My subject is on the topic of cultural understanding and acceptance. The focus will be on Rotary Youth Exchange students in the Fairbanks area. The video will consist of interviews from past exchange students, recently back all the way to adults now 20 years+ out, current students here from other countries, and future students who…
Fairbanks is about three hundred miles away from the next actual city, (Anchorage). After listening to everybody talk about how living in the city of Fairbanks is, and what it means to be an Alaskan, I realized how different it is from other parts of the state. It’s almost as if this single big…
My proposal is to take a look at lifestyles in Fairbanks, particularly Fairbanks dry cabins. Many people spend summers in dry cabins, I did when I grew up. I think it would be good to see why many Alaskans choose to live in cabins out in the wilderness, and why there are many cabins for…
Walking from class to class, I’ve realized that I see many of the same individuals everyday on campus. Although this is true, I know little to nothing about any of them. This got me thinking about doing my story proposal based off of individuals who attend and work at The University of Alaska Fairbanks. Getting…
Story Proposal My story proposal is to do one on rural ambulance crew/fire departments that’s closest hospital is in Fairbanks. Some places are two hours or more away from the nearest hospital. This can be a problem for critical patience. For the story I was thinking on focusing on the medic’s experiences of having to…
Walkie Charles triggered my interest in doing a digital story about the oppression of the natives and how it affects our community today. Walkie said that as a young boy speaking his native language of Yup’ik was shunned and looked down upon. Because of this he was forced to learn english and basically forget his…