Thursday, August 08th, 2013
Emmy-Nominated Film Features Santa Barbara Students and Teachers
Alethea Tyner ParadisPeace Works Travel, a Santa Barbara based educational tour company founded by Alethea Tyner Paradis, a local teacher and Spirit of Entrepreneurship Award winner, is featured with her students in a 2013 Emmy-nominated documentary film. An ABCNews-produced documentary, Power of a Picture, was filmed in Santa Barbara and Vietnam and highlights the educational value of the photo of the… [Read Full Article]Education Travel,Educational travel programs,Global Education,Kim Phúc,Kim Phúc Vietnam War Survivor,Nick Ut,Peace Works Travel,Vietnam Student Trips,Vietnam War,War/Photography
Wednesday, August 07th, 2013
The Hiroshima Myth
Every year during the first two weeks of August the mass news media and many politicians at the national level trot out the "patriotic" political myth that the dropping of the two atomic bombs on Japan in August of 1945 caused them to surrender, and thereby saved the lives of anywhere from five hundred thousand to one million American soldiers,… [Read Full Article]educational field trips,Educational travel programs,Global Education