________ to have? That will be our subject next week.

Questions for Discussion1. What is the main idea of the lesson?

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Lesson SixYoung Peoples' Risky Behavior on Social Network Sites

Researchers say more than half of young people who use MySpace often discuss high-risk behaviors. Two studies of the social networking site ________ appeared in the Archives of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine.

In one study, researchers ________ the pages of 500 18-year-olds from the United States. They found that 41 percent of the profiles chosen at ________ included information about alcohol or drug use. 24 percent discussed sexual behavior. And 14 percent ________ discussion of violence.

Young people who said they were ________ in religious groups, sports or other interests were ________ likely to discuss risky behaviors. 

In the second study, the researchers read the MySpace profiles of about 190 individuals. All said they were 18 to 20 years old. Each person discussed ________ behaviors. 

One of the researchers was Megan Moreno, now at the University of Wisconsin. Doctor Moreno sent a ________ to half the young people. Her e-mail suggested that they ________ their profiles. She also warned them about the risk of sharing ________ information.

About 14 percent of those receiving the e-mail information on sexual behavior. Among individuals who did not receive a message, about five percent removed such information.

In the United States, about of all young people use social networking sites like MySpace and Facebook. 

Doctor Dimitri Christakis at Seattle Children's Hospital worked on the research. He says parents have a to know what their children are doing on the Internet.  

On February third, the top law enforcement officials in Connecticut and North Carolina some news about MySpace. MySpace told them it has identified and removed about 90,000 sex offenders from its site in the last two years. These people were found guilty of crimes that require them to be listed as sex offenders. The number is 4,000 more than MySpace has reported in the past.

The officials in Connecticut and North Carolina lead a group of state attorneys general who are seeking to make social networks . Connecticut's Richard Blumenthal said many other offenders may be using sites under names and ages. A spokeswoman for North Carolina's Roy Cooper, Noelle Talley, says Facebook has not yet answered a for information.

Questions for Discussion

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Lesson SevenFrom Depths of a Library, Water Filters for the Poor

The Braddock Carnegie Library in Braddock, Pennsylvania, looks like an ancient ________. The bottom floor was once a bathhouse. Today, it houses a ________ for an arts program. But the library basement also has another use -- as a ________ for making ceramic water filters for the developing world.

Placing it there was the idea of Richard Wukich, an art professor at Slippery Rock University in Pennsylvania. One of his former students, Jeffrey Schwarz, helped remake the basement to use for ________-making classes for the community.

Jeff Schwarz is a potter and a member of the national service program AmeriCorps. He works with volunteers to produce the water ________.

The original design of the ceramic filter came from a ________ in Guatemala, Fernando Mazariegos. Ron Rivera, a ceramics artist and activist in the group Potters for Peace, saw it and recognized its ________.

Ron Rivera improved the design after a deadly storm, Hurricane Mitch, ________ Central America in 1998. He also worked with other groups to set up places to make the filters. He died last year. By that time, hundreds of thousands of the filters were in use in ________ countries.

Tests have shown that the filter produces safe drinking water.On a good day, Jeffrey Schwarz says the studio in the library can produce

twenty filters. To make one, ________ is mixed with a material that burns. It could be ________ or agricultural waste like grain hulls, cocoa or coffee shells. Pine ________ can also be used.

The mixture is shaped into a ________ and then fired. Burning away the material added to the clay leaves ________ holes. These holes let water slowly pass through the walls of the filter.

A protective ________of colloidal silver is painted on the inside and outside of the filter to kill ________. Colloidal silver is made from water with microscopic ________ of silver.

The water filter costs little to make. An international service project called Pure Water for All helps support the work. The Forest Hills Rotary Club in ________ Pennsylvania launched the project. The project Web site is purewaterforall.org.

Jeff Schwarz will ________ his service for AmeriCorps soon. But he plans to continue making the water filters in the ________of the library.

Questions for Discussion1. What is the main idea of the lesson?2. What is your reflection on the lesson?

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Lesson EightApple Pie Order: When Everything Is Just Perfect

Today we tell about the expression, “apple pie order.”  It means in __________ order, very well organized.

Nobody is sure where and when the __________ apple pie order began.  Some say that Scottish and English writers used the expression a long time ago.  Others say it first was used in the northeastern American states known as New England.

The __________ of New England cut their apples in even __________.  Then they filled pie pans with them in an __________ way, row upon row.  As one writer said, the women of New England loved to have everything in its place.  This __________ explains why it generally is believed that the expression apple-pie order began in New England.

Another old expression describes the __________ condition – wild disorder.  That expression is apple of discord.  It comes from __________ mythology.

The myth says that all the gods and goddesses were sitting around the table to __________ the marriage of Thetis and Peleus.  One of the goddesses, Discord, was a troublemaker. She _________ a golden apple on the table to be given as a __________ to the most beautiful goddess.

It was not an easy decision to make.  How could they choose among Juno, Minerva and Venus.  Paris was given the task of deciding.  He decided to give the golden apple to Venus.  Juno and Minerva were very angry and __________ him.  This, the myth says, began the long Trojan war.

At one time, the tomato was called a love apple.  That was a __________.  This is how the mistake __________. 

In the sixteenth century, Spain __________ the tomato from South America after Spanish __________ had landed there.  Spain then __________ the tomato to Morocco.  Italian traders __________ it on to Italy.  The Italian name for the tomato was pomo di Moro – apple of the Moors.

When French growers __________ it from Italy, they __________ di Moro meant d'amour, the French word for love.  And so pomo di Moro became the apple of love.

People believe many things about the apple.  One belief is that it has great powers of keeping people healthy.  A very common expression is "An apple a day keeps the doctor away."

Another is based on fact.  The expression is "One rotten apple spoils the barrel."  When an apple begins to go bad, it ruins all the other apples around it in the container.  The expression has come to mean that one bad person in a group can cause everyone to act bad.

Questions for Discussion1. What is the main idea of the lesson?

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Lesson NineScience Students Are Promised No More Visa Delays

American officials say they are working to reduce visa delays that have affected foreign science students, researchers and others. The delays _______ a security _________ process called Visas Mantis. Through this program, different government agencies try to identify visa ________ who could ________ national security.

The aim is to protect American military technology or technology with possible military uses to other countries or to ________. A 2005 report said that 70 percent of Mantis ________ came from China, Russia and Ukraine.

The United States _________ its visa requirements after the terrorist attacks in 2001. But the Visas Mantis program already _______ by then. The State Department combined several programs dating to the Cold War into the current program in 1998.

There have been delays before. Officials said the _______ processing time in October of 2003 was 75 days. The wait was cut to 15 days under ________ from Congress. But the wait time has increased again over the past year.

Andy Laine, a State Department ________, says the program now has more workers and new _________. He says the changes went into effect on May 29th with the goal to process all requests within two weeks.

But he also says many visas are delayed because foreign students do not bring all their paperwork when _______ their travel documents. He _______ students to make an appointment at an American _______ or consulate as soon as they are accepted to a school. They should take all their _________ materials with them.

Higher education groups ________ about the delays for foreign science students and _______. So did professional groups that hold international _________ in the United States.

The delays may be one reason why graduate school applications from international students have slowed for the third year. Early findings show that applications rose just 4 percent from 2008 to 2009.

The _______ of Graduate Schools says this followed an increase of 6 percent last year and 9 percent the year before that. International applications increased by 12 percent from 2005 to 2006.

Questions for Discussion1. What is the main idea of the lesson?2. What is your reflection on the lesson?

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Lesson TenNot All Carrots Are Orange

We talked last week about growing beets. Today we have about growing another root vegetable, carrots. Carrots are easy to and easy to harvest. They taste good. And they contain a lot of carotene, which the body makes into A.

When people think of carrots, they usually picture in their a vegetable that is long, thin and orange. But carrots come in many different and shapes. 

And not all carrots are orange.For example, Paris Market carrots are about five centimeters .

Imperator carrots are thin and about twenty-five centimeters long. And Belgian White carrots are, their name suggests, white.

For the best results, carrots be grown in sandy soil that does not hold water for a long time. The soil also should have no .

To prepare your garden for carrots, dig up the , loosen it and turn it over. Then, mix in some plant material or animal .

Weather, soil conditions and age will the way carrots taste. Experts say warm days, cool nights and a medium soil temperature are the best conditions for carrots that taste great.

Carrots need time to develop their full sugar content. This gives them their taste. they are harvested too early, they will not have enough sugar. But carrots lose their if you wait too long to pull them from the ground.

The best way to if a carrot is ready to be harvested is by its color. Usually, the brighter the color, the better the taste.

Many people do not know that carrots can be grown the winter months. If the winter is not cold to freeze the ground, you can grow and harvest carrots the same way as during the summer months.

If the ground does freeze in your part of the world, simply cover your carrot garden with a layer of leaves or straw. This will prevent the ground from freezing. You can the ground cover and harvest the carrots as they are needed.

Carrots are one of the world's most popular vegetables. They can be cooked and prepared many different ways. Or, once they are washed, they can be eaten just as they come out of the ground.

Questions for Discussion1. What is the main idea of the lesson?2. What is your reflection on the lesson?

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Lesson ElevenStudying in the U.S.: Web Redefines the College Visit

This week, we visit four web sites where students can learn about higher education in the United States.

Cappex.com—c-a-p-p-e-x—matches students with colleges and universities. Students create a profile about themselves and their interests. The site then ______ ten to twenty schools.

But Cappex President Chris Long says that there are no _________ of ________. The site is free to students. Cappex sells ___________ on the site to schools and companies.

CollegeClickTV.com has thirty thousand videos of students answering questions about their schools.

GIRL: “I would ________ honestly taking ________ 263 with Professor Alexander. He’s absolutely wonderful, the class is a great class to take and I really enjoy it.”SECOND GIRL: “I chose this school because it's in the city and it’s really great and the ___________ school is ________, I think, ______ in the top five?”BOY: “Yeah.”SECOND GIRL: “It varies every year but it’s ranked really high. And all the colleges. And you get like a really great, __________ education. And the kids are really cool. You meet really fun people.”BOY: “I came here because I didn't get into NYU.”

Schools pay CollegeClickTV to come on campus. But _______ and president Glenn Pere says schools do not ________ or reject any ________. That does not mean the site will use whatever students say; Glenn Pere says they must give reasons for their ________.

Zinch.com has video profiles produced by students themselves. _________ Sid Kromenhoek says it is a place where students can show their _________ and talents. The company says more than six hundred colleges pay to use the site to search for students. More than five hundred thousand high school students have profiles on the site.

Finally, we come to Unigo.com. Unigo offers college _______, videos and other _______ created by students. ________ include “_________ campus tours” and ______ for dealing with the _________—oh, and of course, dating on campus.

The free site, _________ by ads, has a team of full-time editors. The site was ________ to the ______ last September by a start-up company led by its twenty-six year old founder. Jordan Goldman says the site is starting with two hundred fifty of America’s top colleges and will add more.

Unigo, Zinch, CollegeClickTV and Cappex are just some of the sites for college searches on the Web. Others include MyCollegeOptions, CheckMyCampus and PrincetonReview.

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Lesson TwelveEconomic Crisis Hits Exports

The economic crisis is claiming another victim: world trade. Last month the World Bank predicted a two percent _______ this year –the largest drop since the nineteen forties.

Economies that depend on _______ for growth have been hit hard. Japanese exports decreased almost twenty-seven percent in November from a year earlier. Japan has the world's second _______ economy.

A new report this week from China showed that its _______ became the world’s third largest in two thousand seven, _______ Germany. China could also pass Germany as the _______ biggest exporter. But Chinese exports fell almost three _______ in December from a year earlier—the sharpest drop in at _______ ten years.

A story in the Chinese news magazine Outlook warned that _______ closings could lead to unrest as the economy slows.

The latest _______ show that German exports in November were down almost twelve percent from the year before.

American exports _______ almost two percent in November from a year earlier. They were down six percent from October – but _______ were down twelve percent. That reduced the monthly trade deficit to the _______ level in five years.

Credit has improved in some cases since the financial crisis worsened in September. But falling demand, including _______ demand for oil, has cut trade around the world. The International Monetary Fund _______ called for government spending, tax cuts and international cooperation to support growth.  

To ease credit, the Bank of England last week reduced its main interest rate to one and one-half percent –its lowest ever. The bank was established in 1694. Britain’s economy may have shrunk by one percent just in the _______ three months of last year. The first estimates are expected at the end of January.

This week, Germany’s coalition government agreed to an economic aid _______ worth about sixty-seven billion dollars. The two-year plan calls for spending on _______ works and a tax cut for low-income Germans. Critics considered an earlier measure too small to fight the recession in Europe’s largest economy.

Aides to President-elect Barack Obama have been negotiating with Congress on a two-year _______ plan for the world’s largest economy. On Wednesday, Democratic Senator Charles Schumer of New York suggested that the price could _______ eight hundred fifty billion dollars.

Questions for Discussion1. What is the main idea of the lesson?2. What is your reflection on the lesson?

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Lesson ThirteenConnecting Africa's Health Workers

The United Nations is seeking to improve electronic communication for health workers in Africa. Workers in rural areas would have a way to get training, information and advice from doctors hundreds or even thousands of kilometers .

In 2005, the World Health Assembly passed a resolution countries to plan for "eHealth" services. The idea is to look for ways to use modern information and communications technologies to health systems.

The World Health Organization says Africa is other parts of the world in treating H.I.V./AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria. So the United Nations Economic and Social Council is the expansion of telecommunications technology for health care workers. 

Telemedicine is term for eHealth. Stennar Pedersen is the director of the Norwegian Center for Telemedicine at

the University Hospital of North Norway. Doctor Pedersen is working with the W.H.O. He met with West African health officials in the Ghanaian capital, Accra. He says the technology can provide easier to medical specialists and make it easier for people to seek medical information .

Elias Sory is the director general of health services in Ghana. He says eHealth will offer a way to the effects of health worker shortages and make it easier to existing workers. Doctor Sory says the technology will also make it easier for doctors at Ghana's main teaching hospital, Korle Bu, to share their knowledge.

ELIAS SORY: "If you get a doctor who is away in the village and has come across a case he or she thinks is him or her, why cannot that doctor be able to link up easily with a senior doctor in Korle Bu to get on it? So we are not there. But eHealth will get us there.

"The other thing is that medicine is . Why cannot we use that to train? We do not need all people to come to Korle Bu in order to be in knowledge; eHealth can bridge that gap. And to me medical is even one of the most important ingredients in eHealth."

Services must be to fit each country's health care needs and level of technological development. Another issue is patient . The hope is that health ministries will develop policies on collecting and storing electronic health information about individuals.

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Lesson FourteenA Voice for the Victims: Alison Des Forges and the Genocide in Rwanda

Alison Des Forges was an American-born human rights expert and historian. She was one of fifty people killed in a plane ________ on February twelfth near her hometown of Buffalo, New York. She was sixty-six years old.

For almost twenty years, until her death, Alison Des Forges was senior ________ to the Africa division of Human Rights Watch. In 1994, she did her best to ________ the world that Rwanda was sliding into ________.

She was in the United States when the killing began. But she was able to ________ diplomats to move some people out of the most threatened area.

She spent the next four years ________ the events, and the world's failure to ________. She wrote a book, published in 1999, called "Leave None to Tell the Story: Genocide in Rwanda."

Members of the ethnic Hutu majority killed Tutsis and ________ Hutus. By some estimates, around eight hundred thousand people were killed; Alison Des Forges felt more sure saying at ________ half a million. She talked with people on both sides: those who organized the killings and those who were ________.

She had a doctorate in history which she received from Yale in 1972. She wrote her ________ paper on Rwanda. Almost thirty years later, she received a MacArthur Fellowship for her work on the genocide that took place there.

It began in April of 1994 after a plane carrying the presidents of Rwanda and Burundi, both Hutus, was ________ down. The killings ended three months later after Tutsi ________ fighting a civil war defeated the Hutu government.

Alison Des Forges demanded ________ for the genocide victims. She appeared repeatedly as an expert ________ at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda. But she also called ________ to thousands of killings by the rebels in reaction to the genocide.

She became ________ with the former rebels who now lead the government. Late last year, she was ________ from the country she loved after Human Rights Watch criticized Rwanda's ________system.

Most recently, she worked on a report about killings in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.

Alison Des Forges often worked with members of the International Crisis Group. The group which works to prevent ________ remembers her as someone who always spoke for the victims.

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