Julian Zabalbeascoa (joo-lee-yan sah-bahl-bay-ahz-koh-ah)
teacher, novelist
IMAGE SOURCE: @Jzabalbeascoa. Homepage photo. Twitter. | TEXT SOURCE: Julian Zabalbeascoa. “80 years after Basque village's bombing, a modern lesson.” Bakersfield.com. 2 Feb. 2017.
QUOTE CONTEXT: “We are a people…who recognize that the disaffected individual is ultimately responsible for his or her own violent actions but that a critical eye must be cast upon the oppressive system that produced that individual; a people whose tireless work ethic places faith in the promise that those efforts will be commensurably rewarded; a people who celebrate the dignity in each person but especially the silenced, displaced and targeted.”
QUOTE QUESTION: What voices give rise to your Peoples’ creative spirit?
IMAGE CONTEXT: This is one of the photos on Julian Zabalbeascoa’s Twitter home page.
IMAGE QUESTION: Who do you hold on to as you turn to face the world?
MEDIA LITERACY CONTEXT: The quote is from an opinion piece in a local newspaper. The photo is from a Twitter homepage.
MEDIA LITERACY QUESTION: How do you decide whether to publish close to home or far away?
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